US1692238A - Ventilated freight car - Google Patents

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Nov. 20, 1928. 1,692,238

W. E. WINE VENTILATED FREIGHT CAR Filed Nov. 9, 1925 Rueni'or:

XAZilZiai EJ Vine Patented Nov. 20, 1928.

' UNITED s'r -rss WILLIAM E. NINE, 0F TOLEDO, OHIO;

VEN'IILATEDFREIGI-l'l CAR. 5

Application filed November 9, 1925. Serial No. 67,821.

My invention relates to 1 new and useful improvements in ventilated freight-cars and has for an object to so arrange a multiplicity of ventilators that the air will circulate from one end to the other of the car, across the car and from the bottom to the top of the car.

The present application is a companion application to that filed by me on March 20, 1925, Serial No. 16,985, vnow Patent No. 1,599,451 and to one filed of even date herewith bearing Serial No. 67,820, and now Patent No. 1,660,786.

One of the objects of the, present invention is to not only so arrange the ventilators that the car will be thoroughly ventilated, but further to so situate the side end ventilators that they may be readily and quickly opened and closed. 7

I have spoken of the side end ventilators, and it is to be understood, as may be seen from the drawings, that these ventilators are in the sides of the car near the ends.

A ventilator located in an upper corner of a car, unless situated as will be further explained, is rather hard to manipulate, as it is too high to be reached from the ground and a trainman has to either lean away around the side of the car from a ladder and try to reach the ventilator, or he has to kneel down on the roof of the car to manipulate it.

\Vith the ventilators so diiferent to manipulate, a trainman is very apt to leave the ventilator open or closed, as the case may be, to the detriment of the goods within the car. i

In the present application, therefore, I have located a ventilator or ventilators adjacent the car ladder so that a trainman standing on a ladder may easily manipulate the same.

As is well known to those skilled in the railway art, ladders are placed on freight cars on its sides near its ends, one ladder being on one side of the car near one end, and another ladder on the other side of the car at its opposite end, and in the present application, therefore, the ventilators are located respectively by the two ladders. Y

WVith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain new and novel arrangements and combination of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out inthe claim.

Referring now to the drawings showing a preferred form of the invention,

end and the ladder 5 at the far side on its opposite end. It is to be noticed that the door 2 is designed to move rearwardly, that is, the one on the near side, to the point 6, while'the door post 7 limits the movement of the door. in

the opposite direction, and this post 7 acts 7 as a post, a stop and a support for a ventilator, EISVIS described and claimed in my coinpanion application, noted above, bearing Serial No. 67,820, and now Patent No. 1,660,-

Adjacent this door post 7, I provide the two ventilators 8 which are preferably of the wellknown l Vine type, and so that the same may be conveniently operated by a trainman, I provide a step 9 on the side sill 10 and position the grab-iron 11 adjacent the ventilators 8, so that the trainmen may easily grasp the handles 12 of the ventilators and open and close them as may be necessary.

In a like manner, on the far side of the car, I provide the two ventilators 13, in this instance opposite the door post 14, which is similar in all respects to the door post 7, it being noticed that the door on the far side operates to an'open and closed position in an opppositc direction to that of the door on the near side.

Now, on the near'side of the car, and adjacent the ladder 4, and in the upper corner of the side of the car, I position a ventilator 15, which ventilator is similar to the other ventilators heretofore mentioned, and on the far side of the car at the same end, I provide a ventilator 16, but in this instance the ventilator isin the lower corner of the side, there being no ladder on this side, but due to the proximity of the ventilator to the ground, it may be easily manipulated by a trainman from the ground. I

In the opposite manner, at the left hand of the car, in the upper left hand corner, I position the ventilator 17, while on the near side of the car I position the ventilator '18 sectional view taken on line in the lower left hand corner, the ladder 5 being on this far side, the upper ventilator 17 may be easily operated by a trainman.

By locating these ventilators in this manner, the ventilation is along the lower part of the car and likewise will be along the top of the car, and furthermore, by staggering these ventilators, the air will pass, not only lengthwise of the car, but across the car and thereby afford a maximum of ventilation.

Furthermore, the arrangement of the ventilators is such with respect to the ladders, that the high ones may be operated from the ladder, and the high ones adjacent the doors may be operated from the step on the side sill. Due to the accessibility of these ventilators the car will probably be more efficiently ventilated than in most instances, not only due to the cross ventilation, but to the personal element involved.

1 have found that the ventilators in the sides of the car and by the doors are much more efficient than the ventilators in the ends of the car due to the cross circulation, and

. due to the fact that one car does not keep out the draft from another car.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the ventilators are scientifically arranged to pro vide the maximum amount of ventilation and at the same time, are arranged in a most accessible manner.

Many slight changes might be made without in any Way departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A freight car of the closed box car type, provided with the usual doors and usual diagonally disposed ladders, ventilators arranged in the sides of the car adjacent the door openings, said ventilators arranged in diagonal relation to each other, further ventilators in each of the sides of the car and disposed in the upper corners of the car and near their respective adjacent ladders and a further ventilator on each side of the car and near the lower corner thereof and these last mentioned ventilators being substantially cliametrically across the car from the nearby ladder.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM E. WINE.

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