US178950A - Improvement in track-clearers - Google Patents

Description

M. PLUCK= TRACK-CLEARER.

No. 178.950. Patented. June 20,1876.

of the rails.

rr it STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILE S PL UOK, OF HORIOON, WISCONSIN.

. IMPROVEMENT m TRACK-CLEARERS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 178,950., dated J une 20, 1876; application filed March 31, 1876.

make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, in which is shown a'perspective view of my invention. v

This invention has relation to the means for clearing obstructing snow from railroad-mils; and it consists in the novel construction, com bination, and arrangement of the devices constitutingsaid means, the same being applied to an ordinary hand-car, and operated in the manner hereinafter described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A designates a hand-car of usual construction.

. B designates the box or frame which contains the mechanism, or a portion thereof, for propelling the car, and from which projects the operating crank or cranks. O U designate two plows, adapted to pass over the surfaces of the rails, and having their lower edges recessed, as at a, to form side scrapers for the inner sides D D are the standards or arms supporting the plows, and E is a transverse bar connecting the latter together. The standards D D are hinged, as shown, to the projecting portions 1 of the car, so as to be movable G G are spring-braces projecting backwardly from the plows, and impinging against pins 6, depending from the car. The ends of said braces are notched, as seen at e, to embrace or receive said pins." The snow is removed from the rails by the plows and cast off to either side of the track, the plows for this purpose being placed obliquely, with their concave surfaces or faces. toward the outside of the rails. H designates a lever pivoted at the end of an arm, t, projecting from the end of the car. The lower end of the lever is notched to receive and hold the transverse bar E,through which the plows are raised and lowered, according to the depthot' snow.- To the upper end of the lever a horizontal rod, I, is pivoted, and extended back to within convenient reach of the occupants and operators of the car. The flattened portion k of said lever is pierced at intervals to receive a pin, l, passed through from a bracket m on which said arm or bar slides. This pin serves to retain the bar at any desired adjustment. For convenience, the

pin is chained to the car.

with the retaining-bracket m, of the perforated arm 1, pin 1, lever H, bracket t, transverse bar E, hinged adjustable plows O, notched braces G, and pins 0, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of November, 1875.

- MILES PLUOK. Witnesses:

W. A. VAN BURT, CHARLES ALLEN.

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