US180016A - Improvement in car-couplings - Google Patents

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' coupled position.

. adapted to form a coupling-pin.

CARL A. FEUSER, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN- W. TALIAFERRO, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN .CAR-COUFLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,016, dated July 18, 1876'; application tiled June 9, 1876,

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL AUGUs'r FEUsEE,

`of Augusta, in the county of Richmond and State of Georgia, have invented an Improvement in OaiUoupliiigs, of which the following is a specification:

My improvement relates to a ear-coupling havinga laterally-Swinging catch mounted on a vertical shaftwhich forms the coupling-pin of the opposing catch.

' My invention consists, first, in a vertical and rotary shaft, adapted to slide up or down to permit the catch to pass over or under the opposing catch.

My invention consists, secondly, in a peculiar form of catch, which is mounted on a vertical shaft, so as to be turned laterally by a crank-handle from above the draw-heath'and returned by a spring.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a plan View of my improved car-coupling in Fig is a side view. Fig'. 3 is a plan view, showing the device in the act of coupling.

A may represent a draw-head, of any necessary form, provided withv buffers or bumpers a. Passing centrally through said draw-head is a rotary and vertically-sliding shaft, B, G is a catch of peculiar construction, rigidly secured to the shaft B, transverse to the latter, by a key,- c, or other suitable means. The catch C consists of a bar, D, provided at one end with a hook, E, whose head, e, is tapered or iattened. At the other end of this bar is attached4 a spring', F, operating' in connection with the. side a of the draw-head A, to keep the catch in its normal position. On the opposite sides of the bar D are arms G G', respectively in front and rear of the shaft B, for turning the catch from either side of the car. Slots or excavations H H permit the arms G G al certain amount of play, and the stop-h on the Operation: Io couple the cars, the drawheads are caused-to approach each otheruntil the hooks E come together, when, by reason of their attened. form, the higher hook will be guided over the other, the sliding shafts rising or fallin g accordingly. The hooks, having passed each other, are next thrown back by their inner faces bearing on -the shafts, when, having passed to the hook-openings, the spring F throws the hook forward, to engage with the said shafts, which thus form the coupling-pins.

To uncouple the ears, the drawheads are broughttogether, when the hooks will be in such a position as to permit them to be drawn or turned back from either side of the ears by the arms G G or the crank-handle I from the,

car-platform.

In practice the crank-handle I will be found the more convenient mode ot' operating the coupling on passenger or other platform-cars, and the arms G G best adapted for use with freight-cars.

The eatch-hook E is constructed, as represented, to adapt it to receive the common coupling-pin J, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, for connection to cars not provided with my improved couplingpin.

Having thus described my invention, the followingis what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters `Patent:

I. The rotary and-vertically-slidiug shaft B, having a catch, O, provided with a tapered head adapted to pass over or under its opposing catch.

2, vThe combination ofthe catch C, shaft B, crank-handle I, and spring F, the catch being' rigidly attached to the shaft, as and for the purpose set forth.

- 3. The construction of the catch O and its shaft B, with crank-handle I and arms G G', to adapt the catch to be operated optionally from the car-platform or ground.

CARL AUGUST FEUSER.

Witnesses :l c

GEORGE T. BARNES, GEORGE T. BRYAN,

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