US2231522A - Partition attachment for railroad or other cars - Google Patents

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w. B. DEAN 2,231,522

PARTITION ATTACHMENT FOR RAILROAD 0R OTlflER CARS Feb. 11, 1.

Filed March 10, 1939 INVENTOR:

KL Walter E). Dean Patented Feb. 11, 1941 crricr. 1

PARTITION ATTACHMENT FOR RAILROAD OR OTHER CARS Walter B. Dean, Paris, France, assignor to Edward G. Budd Manufacturing 00., Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application March 10, 1939, Serial No. 260,895 In France April 27, 1938 5 Claims.

The separating partitions that are installed in the bodies of railroad cars are either simple separations without special rigidity and which are installed in such a way in the said bodies that the said separations cannot stand any appreciable load, or else they are structural partitions of strorfg construction that generally comprise structural members incorporated in the said partitions.

The partitions of the second kind (structural partitions) serve not only as separations between the different passenger compartments but also, on account of their rigidity, as reinforcement for the car. These partitions are generally installed direct on body uprights and on roof carlines, etc., but this kind of arrangement has the following special disadvantages:

(a) The structural members of the structural partition form a kind of repetition of the uprights, roof carlines and other similar structural members to which the partition in question is joined.

(b) The attachment of the interior casing of the car is rather difficult.

(c) The general arrangement of the car is made dependent on the position of the partitions, and this means that any change made in the said position of the partitions necessitates the setting up of extra uprights, roof carlines, etc. to which to attach the partition.

The present invention permits avoidance of the above drawbacks in the sense that the partition (which is of sufiiciently strong construction for shearing) is installed on attaching devices that constitute shearing plates and that are welded to the adjacent uprights, to the adjacent roof carlines and to the floor reinforcing elements (between the floor beams), these attaching plates being made of a very thin material and having slight resistance to bending, and this results in the partition being only in shear and it can be installed at any suitable point along the car.

The interior casing may then be attached in two ways:

This casing can be secured to the car body before installation of the partition the edges of which may consist of a gutter-shaped profile or closed contour section, the panels intended to cover the partition being then secured to these profiles.

In a variation, the partition may be set in position before the interior casing of the car is set up. In that case, the outside edges of the partition consist of U shape profiles, for example, that are provided with wings, the ceiling casing and the side casing being then secured to the aforesaid wings while the partition panels are secured on the sides of the profile in question.

The appended drawing shows schematically, and as an example without limitation, one embodiment -of a structural partition and the method of installing it in the car.

Fig. 1 is a front view of the partition.

Fig. 2 is a section on a larger scale, taken along the line II-II of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment taken as an example, the partition I05 consists of a framework that comprises, on the one hand, a U section peripheric profile I06 having wings I01 and, on the other hand, struts or other reinforcing elements incorporated in the thickness of the partition and not shown in the drawing.

According to the invention, the Wings ill! of the profile I06 are secured to thin metal plates I98 that are welded at I89 at both ends to the inside wings of the body uprights l3 (e. g. of Z shape section) it being possible for the plates m8 to comprise ribs ill] on their longitudinal edges.

After the partition framework IE5 is placed in position, the interior decorative casing HI is secured on the inside of the car body, whereupon the partition panels H2 are installed on the sides of the profile I06.

Thanks to this new arrangement, the partition which acts only in shear and which is supported by fittings that act also only in shear in opposing distortion of the body cross section, can be located as required at any point along the car, the structural elements of the partition not representing in any Way a double use of the structural elements (floor beam, body uprights, deck sills, etc.) of the framework of the car.

It is evident that the example of an embodiment of a partition and of the installation of the partition, as described above and shown in the appended drawing, is given only by way of indication and not of limitation, it being possible for the partition and its method of attachment to the body of the car to undergo any modifications of detail without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. A partition panel for vehicle bodies having a closed cross section and longitudinally spaced frame members extending around at least the major part of said section, said panel being adapted to act in shear to oppose distortion of the body cross section and including a peripheral member conforming generally to the inside contour of the body frame and means providing a connection between said member and the body frame members which acts with the panel in shear to oppose any distortion of the body cross section.

2. A partition panel according to claim 1 in which the connection comprises a plurality of spaced shear plates connected to two adjacent body frame members and to said peripheral member.

3. A partition panel according to claim 1 in Which the connection comprises a plurality of spaced shear plates connected at their ends to two adjacent body frame members and at an intermediate point to said peripheral member, the connection of said peripheral member and said body frame members to said plates being through lateral flanges overlapping the same side of said plates.

4. A partition panel according to claim 1 in which the connection comprises a plurality of 5 circumferentially spaced shear plates connected to the body frames and lateral flanges on said peripheral member so as not to interfere with the application of the inner paneling direct to inner faces of the frame members and the flanges 10 of said peripheral member.

5. A partition panel according to claim 1 in which the connection comprises lateral flanges on said peripheral member connected to a member or members arranged to transmit forces in 15 shear to said body frame members.

WALTER B. DEAN.

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