US226073A

US226073A - Stock-car

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Publication number: US226073A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 1897-03-30

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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. HU-Y. Stock-Car.

Patented Mar. 30, 1880.

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No. 226,073 Patented Mar. 30, I880.

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JACOB HUY, OF WHISTLER, ALABAMA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,073, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed February 7, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB HUY, of \Vhistler, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Stock Car; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improvement in the class of cars for transporting live stock which have a second floor or deck, that is vertically adjustable, and racks and troughs suitably arranged for supplying food and water to the animals on one or both doors.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, with parts broken out, of one half of a car provided with my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a like view of the other half. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the car on line y g Fig. 1. Fig. l is a vertical crossse'ction on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional views designed to show the construction and arrangement of the adjustable feed racks, troughs, 850. Fig. 7 is a side view of one of the twopart gates for dividing the car crosswise into compartments.

The body A of the car may have the usual construction, except in the few particulars hereinafter described, and it may have any approved proportions; but I prefer, for various reasons, to construct it of greater length than the ordinary freight-car.

On the bottom B of the car, along the sides thereof, I place water and feed troughs O, which I propose to construct of boiler-plate or galvanized or cast iron. These troughs may be continuous on each side of the car, or made in sections and connected by pipes, so that all will be supplied with water at the same time.

In the middle of the length of the car A, I locate two metal watertanks, D, Fig. 4, one on each side. The tanks extend from top to bottom of the car, but are preferably not made of greater width than the studs a of theframe, so that their inner sides will be flush with the same side of the studs. The tanks D are connected at the bottom by a pipe, E, so that both will be filled simultaneously through the induction-tube b, that projects above the roof of the car. Said tanks D may be placed at the end of the car; but the arrangement shown is in certain respects preferable. Water may be admitted from the tanks D into troughs O by means of pipes c, Fig. 1, having suitable stop-cocks or valves.

When the car is used for transportinglarge stocksuch as ,bullocks, horses, or mulesthe upper floor or deck, F, is secured at the top of the car or contiguous to the roof of the same, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3; but when it is required to transport a greater number of small stocksuch as swine or sheepthan the lower or permanent floor, B, will accommodate, the said upper tloor, F, is lowered until the projecting ends of its cross-timbers 0 rest on bars or suitable supports f, fixed in the sides of the car, as shown in Figs. 5, 6.

The means for lowering and raising the deck F are a Windlass or crank-rod, G, and ropes I-I. Said crank-rod has its hearings in the roof-timbers g, and is provided with a ratchet and pawl for the purpose of looking it when the deck F has been raised, (by rotating the crank-rod,) but as a stronger and more permanent means for securing the deck F when raised, as in Fig. 3, I provide screws h and nuts i. The screws h project downward from the car-roof g and pass through the deck F far enough to allow the nuts 1' to be screwed on them.

By making the deck F vertically adjustable its fundtion and efficiency as a floor are in nowise impaired, while the car is thereby adapted to be easily and quickly converted from a single-decker into a double-(locker car, or vice versa, as occasion may require. It is also obvious that in its raised position the adjustable floor F will not interfere with the loading, unloading, and transportation of ordinary merchandise or freight. Said floor is made in sections, preferably two for each longitudinal half of the car.

As a means for dividing the interior of the car into pens or compartments, I employ slatted gates I, which are hinged to the studs (0, and are free to swing in either direction, but provided with devices for fastening them crosswise of the car, or at right angles to the sides thereof, as shown in Fig. 3. Each gate I is made in two parts, Z, which may operate independently or together, as required-that is to say, when the floor F is in use the upper part, k, of each gate swings above it and the lower half, 1, below it. Thus each half of the gate is independent of the other; but when the floor F is raised, Fig. 3, the two parts k l are rigidly connected by a bar or rod, m, Fig. 7 which is attached thereto by means of screws, bolts, staples, or any other devices suitable for the purpose, so that said parts have no independent action or function. When not in use, or when loading the car with stock, the gates I are swung back against the sides of the car, Fig. 4, into suitable recesses provided for the same.

When the car is converted for use as a don ble-decker the lower floor or deck, B, is usually loaded first. The sliding side door, K, is then closed, Fig. 2, and its hinged upper section, a, is opened to allow entrance of the stock upon the upper floor, F. To enable them to pass from the farther end of the car, 1 provide a bridge between the floorsections F. Said bridge consists of two parts, L, hinged to op- I posite sides of the car, and folding vertically,

as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 4, into recesses when not in use. When adjusted in horizontal position, Fig. 4, the parts of the bridge L are supported by a temporary prop.

After the stock have been loaded the bridgesections L are folded, and the feed (hay, oats, &c.) is placed in the space between them, and

access is had to it by means of a ladder through a doorway, 0, in the car-roof. The feed is taken out through such doorway, and supplied to the stock through other openings in the roof, as will be presently explained.

The deck F is cutaway on one side to allow space for adjustment of the swinging racks M. The latter consists of a series of parallel tubes, pp, fixed at the upper end in hopper N, and at about the middle of their length in a trough, 0, said parts being attached to and supported by screw-threaded rods g, which are pivoted at their lower ends to the studs a. Every alternate tube 19 is slotted or provided with an aperture, 0', Fig. 5, at a point opposite the trough O, and is closed below said aperture, so that oats or corn placed in hopper N will be delivered in part into the lower troughs through tubes 1) and in part into the upper troughs, 0, through tubes 19. Thus the tubes 1) p subserve a double function, mainly as part of rack M and as conduits for fine feed to supply the animals on both decks. The

racks M are shown in l igs. 3, 5,6 as inclined inward, so that hay 'may be placed through roof-openings s in the space between them and the sides of the car, and thus be accessible to the animals on the lower deck, B, as well as the upper one, F. In such position also the upper trough, 0, projects over or is close to the edge of the floor F, so that the stock on the latter may readily eat from it.

When oats or corn are to be placed in the hopper N the racks M are swung back torender the hopper accessible through openings 8, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 5. The racks are likewise adjusted in vertical position between the studs 60 when not required for use, and the gates I may be folded against them.

Water is supplied to the upper troughs as required by means of a pipe, 15, extending along the side of the car and having laterals c, which project inward, Figs. 1, 5.

The hopper N and trough 0 are held in the required position on the rods, and may also be adjusted higher or lower by means of the nuts, which are screwed up or down on the rods for that purpose.

In respect to the function of the rack-tubes, it may be stated that in case the upper deck, F, is not used it will be desirable to close the slotted tubes 19, in order to prevent any feed passing into the upper trough, O, and for this purpose suitable stoppers may be employed for such tubes.

What I claim as new isl. The combination, with the vertically-adjustable upper floor or deck, F, of the screws h, which are pendent from the root of the car,

and nuts 6, adapted to be applied to said screws for securing the deck contiguous to the carroof, as specified.

2. The combination, with a swinging rack formed in whole or in part of open-ended tubes, of a hopper or receptacle for corn or other fine feed, and a trough into which the tubes deliver such feed from the hopper, as specified.

3. The combination, with the car, of the water-tanks placed on opposite sides thereot} and a pipe, E, which connects the tanks at the bottom, as shown and described,for the purpose specified.

4. The combination of the swinging gates I, composed of two parts, k l, which are hinged to the same stud and separated by a space of such width that the upper deck, F, may be received between them, and a device for connecting said parts so that they may operate as one, as and for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 27th day of January, 1880.

JACOB HUY.

Witnesses:

SoLoN O. KEMON, CHAS. A. PETTIT.