US240527A - Stock-car - Google Patents

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ALONZO C. MATHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,527, dated April 26, 1881.

Application filed October 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALONZO O. MATHER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Cars, of which the following, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a side elevation, showing the side removed, of a stockcar embodying my improvements. Fig. 2, Sheet 2, is an open-end view, also showing some of the interior parts in section. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a vertical longitudinal section through a part of one of the drinking-troughs, and Fig. 4, Sheet 2, is a sectional perspective of a portion of one of the drinking-troughs.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the interior of the car, and B B are bars or rails forming a part of the frame of the car.

C C are water-feeders, consisting, by preference, of hollow cylinders or tubes having a diameter of about one foot.

D D are drinking-ports in the water-feeders C C. The parts 0 C are intended to be closed, excepting at the ports D D, so as to prevent splashing during the movements of the car.

E E are floats, connected movably to the water-feeders, and arranged directly below the ports D D, to further prevent splashing, and yet permit the animals to drink.

' Removable plugs or stoppers F F may be arranged in the ports when the car does not contain stock.

In order to admit of the water-feeders being washed out with facility, I deem it best to employremovable plugs G G, either in one orboth ends thereof, and H isa shut-off in one of the said plugs.

I is aremovablehosefor snpplyin g the water.

Feed-troughs may be formed between the ports D D by means of side pieces, J J, as is clearly indicated in Figs. 3 and 4.

K K are hooks attached to the water-feeders C C, and adapted to be hooked upon the bars B B, so that the said feeders may be adjusted or arranged at any suitable height for use, and hung up high enough to be entirely out of the way when not in use, as indicated in Fig. 2. These hooks may be connected to the waterfeeders either rigidly or by means of staples or loops, or in any suitable way. A port, D, is made for each animal.

L L are vertical posts or bars, arranged three by three at suitable intervals along the sides N N are cross-bars, supported removably in opposite sockets, M M. By this means I am enabled to form for the stock stalls which may be varied both as to width and as to height. The feeders C 0, when filled or in use, may rest upon the upper bars, N N, as indicated in Fig. 1.

O O are windlasses, rotated by means of the loose levers P P, the pawls B R, pivoted thereto, and the ratchet-wheels S S, rigidly applied to the windlassshafts, in. connection with the stop pawls or catches T T. These Windlasses are arranged at intervals along and across the upper part or top of the car, the intervals being such as to bring the windlasses over, or nearly over, the central posts, L L, of each triplicate set of saidposts. The windlass-shafts'rest, by preference, 011 spiral springs U U encircling the vertically slotted or open bearings V V.

W and W are ropes or chains attached to the Windlass-shafts and depending into the car. I

In the lower ends of the cords W' W are the hooks A A, and B B are comparatively short transversely-arranged bars, having staples or eyes C C near their ends, into which staples the hooks A A are placed.

. D is a broad belt, made continuous, by preference, and arranged or suspended in deep loops or folds, and passing over and being supported by the bars B B, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. To prevent the belt D from slipping on the bars B B, I make eyelets in the belt, and arrange these eyelets to receive the staples A A. By these means a very broad and comfortable support is furnished for the stock, and

this support extends along the sides, as well as along the belly,of each animal. That part of the support which aids anyone animal is also capable of vertical adjustment independently of the support for the next adjacent animal, or the belt may be adjusted vertically to suit the height of each animal. This vertical adjustment may be accomplished with facility by means of the several windlasses, first one being set and then another until each animal is properly supported. i V

E is a vertically-ad j ustable and folding hayrack, suspended bymeans of the cords, ropes, or chains W W. In order that the rack E shall not be adjusted vertically, or have its proper position disturbed during the adjust- -lasses, for the reason that windlasses like those already shown would serve the purpose now referred to; and I also desire to state that having suggested a suitable way of adjusting the rack E vertically, I do not here intend to be restricted to that particular means of adjustment, as any well-known and suitable means may be'employed for such adjustment. I construct the rack E and make it folding by making it in the form of a folding truss, in which a is acenter beam having mortises or sockets a, a :in its sides, and by inserting into these mo-rtises the laterally extending bars I) b, jointed at b, and of such length as to form an arch or truss when, extending to the sides of the car, as is clcarlyindicated in Fig. 2. Itis intended that the lower ends of the bars b b will rest on some of the longitudinal bars 0 0 usually found in the frame-work of stock-cars, and that these bars and the sides or wall of the car will serve as abutments to support the rack in position for use.

When the rack is not in use it may be folded and raised, as indicated by the dotted or broken lines shown at d d in Fig. 2.

Spring hooks or catches e 6 may be employed to hold "the folding ends of the bars I) bin their folded position.

Ventilating ports or scuttles f f, arranged in the roof, may also be employed with advantage.

I desire, also, here to state that the rack E may be adjusted vertically by being set on higher or lower bars, 0 c, and that this mode of adjustment is aided by making the rack folding, even though it be not folded-entirely together and suspended off of the bars 0 c, as indicated at d d.

It will be perceived from the foregoing de scription, and from reference to the drawings, that simplicity and utility of construction and operation are-aimed at in the improvements I have set forth, without sacrificing the comfort and safety of the stock, my chief object being to make humane provision for the transportation of live-stock over long lines of railways.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a stock-car, of the folding and vertically-adjustable hay-rack, E, containing the laterally-extending bars b b, jointed between their ends, and adapted for support in an arched or truss-like form, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A folding and vertically-adjustable hayrack, in combination with a windlass and a stock-car, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In combination with a stock-car, the independent adjustable and removable closed Water-tank 0, provided with a suspendinghook, and having therein one or more drinkingports,-each surrounded by a guard or flange to prevent splashing, substantially as shown and described.

4. A hollow trough having therein one or more drinking-ports,and containing a float at said port or ports, in combination with a-stockcar, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. The combination, with a stock-car, of

stalls constructed by means of removable bars separate and independent of each other and of thecar, and mortiscs or sockets arranged in vertical and horizontal series alongthe sides of the car to receive the ends of the said bars, and whereby both the width and height of the stalls may be varied by arranging the said bars in correspondingly-located mortises or sockets, substantially as specified.

6. Thestock-supporting belt, in combination with a vertically-yielding support for suspending the same adjustably and yieldingly at various heights, substantially as specified.

7. The combination, in a stock-car, of a belt, D, and a vertically-yielding Windlass, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

8. A supporting-bar resting on springs, in combination with a stock-supporting belt connected to the said bar, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

ALONZO O. MATHER.

Witnesses:

J nssrn E. STUART, F. F. WARNER.

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