US245820A - Stock-car - Google Patents

Description

' (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. T. HALL sTOGK GAR.

, Patented Aug. 16, 1881 c w v c W lTNHSSES: INVLLN'IUR:

' BY JZQMW a e ATTORNEYS.

N, PETERS. Fhnto-Lilhographer, Washingtcn. 0.0.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. T; HALL.

r I STOGK GAR. No. 245,820. Patented Aug. 16,1881.

WITNESSES I INYENTOR ATTORNEYS.

N ERS. Pho to-Lilhognphor. Wnihinglun. ac.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIQE.

WILLIAM T. HALL, OF FAYETTEVILLE, INDIANA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 245,820, dated August 16, 1881,

7 Application filed January 20, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I WILLIAM TEMPLE HALL, of Fayetteville, in the county of Lawrence and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stock-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a sectional side elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2, Sheet 1, is a sectional plan view of the car, taken through the line a m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, Sheet 1, is a plan View of the car. Fig. 4, Sheet 2, is a sectional end view of the car, taken through the line yy, Fig. 1. Fig. 5, Sheet 2, is a plan view of one of the clamps attached to the posts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to promote the safety and comfort of animals while being transported upon railway-cars.

The invention consists in dividing the interior of the car into compartments or stalls by a series of hinged posts connected by hinged end partitions and separable side partitions; also, in the combination, with the posts, of clamps having perforations to receive the rods that connect the end and side partitions with the said posts.

In the accompanying drawings, A repre sents the frame, B the floor, and G the roof or top, of an ordinary stock-car. The interior of the car is divided into compartments or stalls by posts D, doors or end partitions, E, and side partitions, F. The lower ends of the posts D are connected with and held in place upon the floor B by dowel pins Gr or other suitable means. The upper ends of the posts D are hinged to rods H, attached to the frame A and crossing the upper part of the car. The end partitions, E, are hinged to the rods H, and the said partitions E and the posts D are kept in their proper relative positions by collars I, formed upon or attached to the said rods H.

To the side edges of the end partitions, E, are attached perforated plates or lugs J, which overlap the perforated bars or perforated lugs K formed upon the bars of the clamp L M, so that the said partitions E can be secured in place by rods N passed through the lugs J K.

The clamps are formed of a bow, L, made to fit the posts 1), and a yoke, M, placed upon the ends of the bow and secured in place by nuts, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the clamps can be secured to the said posts D by tighten ing the said nuts. The lower edges of the side partitions, F, are connected with and secured in place upon the floor B by dowel-pins O or other suitable means.

To the ends of the partitions F are attached perforated plates or lugs I, which overlap the lugs K of the clamps L M, and the said partitions F are secured in place by rodsQ passed through the lugs P K, as shown in Fig. 1.

The posts D, end partitions, E, and side partitions, F, can be made of iron, or of wood strengthened with iron. The side partitions, F, can be made of a frame having a middle part of rubber belting or other suitable material. The latter construction gives the stock a little more freedom in lying down and get ting up.

When not in use the posts Dand end partitions, E, are swung up against the roof 0, and are secured in place by hooks, or byhooks and chains R, as shown in Fig.1. The side partitions, F, when not in use, are secured against the ends of the car-body, as indicated at the left-hand side of Fig. 1.

The stock can be watered and fed while in the car by troughs S, hooked upon rods attached to the end partitions, E, or otherwise detachably connected with the said end partitions, E. When not in use the troughs S can be suspended from rods or other supports attached to the upper part of the car-body.

Water and feed can be carried, when necessary, in tanks T and boxes U, placed in apertures V W in the roof 0, and supported by stirrups X or other suitable means. \Vater and feed can be introduced into the troughs S through a pipe of suitable diameter inserted through openings Y in the roof 0, which openings, when not in use, can be closed by covers Z.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a stock-car, the combination, with the 2 eaaeee herein shown and described, whereby the partitions E F can be readily connected With the [0 said posts, as set forth.

WILLIAM TEMPLE HALL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. L. DUNIHUE, LYOURGUS DUNCAN.

Images