US247423A - Cattle-car - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet lv I'. B. SHBBLB.

CATTLE UAR.

No. 247,423. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. I'. B. SHEBLE.

GATTLB GAR.

Patente@ Sept; 203-1881'.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

' F. B. SHEBLB.

QATTLB GAR. No. 247,423. Patented Sept. 20, 1881.

UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK B. SHEBLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CATTLE-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,423, dated September 20, 1881,

Application tiled, March 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it-known thatLFREDERroK B. SHEBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Cattle-Gars, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relats to certain improvements in that class of cars which are provided with means for supplying the cattle with food and water during transportation, one of the objects of my invention being to so construct and arrange the troughs, feed-spouts, water-pipes, and operating devices connected therewith, thattheycan be applied to any ordinary freight or cattle car without material change of the latter, a further object being to supply water to the troughs of all the cars of the train simultaneously, and a still further object being to 'prevent waste of the grain.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l, Sheet l, is a side view, partly in section, of a cattle-car constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, Sheet 2, au end view of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse section on the line l 2, Fig. l; Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 3 4, Fig. l; and Figs. 5 to 9, Sheet 3, detached views, drawn to an enlarged scale, and illustrating features of the invention.

A is the floor of the car, B the roof, and D D' the opposite side frames, provided withlongitudinal slats, as usual.

In the present instance the car is what is known as double-decked-that is to say, it has acentral door or partition, A', and is adapted for carrying sheep in the upper compartment, E, and pigs in the lower compartment, E'. The central partition, A', is removable, as usual, so that the car can be readily altered to a single-decked car when cattle or freight are to be transported therein.

At each side of each ot' the compartments E E' of the car are troughs a, which are carried by rods b, the latter being adapted to bearings on the posts of the side frames, D D', and extending from the opposite ends of the car to the edges of the doorway. end of each arm b is provided with an operating-arm, b', whereby the trough or troughs which it controls may be turned down, as shown in Fig. 4, for receiving grain or water, or may The outerL be turned hack after the animals have been fed, so as to discharge the surplus water.

The doorways of the car are furnished with the usual sliding doors, F, and each ofthe latter carries a weighted trough, d, which, when the door is closed, falls into the position shown by full lines in Figs. 3 and 7, the trough being raised to the position shown in Fig. 8 when it is desired to open the door, and being retained in this elevated position after the door is opened by contact with the side frame of the car.

Along` each side of the car, directly beneath the roof, extends a grain-bin, G, these bilis being filled with grain through openings in the roof7 which openings are provided with covers having water-proofjoints. Shortspoutseserve to convey grain from the bins G to the troughs a in the upper compartment, E, of the car; and longer spouts e pass through the partition A', and serve to convey grain to the troughs u, in the lower compartment., E'. rPhe passage of grain through each spout is obstructed by two valves,ff, arranged at a certain distance apart and controlled by arms projecting from shafts m and u, the arms of the shaft m controlling the valves of the short spouts e, and thearms of the shaft a controlling the valves of the long spouts. The arms on each shalt are so arranged that on the operation of said shaft the upper valvesf will be open'ed simultaneously with the closing of the lower valvesf, and vice versa. It will thus be seen that a certain amount of grain-that is to say, as much as will be contained between the two valves-is fed through each spout, when the valves in said spout are operated. The amount of grain fed into 4the troughs can thus be accurately governed and waste prevented. The use of the double valve iu each spout also guards against loss by leakage through an iniperfectlyclosed valve. l

At each end of the car is a supplementary bin, H, which is, by preference, divided by a partition into upper and lower compartments, communicating through suitable conduits with the long and short delivery-spouts o, so that in case the supply of grain iu the bins Gr is eX- hausted thatin the bin H may be drawn upon.

Extending longitudinally from end to end of IOO the car, some distance below the roof-beams, is a partition, h, slatted frames p extending from the edges of this partition to longitudinal bars s at the sides ot' the car, so as to form racks for hay, .the latter being introduced through suitable openingsin the roof, and being contained in the space between the partition h and roof A, and between the racks and the bins G above the same. When the car is used for ordinary freight, the slatted frames are thrown up onto the partition h, as in Fig. 9, the latter also serving as a support for the boards which formed lthe temporary partition A' ofthe car.

A pipe, fw, extends longitudinallyT through the car, immediately beneath the central roofbeam, and this pipe projects beyond each end of the car, and is furnished near each end with a globevalve. Suitable branches, extend from the pipe -w to the various troughs in the car. Vhen a train is made up the pipes of all of the cars composing the train are connected by sections ot' rubber hose or flexible tubing, and the valves of all of the pipes are open, eX- cepting that at the rear end of the last car. Water is permitted to enter or is forced into the front end of the pipe on the rst car of the train, and flows through the pipes of all of the cars, and through the numerous branches of these pipes into the troughs a, so that the waterin g ot' the entire train can be accomplished at one operation. The supply ot water may be derived from the tender of the locomotive and forced through the pipes by a suitable pump 5 but l prefer to connect the front end of the series of pipes w to the dischargetube of the usual watering-tank at the side of the road, when the train is stopped to supply the tender.

It will be seen that it' the cars are properly supplied with grain when the cattle are loaded into the same, the feeding and watering ofthe cattle at the proper intervals during their transportation can be readily effected by a single attendant, or this duty may even be added to the regular duties of the brakeman, the operation of the Valve and trough rods by means of the handles at each end ot' the car and the connection and disconnection of the water-pipe being all that is necessary.

The arms on the valve and trough rods are weighted at the ends, so as to retain said arms in the positions to which they have been adjusted.

It will be observed that no change in the structure of the usual freight or cattle car is necessary in carrying out my invention, one of my main objects-having been to provide cheap and simple attachments which could be readily applied to such a car.

In order to prevent the breaking ot' the troughs a by pressure upon their outer edges, I hang to said edges atintervals bars y, which have T-headed lower ends adapted to slotted guides t, secured to the sides of the car. These bars do not interfere with the free elevation of the troughs, the T-headed ends ot the bars during such movement sliding in the guides; but when lthe troughs are depressed the lower ends of the bars rest upon the door of the car and support the troughs.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the car provided with grain-bins, troughs, and delivery-spouts, each of the latter having duplex valvesff, with a longitudinal rod having at each spout a pair of arms connected to said valves ff, whereby the vibration of the rod eects the simultaneous operation of the upper and lower valves ot' a series of said spouts, as set forth.

2. The combination of the car having grainbins G, upper and lower troughs a a, longand short discharge-spouts e, with duplex valves ff, and longitudinal rods m n, one adapted to simultaneously operate the upper and lower valves of one of the long spouts, and the other adapted to simultaneously operate the valves of the short spouts, as specied.

3. The combination ofthe car having grainbius, troughs, and delivery-spouts, with a sliding door having a pivoted trough, d, as set forth.

4. The combination of the pivoted troughs t of the car with the pivoted supporting-rods y, and the slotted guides t, for the lower ends of the same, as specified. y

5. The vcombination of the supplementary grain-bins H and their conduits with the car having bins G, troughs a, and delivery-pipes e, as specified.

6. The combination of the car with the .partit-ion IL and slatted frames p, supported by the car sides and partition, but disconnected therefrom, whereby the frames are at liberty to be thrown up onto the platform, as set forth.

ln testimony whercofI have signed my name to this specitication in the. presence of two subscribing witnesses FREDK. B. SHEBLE.

W'itnesses:

J AMES H. KERR, HARRY SMrrH.

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