US254373A

US254373A - Car-coupling

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Publication number: US254373A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-02-28
Anticipated expiration: 1899-02-28

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(No Model.)

J H. PUTNAM,

I OAR COUPLING. No. 254,373. Patented Feb. 28,1882.

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JOHN. H. PUTNAM, OF TIOGA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,373, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed November 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOHN HAVENS PUINAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tioga, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have made certain Improvements in Devices for Coupling Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The invention will be understood as set forth in the following specification and claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of the end of a car with my coupling device attached thereto and hanging down as when not in use; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the same, showing a section of one end of a car, the draw-head, and with the link held up by my device ready for coupling; Fig. 3, a detail of the lifting-rod, showing the bend or projection thereon to hold the link; Fig. 4, an end elevation, showing rods at each end or sides of car.

Similar letters of reference indicate-corresponding parts in all the views.

A represents one end of a flat car, B the draw-head, a the usual coupling-link, and b the pin.

G is my coupling-rod, made of iron, bent down at one end, forming a handle, 0, op the left-hand side of the car and within easy reach from the side of the track, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This rod, from the bend of the handle, runs straight horizontally inward to within a short space of the draw-head, where it is bent down at right angles, then again bent at right angles horizontally below the draw-head, as shown at 0, thus forming two parts of a square, which hang outside of and swing clear of the draw-head, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This bent rod is suspended in two hangers, d d, fastened to the front or ends of acar, and which may be either loose hanging rods,hooks,loops, or chains, or other suitable device that will allow a free movement up and down of the rod 0 and a sufiicient sidewise play.

To further aid in holding the coupling-link up in position, so that it will not slip off from any cause, especially when a side movement is necessary, I make in the middle of the horizontal part c, on which the link will rest, a

square or rounded projection, c, standing out a short distance. \Vhen raised to couple, the rod and its projection appear as in Fig. 3. This insures that the link will be held by the rod 0 c", and will not slip sidewise thereon when the necessity exists for pulling or pushing therod O. The projection c insures accurate guidance ofthelink into the opposite drawhead. By means of itthe link cannot slip upon the rod, and as the rod is readily moved laterally ot' the car the link will be guided with con taintyinto the draw-head, asltcan bemoved one way or the other readily. As soon as the link enters the opposite draw-head the brakeman drops the handle 0 and the rod falls down in place, suspended by its hangers d, where it is entirely out of the way of concussions, &o., as shown in Fig. 1.

One of these devices will be hung at each end of a car, at the left-hand side, preferably, so that on either side of aoar abrakeman may stand he will have one of these devices at hand, either on one car or the other, or two distinct ones on each end.

I am aware that devices of this character have been known which receive the link on a plane length of rod; but this arrangement is open to the objection that the link is liable to slip one way or the other on the rod, and an accurate guidance of the link into the opposite draw-head cannot be secured.

What I claim is The combination, with a draw-head, B, and link a, of the bent coupling-rod O c c, swung on easily-movable hangers d, and provided with the projection 0, located in the portion 0 of the rod, directly under the link a, and adapted to engage therewith, and to serve as an accurate holding and guiding means for said*link,

J. H. PUTNAM.

Witnesses:

J. R. DRAKE, O. H. KELLOGG.