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.DUMPING GAB, AND` APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING THE SAME.

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UNITED STATES PATENTA OFFICE.

JOHN J. CLARKE, OF PATAPA, PERU, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. W.

COLVELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUMPlNG-CAR AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part' of Letters Patent No. 274,439, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. CLARKE, of Patapa, in Pern, have invented an Improvement in Gars for Dumping, and in Apparatus for Transporting the same, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a side View, showing my improved cars carried on other cars. Fig. 2 is a front view of my car while dumping its contents. Fig. 3 is a side view ot my dumpingcar mounted on another car. Fig. 4 is nu enlarged cross-section of my car, showing its dumping mechanism. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the middle plate ot' my dumping-car. Fig. 6

is a plan view of a cane-field and the tracks running therefrom to the cane-carrier, as arranged according to my system. Fig. 7 is a side view, partly in section, of my cars being dumped on the cane-carrier.

My invention relates to a novel construction ot dumpingcars for railways or similar purposes; also, to novel arrangements for transporting those cars from place to place. My devices and methods are especially applicable to the transportation ot"v out cane from the canefields to the cane-carrier which transports the cane to the mill.

My inventionconsists in a dumping-car, composed of an open tank or other suitable receptacle, mounted upon a turn-tablewhich stands upon any ordinary style ot' wheeled truck, and is attached thereto. This car is so arranged that the tank, when in its ordinary position, Will stand horizontally; but when the tank is turned around sidewise a foot on the upper plate of the turn-table will` trip into a hole in the middle plate thereof and cause the tank to tilt and dump its contents. When emptied the tank is lifted into the horizontal position and turned back, and the foot on the top plate catches on the solid portion of the middle plate and holds the tank in its horizon tal position.

My invention also consists in an arrangement of mechanism by which these tilting cars are run crosswise upon platformoars and held there, and transported by moving said platform cars to some other desired point, when the tilting cars may be run olt again from the platform-cars upon other tracks.

It also consists in the arrangement and combination ot' mechanism, hereinafter more fully described.

1n the drawings, Arepresents my improved dumpingcar, having a tank or receptacle, l, preferably made of iron, and open at its top and ends, as shown. These tanks I are each firmly attached to the tp of a plate, B, provided with one or more feet, a. This plate B has projecting ears b b at its middle portion, 6o one on each side. The middle plate, G. (shown in an enlarged View in Fig. 5,) is provided with projections or ears c c, extending upward from the surface of the plate, and so arranged that they fit alongside the ears b b ou the plate B, one on each side. The bar d, passed through holes in the ears b b and c c, makes a pivotal connection between the plates B and C, so that the plate B and tank I may swing on the bar d with a tilting motion, as shown in Fig. 4. 7o The plate C has a recess,f, out into it at each side, large enough to permit the foot o of the plate B to pass through and into said recesses. The plate C is rigidly attached to a vertical bolt, E, which passes through alower supporting-plate, l), turning` freely therein. This bolt E is so arranged that the plates B and C will turn horizontally with it, as on a pivot. The plate D has a notched edge, the notches being of the same size as those in the plate C. The 8o plate B is capable of two motions, one a swinging motion, together with C, around the bolt E as an axis or pivot, and the other a tilting motion on the bolt d when the foot a comes opposite and trips into the notches of the plates C 8 5 and D. The plate D projects in any convenient manner from an ordinary truck, F, having wheels.

The parts so far described constitute a car A. These cars A are preferably ot' a narrow 9o gage-say of a twenty-inch gageand are used for collecting and conveying the cut cane from the cane-fields.

The letter Gr represents a portion of a caneeld with the cane growing therein. Tracks 9 5 H H, of a gage that will t the gage of the dumping-cars A, are run from-the lield Gr to a cross-track, J, of a broader gage, and laid lower than the ends of the tracks H. The tracks H meet and cross at the switch K, and upon them loo 2 l amaai are run the dumping-car A, as shown in Fig. 6, right into the cane-fields G, and loaded there with the cut cane. The cars A are then run along the tracks H upon rails R, that are fastened crosswise, in two or more sets, upon the platforms ofthe fiat cars L, which run on the broad track J. rlhus each car L can support two or more of the dumping-cars A, run directly from the elevated tracks H upon said cars L. The broad-gage cars L are' shown as holding each ot' the dumping-cars A,which are placed therein and held by any suitable means. When one carL has stopped opposite the-tracks H and been loaded With its quota ot' dumpingcars A, it is then moved out lof the way and another oar, L, moved up and loaded in the same manner. A train of cars L, carrying dumping-cars A, is thus formed, which may be drawn by an engine, O, along the track J to any-.desired distance,and this train may be stopped opposite a series ot' tracks, P, of a gage adapted to fit the tracks of thedumpingcars A,and so arranged that the tracks P run up to meet the cross-tracks R on the cars L. The dumping-cars A,being then releasedmay be run along the tracks P' to any desired distance until they stand over the cane-carrier Q.-

Thisconsists of an endless belt or movable iioor, above which the tracks Pare carried crosswise, and as the cars A s tand on these tracks above the carrier Q every alternate car A may be turned, by means of the turn-table arrangement B C of those cars hereinbefore described, until the foot a comes opposite and trips into notchesfin the plate C andD,When the trucks will be tilted at an angle, as shown in Fig. 7, and the cane Will slide out of the open ends of the tanks 1 and lie lengthwise on the moving cane-carrier Q, and be carried oft' by it in the direction ot' the arrow. Eyeryalternate .car being thus dumped, the empty tanks may be turned back into their original horizontal position on the trucks, and the remaining cars A may then be tilted and dumped in the same manner. The cars-A may then be run back along the tracks P and returned to the tield G in the manner already described, to be again loaded; or they may be runoff upon tracks on the other side of the cane-carrier Q, and there await their turn to be returned to the cane-field. The cars A, being quite small and light, can be easily movedon their tracks H and P by hand or light animal-power, the locomotive being only used on trains of cars L,loaded or not with cars A.

l claim- Y 1. The truck F, carrying the notched plate D, in combination with vertical bolt E, notched disk C, horizontal bolt d, plate B, having feet a, and open ended tank I, substantially as shown and described.

2. The car L, carrying rigid cross-track R, secured .upon its upper face, combined with truck F, vertical swivel E, having horizontal joint d, and tank I, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination ot' tilting cars A with the rai-ls P and cane-carrier Q, said cane-carrier being beneath said rails, substantially as herein shown and described.

4.. The combination of' the narrow-gage tracks H and P with the broader-gage track J,which is placed on a plane below the tracks H and P for use with cars L and A, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN J. CLARKE. "Witnesses:

WM. RFM', E. BRNING.

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