US294574A

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Publication number: US294574A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-03-04
Anticipated expiration: 1901-03-04

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UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

RICHARD HENRY BRIGGS AND CLEVELAND PRIOHARD, OF WHISTLER, ALA.

CAR,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,574, dated March 4, 1884.

' Application filed July 20,1883. (N0 mode Be it known that we, RICHARD H. BRIGGS and CLEVELAND PRIOHARD, of Whistler, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Cars; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the which form part of this specification.

Our invention relatesto an improvement in cars for the transportation of vegetables,

fruit, and other perishable matter; and itconsists in the combination-of a car which has suitable openings throughits ends and sides, with sections of flooring which are so constructed as to allow free ventilation, and sections of slats or sheathing which are secured to the inside ends and sides of the car, all of which will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of our invention is to provide a ventilated car in which perishable articles of all kinds can be transported, and through which a constant and perfect circulation of air is Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car embodying our invention, partly in section. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section.

A represents an ordinary car, of any desired construction that may be preferred. Through each end of this car, about on a line witheach other, are the openings B, which are covered with wire-netting'of any suitable kind. Through the sides of the car, upon each side of the central doors, D, are made suita-' ble openings, F, which are barred'or covered with lattice-work of any kind, and which serve to carry off all of the gases or foul air which settle upon the floor of thecar, and to allow a free and perfect upward ventilation of the air through the car.

The flooring is 'composed'of the sections H, and these sections consist of a number of cross-bars, I, which are perforated at different points to allow the air to pass freely through,

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and which have a number of slats, J, secured to their upper edges. These slats are separated from each other sufficiently far to allow the air to pass freely through. The. central section of the floor between the two doors preferably runs at right angles to the other two sections, as shown in Fig. 3. This construction allows the sections ofv the flooring to be readily removed at any time, either for the purpose of cleaning the car or for the purpose of removing the flooring when the car is to be used for other purposes than the transperishable articles from being piled or packed in the car in such a manner as to interfere with the circulation of theair at any point. The air is then left free to pass up underneath. the articles, or through from the sides of the car.

'Upon the top of the car, at opposite ends, are placed suitable ventilators, 0, through which the currents of air which pass into the car from the ends and at the bottom make their escape. While the car is in motion a partial vacuum is formed in the ventilators, and the air naturally flows directly toward and through them. The air, it will be seen, is thus'pa'ssing constantly through the ends and sides of the car, and rising up through the perishable articles and passing out through the top.

Having claimv 1. The combination of the car with secthus described our invention, we

' tions of flooring which are placed in the ends of the car, and the section of flooring which is placed at right angles thereto, each section being composed of the perforated cross-bars I and the slats J, and the car being provided This lattice-Work prevents fruit or other with the ventilating-openings F B below the In. testimony whereof we affix oursignatnres level of the sections, substantially as shown. in presence of two witnesses.

2. The car A, provided with the ventilat- T ing-holes B F, combined with the sections of 5 flooring, arranged at right angles to each other, J l

and provided with the perforated cross-pieces XVitnesses: I and the side sections or lattice-work, P, sub- DENNIS RYAN, stantially as set forth. HENRY MOAFEE.