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  • the object of my invention is to avoid the dangers and accidents and damages to life and property incident to the use of car-couplings that cannot be coupled or uncoupled without going between two cars.
  • Figure 1 of my accompanying drawings is a' perspectiveview of one ofmy couplings applied to a car.
  • Fig. 2v is a side view showing two cars coupled together by means of my device. Together they clearly illustrate the construction, application, and operation of my complete invention.
  • A represents a draw-head attached to the end and bottom of a car in a common way, so as to allow longitudinal and also lateral play. It has a hook, B, formed integral with its front end and top portion, that is adapted to engage a link carried on another car. It also has a cavity and throat, O, and vertical pin-hole d, that adapts it to be coupled to another car by means of a common link and pin.
  • E is an open ended link pivoted to the draw-head in such a manner that the closed end will extend forward beyond the drawhead and swing vertically.
  • G is a rock-shaft mounted in suitable bearings attached to the front of a car. It has an arm, h, extending at right angles therefrom, and crank-handles i at its ends.
  • m represents a rod, chain, or rope extending upward through suitable bearings on the front of the car in such a manner that the rock-shaft G may be operated therewith by a person on top of the car;
  • the open-ended pivoted link E the rock-shaft G, having an arm, h, and handles 73 t, and the connecting-link 70, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

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W. HENRY.
GAR GOUPLING. I No. 304,429. Patented Sept. 2, 1884.
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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE;
WILLIAM HENRY, OF OOLFAX, IOIVA.
CAR-COUPLING.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,429, dated September 2, 1884.
Application filed February 20, 1884. (No model.)
T0 (ZZZ whom, it may concern: I
Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY, of Colfax, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Oar-Coupling, of which the following is a specification.
The object of my invention is to avoid the dangers and accidents and damages to life and property incident to the use of car-couplings that cannot be coupled or uncoupled without going between two cars.
It consists in combining an open link with a draw-head having a hook at its top and front end and a rock-shaft in such a manner that the coupling-link can be readily operated, as required,to couple and un couple cars, by means of the rock-shaft, by a person on top of the car or at either side of the car and track, as hereinafter fully set forth.
Figure 1 of my accompanying drawings is a' perspectiveview of one ofmy couplings applied to a car. Fig. 2v is a side view showing two cars coupled together by means of my device. Together they clearly illustrate the construction, application, and operation of my complete invention.
A represents a draw-head attached to the end and bottom of a car in a common way, so as to allow longitudinal and also lateral play. It has a hook, B, formed integral with its front end and top portion, that is adapted to engage a link carried on another car. It also has a cavity and throat, O, and vertical pin-hole d, that adapts it to be coupled to another car by means of a common link and pin.
E is an open ended link pivoted to the draw-head in such a manner that the closed end will extend forward beyond the drawhead and swing vertically.
G is a rock-shaft mounted in suitable bearings attached to the front of a car. It has an arm, h, extending at right angles therefrom, and crank-handles i at its ends.
is is a link, by means of which the pivoted link E is flexibly connected with the end of the arm h, that extends from the rockshaft G.
m represents a rod, chain, or rope extending upward through suitable bearings on the front of the car in such a manner that the rock-shaft G may be operated therewith by a person on top of the car;
In the practical operation of my invention thus constructed and applied, to couple two cars together that are provided with drawheads having .hooks B, I simply elevate the front end of the link E by means of the operative mechanism G h k, by seizing one of the handles 1, or lifting upon the rod m, and when the twodraw-heads come together I reverse the motion of the pivoted link and cause it to engage the hook B. To uncouple I simply lift the pivoted link from the hook by means of the same operative devices.
I am aware that hooks have been formed on the ends ofdrawbars, and links pivoted there to.
I am also aware that a device has been applied to a draw-head to lift and maintain a pivoted swinging link engaged with a downwardly-projecting hook; but my manner of combining an open-ended link, a draw-head having a mouth and also a hook, and a rockshaft having an arm to manipulate a detachable link, as required, to couple by means of the fixed hooks or common pins, is novel and greatly advantageous.
I claim as my invention-- The improved car-coupling composed of a draw-head, A, having a hook, B, mouth 0,
and pin-hole d, the open-ended pivoted link E, the rock-shaft G, having an arm, h, and handles 73 t, and the connecting-link 70, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.
IVILLIAM HENRY.
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J A. MATT RN, G. W. FRENCH.
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