US325246A - Railway construction train or carriage - Google Patents

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RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION TRAIN 0R CARRIAGE.

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RAlLWAY CONSTRUCTION TRAIN OR CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,246, dated September 1,1885.

Application filed October 1, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARTON BERKLEY HiLL, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, ofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Construction Trains or Carriages Therefor; and I do hereby declare the same to be de scribed in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a train embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. The train, as shown, consists not only of a locomotive platform-car and a supplementary platform-car provided with mechanism for advancingtherailsupon themlengthwiseofthem, butone or more ordinary platform-cars, my

invention having reference to the said 1000- motiveandsupplementary platformcar. Fig. 2 is a top View; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4:, an under side view; Fig. 5, a front end view on an enlarged scale of the locomotive platformcar. Fig. (3 isa side elevation of the supplemental car. Fig. 7 is a top view, Fig. 8, a front elevation, and Fig. 9 a side view,of one of the adjustable brackets of the locomotive-car, the latter figure exhibiting railwaytrack rails as applied to such brackets.

The locomotive platform-car has its platform Asupported near its front end by a swivcling founwhceled truck, B, while near its rear end it is sustained by four wheels, (1, which are driving-wheels, two of which, on each side of the car, are connected by a con nection-rod Z). Furthermore, for operating these wheels, the car is furnished with two steam-engines, c, a boiler, (Z, and a tendertank, 0, of any suitable construction. Furthermore, the car is furnished with two auxiliary steam-engines, f, the connecting-rods g of whose pistons are applied to cranks h, extending from a shaft, i,which has between the said two cranks a third crank, 70. To thislatter crank, and to a series of others, l, projecting from a series of other parallel shafts, m, arranged under and across the platform, as shown, a long connection-bar, m, is jointed, thewhole being so as to cause all the shafts m to revolve simultaneously with and to be revol ved by the shaft 1',

On each of the shafts or there are fixed two broad wheels, n, each of which extends up through the platform and somewhat above it, as shown, such wheels being disposed in two parallel ranges.

To the shaft i there are two other cranks, 0, which,'by means of two auxiliary connection-rods, 1), extending nearly to the rear end of the car, couple with a series of cranks, q, of other shafts, 0', arranged as represented,

'each of such shafts 1 having upon it a broad wheel, a, such as hereinbefore mentioned, it being, likethe others, extended up through and somewhat above the platform. All the wheels or are in two parallel ranges, each of which, when a rail islaid upon it and the several wheels of the range are in operation, is intended to advance such rail from the rear to the front end of the car or to a position between two ends of the ear. The rails and ties are to constitute the-load of the ordinary platform-car in rear of the supplementary car.

In Figure 1 the locomotive platformcar is shown at L, the supplementary car at M, and the auxiliary car or cars at N. The supplementary car is furnished at or near one end of it with a steam-engine,O, its boiler Randtendertank Q, such being to operate two ranges of broad wheels, 92, arranged in the platform of the car, and provided with mechanism for simultaneously revolving them, such mechanism being like that of the wheels n of the 10- comotive-car, and to be operated by the steamengine 0 suitably applied to it. The two ranges of broad wheels at of each car are at the same distance asunder, in order that when a rail may be taken from the foremost of the auxiliary cars and laid on one of the ranges of wheels of the supplemental car, such rail, provided such wheels may be in revolution, will be moved along the range and by it be transferred to the next adjacent range of the locomotive-car, to be by it advanced still farther. These ranges of wheels are to save the labor of men that might otherwise be required to transfer each rail, or two or more connected rails, along the platforms of the ears.

The locomotive-car, near its front end, has a shaft, 6, whose journals are supported in two standards, a. This shaft carries two frictionwheels, o, provided with brakes to, applied to a lever, at, all being arranged as represented. Furthermore, there extend from the shaft two longarms, g, each of which has a chain, z, depending from it at its outer end. 011 the 5 shaftis aspiral spring, a, which, suitably confixed to it for seizing a rail and supporting it while it may be in the act of being moved off the locomotive platform-car and deposited on the laid ties of track. By means of the brakes and the friction-wheels the descent of the rail,

or combined rails, can be regulated as may be required. There projects from each side of the locomotive platformcar a series of verticallyadjustable brackets, E. Each of these brackets is supported between two guides, F, so as to be capable of being slid vertically, there being in the bar dot the bracket-a series of holes, d. On the bracket having been adjusted in altitude, a pin or bolt inserted in the hole next above the guides will serve,'when resting on them, to hold the bracket in position. On

each range of brackets two lines of rails, (2 are laid in parallelism and held to the brackets by suitable chairs or devices. The supplementary plat form -car may also be provided,

3 in like manner, with such brackets and rails,

or it may have the brackets above, which may be applied so as to be capable of being turned back flatwise against the side of the carthat is, into positions as shown at d in Fig. 6.

5 Each set of rails d is provided with one or more trucks or carriages, a, for transporting the ties, which are shown at f as loaded on such trucks. The object of having the brackets adjustable or movable vertically is to ad- 0 Init of the railway-truck on them being arranged horizontal or about so, when the construction-train may be either on an up or down grade.

Thelocomotive platform car is represented .5 as having on its platform a box, G, for bolding the tools, fish-plates, bolts, or other devices usually required in laying a railway-track. As the track may be laid the construction train is to be advanced on it, the rails and ties, 850., being advanced automatically on the locomotive and supplementary platform-cars. Guards n are applied to the said cars on each side of the ranges of wheels n, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, to keep the rails while being advanced from running off the wheels n.

I claim- 1. The locomotive platform-car provided with a steam engine and boiler, or mechanism for moving such car on a railway-track, and also having to one or each side ofits platform a series of brackets, and a railway-track thereon provided with one or more wheeled tracks, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The locomotive platforn1-car provided not only with a steam engine and boiler, or mechanism for moving the car on a railwaytrack, and with one or more sets of broad wheels extending throughout lengthwise of it, and having mechanism for simultaneously revolving them, but with a series of brackets, adjustable as described, applied to one or each of the sides of the car, and having laid upon it, the said series, a railway-track furnished with one or more trucks or carriages, all being substantially and for use as represented.

3. The locomotive platform -car provided not only with a steam engine and boiler, or mechanism for moving such car upon a railway, and also with a series of broad wheels arranged in it, and having mechanism for simultaneously revolving them, as described, but with a shaft and arms projecting therefrom, and with friction wheels and brakes, and a spring to the shaft, such shaft being near one end of the car, and all being substantially and for use as set forth.

BARTON B. HILL.

Witnesses:

S. N. PIPER, E. B. PRATT.

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