US350061A - Reuben jones - Google Patents

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R. JNBS- GAR COUPLING".

(No Model.)

No. 350,061. Patented Sept. 28. 1886.

QW@ @yM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN JONES, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO CHARLES A. SINDALL, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,061, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed July 2, 1886. Serial No. 206,992. (No modvl.)

T all whom it may concern: their inner ends, and being provided with Beit known that I, REUBEN JONES, a citizen corresponding semicircular recesses in their of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in longitudinally-abutting surfaces, are fastened the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have in their places by the pin 11, which is prefer- 55 inventedanew and useful Gar-Coupling; and I ably tapering for the purpose of keying them do hereby declare the following to be a full, against the sides of the hole in the pinlifting clear, and exact description of the invention, arm. The pin 11 also acts as a stop to presuch as will enable others skilled in the art to Vent the pin being lifted out of the hole in the which it appertains to make and use the same, draw-head. rI`he outer end of the arm 9 is con- 6o ro reference being had tothe accompanying drawnected to the pin 3 by a link, 12. It is also ings, and to letters or figures of reference provided with an eye, to which is attached the marked thereon, which form a part of this end of the chain 13, which is intended to be specification. extended to the top of the car or other con- 'Ihis invention relates to that class of car- Venient position from which it may be desir- 65 couplings commonly known as piu-and-link able to lift the pin when the operator is on the couplings, and has more especial reference to car. On the inner side of the lugs 9 are the the improvement for which Letters Patent of shoulders 14 to sustain the link-lifter, as will the United States were granted to me on the be hereinafter described. th day of May, 1886, No. 342,517; and it To the eye-pins 10, by which the pin-lifting 7o 2o consists of improved means. for operating the arm is pivoted, are connected by eyes the rocklink-lifter and pin-lifter, and for holding the shafts 15, having levers at their outer ends, by latter in position, as will be hereinafter fully means of which the pin is controlled from a described. position at the side of the car. The rock- In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is shafts 15 and 7 are journaled near their outer 75 25 a side View of two draw-heads, mostly in secends, the preferable way being, when the contion, showing the position of the parts. Fig. struction of the car will admit, by eyebolts II is a top View showing the pin-lifter on the screwed into the projecting sills. The drawdraw-head and the shoulders on the lugs on head is provided with a fiat surface to abut which the pin-lifting arm rests to hold the pin against the dead-block 16, for the purpose of 8o 3o up. Fig. III is atop View, and Fig. IV a side receiving the shock of the concussion of the View, ofthe pin-lifter and contiguous parts of draw-heads. the draw-head, and especially the means by On account of the diversity of forms in which the pin is sustained, if desired, when which draw-heads are constructed, sometimes up. Fig. V is a top View of the link-lifter. not having metal at their sides in which to 85 3 5 Fig. VI is a perspective showing one part of pivotthelink-lifter, Ihavedevised this method the draw-gear on a car, and the rock-shafts of pivoting-namely, by a downwardly-proand arms for operating the same. Fig. VII is jecting lever, which can be applied to all a detail showing the ends ofthe eye-pins that forms of draw-heads, and which also provides enter the pin-lifting arm. for the connecting rock-shafts from the link- 9o 4o In these figures, 1 is a draw-head; 2 and 3, lifter to the lever, passing under the projectthe coupling link and pin of a draw-gear. ing timbers of the car. It is also found that 4 is a ball, which is provided with a recess, as pin-lifters are usually constructed and at- 5, in the drawhead. tached to the body of the car they cannot be 6 is a link-lifter, on the rear end of which is readily adapted to fiat cars, and in any case 95 a downwardly/'projecting lever which passes do not perform their functions properly on acthrough a hole in the bottom of the draw-head, count of the varying distance the draw-head and has at its lower end an eye to which is is from the end of the car at different times. connected the rock-shafts 7. It is often desirable to push a car, but not to The pin-lifter 8 is pivoted to the lugs 9 by couple to it. I have therefore provided shoulioo 5o means of the eye-pins 10, which are put in ders on the lugs9 by recessing the lugs on the from each side, and being halved together on inner sides, by reason of which the pin-lifting arm, on being raised slightly higher than is required for any other purpose, has lateral play, and may be forced by either pushing or pulling on the rock-shafts 15 onto either of these shoulders. The pin 11 projects on the rear end sufficiently io prevent the pin being entirely Withdrawn by abutting on the upright flange 17, as shown in Fig. IV.

Referring tomy former patent, No. 342,517,

the operation of coupling and uncoupling cars provided With this device is similar, except that in this the coupling-pin may be sustained in a raised position, if so desired, and the pin may be manipulated from a position on the car by means of the chain 13, and the manner of connecting the operating-handle at the corner of the car with the link-lifting apparatus is different, and on many accounts better, as is also the arrangement'of' the pin-lifter on the draw-head, for reasons already stated.

What, therefore, lclaim as new, and desire to secure by .Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In the draw-gear of a railway-car, the combination of the draw-head, coupling pin and link, With `a U-shaped link lifter, having and links 2 and 3, the balls 4, the link-litters 6,

having downWardly-projecting levers 18, and roclrshafts 7, the pin-lifting arm 8, the rockshafts 15, and the pin 11 to prevent the Withdrawal of the coupling-pin, all arranged substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose specified. A

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two Witnesses. Y

REUBEN JONES.

Witnessfs: ,Y

A. P. WOOD, A. FLonRsH.

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