US363115A

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Publication number: US363115A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-17

Description

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1?. E. OANDA.

WATERING APPARATUS FOR CATTLE CARS. No. 363,115

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FERDINAND E. GANDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATERING APPARATUS FOR CATTLE-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,115, dated May- 17, 1887.

(No model) To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FERDINAND E; OANDA, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Watering Apparatus for Cattle-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to apparatus for supplying water to cattle while in transit on railroad-cars; and the invention consists in certain devices or novel combinations of devices for the purpose,substantially as hereinafter shown and described, and a prominent feature of which is the utilization as ducts for the c011- veyance of the water of the grab-irons or hand-rails which are used on the roof of the car, whereby said irons or rails are made to perform a double function and dead-weight and expense are economizedn Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a transverse vertical section of the body of a cattle-car, in part, with my invention applied; and Fig. 2,a longitudinal elevation of the same, in part, with the side of the car removed.

A indicates the body of a cattle-car of any suitable construction, and which is or may be fitted with separate troughs or man gers, 13, adjustable into or out of position for use; but these form no part of this invention, and any other form of mangers may be used.

The water is supplied to the mangers, as heretofore, from a tank or receptacle, 0, on the roof b of the car. This tank, which may be placed in or 011 any suitable part of the roof or upper portion of the car, but preferably on the center of the roof, is only designed as a distributing-tank, and therefore need be but of small dimensions and weight, so as not to give objectionable topheaviness to the car. The water may be supplied to said tank from time to time as required, either from a larger tank in or below the floor of the car, and be pumped up or otherwise conveyed therefrom by suitable appliances into the distributing-tank as the latter requires replenishing, or, if desired, the water may be directly supplied to the tank on the roof by hose or otherwise, as required, from any suitable source or sources of supply outside of the car.

D D represent the grab-irons or handrails attached on or along the roof of the car. These irons or rails, however, which may be supported by stanchions a, differ from the ordinary grab-irons or hand-rails in being made tubular or constructed of tubes suitably plugged or stopped at their ends, and having combined with them connections for supplying and regulating the supply of water from the rooftank O to the troughs or mangers within the car. Thus said irons or rails not only perform their ordinary functions as grabirons or hand-rails on the roof of the car, but also serve as ducts for conveying the water to the mangers as required.

To pass the water from the tank 0 to the several mangers B, connection is established from opposite sides of the tank 0 by pipes E and coupling d with the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails D D, and separate branch or dip i es G arran ed at suitable LliSlJEtllGQSZlJZtlli p P 7 1 a 1 7 connect with said irons or tubes D D,to convey the Water from said irons or rails down to the mangers, a hand valve or cook, f, being provided to each dip-pipe to open or shut off and to separately regulate the supply of water to the several mangers.

By making the grabirons or hand-rails available as ducts for conveying the water to the mangers, separate main supply-pipes for conveying the water to the dip-pipes are dispensed with, thereby reducing dead-weight and expense, without interfering with the ordinary functions of said irons and rails as safety grip devices. The water ducts or connections between the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails and the tank will also serve as braces to stiffen or strengthen said iron. If desired, however, there may be only one supply connection from the tank on the roof with the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails.

Instead of the dip-pipes which supply the mangers being directly connected with the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails, they might be indirectly connected therewith through auxiliary pipes or ducts in connection with the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails. Furthermore, if desired, instead of there being asingle water supply or distributing tank on the roof of the car, there might be two or more of such tanks with suitable connections between them and the tubular grab-irons or hand-rails; or only'one tubular grab-iron or handrail may be used for supplying by suitable connections the several troughs or mangers.

I am aware that it is not new to supply the interior of a stock-car at different points with water obtained from a reservoir in or on the roof of a car by means of pipes or ducts connecting the said reservoir with the interior of the car, and this, therefore, I do not claim; but in all such arrangements the several pipes used to convey the water, as described, have been special devices for such purpose, answering no other purpose, and have added dead-weight to the car; This to a large extent I obviate and reduce the number of pipes necessary, as well as dead-weight, while retaining the safety which grab-irons or handrails on or along the roof oft-he car afford, by making said safety grab-irons or hand-rails tubular, thereby adding to their lightness and utilizing them as mains for the conveyance of the water by combining with them simple branch supply vand distributing pipes, thus doing away with a special main or one set of pipes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p In a watering apparatus for cattle-cars, the combination, with the car and with a water tank or reservoir carried by the car, of the tubular grab-irons or handrails on or along the roof of the car, one or more pipes adapted to convey the water from said reservoir to said tubular grabirons, ducts or connections adapted to pass the water from the tubular grab-iro11s and to distribute it within the car, and valves controlling such distribution, substantial] y as specified, whereby the grab-irons are made to perform a double functionnamely, the ordinary function of safety handrails'and the additional function of mains or ducts for conveying the water-as set forth.

FERDINAND E. CANDA. Witnesses:

H. E. BRINKERHOF'F, O. SEDGWICK.