US372866A - Peters - Google Patents

Description

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GQPEPERQ CABLE RAILWAY.

Patented Nov. 8,:1887.

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G. PEPER.

CABLE RAILWAY.

No. 372,866. A

' Patented Nov. 8, 1887 N. Firms, Pimo-Lnhngmpmr. wnshinglum D. C.

PATENT EEIcE.

CHRISTIAN PEPEE, or ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CABLE RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,866, dated November 8, 1887.

Application tiled May 23, 1&8?. Serial No. Q39,119. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.: I

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN PEPER, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cable Railways, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in Figure I is a top or plan view' showing a section or portion of my imp roved railway. Fig. II is a transverse vertical section taken on line II II, Fig. I. Fig. III is a transverse section t-hrough the road at one of the wells that connect withthe sewer. Fig. IV is a perspective view, of one of the chairs. Fig. V is a similar view showing a slight modification of a chair which is more particularly intendedto be used at thejoints of the yoke. Fig. VI is a detail section showing a modification. VII is a detail vertical section'.

My invention relates to certain improvements in cable railways; and it consists in'f'eatures of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the road-bed, 2 the track-rails, and 3 the conduit, of a cable railway.

My invention relates to the chairs for supporting the conduit and the manner of securing the conduit to the chairs.

4 represents one of the chairs made as shown in Fig. IV, consisting,preferably,of two triangular pieces or standards connected by a web or portion, 5.

Each standard of the chair is preferably made double, the two parts being slightly separated and preferably connected together both by a web, 7 at bottom and the block 10, hereinafter described, at top.

The conduit is made in two portions of inverted-L shape in cross-section, one portion fitting against each inner wall,6,of the chair, as shown in Fig. II.

The web 5 of each chair is provided with flanges or lugs 7, between which'and the walls or faces 6 of the chair the lower edges of the conduit-plates fit, as shown in Fig. II, and are held from lateral movement. The conduitplates are connected to the. upper portion of the chair by means of rods 8,passing through perforations 9 in blocks 10, the blocks fitting Flg.

in notches 11 of the chair and having notches l2,which fit under projections 13 above the notches 11. Beneath the notches 11 are fiat surfaces 14 on the chairs, upon which the bottoms of the blocks tit. The blocks are thus held from lateral movement on the chairs by the tongues or projections 13, iitting in the notches l2, and they are held from vertical movement by the tongues 13 and the shoulders or surfaces 14.. The boltsS firmly connect the yokes to the blocks; and it will be seen that for the frost to close the slot of the yoke by theexpansion of the street,it will be necessary for it to bend or break the chairs, which, if made strong, as they should be, it is thought will be practically impossible. In case it is desired to remove a section ofthe conduit, it is only necessary'to remove the nuts from the bolts 8, when the blocks 10 can be pulled off the bolts and then asection can be lifted up. With this arrangement the condnit.- sections can be cheaply and durably held in place.r

In Fig. V,I have shown a form of chair intended primarily to be used at the joints of the conduit-sections, the difference between this and the main form being that the two walls ofeach side ofthe chair are connected by means of a-cross web or portion, 17, which would be slotted at 18 for the passage of the bolts 8; and with this arrangement the blocks l0 could be dispensed with, the heads of the bolts fitting against the outer walls of the webs or portions 17.

InV Fig. VI, I have shown another modification,wherein the blocks 10 are dispensed with and the bolts S are passed directly through the vertical walls of the chairs. This section is taken on line VI VI, Fig. V, with the perforations for permitting the passage of the bolts added, and the walls of the chair also made thicker to give the necessary strength where such holes are used.

It will be seen that there is no connection whatever between the conduit and the roadbed, so that the former can be removed at any time without disturbing or interfering with the latter.

In Fig. VII, I have shown a track-chair, 19, to be attached to the chair 4 by means of a bolt, 20, or by other suitable means, and have shown plates 2l,within the track-chair,over which a plate, 22, may rest, and on top of this the track- ICO rail may be placed. This manner of supporting the rails may be used, if desired, in lieu of the chairs 4.

I claim as my invention- I. A chair for supporting the tube or conduitirons, having on each side two pieces forming standards connected together, the double standards on both sides being further connected together by a web, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the tube or conduit plates, a chair having its two sides connected bya web and each side having two parts or standards, a connection between the two parts or standards on each side, and bolts uniting said connection to said slot or conduit plates, substantially as set forth.

3. In a cable railway, in combination with a tube orconduit, a chair, 4,consisting oftwo portions, blocks fitting in the upper ends of the chair,and bolts connecting the tube structures to the chairs by passing` through perforations in the blocks, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In acable railway, in combination with a tube or conduit, a chair niade in two portions,

notches forming shoulders 14. and projections 13 on the chair, notched blocks fitting in the notches of the chair, and bolts connecting the tube or conduit to the chair by passing through perforatons in the blocks, substantially as set forth.

5. ln a cable railway, in combination with the tube or conduit plates, a chair formed of two triangular portions connected by a web, notches 1l in the upper portions of the chair, forming shoulders 14,and projections l3,blocks having notches 12 and perforations 9, and bolts passing through the perforations in the blocks and connecting the tube or conduit plates to the chair, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a cable railway, in combination with the chairs 4 and tube or conduit plates 3, made substantially as described, track-chairs 19, plates 2l and 22, and track-rails 2, substan- 45 tially as set forth.

CHRISTIAN PEPER. In presence of- Gno. H. KNIGHT, EDw. S. KNIGHT.

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