US378602A - Freight oar - Google Patents

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FREIGHT GAR.

No. 378,602. Patented Feb. 28, 1888.

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FREIGHT GAR.

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PATENT HENRY V. LUCAS, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIG-NOR TO LOUISE LUCAS, OF SAME PLACE.

FREIGHT CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,602, dated February 28, 1888.

Application filed September 17, 1887. Serial No. 249,940. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY V. Lucas, formerly of St. Louis, Missouri, now ofSt. Paul, Minnesota, have made a new and useful Im- 5 provement in Freight-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement under consideration relates more especially to that class of railway freight-cars termed graincars, or which can IO be adapted to be used asgrain-cars; andit consists, rather, in a novel and useful means for discharging the grain from the car, substantially as represented in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, and exhibit- [5 ing the mostdesirable mode of carrying out the improvement, in Which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a car in whichtheimprovementisembodied. Portions of the car not essential to an understanding of the improvement are not included in the View, and a portion of one of the grain doors is broken away to exhibit the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a plan of the central portion of the car-floor. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 4 at of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a detail, being a view in perspective, from the interior of the car, of one of the grain-car journals and its bearing.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The car A, otherwise than as modified by the improvement, is of the customary form.

B represents the usual door for closing the doorway I).

represents a chute, whose inner end, 0, opens upward into the interior of the car, and which leads thence downward and outward to or toward the side of the car beneath the carbody at. There is one of these chutes at each side of the car. The inlet 0 to the chute is adapted to be closed by means of a slide, D, which works horizontally and transversely in the car beneath thefiooringEand abovetheinlet to the chute. Theslideis provided with one or more arms, (Z, which extend through suitable channels in the floor of the car outward to the side of the car, and so that when the car door 13 is opened, as in Fig. 1, the arms can be 50 reached and the slide D thereby be drawn out to bring its opening (1 into coincidence with the chute-inlet c and the flooring-opening c. This position of the slide is shown at the left hand side of Fig. 3. The grain within the car can then flow therefrom into the chute, and 5 5 thence be discharged therefrom as desired. The slide D at the opposite side-namely, the right-hand side-of the car, Fig. 3, is shown pushed inward, so as to close the inlet into the chute, and thus prevent the grain from escaping in that direction. When theslide is in the last-named position, it can be secured by closing the door B, which then comes without and sufficiently close to the outer end of the slidearms d to prevent the slide from moving outward. A suitable stop (not shown) prevents the slide from being moved inward too far.

An additional feature of the improvement is the grain door F. This last-named door occupies, when the car is loaded with grain, the same position as that of the ordinary graindoor. It, however, differs from those hitherto in use in being provided with journalsf, Fig.

5, at the lower end of the door, at each side thereof,which engageand areadapted to berotatedin bearingsf in or upon the posts b at the sides, respectively, of the doorway b. When the car is loaded with grain,the graindoor is upturned in its bearings,as shown in the full linesin Figs. 1, 8, and the unloading ofthe car is initiated by drawing the slide D outward and allowing the grain to drop through the chute, and after the grain has been discharged from the car in the immediate vicinity of the chute that grain remaining in the car can be transferred. from its 8 5 ends to its center and be delivered into the chute.

A special advantage derived from the inn provement is that the grain. can be unloaded without practically any waste whatever, whereas when a car is unloaded in the ordinary way waste is apt to occur. After the car is unloaded, the grain-doors can be turned inward and downward into the interior ofthc car-body, as indicated by the broken lines in Fig. 3, and 5 so as to lieflatin a recess, a and so as to bring the (then) upper side of the grain-doors flush with the surface of the surrounding ear-floor.

The grain-doorsin practice are made of sheet metal, and when they are turned downward, Ico

as just described, they constitute a very durable protection for the most used portion of the car floor-namely, the portion between the doors of the cars, and which, as cars have heretofore been made, wears away much faster than the remaining portions.

The grain-door, by making the bearings f in the form of slots, substantially as shown, can be lifted entirely out of its position in the doorway b and removed, if desired. Thecatch f*, Fig. 3, is used to secure the grain-door in its upright position. A crossbar, f may be used to brace the door when the car is loaded.

By means of the present improvement not only is grain saved that hitherto has been liable to be wasted, but also time and labor are economized in the unloading of the car.

1. The car-body having the chute leading downward through the bottom of the car-body and outward to or toward the side of the car, and at its upper end provided with a slide, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the car -body, the chute, and the slide provided with arms, said slide working horizontally beneath the flooring and above the inlet to the chute, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the car-body, the chute, the slide provided with the arms and working beneath the flooring and above the chute-inlet, and the journaled car-door, substantially as described.

4. The journaled grain-door, combined with the catch J, as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination of the car-body, the

chute, the slide, the recessed car-floor, and the journaled grain door, substantially as described.

FRANK M. REED, J NO. L. WHELAN.

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