US393660A

US393660A - Car-coupling

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Publication number: US393660A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-27
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-27

Description

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GAR COUPLING.

(No Model.)

No 393,660. Patented Nov., 27, 1888.

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WALTER A. POST, OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,660, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed August 30, 1888. Serial No. 284,176. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

The orifice f is elongated to allow forthe longitudinal movement of the cars.

car, and having two coupling-heads-one on each side of the central coupling-head-with 'Pivoted to a plate, I, on the end of the car Be it known that I, WALTER A. IosT, acitiis a two-armed lever, J, preferably having zen of theUnited States, and aresident of Newhandlesj j at each end, near the sides of the port News, lVarwick county, Virginia, have car, said lever J being pivoted at i. A link, 5 invented certain Improvements in Car Ooup- 70, connects the coupling-hook with the lever lings, of which the followingis a specification. J, so that on moving the lever the coupling- The object of my invention is to so conhook will be raised clear of the opposite head. struct an automatic coupling attachment that The other arm of the lever is attached to a it can be readily applied to carsto freightlink, Z,which is connected to alever. n, pivoted IO cars especiallyof the present type without to a bracket, m, on the head F, the lever at removing the draw-head, a further object of carrying at its inner end a plate, 12, on which the invention being toso construct the devices the head of the coupling-hook rests, so that that the coupling and uncoupling of the cars when the lever J is moved it will pull the lever may be effected from either the top or sides a, which, in turn,will raise the platen, lifting 15 without the necessity of passing between the the head of the hook of the opposite coupler cars. out of engagement with the head F. By hav- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is iug these lifting devices on both heads, the an end view of a car, showing my improved brakeman can uncouple the cars by simply coupling attachment in position. Fig. 2 is a moving the lever-on one car, it being unnec- 20 longitudinal section showing two cars coupled, essary to lift the levers on both cars.

and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the attach- A rod, t, connects the lever J with a lever, ment removed from the car. K, near the top of the car, this lever being A is the body of the car; a a,the longitudinal preferably made in the form of a foot-lever, so stringers;B,thecommondraW-head orcoupler, that by merely pressing the foot upon said 2 and O is the bumper-block. lever the cars may be uncoupled.

D is a casting, of the peculiar form shown in It will be readily seen that my invention Fig. 3, and pivoted by means of a pivot-bolt, can be applied to freight-cars having the orcl, to one of the stringers or crossbraces, as dinary drawhead, and also to passengercars shown in Fig. 2. Projecting up from the plate having the old style couplings, without the 30 D are two heads, E and F, these heads passing necessity of removing these couplings.

up on each side of the longitudinal stringers By making the headsinone piece, I simplify a a, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to be on a line the construction and render the device easy of with the coupling 13. operation when in position upon the car.

The head E is slotted, and pivoted in this I claim as my invention 35 slot is a hook, G, having a head, which is l. A plate adapted to be attached to a car adapted to an enlarged opening in the head F. and having two coupling-heads-one carrying The head F is slotted at f, and has an ena hook and the other a socket-the said couplarged orifice, f, as shown in Fig. 3, and has ling-heads being adapted to fit on each side of an inclined face, as shown in Fig. 2, to allow couplings already in use, substantially as de- 0 the coupling-hook .to ride up and drop into scribed. the orificef, thus coupling the two cars to 2. The combination of the plate D, pivoted gether. to the car-frame and provided with two up- It will be noticed that each plate D carries wardly-projecting heads, one head having an on one side a coupling-hook and on the opinclined face and provided witha soeket,.sub- 4 5 posite sidea pocket or orifice to receive a hook, stantially as described.

so that the cars are doubly coupled by the two 3. The combination of a car having a cen- 5 hooks. tral coupling and a plate, D, secured to the a hand-lever extending to each side of the car, i In testimony whereof I hnvesigned my name a link connecting the lever 10 the hook oione l to this specification in the presence of two coupling-head, and n link connecting the SllllSCl'llJlllg witnesses.

handlever to a lever carrying a plate in the \VA lillDP A. POST. opposite eonpling-hezul, all acting in unison to couple or nncouple the ear, substantially as described.

\Vitnesses:

JNO. 'l. BOSMAN, 'lumus MoLoUo n LIN.