US399821A

US399821A - Stock-car

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Publication number: US399821A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-03-19

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No. 399,821. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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No, 399,821. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,821, dated March 19, 1889.

Application led November Z3, 1888. Serial No. 291.667. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, ELIAS U. l-nNnDicT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stock-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a car for the shipment of live stock, and especially horses, the construction of' which shall involve folding partitions adapted to be readily adjusted in positions to afford stalls for the animals, and as readily folded back against the side or sides of the car to clear the latter and adapt it to be used for the shipment of lumber, grain, or other kinds of merchandise. By my improved construction the use of the car for transportingl live stock from the place of shipment to the destination does not necessitate its use for the same purpose on the return journey, nor that it shall be returned empty, but permits ready adgustment of its interior into an ordinary freight-car.

My invention consists in the general construction of my improved stock-car; and it further consists in details of construction and combinations of parts.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a transverse section of a car arranged by means of my improved construction as a stock-car. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of a broken portion of the saine, illustrating the partitions in their extended and folded positions, the section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l and viewed in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view showing one of the folding partitions with which the st alls are formed and parts connected therewith and with which it is connected in broken elevation. Fig. 4. is a sectional view of a detail on the line a; and Figs. 5 and G are sectional views taken, respectively, on the line 5 and G of Fig, 3, and viewed as indicated by the arrows.

A is a car, which may involve the construction of an ordinary box-car. The timbers r, which extend transversely across the interior of the car near the roof, are preferably equidistant and such distance apart as will correspond with the desired width of stall, which is formed, in the manner hereinafter described, between each adjacent pair thereof.

I form the stalls with partitions I3, which, when not required to be used for their purpose of defining the stalls, may be folded against the wall of the car. Each partition is formed, preferably, of wood, and has provided at its lateral edges, near opposite ends, straps q, affording sockets p in line with the edges of the partition to receive at one of the said edges the opposite ends of a metal rod, o, which maybe partly countersunk into such edge, as shown, and atthe otherof the said edges a similar sliding rod, n, form ed at its upper end into a latch, n', and likewise partly countersunk, if desired, into the adjacent edge of the partition, and rendered accessible to the hand near its middle, where it is provided with a stop, n2, by forming a recess, n3, in the edge of the partition, and the rods 0 and n,which need not be greater than seven-eighths of an inch in diameter in the main, may be enlarged to an inch in diameter toward their opposite ends, as illustrated, where they enter the sockets p of the straps q. Each partition should involve a width somewhat less than that of the space between each pair of timbers 0', (which is about two feet and four or five inches, or the ordinary or desired width of a stall,) so that it will fit flatwise between them against a wall of the car, to enable it to be folded iii the manner and for the purpose hereinafter described, and the length of each stall should, by preference at least, be about afoot longer than the width of the partition, so as to separate at least the hind quarters of the different animals in adjacent stalls and not leave sufficient space between the edges of the partitions nearest the wall and the latter to enable the hind legs of the animals to enter adjacent stalls or permit the animals to kick each other.

On one side of each timber r, and extending from near the wall of the car, is secured a casting, C, in the form of an angle-iron opening downward and affording a guideway for the upper end of the rod 0, which extends into it beyond the end of the partition, an d directly below and parallel with the guideway C is a casting, D,in the form of a slotted laterally-flanged guide to receive the lower projecting end of the rod o, and having' sockets on and m', open at their bases near its opposite ends, the casting, which corresponds substantially in length (about a foot) with the IOO casting C, being countersunk into the door of the car, and the sockets extending through openings in the lIioor provided to receive them. Adjacent to the socket m of cach casting D, except that nearest one end of the car and close to the wall, is a thimble, l, open at its base and extending through the car-floor; and at a distance transversely to the car from the socket m in each casting D, corresponding with the distance longitudinally of the car at which a thimble, l, is located from a socket, m, is countersunk through the car-floor a thimble, t. Directly above each thimble t, on the timber o", in line with it, is secured a catch, t'.

The normal position of the partitions B when the car A is not arranged for use as a stockcar is flat against the car-wall, when the upper and lower ends of each rod o extend, respectively, into a guideway, C, and a socket, m, below such guideway, and the lower end of each rod n extends into a thimble, l. Vith the interior of the car thus arranged, the latter is adapted to serve the purpose of any ordinary box-car.

'lo arrange the car for shipping stock, the rod n of each partition. is raised by grasping it at the recess n3 to release its lower end from a thimble, l, when the partition is swung around on the ends of the rod o to cause it to extend transversely to the car, whereupon it is raised bodily to lift the lower end of its rod o out of a socket, m, and then drawn forward till the lower end of the rod o enters the socket m of the casting D, and the rod n coincides with the thimble cin' line with such casting. Thereupon the lower end of the rod n is caused to enter the thimble 7s and the latch n at its upper end to engage with the catch i, whereby each partition, so extended, is securely locked and forms with an adjacent partition or with the end of the car to which it is adjacent a stall, E.

To reconvert the stock-car into a box-car devoid of internal obstructions, each partition is raised to free its rods o and n' from thimbles m and 7c, and to disengage its latch fa', when it turned slightly to one side to cause thelatter to clear the catch ft', and moved back in the guide-castings D and C till the rod 0 enters the socket m, the partition being then turned on the pivot afforded by the lastnamed rod toward a thimble, Z, adjacent to an opposite partition, into which thimble the rod fn, which may have been previously raised to clear it, is introduced.

The temporary stalls may each be formed in the manner described after the animal to occupy it has been placed in position, or the animals may be introduced int-o the stalls after the latter have been so formed, when they may be hitched or tied to or near the side of the car opposite that from which the partitions extend and where a temporary or removable feed-trough (not shown) may be provided.

While the partitions provided on only one side of the car in the manner described are shown in the actual use of my improvement to suffice, it is within the spirit of my invention to provide partitions similarly eonstructed and operated, also, at the opposite side of the car, though, being then necessarily in two sets on opposite sides of the cardoor, the two sets should be arranged to fold in opposite directions with relation to the door-opening. lf the partitions be provided, as thus suggested, on each side of the car, the animals need not necessarily be hitched or tied in the stalls thereby formed.

Ventilation may be secured by means of ordinary rotary ventilators, F, near the base of a side, and by sliding doors G, for controlling openings provided toward the upper ends of opposite sides of the car.

lVhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by lLetters Patent, is-

l. In combination with a car, A, a partition, B, pivotally supported to stand vertically in the car and disconnected from the side of the car against which it is to be folded, and guides extending transversely of the car from near one side thereof for the upper and lower edges of the partition, whereby the partition may be turned on its pivotal support to extend parallel with and be thus folded against an inner side of the car, and be turned from its folded position to extend in the direction of the said guides, and be slid toward the opposite inner side of the car, and thus form a stall, E, open between the rear edge of the partition and the adjacent carwall, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a car, A, an overhead guideway, C, a guideway, D, having' end sockets, fm and mi', and secured to the carA floor in line with the guideway C, a thimble, Z, and a thimble, lt', in the car-floor, respect ively adjacent to the wall and in line with the guideway D transversely of the car, and a partition, Il, having rods o and u at opposite edges, substantially as described.

3. A convertibler stock-car comprising, in combination with a car, A, overhead trans- IOO IIO

verse timbers lr, guideways C, supported on the timbers, guideways D, having end sockets, m and m', and countersunk into the car-floor, one directly below each guideway C, to extend transversely from ne'ar a wall of the car, partitions B, having rods o and n at their opposite lateral edges, each rod 0 extending at its opposite ends into coincident guideways C and D, thimbles Z, eountersunk into the cariioor adjacent to the said wall ofthe car and located each to receive the lower end of a rod, n, when the partition is folded against the side of the car, and thimbles k, countersunk into the car-floor, one in line with each guideway D, and each. located to receive the lower end of a rod, n, when the partition is drawn out, to cause its rod o to enter a socket, m', substantially as described.

4. A convertible stock-car comprising, in combination with a car, A, overhead transverse timbers 0', equidistant apart, guide Ways C, secured to the tiinbers, guideways D, having end sockets, m and m, and countersunk into tlle car-floor, one directly below each guideway C, to extend transversely from near a Wall of the car, partitions B, having rods o and n at their opposite lateral edges, each rod o extending at its opposite ends into coincident guideways C and D,tl1i1nbles Z, countersnnk into the car-oor adjacent to the said Wall of the car and located each to receive the lower end of a rod, n, when the partition is folded against the side of the car, thilnbles 7s, countersunk into the car- ELIAS U. BEUEDICT.

In presence of- W. W. NICHOLS, J. M. lIoLT.