US411208A - Stock-car - Google Patents

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STEPHEN P. TALLMAN, OF DUNELLEN, NElV JERSEY.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,208, dated September 17, 1889.

Application filetl December 22, 1888. Serial No. 294,409. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

l3o it known that I, STEPHEN P. TALLMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dunellen, Middlesex county, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Stock Cars, of which the following is a specification,

My invention relates to cars for transporting live stock, and particularly to that class of such cars which have d umping-troughs and hay-racks; and the object of my invention is in part to provide the car with fixed externally-projecting housings on its sides, in which the troughs are mounted, whereby advantages are attained that will beset forth hereinafter, and in part to improve the mechanism whereby the troughs are shifted.

My invention will be fully described hereinafter, and its novel features carefully defined in the claims.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a car provided with my improvements, the plane of the section being indicated Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of the car, illustrating the construction of the housings and the manner of mounting the troughs. A part of the housing is represented as broken away in this view. Figs. 3 and 4 are detached fragmentary views illustrating the manner of mounting and operatin g the tilting sectional troughs. These views are drawn to a scale double that of Figs. 1 and 2.

A represents the floor of the car.

A is the roof, and A the slatted sides, of the car.

In constructing the sides of the car I form thereon fixed projecting housings B B. These are open to the interior of the car, and may be slatted like the sides of the car below them. In these housings are mounted the tilting troughs O O, which stand entirely outside of the car.

In order that the form and character of these housings B may be better understood, I will explain how I prefer to construct them, premising, however, that the builder of the car may employ any mode of framing that best suits his convenience. At the proper height above the floor of the car-say about thirty-three inches-a belt a is framed into the studs 1) b, and about thirty inches above this belt another upper belt or rail a is framed into the studs. The alternate studs are cut away, as represented in Fig. 2. On the outer faces of the continuous studs are bolted bracket-pieces c c, which extend out about seven and one-half inches, and extend up from the top of belt a to the caves of the car, being preferably tapered or rounded at their upper ends, as clearly represented in Fig. 1. Slats cl cl are secured to the outer edges of these brackets, being preferably set in flush therewith. These slats form the outer wall of the housing B. Above or at the upper rail or belt a is a roof plate or board e, which forms a bottom or floor for a haymow D, which is inclosed exteriorly by a tight boarding f, secured to the bracket-pieces o. A slatted or grid-like hay-rack g is hinged at or to the belt a and forms an inclined front to the haymow when let down, as in Fig. 1. This rack and projecting mow are not new with me, and I do not claim them herein. I need only say that the rack is adapted to be folded up flat against the side of the car when not in use. The housing B is open at the bottom, and in it is hung the trough O, the inner edge of which stands a little bit outside of the inner face of the side of the car. I prefer to employ a semi-cylindrical, sectional, pivotally-mounted trough, like that described and claimed in mypending application,Serial No. 276,550, and that is the kind of trough Ihave herein shown. I will briefly describe it with special reference to Figs. 3 and 4. The trough is make in lengths or sections, and these are connected by tubular sections 0 c, which form the pivotal journals on which the trough tilts,-and which allow the water to flow freely from one section of the trough to those next adjacent. These journals find bearings at h in suitable castings or the like on the outer faces of the studs 1?. The pivotal axis of the trough being below its center of gravity, the trough, when righted and in use, is in unstable equilibrium, and should lean or rest at its inner side against a plate or strip 1', secured to the belt Ct and extending to or a little above the edge of the trough. WVhen it is desired to dump the trough in order to empty it, it is tilted outward, making about a quarter-revolution on its pivotal axis. The water from the trough thus falls to the earth clear of the side of the car below, and avoids wetting and bespatterin g the car.

I will now explain the advantages of providing the sides of the car with fixed housings to contain the exteriorly-mounted troughs. In the first place, it enables the trough to be placed wholly outside of the car, so that it cannot be fouled by the cattle norbe in position to injure them by collision with it, and it allows the trough to be emptied without bespattering the side of the car, which latter is an important consideration, especially in freezing weather. The guard strip or plate tis substantially flush with the inside of the car, and it protects both the trough and the cattle from or against each other. The housing B provides ample head-room for the cattle, and the upper portion of thehousing, which Ihave called the haymow D, provides ample room for hay exterior to the inner face of the side of the car. The car may be conveniently usedon the return trip, for example for transporting ordinary freight, as there are no fixtures inside (as in ordinary cattle or stock cars) to interferein fact, the sides of the car are smooth or flush inside normally, and the car is thus adapted at alltimes to receive freight.

In order to better adapt the car for carrying long freight, which cannot be got in conveniently at the side doors, it may be provided with an upper window, as G, in its end, for use in loading lumber, and a lower window H, for use in loading railroad-iron and the like. But these are only conveniences, and may or may not be provided.

Asameans of tilting or dumping the troughs on both sides of the car simultaneously,I employ a device operating on the same principle as the lever-shift described in my before-mentioned patent application, Serial No. 276,550, but differing therefrom somewhat in its details of construction. This device I will now describe, with especial reference to Figs. 1 and 3. On the journal j of the trough, oron the trough itself, is secured an arm 70, which is coupled by a rod 1 to one arm of a bellcrank lever or elbow-lever m, mounted on the ends of the car. There are two elbow-levers 9%, one coupled to each trough, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The other arms of these elbow-levers are coupled to an operating-lever I by rods n. One of said rods 01. is coupled to lever I above its fulcrum or pivot-point 0, and the other is coupled thereto below said point 0. \Vhen lever I is thrown over to the right, the troughs will be dumped simultan eously, and when thrown over to the left they will be righted. The lever I is mounted on the end of the car and projects out through a slot in the roof.

The mow D is not essential to my invention, and the partition 6 and rack g may be omitted. One essential feature is the fixed projecting housing, built with and forming an integral part of the car-body, and serving to protect the heads of the animals, and the troughs pivotally mounted in said housings and adapted to tilt outward, said troughs being wholly outside of the car.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A stock-car provided with projecting housings B B at its opposite sides, with tilting troughs C O, mounted on the outer sides of the car within said housings, and a levershift for simultaneously dumping said troughs outward, said lever-shift consisting of the cranks k 75 on the troughs, the bell-cranks m m, the operating-lever I, and the connectingrods Z Z n n, all arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

2. A stock-car provided with outwardlytilting troughs mounted on the opposite sides of the car, and with a lever-shift mounted on the inner face of the end of the car for shifting said troughs simultaneously, said levershift consisting of two bell-cranks m m, an operating-lever I, fulcrumed on the end of the car and projecting through the roof thereof, rods 11 n, coupling said lever on opposite sides of its fulcrum with the respective bell-cranks, and the rods Z Z, connecting the said bellcranks with the respective troughs, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN P. TALLMAN.

Vitnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, J. D. CAPLINGER.

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