US415406A

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Publication number: US415406A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-11-19

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. M. GAILLE.

STORE SERVICE APPARATUS Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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STORE SERVICE APPARATUS.

No. 415,406. -Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J OSEPII MATIIIAS CAILLE, OF EAST SAGINAV, l\IIICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION STORE SERVICE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STORE-SERVICE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,406, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed January 31, 1889- Serial No. 298,264. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: a is a leaf-spring having its center engaged Be it known that I, JOSEPH MATHIAS to the bed-plate of the car and so formed that OAILLE,acitizen of theUnited States,residing its ends will, when in their normal posiat East Saginaw, county of Saginaw, State of tions, be slightly underneath and adjacent to 5 Michigan, have invented a certain new and the wheels of the car.

' useful Improvement in Store-Service Appa- D is an arm extending out from the standratus; and I declare the following to be a full, ard underneath and adjacent to the wire, and clear, and exact description of the invention, is preferably engaged to the wire at its outer such as will enable others skilled in the art end.

to to which it pertains to make and use the The operation of the device will be readily 60 same, reference being bad to the accompany understood. The car remains at rest at one ing drawings, which form a part of this speciend with the spring 0 bearing against the fication. arm D and holding the car steady. The strap My invention relates to that class of storeor cord G is unwound from the spool ordrum,

service apparatus wherein a car is adapted to the ends,however, being engaged thereto and 65 travel over a taut wire stretched from station the loop part of the cord engaged to the proto station; and it consists of a combination of jection or hook c on the bed-plate of the car. devices hereinafter described and claimed. A portion of the strap or cord F is wound In the drawings, Figure 1 representsaside upon the center of the spool or drum. The

elevation of the devices at one station of my operator grasps the handle and gives a pull, 7o improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a sectional thus revolving the spool or drum, and by so view through the bed-plate of the car. Fig. doing the strap or cord G is Wound on the 3 is a plan view of the apparatus on the line ends of the spool or drum and the car carried a x of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: represents views in deforward and projected over the wire. There tail of the actuating spool or drum. being a certain amount of friction between 75 In carrying out myinvention,Arepresents the spring 0 and the arm B, it will take a the usual standard, and B the taut wire usual strong pull on the strap F to releasethe car,

in this style of store-service apparatus. but when released it will be projected rapidly C is the car, provided with any suitable cup over the wire. When the car leaves the staor receptacle C. tion, the strap or cord G is left wound upon 80 D is an arm extending horizontally from the drum with the loop above the wire. It the standard above the wire and properly thus remains until the incoming car picks up braced to hold it rigid. Journaled on the the loop and unwinds the strap or cord, atouter end of this arm is a spool or drum E. the same time winding the actuating cord or 3 5 The ends of this spool or drum are enlarged strap F thereon. 85 and the peripheries preferably grooved, as The office of the spring 0 is threefold: first, shown at e. by bearing upon the arm B it acts as a brake F is an actuating strap or cord engaged to on theincoming carriage; second, it holds the the spool or drum, as at e, and adapted to car steadily in position until the mechanism be wound thereon. This cord or strap exis operated to project it, and, third, by having 0 tends back over pulley A and down within its ends underneath the wheels and adjacent reach of the operator, where it is provided to the wire it serves as a guard when the car with a suitable handle F; is traveling over the wire and prevents the G is another strap or cord, the ends of which former from jumping from the wire. 5 are engaged to the enlarged ends of the spool II is a cylinder engaged beneath the arm D, 5 or drum, as at 0 Thus when the strap or through which the actuating cord or strap cord G is wound on the spool or drum a loop passes.

will be suspended above the wire. The bed- It is a spring located in the cylinder, and f plate 0 of the car may be provided with upis a suitable stop located on the actuating cord weirdly-projecting projections or books 0. or strap, and adapted when the actuating roe cord or strap has been sufficiently unwound from the drum to enter the cylinder and bear against the spring, and thus lessen the shock incident to the car having been released.

f is another suitable stop located on the actuating cord or strap and adapted to limit the play of the latter by striking the projection b on the standard.

Of course I do not limit myself to the specific form of the spool or drum shown; nor do I limit myself to the specific means for actuating the same, since any form of spool or drum on which the looped cord or strap could be wound would be contemplated by my invention.

What I claim is- 1. In a store-service apparatus, the combination, with the taut wire and the car adapted to travel thereon, of a spool or drum located above the wire, a cord or strap engaged to said drum and adapted to be wound thereon, said car having a projection for engaging the loopof said cord or strap, and a cord for revolving the spool or drum, the construction being such that when the spool or drum is revolved the cord or strap will be Wound upon the drum and the car be projected over the wire. substantially as described.

2. In a store-service apparatus, the combination, with the taut Wire and the car adapted to travel thereon, of a spool or drum located above the wire, a cord or strap adapted to be wound thereon, said car having a projection for engaging said cord or strap, and an actuating cord or strap engaged to said spool or drum and adapted to revolve the same, substantially as described.

3. In a store-service apparatus, the combination, with the car, of the single spool or drum E, located above the wire, the actuating-cord F, adapted to be wound thereon, and the loopedcord or strap G, also woundthereon and adapted to engage a hook projection on the car, substantially as described.

1. In a store-service apparatus, the combination, with the standard, the taut wire, and the car adapted to travel thereon, of an arm extending from said standard above the wire, a spool or drum journaled in said arm, acord or strap having its ends engaged to said spool or drum and adapted to be wound thereon, said car having a projection for engaging the loop of said cord or strap, and an actuating cord or strap for revolving said spool or drum, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH MATHIAS cAILLE.

, Witnesses:

JOHN J. WHEELER, ROBERT B. MCKNIGHT.