US461314A

US461314A - Car-coupling

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Publication number: US461314A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1908-10-13

Description

(No Model.)

' H. G. BUGG 8v E. B. LOOMIS.

CAR COUPLING. No. 461,314. Patented-Oct. 13, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. BUGG ANQ'EDWARD B. LOOMIS, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,314, dated October 13, 1891.

Application filed June 2, 1891. Serial No. 394,818. (No model.)

To all whom Lt may concern,-

Be it known that we, HENRY O. BUGG and EDWARD B. LOOMIS, both of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved Oar-Coupling,

of which the following is a full, clear, and ex-,

act description.

Our invention relates to improvements in car-couplings, and especially to certain improvements which may be attached to ordb nary car-couplings; and the objectof our invention is to produce a simple device which will enable two cars to be easily coupled or uncoupled without endangering the safety of the brakemen.

To this end our invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a device embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a broken vertical section of the coupling, showing it applied to a car; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the link-lifter.

The draw-head 10 is of the common kind, having the usual recess and a flaring mouth, and it is supported in a buffer-frame 11 upon a car 12 in the usual way.. The draw-head is provided with the common link 13 and pin 14, the pin extending vertically through the draw-head, and the pin is connected with a bent arm 15 of a rod 16, extending transversely across the end of a car and turning in suitable bearings 17, the said rod having end cranks 18 adjacent to the sides of the car, and by tipping these cranks the rod may be tipped, thus raising or lowering the link. The link is also connected with a chain 19, which extends to the top of the car through a suitable keeper 20, and terminates in a ring 20, which normally rests upon the keeper, and

it will thus be seen that by means of the chain the pin may be operated from the top of the car. When either the chain or rod 16 are moved to raise the pin, it will throw the arm 15 back against the front of the car, and a spring-catch 15 is arranged at this point, so as to'embrace the arm and hold it in a raised position.

A r'od 21,which is supported in hangers 22, extends transversely across the car beneath the coupling, and the rod terminates at its ends in crank-handles 23,by means of which it may be oscillated. The rod 21 has centrally thereon a forwardly-extending arm 24, which is thus brought beneath the draw-head 1 0, and which at its free end is bent upward, as shown at 25, and terminates in. a lifting-plate 26, which plate is centrally concaved on its upper edge, as shown at 27, to enable it to easily engage a link, and extending forward and downward from the upper edge of the plate is a lip 28, which thus serves to guide the link of an opposing draw-head into the draw-head 10.

It will thus be seen that this link-lifter provides for coupling cars of very dissimilar heights, as the link 13, striking the inclined lip 28,- will be raised at its free end and guided into the draw-head.

The movement of the lifter is controlled from the sides of the car by means of the cranks 23, as by turning the cranks and the rod 21 the lifter may be brought into the desired position.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a car-coupling, the combination, with a draw-head adapted to receive a link, of a crank-rod extendi ng transversely beneath the same,a bent arm extending forward from the crank-rod, a plate secured to the free end of the arm and provided with a concaved upper edge, and an inclined lip extending forwardly and downwardly from the plate, substantially as described. v

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head and the coupling-pin, of a HENRY C. BUGG. EDWARD B. LOOMIS.

Vito esses:

J. P. ALBAN, H. T. THOMS.