US469829A - Stock-car - Google Patents

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STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATlON forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,829, dated March 1, 1892.

Appncason and mail 2e, 1891.

' To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, CHARLES W. ALLEN, of Chadromcounty of Dawes, State of. Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Im-l provements in Stock-Cars, of which the following is a full,'clear, and exact description.

My invention'relatesl to improvements in vestibuled stock-cars, and has for its object to provide a means whereby when atrain of cars is to be loaded or unloaded it may be made a vestibuled one, through which the stock may be driven from one car to the other. f p

Another object of this invention is to provide partitions capable of being conveniently and expeditiously set up or removed to form the interior of the car into a single compartment or to divide it into a number of compartments.

A'further object of the invention is to provide a means for watering the stock, whereby water may be supplied simultaneously to all the cars of the train, andv also to provide a loft for hay or other feed, which will be effectively protected from the sparks of the locomotive.

In this invent-ion the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts of the invention. y

Figure 1 is a view inperspective of.. a pair of my improved cars vestibuled together. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a car constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 isa plan view of the same, the roof being broken away.

. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one end of one through ends.

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As shown in the drawings, they are pivoted in the roof and floor of the car-frame.

The side of the car is preferably constructed of suitable framing A, slatting 15, secured to the framing, and clapboarding 1G, the latter of metal or the equivalent thereof, immediately below the eaves of the roof 17. The end l gates a re also preferably constructed of proper tends from end to end of the car and out The iiexible tube 21 is adapted to be-connected to each end of the Watertube 20. In a central portion of the roof,near one end, a tank 22 of any approved construction is erected, and the tank is connected withV the .pipe 20 by a branch pipe 23, provided with a suitable valve 24, whereby the supply of water may be regulated at will. The top of the tank is preferably hinged so that it may follow the position of the running-boards 25. Two cross or transverse partitions 26 are adapted to slide against opposite sides of each center post or pillar 19. The said partitions are slatted or formed of end pieces or cleats a and cross-bars, and the slats of the partitions preferahly pass through the spaces between the slats forming a portion of the sides of the car, as shown in Fig. 5. The lower ends of the cleats or side pieces a of the partitions move in grooves or ways a in the floor of the car, whereby they are secured from lateral movement. Thus the partitions may be drawn outward, so as to vform the interior of the car into a'single chamber or compartment,

or they may be pushed inward andv engaged with the pillars 19, thus dividing the car into.

a series of compartments, and when the partitions are in the last position (shown in Fig. 5) they are so held through themedium of the cleats a and hasps 27 or their equivalents,

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Within the car at each side one or more troughs 29 are located, the said troughs being preferably hinged to the sides, as shown in Fig. 5', and are supported in a horizontal position through the medium of hooks 30 or the equivalent thereof, the said hooks being provided with connections to thesides of the car, as is best shown in Fig. 4. By this means the troughs may be emptied by disengaging them from the hooks 3 0 and yet remain attached-to the car. The troughs 29 are supplied with water through the medium of branch pipes 3l,which connect at their upper ends with the central supply 2O to thelower endof the branch pipe extending down within the trough.

A series of eaves-trusses is. located beneath the roof l7,bein g attached attheir ends to the sides of the car at the close boarding `lo and supported at their center by thermain supply-pipe 2O or a ridge-beam supported by the posts 19. A space B intervenes between the series of truss-beams 23 and the roof, which space constitutes a loft for the reception of hay or other feed, and the trusses formed of beams are ranged near enough together to prevent the contents of the loft from falling to the floor of the car. The loft is reached through the medium of a door 34, located in the roof and having, preferably, hinged connectiontherewith.

At each end of the car a gangvplank 35 is located, being placed diagonally opposite to each other, one at the right and one at the left hand end of the car. These gang-planks are hinged to the bottom of the car in such a manner that they may be folded upward within the car. At such vtime they stand Vertical, las shown by thedotted lines in Fig. 4. The .gang-planks are preferablymade in longitudinal sections, havinghin ged connection, whereby the side'sections may be folded upon the central sections when the planks are carried upward in the car, and the boards are made in sections also to admit of their adapting themselvesk to the shape of the runs leadingfrom the pens in which the cattle or stock are confined. The car is also provided with the usual door 36, whereby when a single car is sent to the yard the stock may be entered in the usual manner. The truss-beams located near the door 36 are preferably constructed so that they may be lifted up out of the way when the side openings of the carare used and 'considerable more head-room is required.

It is to .be observed that when `the stock is to Abe loaded or unloaded from the train the end gates may be slid outward through their posts 12. and the posts turned upon their hinges, bringing the gates parallel with the side of ,the car, as illustrated in Fig. 4, and when the gates are in this position they may be. slid on the ways Cin the direction ofan opposite car. until they meet with its gates, thus Iconverting the train into a vestibuled one, and the stock carried from one to the .from oneside to the other, as shown in Fig. et.

As the stock' islleaving the car, and when a sufficient number has been gathered into one portion of the car, they may be coni-ined to that portion by sliding the adjacent partitions-2G across and locking the sliding partitions in place. The cars are to be connected in vestibule style only while being loaded or unloaded, as when the train is in motion the gates l0 and 1l are applied to close the interior of the cars, and the cars then have the appearance of ordiuarystock'cars.

Anyone of the 'tanks 22 will supply sufficient water to the pipe 2O and its branch pipes, being connected when the train 1s made up to tillall the troughsA in thetrain. Consequently the valvesZt, connected with all the tanks but the one being used, are closed. This is done to prevent the water in the troughs from rising too high. .V

The gang boards or planks are held 1n their natural position by any approved form of latch. The lower ends of the gates 10 and 1l extend so as to be adapted to bear against the sides of the gang-planks 35 when extended, whereby the said gates are prevented from llateral movement, and any spaces or openingsbetween said planks and gates are thus avoided.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

l. A stock-car having at its ends swinging vertical posts, sliding gates supported on said posts and horizontally. movable thereon and adapted to form vestibules when extended, and wayson the side of said car for said gates, said parts beingcombined substantially as described.

2. A stock-car having sliding gates and a rising and falling gang-planksecured to its end, said gates being at the sides and adapted to extend and contact with said gang-planks when the latter are lowered'7 andth us adapted to form a closed Hoor, substantially as de'- scribed. Y

3. A stock-carhavingan end sill with one half or portion thereof vadapted to receive one end of a gang-plank and another portion hav- IOO lIO

ing attached thereto one end of a rising `and falling folding gang-plank, said partsbeing combined substantially as described.

4'. A stock-car havingan end sill with a gang-.plankconnected Awith a portion thereof IZO and -a portion adapted tosustain the free end I of a rising and falling gang-plank on an adjacent car, said gang-planks when lowered forming a floor between said cars,l said parts being. combined substantially as described;

5. A stock-car having gang-planks at .the end, side gates adapted to closethe spaces between adjacent cars and having their lower ends adapted to contact withthe sides of said gang-planks, and a partition extending across said cm and abutting against a, central post said partitions are adapt-ed to abut, said. parts thereof, thus forming a. chamber in seid car, being combined substantially as described. said parts being combined substantially as y described. l l CHARLES W'. ALLEN.

6. A steek-ear having sliding partitions Witnesses: movable on side frames of the car and in ways C. DANA SAYRS, on the Hoor thefeof and posts against which CHARLES S. BATES.

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