US492319A - System of tracks for transferring cotton-bales - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. W. BIERCE.

SYSTEM OF TRACKS FOR TRANSFERRING COTTON BALES.

No. 492,319. Patented Feb. 21, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()rmcn.

\VILL W. BIERCE, OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

SYSTEM OF TRACKS FQ R TRA N S FERRI NG COTTON-BALESI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,319, dated February 21, 1893.

Application filed June 6, 1892. Serial No. I1:35,?71. (No model.)

Transferring Cotton-Bales, and I do hereby V declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact descriptionof the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

y to the letters of. reference marked thereon,

which form part of this specification.

. Thisinvention relates to a certain improved arrangement of railroad tracks and warehouses for handling cotton bale-s andlike articles.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved system for economically and rapidly handling cotton bales or the like, and whereby loaded trains can be moved off onto the main track or tracks without disturbing the cars being loaded, and whereby cars can be unloaded and other cars loaded at the same time. I v

The invention consistsin certain novel arrangements and combinations of parts more fully described hereinafterand particulanly pointed out in the claims. I I

The accompanying drawings shows in diagram, a warehouse and the'improved arrangement of railroad tracks.

In the drawings the reference letter a, indicates several Warehouses separated as shown by the gang way I). The warehouses have doors opening onto said gangway so that cotton bales can be received into the ware house through said doors from wagons driven in at the gangway. The inner sides of the warehouses along which the gang way extends,

and also the outer sides of the were houses along which railroad tracks extend are provided with doors. The outer doors opening on platforms extending along the outer sides of the warehouses. By this arrangement cotton bales can be easily delivered at the inner side of the warehouses from trucks driven in said gang way, and can be loaded on the tracks at the outer sides of the ware houses. This arrangement is of great advantage and utility enabling cotton bales to be handled with great rapidity and economy. Railroad tracks 0, ex-

tend along on each side of the warehouses and connect separately with the main line tracks cl, d, so that cars and trains can be moved separately and independently on the branch tracks 0, or so that cars can beloaded on one track while they are being moved on the track on the other side of the warehouses. loading or branch track c,is provided with a relief track 6, extending parallel therewith so that the two leading tracks are located between the relief tracks and the warehouses. The relief tracks at their ends preferably connect directly or indirectly with theirrespective loading tracks and are of a suitable length to receive sufficient cars to permit free movement of the cars on the loading tracks.

If desired, cars on the relief track can be loaded through empty cars correspondingly located on the loading track. These relief tracks are longer than thelength of the warehouses as shown.

6', andf, indicate two more main or trunk lines of railways which connect with the branch tracks to the Ware house.

g, indicates a spur track. By means of this peculiar arrangement four main or trunk line railways are brought to the warehouses. means of the relief'tracks running the full length of the ware house along the loading tracksa train can be pulled out at onetrack and put in at the other so it isimpossible to block or crowd the warehouses or tracks thereof. Trains can be pulled out from either end of the tracks. Cotton can also be received on one side of the warehouses one day and delivered upon the other side, and reverse the situation the next day, receiving on the other side and delivering on the side that received the previous day. It is very important to get these railroad lines direct as not only the expense of switching is saved but all delays are obviated, as always in transfers there is a delay because the yardmaster must be looked up and kept in a good humor and various complications arise which make it decidedly advantageous to have the lines direct.

The many and great advantages of this invention are obvious without further explanation.

Each I Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In combination, the Warehouses, the four main line tracks passing in proximity thereto, and the two branch line tracks connected with all of the main line tracks and passing along the outer sides of the warehouses and provided'wi'th the relief tracks.

2. The combination of two parallel ware-- houses, a gangway between said Warehouses, railroad tracks extending parallel with the outer sides of said warehouses for the purpose mentioned, each of such tracks having a relief track as set forth, parallel therewith and of the same length as or greater length than the warehouses, as shown.

3. In combination, Warehouses, railroad YVILL W. BIEROE.

Witnesses:

W. D. CHEATHAM, R. P. DEXTER.

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