US496148A - Car stop and retainer for store-service apparatus - Google Patents

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T. E. BARRO-W.

GAR STOP AND RETAINER FOR STORE SERVICE APPARATUS. No. 496,148. Patented Apr. 25, 1893.

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THOMAS E. BARROW, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,148, dated April 25, 1893.

Application filed August 13, 1892. Serial No. 443,012. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. BARROW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Stops and Retainers for Store-Service Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a car-stop and retainer for store service apparatus, and the objects of my invention, are first, to provide a stop and retainer that will check the velocity of acar when approaching a station and avoid all jar, second, to hold the car steady when the operator is removing or replacin g the cashcup, and third, to so construct the car and stop that it will be easily disengaged from the catch and obviate all danger of breaking the propelling wire when disengaging the car from the retainer. These objects I accomplish by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a store service station showing a stationary track wire and a propelling-wire and mechanism for operating the same; also my improved stop and retainer, with car held in position by the re tainer. Fig. 2 is a top view of same showing more clearly the form of the stop and retainer. Fig. 3 shows a portion of one of the parallel bars of the retainer. Fig. tis a modification of Fig. 1 showing the retainer secured to the end of the lever and which is released from the car by raising the retainer from the top of the car.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawings, A indicates a stop and retainer, which is composed preferably of a single piece of steel wire bent upon itself forming two parallel bars B and B and having an enlarged upwardly curved U shaped end or yoke C to allow the car D sufficient space to enter the stop and retainer. E indicatesa flexible tube of rubberorleather, placed around the retainer and forms a compressible covering for the retainer.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown the retainer rigidly secured in a projection I of the foot G by the set screws H and H the foot forming part of or secured at the lower end of a suitable hanger or support; but the retainer may be secured to the end of the lever .I, which latter is pivoted in the foot G, and disengaged from the car by the action of the leverP raising the retainer from the top of the car.

The operation is as follows: A s the car enters the station it passes below the yoke C and then between the parallel bars B and B. The bars being covered with rubber or leather impinges against each side of the top of the car, gradually checking the velocity of the same and holding the car rigid. To send the car to the opposite station, the operator pulls down upon the handle K attached to the propelling wire L which forms a wedge at the rear of the car and propelsthe same forward. The upper end Nof the car D is slightly rounded which allows the car to be detached with very slight force. WVhen the construction shown in Fig. 4 is employed the operation is somewhat diiferent. The stop and retainer being secured to the end of the lever J by drawing down upon the handle K attached to the lever P, the retainer will be simultaneously raised by the operation of spreading the propelling w1re.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined car stop and retainer for store service apparatus comprising in its construction two parallel bars B B and an upwardly turned yoke 0 connecting said bars, the said bars being covered with a compressible, friction holding material, and the said bars adapted to hold against the sides of a car when said car enters in between the bars of the retainer, substantially as described.

2. In store service apparatus, the combination of a suitable hanger or support pro vided with a foot portion, an operating lever pivoted in said foot, a propelling wire secured to the rear end of the lever, a track wire attached to the support and a car stop and retainer A secured to the outer end of the operating lever, the said retainer comprising in its construction two bars B B and an upwardly turned yoke 0 connecting said bars,

the said bars being covered with a compressi- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in ble, friction holding material, and the said presence of two witnesses.

bars adapted to hold against the sides of a car when said car enters in between the bars THOS' BARROW' 5 of the retainer, whereby, by lowering the pro- Witnesses:

pelling wire, the stop and retainer is raised T. R. ROBISON,

from off the car, substantially as described. T. Y. MCGRAY.

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