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NiTED STATES IATENT 'rricn.'

. ADDISON c. -RAND,'0F NEW YORK, N. Y., AssicNoR To JAMES F. LEWIS, 0F

y YSAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION' formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 530,550,l dated December 11,'1 8,94.

Appucnion med sepamtr 19.1894. stanno. 523.467. (roman.)

To all whom, it may concern: .Y carriedby the car, to the cylinder O f-t'he car- Beit known that I, ADDISON C. RA'ND, acitif motor. y zen of the United States, residing in the city, In the drawings I have represented only county, and State-of NewYork, have invented such parts ofa pneumatic-car as are essen- 55 5 certain new and useful/Improvements in tial `to the understandingof my invention,

Pneumatic Vehicles, of which the following omitting such details of the number and is a full, clear, and exact description, referarrangementof the air storage reservoirs, ence being hadto the accompanying 'drawand of the motor itself, as well as the devices A' ings, forming part of this specification. which govern the operation thereof, as not 6o 1o My invention relates to' pneumatically being necessary to 'a comprehension of the l driven vehicles, such' as railway-cars,'which devices constituting my invention.

carry their propelling pneumatic motor and Y A and A representv respectively the end a compressed-air storage reservoir, one or and side walls of a. railway-car, A2 aportion more,for supplying air to the motorfcylinder, of the car-lioonfand A3 a portion of the car- 65 r 5 or cylinders; and my invention consists in roof.` Y

the combination therein, with the pipe'which Brepresents a compressed-air storage resconnects the air-storage reservoir to the moervoir carried bythe ca r, and usually located tor-cylinder, for the supply of air thereto, of belowI the cariioor, .as shown. an insulated chamber constituted in a`wall --B representenmotor-cylinder, which .isalso 7o zo of the vehicle, through which" chambersaid usually placed underneath the car-licor.. The

. connecting pipe, on its way from the resercompressed-air is served to the motor-cylinder voir to the-cylinder, extends, anda heat-genfrom the storage reservoirby a pipe 132:' erator, one` or more, within said chamber and In carrying out my invention I constitute a adapted to ,apply heat generated thereby to chamber C in'a wall ofthecar, preferably the V7 5 a5 the external surface of the pipe; and prefer -end-wall A of thecar, at or near itsjuncture ably with .ai valve .governing the said heat 'with' side-wall A', as shown; and it is-desir- Y generator and connected to the running-gear able that "this chamber extendfrom the car- Vf of the vehicle and adaptedto permit the maxi tloor to the roof, in said wall, audit may be adimum generation 'of hea't'while thevehicle is vantageously extended across the top of the 8o 3o in motionand to .decrease such generation car within the roof, as illustrated. Iain enwhen the vehicle is at rest; substantially as 'abled by this constructionand location ofv y hereinafter described and as more at length 'said chamber G in the car-wallie obtain'a recited in -the claims. r chamber of veryconsiderable length, and one Figure 1 is 'a sectional elevation of a porwhichfmay becomparatively narrow in lateral 8 5 i 3-5` tion' ofthe end-wall and side-wall of a pneu- 'f dimensions and.' hence 'capable 'of conceal-f maticgailwayfcar containing .r'ny inventionf ment in the car-wall, as shown, andwhich Fig. 2 is a side elevation of onexend of 'said does not encroach uponthe carspace or add car, a portion of the wall beingcnt away 'to tothe devices attached` to the exterior of the disclose .features of my invention; and Fig. par.. The said chamber C is'insulatedby 9o 4e 3 is an enlarged-lateral section of-,the end means of a lining-otasbestos, or its equiva-vv f and side walls o f the car Aat their junction, lent, as illustrated atc, in thedrawings. The on the line 5v, Fig: '1; J. i, pipel2 which supplies the' air from reservoir It isvwellf known that better results in, de- B to'motor-cylinder B', extendsthroughsaid Y veloping powerfrom compressed-air are at. chamber C, as from beneath the car-licor to 95 '45'-jtai-ned when the compressed-airis raised in .and along the extension'o'f, said chamber in air as it passes-'fronitheet temperature .before 'itissuppliedjo the cylfy the roof, vand returns within said/ chamber, f inder of, a"1 notbr;.gand` the object of lmyjne to and through the car-floor, with an insuvention is to provide means, or apparatu's,in lated connection or continuation b leading to y combination with the walls `of a .pneumatic amotorfcylinder. "When more than one cyl xoo v 5o ..vehic le,such as a railway dar, for heating the inder'is-employed a branch, or continuation rage reservoirs bffpi-@pip'e Bifinay extend across the car, as

shown .'for connection tothe additional cyl inder.l Y

Within the chamber C Ilocate aheat-.ge'xlerator, which may be in the form of a gas- A5 burner D which encircles the pipefsections B2 at or near the lower-end of the chamber,-

1 the tips of said burner directing the gas-M lame toward and around said pipe-sections, as indicated in the drawings. More than a single burner muy be employed for the generation of heat in said chamber; and it is desir- `Y able to locate a burner near the upper part of vthe chamber, es, for example in the extension in the car-roof, as shown at D.

It will be' found advantageous to employ gas as the rneansfor generation of heat in the chamber C, in that the gas-supply may be carried in a. ccmnpressedI state in cylindrical reservoirs D2 which may be hung to the intec'ar-seats, as indicated in the' drawings, and a service-pipe or pipes d may connect the reservolr to the burners, as shown.

' '.By means of my invention the requisitev de-l vices or apparatus for eEecting the heating of the air supplied from the reservoir B to the motor-cylinder, or cylinders, are con* structed and arrsnged in a compactand inexpensive .'form, and, together with vthe gas ap. paratus for supplying the heatgenerators, are

capable of .combination with the car-body without occupy-ing otherwise available -sfpnce therein.

v ln connection with the described gas-apparl gear of the car, as, for example by a-b'elt da' running from the driving pulley of the valve valve d being" adjusted, 'in the well-known manner, to be opened wide-by the revolution of the governor, and to he nearly closed by 'the cessation of the go'vernors revolutiomit Soils evident that the .valve will be adapted to furnisha full supply of gas to the burners' rior face -of the car-wall below the line of thev to a pulley e on thecar-axle E, as shown. The

when the'car isV moving, and todiininish'the to a minimum when thecar stops, thereby se'- fcurin'g the production' of vthe greatest-heat when the caris in most rapid motion and pulsion, 'and' curtailing the heat production or ceases.I

pressed-air storage reservoiuthe combination reservoir tothe motor-cylinder, of uninsuhicie, thrughwhich' charnher'ssid connectv within said c amber'a'nd adapted lto apply connecting-pipe, substantially as and' for theA purpose specified.

' In a pneuma with the pipe which connects the ainstorag hicle and f through which '.chamber' said conf reservoir -to 'said cylnden'yand; a heat-geirerator adapted te applyhe'at generated', thereby 'te` the surface' of` said connectin'gfpipe lgoverningtheintensity ordegree of heat gen'- erated by sai-d generator, and valveloperatng maximum ofheat when the'car is in rapid moand for the purpose specified.

. ADDISON C. RAND.

Witnesses:

A. S. FITCH,

H. TJFALES.

supply as the car slows up, andA to curtail it hence is using a maximnmof air for it'spro;`

with the'p'ipe which conneetsthefairstoragetic' vehicle provided with a nectingpipe extends on itsivvsy ftrom said '85 l.

tion and the generation of a less degree of heat when the cnr is moving' slowly or is at rest, are Vautomatically secured; substantially. as

when the car is moving slowly or isl at rest, and the use of air for propulsion is decreased;-

What I claim Aas my invention, and desire l1'. Ina pneumatic vehicleprovided'with a propelling pneumatic motor and a -conl-` lated chamber-constituted in svvailofl tlievefing pipe 'extenda'pnitswsy from said' reser .voirie said linder, and aheet-generator" heat generatedthereloy tothesurface efs'aidt propelling pneumatic motor-"and .at cempressed-airstoragereservoir, the combination 3o ,reservoir tothe rn otor-cyl-inder,el? an", insulated chamber constituted in a walloithe'vef f within said chamber, together with -aivalve sie gearing connecting s sid valve-to therunning- A gear ot the our, whereby the'generation ,of a

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