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E. ASAMUEL 8v Vv. ANGEREILV TRANSFER TABLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICn."-`

" ,EDWARD SAMUEL AND VICTOR ANGERER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA, AssIeNoRs To THE WILLIAM wHARToN, Jn., .e COMPANY, IN.. v-

CORPORTED, OF SAME PLACE.

sPncIFICATIoN forming' part ef' Letters Patent No. 537,720, dated April 1e, lees.

. 'Applicants nea December 7, ieee. l 'sean No. 493,023. (No man.)

To all whom/ twenty-concern: y Be it'known that We, EDWARD SAMUELand VIoTonANeEItER, both citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in.Transfer-Tables,et'` which the following 4is a specification.

The object of ourinvention is to soconstruct a transfer table `for transferringcars from one track to another as to dispense with the pit usuallyemployed in whichlthe transfer truck travels.

1 A further object of the present invention is to makethe rails of the railway track permanent and to providevthe` transfer table with hingedrails or skids which can be let down upon the rails of the track so' that a car can' be directed yontothe transfer table.v

In the accompanying drawingsz--Figure 1,"

isa plan view of our improvedtransferfftabla Fig. 2, is a sideview. Fig. Sfis an end view.

Fig. 4, is a plan view of part of oneef the skids drawn to'an .enlarged scale. '-Fi'g. 5, isV aside` view of one of the skids 'raised5and-v Fig. 6, issa'siiniljaitview showing the skid lowered.

A, Aare the railwaytracks. l Bare thext'racks forthe transfertable. D'. The transfer tracksare preferably on' the same plane as the railwayvtracks but` they 'naybe slightly depressed lor slightly raisedA `without departing from our invention. The `.transfer table D itself is inail cases above the level of therailway tracks..

VThis truck or 'transfer table cansbe 'made of;` AIll-beams, asshowli in the drawingsor maybe "departing from of r invention made of wood, orither metal shapes without The longitudin lgirdersd,.ci',are arranged on the outer side of the rails o, a d these girders lare mounted lipon thetran verse beams d? having boxes' foil-the ailles C of. thewheelc .which traverse the transverse tracks.` Secured to'the girders are the intermediate supporting beams d2 whichs'upport the tracks c, c. These tracks, in the presentjinstance, are made of angle bars in order tovbring them as near as possible to the 4plane of the railway tracks,

but they may be madeof other shapes without departingvmfromj our invention. a

Pivotedat leach side of the transfer table are skids E, E, having rails e e, which`a1ign with the rails c of the transfer table, and also when the t'ransfertable is -Inoved into position align withthe rails'of therail'way track. Tie rods e' tiethe rails of the skids together so that they will be perfectly rigid. The skids can be raised and lowered by any suitable mechanism, andmay be eithereonnected together as shown inthe drawings so that both skids will. move in unison, or may be independentlvmovable It will thus be seen that when the skids are' lowered to the position shown in Fig. 6, a car can be transferred from the 'track onto the table, after which theskids ycanfbe raised and the table moved to align with another track, and the skids again'lowered so thatthe car can be transferred .to the trackwith which the transfer table aligns. l

Weprefer to raise and lower the s kids at bothsides f the table iin unison and by the devices shown in the accompanying drawings, and .which we will now proceed to describe.-

'The skids E are pivoted'by pivot pins f to brackets F secured to the edge of the table and mounted in the lower' portion of each bracket F isa rock shaft Gfn extending fronI one'v side .of the skid to the other. On this to a hand lever `Gr2 pivoted at g' to the-frame" ofthe table. The shaft, arm and connecting rod are duplicated atthe opposite side of the rock shaft is an arm G connected by arod g` 1- table, .and the rod is connected to the lever G2 on the opposite side ot' its fuleruin tothat of the other rod., so that when the lever is moved to the position shown by dotted linesfin Fig.

1, the arms'v G will other. 1- A On each end of the shaft G are cams vh which "act upon' lugs e2 depending from the. side bars orrails c of the skid E, so that as the shaft is be drawn toward 'each roc/lied as described above the cams will act` upon-the lugs, and raise the skid to the .po'si-A tionu shown in Fig. 5, clear yofthe tracks of thel I' ilway. Thusit will be'seen that by a simple .V

ovteinent f the hand lever, the skids can be raised or lowered simultaneously.`

Secured to the side barser rails e of the l skid are supporting blocks es which rest upon the rails of the railway so as t0 give a rigid support to the` skids between the points and the table, and secured to the inner side of each rail of the skids areplates e4l which passdown l on one side of the rails of the railway, locking 5 the skids to the rails andpreventing them moving laterally. f

g We claim as our inventionvl. I he combination inr a transfer table, of the skids pivoted to each side ofy the table, and lifters for each skid anda lever connected `to each-lifter, substantially'as described.

2. AThe combination ofthe rails ofthe rail. way track, the transverse rails for the transfer' table on Soron about=the same plane as the 15 railway rails,the transfer table, .rails on said transfer table, with'askid 4aligning with said rails and pivoted tothe-table, andlever mechanism for raising or loweringl the skid, sub- "stantia-lly as described,

transverse rails, a -transfertable adapted' to travelon lthe transverse rails, rails yon said f transfer table, skids pivoted to each side ,of

the table,.arock` shaft at each side of the'taa5 ble, canis thereon acting upon the skids, with means foroperating said cams in unison so as to raise the skids clear of the railway rails, substantiallyl as described.

" 4. The combination of. the railway. rails,

vv3o -transverse rails', transfer" truck mounted on -v l`said ytransverse rails, rails on said transfer truck, a 'skid'.pivoted to one side of said trans.-

fer'trnck, a rock shaft mounted below said.

3. The 'combination of the railway rails, the

skid, a cam or cams on said rock shaft and acting upon the skid, an arm on said shaft, 35 a hand lever and a connecting rod connectin g the hand lever to the arm. so that when the hand lever is moved the skids are raised, substantially as described.

' 5. The combination of the transfer truck, 4o the skids pivoted on each side thereof, cam shafts mounted under the pivots of the skids, 'ca-ms on saidam shaftflngs depending from `the skids against which the cams act, an arm on each shaft, with a pivoted operating lever, 4 5 connecting rods, one attached tov cach arm and connected 'to-the lever,one on one side ofY vthe lever and the other on the opposite side so that on operating the-lever the skids will be raisedl or allowed-to drop, substantiallyl as 5o described.

.6. The combination of a transfer table, the skid pivoted thereto, supporting blocks on said skid,and plates thereon forming flangesY "so thatwhen the skid'is lowered upon the 55

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