US655767A - Grain-car. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Aug. l4, I900 a. DOUGLAS.

GRAIN DAR. (Application filed Dec. 80, 1899.)

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Patented Aug. I4, I900.

G. DOUGLAS.

GRAIN GAR.

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GEORGE DOUGLAS, OF WOLCOTT, INDIANA.

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' Application filed December 30,1899. Serial No. 742,070. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE DOUGLAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at 701- cott, in the county of White and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Grain- Car, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to trucks or cars for moving grain, and has for its objects to tion, strength, and reliability of such devices.

With these objects in View the invention consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the frame of a grain-car constructed in accordance with my invention with the floor and doors in position. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional View of a complete car on a plane cutting through the door. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the sills in position on the wheels and the sleepers in position on the sills. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail perspective View of the central portion of the car with the outer door open. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view on the plane cutting through the doors, as shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective sectional View through part of the roof, including the sliding roof-door. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the joint between the sleepers and studding. Fig.8 is a similar view of the joint between the sleepers and corner-studding or posts. Fig. 9 is a similar view of the joint between the corner-studdin g and plates, showing also part of a side stud, an end stud, and a rafter-support. Fig. 10 is a detail perspective view of the upper end of one of the Fig. 11 is a detail perspective view of the corner-joint between the binding beams or bars.

Like numerals of reference mark the same parts wherever they appearin the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 12 and 13 indicate axles, which are journaled in bearings 14, depending from longitudinal sills 15 16, and to which are secured wheels 17 13,

of height and tread suitable for hauling over plowed or ordinary ground. The sills are transversely notched in their upper surfaces to receive transverse sleepers, the end sleepers being marked 19 and the intermediate sleepers 20. The end sleepers are beveled off at their outer corners, as at 21, and provided with end longitudinal notches 22 and transverse notches 23, all in their upper surfaces,

with the transverse notches extend ing inward J from the outer edges. secured to the under face of the ends of the sills and bent up and over the end sleepers and secured thereto. The intermediate sleepers are provided with end notches 25 in their upper faces. I

26 indicates the side plates, and 27 the end plates, the ends of which are halved, as at 28 29, so as to overlap at the corners, the projecting ends being notched transversely from their inside edges, and the main bodies of the plates notched in their under surfaces in the side plates and in the end plates.

Straps 24 of metal are 33 and 34 indicate the intermediate studs at the sides and ends, respectively, and 35 and 36 the corner-studs. The intermediate side studs 33 are set in the notches 25 of the intermediate sleepers and secured therein by bolts 37, passing through metal straps 38 and the sleepers and studs. The upper ends of these studs are secured in the notches in the side plates 26. The lower ends of the intermediate end studs 34 are secured in notches 23 in the end sleepers and their upper ends in the notches in the end plates 27. The cornor-studs 35 and 36 are secured at, top and bottom in the corresponding notches in the end plates and end sleepers. Slats or boards set horizontal at about two inches, as at 40 in Figs. 2 and 5, are secured to the inside of the studding and form end walls, providing ventilation, while preventing ear-corn from getting between the studding, while a suitable fioor 39 is secured upon the sleepers.

Rafters 41 42 reach from one side plate to the other, the end rafters being supported by short studs 43, notched into or otherwise secured to the end plates.

44 indicates a door in the gable end, pro vided with a suitable latch or hasp 45. The

a eta-7e? lining may be made of overlapped siding or weather-boarding, if desired. The upper ends of the studs are halved, as at 47, in Fig. 10. The corner-studding is secured to the end plates by means of bolts or pins 48 passing through metal strap 49, bent around the ends of the end sleepers. The side and end studs are notched in their outer surfaces to receive metallic binding beams or bars 50 and 51, and these beams or bars haVe'outwardly-inclined ends 52 53, which are parallel at the corners of the structure and are drawn together and held by bolts 54, the joint being shown in detail in Fig. 11.

Suitable roofing, preferably of sheet metal, is secured at 55 and 56 to the outside of the rafters and the intermediate space filled in by a sliding sheet, forming a door 57, which also forms part of the roof and overhangs, af ter the manner of eaves, the boards 58, which slide between studs and form part of the side walls.

59 indicates a door hinged at 60 to a stud and provided with a lock or latch 61.

Sheets 62 of metal are secured to the studding on the outside, the sheets abutting edge to edge on the studs, the joint being covered by sheet-metal straps 63, through which the securing-nails are driven.

The sheets of the roof abut edge to edge on the rafters, and the joints are covered by strips 64, the strips at the sides of the roofdoor being raised by inserting strips 65 under their outer edges to provide spaces between the strips 64. and the roof-sheets, in which the door may slide.

All of the parts, as herein described, are of simple and cheap construction, and the whole device may be built by an ordinary mechanic. The structure may be taken apart and stored or shipped and when set up will be very handy for storing grain, such as ear-corn, or hauling it from place toplace on the farm or elsewhere.

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 a grain-car, the combination with longitudinal sills, of bearings depending therefrom, axles carrying fixed wheels and journaled in said bearings, transverse intermediate sleepers notched into the sills and having notches in their upper outer edges, studding seated in said notches, straps of metal around the ends of said sleepers, and bolts through the straps, sleepers and studs, substantially as described.

2. In a grain car, the combination with longitudinal sills mounted on wheels and having transverse notches in their upper faces, intermediate transverse sleepers secured in said notches, and having notches in their upper outer edges andtransverse sleepers havin g end and side notches, side studs end studs and corner-studs engaging in the notches of the sleepers, and metal straps for holding them therein, substantially as described.

3. The herein-described end sleepers, each having beveled ends, and notches and side notches, in combination with the corner-studs fitting in said notches, and metal straps holding them in, substantially as described.

4:. The end and side plates herein described halved and lapped at their ends and provided with longitudinal and transverse notches, in combination with the corner-studs at right angles to each other and secured in said notches, substantially as described.

5. In a grain-car, the combination with two adjacent studs and two adjacent rafters, forming a doorway and a continuation thereof in the roof, of boards adapted to slide vertically between the studs, a door adapted to slide between the rafters, and an outside door hinged to one of the studs, substantially as described. I

GEORGE DOUGLAS.

Witnesses:

J AMES A. MAY, JAMES B. ALnERTsoN.

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