US664145A - Brick-truck. - Google Patents

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No. 664,l45. v Patented Dec. l8, I960. J. m. GUNKLL BRICK TRUCKQM (Application filed Dec. 1 ,1899.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MORGAN GUNKLE, OF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN DE SELLEM, OF SAME PLACE.

BRICK-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664.145, dated December 18, 1900.

Application filed December 18. 1899- :erial No- 74=0,'785. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I,JAMns MORGAN GUNKLE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Trucks, of which the followingisaspecificatiomreference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in the cars or trucks which are used for receiving bricks after they are molded and supporting them during the time that they are being dried and prepared for the kiln.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line at m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of the car. Fig. 4 shows one of the pallets.

In the drawings, A A indicate the wheels upon which the car is supported, andA A the axles. These axles are dropped at the center or cranked inside of the wheels. so as to lower the car frame or body as much as possible. The wheels are fitted to tracks B B, which are extended from points near the molding-machine, as desiredfor instance, to the drying room or space and also from that to the kiln.

The lower part of the car-frame is formed of longitudinal sills O O and cross-girths D D. E E are uprights, and F is a top sill secured to theii upper ends, these forming a frame situated in the central vertical longitudinal planes of the car. a e are braces secured to the end uprights E E and at their lower ends secured to the side sills O O, and at the cen tral part of this frame it is supported by stayrods G, which can be tightened by means of nuts g, bearing against abutment-plates g. These stay-rods are so situated and are of such dimensions as not to interfere with the pallets or trays, they being situated in transverse planes such that the pallets or trays can be slipped past them.

Intermediate of the end uprights E of the main frame there are a series of supplemental uprights H, each secured at its lower end to a cross-girth and at its upper end secured to the top beam or sill F. These intermediate supplemental uprights H H can be of lighter material than those at the ends, if desired,

and they are all braced together by inclined braces I, which extend, respectively, from points near the ends of the frame to points near the center. At the lines where they cross the uprights H H they are secured thereto, as shown in the drawings. To these intermediate uprights H H are secured the crossbars which support the brick trays or pallets. These cross-bars are indicated by J J. Each is secured 'at its center longitudinally to an upright H, it projecting substantially equal distances on both sides thereof. The crossarms J are preferably widened as they approach the center from the ends in order to give them sufficient strength to resist vertical strain. They can, however, be comparatively thin and subserve their necessary ends.

The trays or pallets which carry the brick are each represented as an entirety by K. It is formed of a series of strips k k of wood or similar material, arranged longitudinally to each other, but somewhat remote one from the next, so as to insure a free circulation of air. At the ends these bottom strips of each pallet are all fastened together securely by means of cleats It. Each tray or pallet is of such dimensions that it can carry six bricks, that having been found to be the number which can to best advantage be handled at a time by an operative. The cross-arms J J are of such length thatsix of these pallets or trays can be placed thereon, three upon each side of the central frame E F.

The bricks as they are received from the molding-machine are placed upon the pallets six in a row, as aforesaid, and the pallet is then put in place upon the car, and by haudling them in this way there is no necessity for further handling until they are dried and hardened and ready to be placed in the kiln.

One of the principal purposes of my invention is to provide a movable support or car of such nature that a very large number of bricks can be placed thereon and transported from place to place until dried and hardened, and, further, of such nature that the bricks while so supported shall be exposed in such way that the air shall have free and rapid access to all parts of each. By reducing the brick-supporting part of the car to a narrow condensed frame extending along the center and from end to end of the car I greatly economize room, so that a very large number of bricks can be supported and exposed in the way described. I am aware of the fact that racks have been heretofore made or proposed for this purpose each having an upright frame and cross-arms adapted to receive a series of boards, each board containing a number of bricks and the rack being intended to be engaged by a hand-truck. This is illustrated in Patent No. 502,738 to J. F. Mock; but in these earlier constructions one-half, or there about, of the total space or volume occupied by the brick-supports was not available, the frame being so constructed as that only the end parts of the cross-bars could be used for carrying trays. In myeonstruction the crossbars are each carried by a truly-vertical post at the longitudinal center of the frame, and consequently these bars can all be uniform in length and are available as tray-supports throughout practically their entire length, only a very short section of each being lost because of the attachment at the center to said vertical posts. Only a single tray, carrying a single row of bricks, could be placed upon each pair of cross-arms in the earlier apparatus referred to, because of the lost space at the center of the apparatus. By constructing the mechanism on the plan I have devised I am enabled to carry three or more trays at each end of a pair of the bars and can elongate the total apparatus, so as to give it a large carrying capacity.

I am also aware of the fact that portable racks for light articles, such as articles of clothing, have been heretofore used, the frame of each such rack having a post or upright at each end with longitudinal horizontal bars secured to them and with cross-bars secured to and resting upon the longitudinal bars; but it is impossible to support upon a framework of that character a mass of bricks such as can be carried upon a frame constructed in the way I have shown with a weight of at least six thousand pounds. In my case this Weight is transmitted to the base-frame by the posts intermediate of the ends and to which the tray-bars are directly secured, yet the structure as a whole is light, because of this arrangement of the weight carrying parts, the tray-bars themselves being placed liatwise vertically and their carrying-posts throughout the series being braced together. The tray-bars J and the vertical posts H,which are primarily the brick-supporting parts in my construction, are to be regarded as entirely supplemental to the main frame, the parts of the latter being so arranged as not to interfere with the full carrying capacity of the bars J.

What I claim is- 1. In a brick-ear, the combination of the transporting vheels, the bottom frame, the upright frame situated in the centrallongitudinal planes of the car, supplemental, centrally-arranged, vertical pallet-supporting uprights intermediate of the end parts of the said upright frame, and the cross-arms on and carried entirely by the vertical intermediate uprights, arranged substantially as described to have brick trays or pallets placed close to the central longitudinal planes of the car throughout the length thereof, substantially as set forth.

2. In a brick-car, the combination of the transporting-wheels, the bottom frame, the upright frame situated at the central longitudinal planes of the car, the braces G extending from the upright frame at the center of the car to the sides of the bottom frame, and situated in transverse planes between the positions of two adjacent vertical series of pallets, and the vertical brick supporting posts or uprightsintermediate of the end parts of the upright frame, and the cross-arms on the said intermediate uprights, said uprights, cross-arms and braces G being arranged substantially as set forth to permit the brick pallets or trays to be rested upon the cross-arms in continuous series from end to end and from bottom to top and from the ends of the arms inward to the central vertical longitudinal planes of the car, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MORGAN GUNKLE.

Witnesses:

JOHN DE SELLEM, R. PARKER.

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