US698784A - Car-brake. - Google Patents

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No. 698,784. Patented Apr. 29, I902.

A. BALDN.

GAB BRAKE.

(Application filed Nov. 1, 1901.

4 (No Model.)

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ANDRE\V BALON, OF. ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

CAR-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 698,784, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed November 1, 1901. Serial No. 80,721. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ANDREW BALON, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of Elizabeth, Union. county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Car-Brake, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a car-brake of novel construction and in which the brakeshoes are guided against the wheels in a positive manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a car-truck'provided with my improved brake; Fig. 2, a plan of one-half of the same; Fig. 3, a detail of the brake-operating mechanism; and Fig. 4, a section on line 4 4:, Fig. 3.

The frame of the truck is composed of an upper double section a aand a lower double section b b, that converge toward their ends, so as to run out into a single front and rear section 0. Between the two arms of the upper section a a slides the load-carrying bolster d, guided by rails d and supported upon the center of a semi-elliptic spring e. The ends of this spring are coiled around pins f, carried by links f, that are suspended between the arms of the lower section b'b at f The space between the upper and lower sections a a and b b is traversed by upright rails g for guiding the oil-boxesg' which are supported by the axle-bearings. The car-truck frame is supported upon the oil-boxes by springs 9 The load is transmitted from the bolster at through the spring e to the lower frame-section and thence through rails g to the upper frame-section to be evenly distributed to the oil-box springs 9 receives the end of a squared shaft is, adapted to be operated by the brake-lever It and carrying an eccentric 10 arranged between thepins When the brake is to be set, the

shaft 70 is so turned that the eccentric k bears against the shoes j and causes them to slide along the pins e', so as to engage the wheels Z. When the brake isto be taken off, the shaft is turned to withdraw the eccentric le when the shoes will be retracted by the springs 9.

What I claim is A car-brake provided with a bearing, an upper and alowerpin' received thereby and projecting with theirfiends beyond the bearing, springinfluenced perforated brake-shoes adapted to slide upon the projecting ends of the pins, and aneccentric that engages the brake-shoes intermediate the pins, substantially as specified.

Signed by meat Elizabeth, Union county, New J ersey, this 25th*d'a'y, of October, 1901;

ANDREW BALON.

Witnesses:

H. G. HooLEY, A. NEFT.

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