US713014A

US713014A - Log-car stake-holder.

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Publication number: US713014A
Application number: US11953802A
Authority: US
Inventors: Orlandow S Perkins
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-08-13
Filing date: 1902-08-13
Publication date: 1902-11-04
Anticipated expiration: 1919-11-04

Description

No. 7l3.0l4 Patented Nov. 4, l902.

0. S. PERKINS.

LOG CAR STAKE HOLDER.

Application filed.Aug. 13, 1902.)

. (No Model.)

of one of the hinge-plates. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a modification.

UNITED STATES FFICE.

-siriais r LOG-CAR STAKE-HOLDER."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 73,914, dated November 4,1902.

Application filed August 13,1902.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, ORLANDOW S. PERKINS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Newbern, in the'county of Craven and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new, and useful Improvements in Log-Oar Stake- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to log-cars, and par ticularly to means attached to the ends of such cars for holding stakes or posts in position to confine the logs in transportation.

The object of the invention is to provide suchnovel and peculiar means for connect-- ing stakes or posts to log-cars that the posts are firmly held in position and the logs carried between the posts, and upon releasing the posts they will fall outwardly by the pressure of the logs on them.

A further object of the invention is to provide the ends of alog-car with a pair of twopart swinging gates, one part of which has a latch-lever and the other. part of which has a cam-lever and a latch.

A still further object of the invention is to provide the ends of a log-car with plates the projecting ends of which form hinge members and a pair of gates having the other hinge members, a catch upon one of the parts of said pair, a cam-lever on the same part with the catch, and a latch-lever on the other part of the said pair adapted to beoperated in'the catch and held by the cam-lever to fix the gates in closed position,.so as to form a space or opening at the ends of the car for log-supporting stakes or posts.

. Other objects, advantages, and improved results accruing from the special construction and arrangement of parts will be revealed in the specification to :follow and set up in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure l is an elevation of one-end of a log-car with my invention applied, showing a stake or post held thereby. Fig. 2 is a top view with post removed and showingthe gates open. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the latch portion of the gate. Fig. 4 is a like View of the cam-lever gate portion. Fig. 5 is a perspective view Serial No. 119.532. (No toes The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings;

The plates 1 are suitably secured to the sides of the center beam 2 of a log-car, and theirends project beyond the ends of the beam sufficient to form an opening or space 3 fora stake or post 4. .The projecting ends of the plates form a hinge member 5, having a vertical hole 6 therethroughfor a hinge-pin '7.

The means forholding the post in the opening 3 and releasing it therefrom consists of a pair of gates at each end of the car and each comprising two swinging parts ordoublegate. Both double gates being of the same structure, only one will be herein described in detail. It comprises two gate parts or halves, one of which will be designated as the latch-lever portion and the other as the cam-lever portion. The latch-lever gate portion 8 has arms 9 and a cut-out 10, in which the hinge memher 5 of one of the plates 1 is secured by the hinge-pin 7, which is passed through the arms 9 to complete the hinge. A catch-lever 11 is pivoted to the portion 8 near its bottom edge at 12 and has alip 13. The cam-lever portion 14 is a duplication of its companion portion 8, except it has a catch 15 projecting from its bottom edge at right angles thereto. A camlever 16 is pivoted at 17 near the top edge of the portion 14 and is operated to lock and release the latch-lever.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. 6, the gate portions are hung or hinged to bars 18, secured to and projecting from a central car-beam; otherwise the structure is the same as that hereinbefore disclosed.

It is obvious that when the-gate is closed the latch lever will drop into the catch and the cam-lever is turned downwardly to impinge the latch, which holds the latter securely and fixes the gate portions in rigid po sition. The stake or post, which is of the usual tapered, beveled, or'shouldered'charactor, is inserted in the opening 3. To dislodge the stake or post while the car is loaded, the cam-lever is turned upwardly, and a slight tap upon the lip of the latch-lever will throw it out of the catch, whereupon the gate portions will-swing open under pressure of the posts.

The gates being double and opening centrally insure a quick and certain displacement of the posts, and, as many of the logs will follow the posts, unloading is greatly facilitated. It will be seen that the latch and cam levers are so pivoted as to permit of be ing turned as desired that they may not interfere with closing or opening the gates or in loading or unloading the logs.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting or restricting myself to any particular means of hinging the double gates to a car, but reserve to myself the right to make the hinge connection of the gates to the cars as may be found most expedient in the practical application of the invention.

Claims covering certain parts of this invention being contained in another application of mine, filed August 13, 1902, Serial No. 119,346, such parts will be herein claimed onlyin combination with the special feature of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A stake-holder for log-cars comprising a double gate having a hinge connection to the car, one of the gate portions being provided with a cam and a catch, and the other gate portion having a latch-lever adapted to be engaged by the cam to hold the latch in the catch.

2. A stake-holder for log-cars comprising a two-part gate, each part having a separate hinge connection to the car, one part carrying a latch and the other part having a catch.

3. The combination, with a log-car having hinge members projecting therefrom, of a two-part gate hinged to said members and adapted when closed to form an opening for a log stake or post, a catch on one of the gate parts at right angles thereto and a latch on the other of the gate parts.

4. The combination, with a log-car, of the two-part gates hinged to the ends of the car to hold a log stake or post, a'catch on one gate part, a cam lever pivoted above the catch on the same part, and a latch-lever pivoted to the other gate part, said gates adapted to open centrally of the car and permit the stakes to fall therefrom.

5. The combination, with a log-car, of a two-part gate hinged to the car to hold a log stake or post, va catch formed at the bottom of one of the gate parts and projecting at right angles thereto, a cam-lever pivoted at the top of this gate part, and a latch-lever pivoted at the bottom of the other gate part,

said levers adapted to cooperate in looking and unlocking the gate and to be swung clear of the gate-opening.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ORLANDOW S. PERKINS. \Vitnesses:

NANNIE P. STREET, B. F. CASON.