US728051A - Railway-car. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED MAY 12, 1903.

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Patented May l2, 1963i.

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CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,051, dated May 12, 190g. Application filed April 18, 1902. Serial No. 103,533. (No model.)

To all rbh/0m if may concern:

Be it known that I, OoRNELiUs VANDER- ILT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of vthe borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements'in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railway-cars, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the car-body may be supported by the bolsters and its weight distributed and applied to said bolsters at various points.

My invention also comprises an improved form of bolster and other details of const-ruction, as will be set forth.

My invention is not limited to the form of car shown, but may be used inother wellknown forms of railway-cars, the scope of the invention bein-g defined by the appended claims.

In the drawings which accompany thisspecification similar reference-numerals indicate correspondingl parts in the several views.

Figure l is a plan view of one half of the car, the other half being exactly similar thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section of one-half of the car. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the end framework, showing the bolster and body-supports. Fig. t-is a vertical half-section of the car at the bolster. Fig.'5 is a similar view onv the line 5 5k of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing an alternative construction. Fig. 7 is a lon'- gitudinal vertical section of one-half of a car, Y

showing the modification of Fig. 6.

In both of the cars illustrated the'supporting-framework consists of two center sills l 1,which may be and preferably are ordinary rolledmetal channels. These sills extend the full length of the car. Resting upon the sills l 1 and secured thereto are the bolsterbeams 2 2, which may also be rolled-metal channels, as-shown. Between the ends of these -bearns are secured the upright posts 3 3', shown as channels, upon which the body of the car is hung and which support a con` siderable portion of its weight. In order to distribute the weight of the car-body and the load to be carried thereby more uniformly upon the bolster-beams 2 2, I secure upon said beams a plate 3, having a portion 4 bent at an angle to themain body of the plate, so as to extend preferably at right angles to the sloping floor 5 of the car-body 6.

In the car shown in Figs. 1,2, and 3 the plate 3 extends practically the entire width of thee-ar. A beam 7, which may bea rolledmetal angle-beam, is secured tothe bent portion 4 of the plate 3 along its entire length and is preferably, although not necessarily, secured also to the car-body. The beam 7 furnishes a very light and yet a substantial support for the car-body along its entire width and distributes a considerable portion of the weight thereof along the whole length of the bolster-beams.

In the car shown in Figs. 6 and 7 a plate 3', having a bent portion 4', is secured tothe middle portion of the beams 2 2'. To this plate are secured the middleportions 8 8`of the bent angle-beams 7 7. The parts 9 9 of these beams extend up and down, diagonally across, and parallel to, the sloping licor of the carbody 6, as shown. It is evident that they form a very, extended support for the car-bodyanda supporting-plate, so'as to form an integral supporting-flange for the sloping iloor; but such a structure'isinferior to minevin that the floor-support lacks the strength which is imparted to it by the metal composing one flange of the floor-beams used by me.' In the structure employed by me the bent plate which is attached to the bolster may, for this reason, be made of thinner metal than would necessarilyotherwisebe used. Thebentplate used by Ine is also less complex in shape than the structure referred to above and can be more easily produced.

In the type of car of which those shown are examples the center sills pass through the body of the car.

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same time to cause the ooring of the carbody to slope at all points toward one of the four hoppers 10 10, I secure above the sills 1 1 the inclined bent plates 11 11, which are joined along their meeting edges 12 12 to form a peak above the sills. (See Figs. l and 5.) The inner walls of the hoppers 10 are composed of vertical plates 22, the upper edges of which are secured to the lower edges of the bent plates 11. It has been proposed heretofore to secure the lower edges of similar bent plates to the center sills; but it will be observed that in the car here shown the said plates are secured to the walls of the lloppers. By my construction I am enabled to place the center-sill channels so as to face outwardly, and thereby obtain a plane securing-surface between them for the attachment of the bolster center bearings. Furthermore, the carbody may be removed from the framework without cutting the rivets which are placed through the lower edges of the plate 11 and less of the weight of the load is carried by the center sills than in previous structures. The transverse center peak is formed by the floor-plates l7 17. These plates are laid upon the sloping floor-beams 18 and are provided with the vertical portions 20, bent upwardly. The vertical portions of the two plates abut against each other along their entire length and are secured together. I prefer to secure the ends of the vertical portions 2O to the side walls of the car by means of the small angleplates 21, thus bracing the peak and giving it additional strength. The plates 1l and 17 may be readily rolled to the shapes shown.

The holsters are completed by the center beariug-pieces 13, secured to the center sills, and the side plates 14: 14, which are secured to and depend from the beams 2 2. The loweredges of these plates carry the side bearings 15, which are secured between them, as shown. The plates 14C 14 are also secured to the longitudinal end braces 30 by the angleplates 16.

It is found that when metal cars are damaged by collision the ends of the cars are frequently bent and distorted, while the main body of the car-that is, the part between the bolsters--may be uninjured. It is therefore evident that if the damaged end portions can be readily removed and replaced by new material the cars may be thus repaired in a very short time and at small expense. With this end in View the side walls of the car beyond the holsters are formed of the plates 6, which extend from the ends of the car only as far as the posts 3a. The end door-plates 5a extend from the ends of the car only as far as the supporting angle-beams 7. The lower members of the side trusses are divided by the posts 3a into the parts 31 and 32, which are secured with their ends in engagement with said posts by the plates 33. The parts 32 eX- tend from the said posts?)a to the ends of the car and aid in supporting the end Walls, the side wall plates 6, and the end floor-plates 53.

It is evident that the entire end of the car, consisting of the parts 5, 6, and 32, together with the end walls, end posts, end sills, and the braces 30 and 33, may be removed from the main body of the car by cutting the rivets which unite these parts thereto.

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

1. In a metallic car, a transverse bolsterbeam, a bent plate having a main portion secured to said beam and a portion projecting upward from said main portion, a lianged beam secured to said upwardly-projecting portion, and a car-door resting on one of the anges of said fianged beam, substantially as described.

2. In a metallic car, a longitudinal center sill, a transverse bolster-beam, and a bent plate, one portion of which is secured to said beam, and the remainder of which projects upward from said first portion,and is attached to a flanged Hoor-beam, substantially as described.

3. In a metallic car, a transverse bolsterbeam, a bent plate secured to said beam, flanged beams secured on both sides ot' said plate, and a car-body having a sloping floor supported bysaid beams, substantially as described.

f1. In a metallic car Without side sills, a transverse bolster-beam, upright posts secured to the ends of said bolster-beam, a plate secured to said bolster-beam in termediate the ends thereof, and a car-body hung upon said upright posts and partly supported by said plate, substantially as described.

5. In a metallic car-frame, a bolster-beam, a bent plate having a main portion secured to the middle portion of said beam, anda portion projecting upward at an angle to said main portion, and a beam having a center portion secured to the projecting portion of the bent plate and ends extending diagonally outward from said center portion, substantially as described.

6. In a metallic car, abolster-beam, upright posts secured to the ends thereof, a bent plate secured to said bolster-beam intermediate the ends thereof, a flanged beam secured to said bent plate, and a car-body suspended from said upright posts and having an inclined licor-plate secured to said flanged beam, substantially as described.

7. In a metallic car, a center sill, a transverse bolster-beam resting upon said sill, a flat plate secured to and depending from said bolster-beam and carryingaside bearn g, substantially as described.

8. In a metallic car, a longitudinal sill, a car-bolster secured thereto and comprising a flanged beam, a dat plate secured to and depending from said beam and carrying a side bearing, substantially as described.

9. A metallic car-frame, comprising longitudinal lianged center sills, transverse channel-bolster beams resting on said sills, de-

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pending plates carried by said bolster-beams, and side bearing-blocks carried by said depending plates, substantially as described.

lO. In a metallic car, a longitudinal sill, a car-bolster secured thereto and comprising a plurality of channel-beams, ilat plates secured to the backs of said beams and depending therefrom, and side bearing-blocks se-Y secured to said lower portions and extending to the bottom of the hoppers, substantially as described. Y

13. In a steel car, having its body divided transversely into hoppers, the transverse dividing member being composed of sloping floor-beams and plates laid thereon, said Hoor-plates havingvvertical portions secured together, and angle-plates securing the vertical portions of the sloping floor-plates to the side walls of the car, substantially as described.

14. In a metallic car, a pair of longitudinal center sills, a car-bolster resting thereon and comprising a pair of beams, a depending plate carried by each bolster-beam, side bearings connecting said 'plates together, and means for securing said plates to the center sills, substantially as described.

15. In a metallic car, longitudinal end braces, a pair of center sills, a' carbolster resting thereon Vand comprising a pair of beams, a depending plate carried by each bolster-beam, side bearings connecting said plates together, said `depending plates being secured to the center sills and to the longitudinal end braces, substantially as described.

16. In a metallic carframe,a longitudinal sill, a body-bolster secured above said sill, and' comprising a pair of transverse beams, and means for holding said beams in fixed relation to each other, substantially as de scribed.

17.'Ina car, a pair of longitudinally-extending center sills, longitudinal side members, a pair of platesconnecting each sideV member with its adjacent center sill, and a side bearing fitted between and spacing apart each 'pair of plates, substantially as described.

18. In a car, a longitudinal sill, a bodybolster connected thereto and comprising a pair of beams held in xed relation by means of a side bearing secured to said beams, substantially as described. f

19. In a car,a longitudinal sill, a body-k.

bolster connected-thereto and comprising a pair of beams, a pair of metal plates'secured thereto, said plates being held inxedrelation at their bottoms by means of a side from the main body portion, substantially-asA described.

21. A car having side wall-plates which extend from the end of the car and terminate at the bolster, whereby the end-of the. car may be readily detached fromthe main body portion, substantially as described.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.

Witnesses: LoUIs A. SHEPARD, JAMES J. CosGRovE.

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