US735129A - Dump-car. - Google Patents

Description

No. 735,129. I

PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

W.l MGCABE.

DUMP GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 1s, 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

N0 MODEL.

@XH l? mames Urirrnn STATES Patented August 4, 1903.

VlLLlAM MCOABE, OF MANSFIELD, TENNESSEE.

DUMP-CAR.v

SPECIFIUATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,129, dated August 4, 1903.

Application led May 13. 1902. Serial No. 107,172. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MOCABE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Henry, in the State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful lmprovementsin Dump-Cars; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to dumping-cars,

and the principles involved may be employed' in connection with cars known as pushcars or in connection with such cars as are operated in trains, as will be understood, the object of the invention being to provide a construction which will facilitate the dumping of the load in the place desired at either side of the track instead of on the track or entirely at one side of the track, as is usual.

A further object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient details of structure which will result in an efficient and durable car and one which may be manufactured at a moderate cost.

1n the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car embodying the present invention, one section of the body being moved to its dumping position. Fig.f2 is a transverse section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. Sisasection similar to Fig. 1 with both sections of the body horizontal and showing a second form of the invention. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the modified form of table. tailed section taken vertically through the king-bolt and illustrating the T-shaped bearing-block.

Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 and2 thereof, there is shown a car comprising a platform 10, provided with handles 11 at its ends to be grasped when the car is pushed along the track, and this platform is provided with the usual supporting wheels 12, which engage the track-rails. The platform itself comprises the sills 13 and 14, which are connected by end and intermediate cross-pieces 15, and the boxes 16, which receive the ends of the wheel-axles, are secured to the under faces Fig. 5 is a de-Y Vthe ends of the head thereof being secured against the under sides of the intermediate cross-pieces of the frame of the platform. Upon the upper face of the platform is a block 20, having a perforation therethrough which registers with the perforation in the platform.

In connection with the platform as described there is employed a table 2l, against the under face of which is secured a plate 22, having a depending cylindrical stem 23, which is passed through the platform and the biock thereon and the lower end of which is formed conical and is engaged in the similarly-formed lower end of the socket in the socket-piece above referred to. This stem forms the king-bolt forthe table and permits of rotation thereof.

' To support the sides of the table when the latter is tilted from horizontal position un` der an uneven distribution of the load, rollers 24 are mounted on the under side of the table in position to engage the track on the platform, it being understood that these rollers may be so positioned as to support the entire load,while the king-bolt merely prevents the rollers from rn nning from the track.

At opposite sides of the table 21 are loops 25, each of which forms one member of a hinge with which are connected the similar members 26 of thesections of the body of the car. The body of the car comprises two similar sections 28 and 29 of the same capacity, and each of which consists of a bottom having ends 30 and 31 and an inner side 32, the section at its outer side being open. The sections are disposed-to rest upon the table with their inner sides in mutual contact and with their onterh sides projecting over the side edges of the table. From the under face of each body-section depend loops 33, which aline with the loops at that side of the table, and through each set of alining IOO loops is passed a pintle in the form of a bar 34, having one end turned laterally, as shown. The sections of the body may be thus individually tilted and may be readily returned to lie upon the table, and to facilitate manipulation of the sections of the body each of the sections has a pair of handles 35 projecting from each end thereof, one handle being at the rear side of the section, While the other handle is directly adjacent to the vertical plane of the pintle.

With this construction it Will be seen that after the car has been pushed to the proper location with a load in the sections of the body thereof, which latter rest upon the table, and it is desired to dump the load from both sections at the same side of the track one section of the body may be tilted to vertical position to discharge load and may be then returned to lie upon the table,after which the table may be rotated to bring the second section into position formerly occupied bythe first section, and the second section may be then tilted to dump its load.

Referring now to Figs. 3 and 4 ofthe drawings, instead of employing a solid table, as

.shown in Fig. l, a rectangular frame may be used, and on the under side of which is fixed a metal hoop or ring 41,corresponding to the hoop or member 42, secured to the under side of the table of the structure shown in Fig. 2 and which carries the boxes of the rollers that sustain the table. The hoop or ring 4l forms the felly of a Wheel, including the spokes 43 and the hub al, through which latter is passed the king-bolt 45. sections 4G and 47 of the body are in horizontal position, they rest 'upon the frame, to which they are connected by the pintles 47', engaged with the alining loops 4S and 49, carried by the frame and body sections, respectively. The operation of both forms of the invention is the same.

It will be understood that in practice other modifications of the invention may be made and that any suitable materials and proportions may be used for the various parts without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is- A dump-car comprising a platform having supporting-Wheels and provided With a track on its upper face, said platform having a frame incliiding spaced cross-pieces, a T- shaped bearing-block having the ends of its head secured against the cross-pieces and its stem disposed upwardly and recessed, a table having a king-bolt engaged therewith and With the recess of the bearing-block, rollers secured to the under side of the table and resting upon the track on the platform, and a body comprising sections pivoted to the table for movement into and out of position to lie thereon. A

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

VILLIAM MCCABE.

Witnesses:

JAMEsI. DAVIS, J. W. EvAN-s.

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