US748895A - Cornelius vanderbilt - Google Patents

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PATBNTED JAN; 5,1904.

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RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED FERRO. 1903.

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UNITED Y,STATES Patented January 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,895, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed February 20, 1903.' Serial No. 144,204. (No model.)

To all wiz/0m it may corr/cern.- l

Beit known that I, CORNELIUSl VANDER- BILT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, (having a post-office address at 100 Broadway, in said borough of Manhattan,) have invented Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a full and true description.

My invention relates to railway-cars, and has for its object the production of a light, strong,rand serviceable car.

Although I have shown my improvements as embodied in a car having an inclined or hopper bottom, I do not desire to limit myself to such, as obviously certain of my improvements may be used with other forms of car, as gondola cars, box-cars, Snc.

My invention consists of the features hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings which accompany this specication, Figure 1 is a plan, partly in section, of a portion of the car. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in central section,rof a por 'sills rolled-metal angles, likewise of commercial size. The beams 4 may be rolled-metal angles. They are preferably secured at their centers to the center sill by means of a kneebrace 4"', and at their ends to the side sills 2 by braces l1. The sills 1 and 2 are vfurther braced and united oy the arched floor-beams 5. These beams may be composed either of a single piece of metal bent into the desired shape or they may be made of two separate straight pieces, as shown. I prefer that these beams shall be of ianged metal, as shown, in order to obtain the greatest strength with the least weight. The beams 5 are shown as being secured at their ends to the beams 4 by plates 8, their centers being supported by aends of the beams may be secured directly to the sides sills 2,1iffdesired. A desirable arrangement is to place two of, the beams 5 side by side and secure the plate 6 between zthem. (See Fig. 2.) Thelower portion of the plate 6 is secured to the sill 1, preferably :by the knee-braces 7. It will be observed that the beam 5, together with the beam 4, forms a truss in which the plate 6, together with the center sill 1, acts as a strut. This truss braces and unites the center and side sills and serves as a support for the floor-plates 9, which are 'laid upon the beams 5. The inner edges of the door-plates are preferably bent upward and abut against each other, forming a vertical longitudinal ridge. The outer edges of the floor-plates may be bent downward and secured to the sills 2, as shown.

The sides of the car comprise plate-girders supported by posts 10, which are secured to the ends of the bolsters. (See Fig. These plate-girders are composed of the flanged top rails 12, wall-plates 14, forming the webs of the plategirders, and the lianged rails or beams 13. Additional posts 10 are applied to the said girders between the holsters, being secured at their lower ends to the beams 4 by rivets passing through the said posts, floorplates 9, side sills 2, and kneebraces 1'1. These posts act as stiffeners for the plategirder sides. It is evident that the plate-v girder sides will carry a considerable portion of the weight of the load and transmit the same to the ends of the holsters.

In order that the car may be self-dumping, the side wall-plates terminate at the rails 13, leaving large openings in the sides of the car ybetween the rails 13 and sills 2. These openings are normally closed by doors l5, which are hinged upon and depend from a longitudinal horizontal axis. This axis is Vpreferably supported by brackes 16, secured to the rail 13, as shown, though it is obvious that the said axis may be supported directly from the posts 10, if desired. The Vdoors may be held in a closed position by any suitable means, as by bolts 17. When the bolts are raised, the weight of the load causes the doors to swing open and the load slides ont.

The bolster 3 consists, preferably, of a casting having a web 3a and a continuous marginal iiange 3b. The center bearing 3c and side bearings 3d depend from the said ange. Directly above the center and side bearings IDO are vertical strengthening-anges 3e and 3f. The upper portion of the bolster-ange 3b is preferably riveted to the bottom web of the center sill l and the end portions through the side sills and Hoor-plates to the posts 10.

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

1. In a car, a plate-girder side, and a door hinged to the tension member of said plategirder, said tension member being situated intermediate the top and bottom of the carbody, substantially as described.

2. In a car, a plate-girder side, and a door hinged on a longitudinal axis and in its closed position depending from said plate-girder, substantially as described.

3. In a car, body-holsters, postssecured to the ends thereof, and a side frame comprising longitudinal top, bottom and intermediate members secured to said posts, substantially as described.

4. In a car, body-holsters, posts secured to the en ds thereof, a side frame comprising longitudinal top, bottom and intermediate members secured to said posts, and a door hinged to said intermediate member on a longitudinal axis, and depending from said intermediate member, substantially as described.

5. In a car, body-holsters, upright posts secured thereto, a rail secured to said posts intermediate their height, and a door hinged on a longitudinal axis and in its closed position depending therefrom, substantially as described.

6. In a car, transverse bolster-beams, up-

right posts secured to the ends thereof, an intermediate member secured to said posts, and a door hinged on, and in its closed position depending from, said intermediate member.

7. In a car, an arched door-beam, a transverse beam secured to the ends thereof, and a center sill between and secured to said arched floor-beam and said transverse beam, substantially as described.

8. In a car, a center sill, a support secured thereto, and an arched floor-beam having its apex secured to said support, substantially as described.

9. In a metallic car-frame, a center sill, a support secured thereto, and an arched iioorbeam having a depending ange and secured at its apex to said support, substantially as described.

10. In a car, a anged center sill, a bolsterbeam secured to the lower flange of said sill, said beam comprising a web, a continuous marginal flange and a center bearing depending from said ange, substantially as described.

ll. In a car, a center sill, a bolster-beam secured thereto and comprising a web, a continuous marginal liange, a center bearing depending from said iiange, and a vertical flange connecting the upper and lower portions of said marginal flange directly above said center bearing, substantially as described.

l2. In a car, acenter sill, a support secured thereto, and parallel arched floor-beams secured to opposite faces ofsaid support, substantially as described.

13. In a car,\a transverse beam, a longitudinal side sill in the same horizontal plane as said beam, a Hoor-plate having its outer edge bent down parallel to said sill, an upright post, and means for securing said post, door-plate and sill to the end of said transverse beam, t

substantially as described.

I4. In a car, a body-bolster, a side sill, a floor-plate having its outer edge bent down parallel to said sill, an upright post, and means for securing said post, floor-plate and sill to the end of said body-bolster, substantially as described.

l5. In a car, transverse trusses below the door-level and longitudinal side trusses above the floor-level, the vertical members of the side trusses extending below said side trusses, and being secured to the ends of said trans- Verse trusses, substantially as described.

16. In a car, a longitudinal, upright, plategirder side comprising a compression and a laterally-liangcd tension member situated entirely above the floor-level, and vertical posts which depend below the said tension member, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 19th day of February, 1903.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.

In presence of- JAMES J. CosGRovE, DELos HOLDEN.

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