US767679A - Apparatus for filling sand-boxes of locomotives. - Google Patents

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US767679A
US767679A US19817004A US1904198170A US767679A US 767679 A US767679 A US 767679A US 19817004 A US19817004 A US 19817004A US 1904198170 A US1904198170 A US 1904198170A US 767679 A US767679 A US 767679A
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  • My invention relates to improvements in methods of filling the sand-boxes of locomotives.
  • FIG. 1 represents a side view of a locomotive standing upon the track beside my apparatus with a partial sectional view of the same and the sand-box of the engine.
  • Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
  • Fig. 3 is a detailed view of a part of the filling apparatus.
  • Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of the sandbox with a part of my apparatus.
  • My device consists of a reservoir A to hold a sufficient supply of sand, a curved and swiveled pipe G to convey the sand to the sand-box B from the reservoir, a force-pipe D entering the pipe C at the bottom of the same and connected with a stand-pipe F, situated near the rear end of the tender of the locomotive.
  • This stand-pipe F is provided with a short flexible pipe (3, with a coupling upon the end of it, which coupling is made to conform with the coupling upon the train air-pipes.
  • the air-pipe Gr at the rear of the tender is uncoupled from the foremost car and coupled to the pipe C of the stand-pipe.
  • the air-pressure is then turned on from the locomotive and rushing through the pipe D creates, such a currentthrough the pipe C that the sand is drawn through apertures E in the lower part of the pipe C and carried into the sand-box.
  • a flexible bell-mouthed pipe d At the end of the pipe C at the sand-box is a flexible bell-mouthed pipe d,
  • the pipe 0 rests upon a block a and passes through a cross-bar b, stretching across the reservoir-framework.

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No. 767,679.- PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.
, 0. A. B'ARRETT.' APPARATUS FOR FILLING SAND BOXES 0F LOCOMOTIVES. .v
APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14. 1904. i
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CHARLES AUGUSTUS BARRETT, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
APPARATUS FOR FILLING SAND-BOXES OF LOCOMOTIVES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,679, dated August 16, 1904.
I Application filed March 14, 1904. Serial No. 198,170. (No model.) v
, Boxes of Locomotives; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I
My invention relates to improvements in methods of filling the sand-boxes of locomotives.
, Heretofore the practice has been to fill the sand-box of a locomotive by means of buckets handled by the employees of the road, it requiring several men to accomplish the result, which has been very unsatisfactory, owing to the time expended, the waste of sand upon the locomotive, and consequent injury to the machinery of the same.
In order to understand the working of my invention more fully, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a locomotive standing upon the track beside my apparatus with a partial sectional view of the same and the sand-box of the engine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of a part of the filling apparatus. Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of the sandbox with a part of my apparatus.
My device consists of a reservoir A to hold a sufficient supply of sand, a curved and swiveled pipe G to convey the sand to the sand-box B from the reservoir, a force-pipe D entering the pipe C at the bottom of the same and connected with a stand-pipe F, situated near the rear end of the tender of the locomotive. This stand-pipe F is provided with a short flexible pipe (3, with a coupling upon the end of it, which coupling is made to conform with the coupling upon the train air-pipes.
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' In operation the air-pipe Gr at the rear of the tender is uncoupled from the foremost car and coupled to the pipe C of the stand-pipe. The air-pressure is then turned on from the locomotive and rushing through the pipe D creates, such a currentthrough the pipe C that the sand is drawn through apertures E in the lower part of the pipe C and carried into the sand-box. At the end of the pipe C at the sand-box is a flexible bell-mouthed pipe d,
which enters the sand-box and delivers the It is made in this shape so that the pressure of the air-current is distributed and its force weakened at that point.
As is seen in Fig. 2, the pipe C (shown also by dotted lines) is swung out of the way when not in use.
The pipe 0 rests upon a block a and passes through a cross-bar b, stretching across the reservoir-framework.
Various methods may be used in constructing the reservoir and pipes on the same general plan without altering the principle of this device.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. The combination with the sand-box of a locomotive, a pipe D, connecting with the airpipe of the locomotive, a supply-pipe C. entering or being connected with the sand-box of the locomotive and a reservoir A supplying sand, the whole being operated by the force of the air from the locomotive substantially as shown.
2. The combination of the flared pipe (Z,
supply-pipe C, reservoir A, pipe D, stand-pipe F with air-brake coupling, arranged substantlally as herein described.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS BARRETT.
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EDWARD H. HYDE, F. M. BERRY.
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