US826809A - Metallic railway-car. - Google Patents

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed January 25,1906. Serial No. 297,828.

To all w/wnt zit may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARNOLD STUCKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alle gheny, county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Metallic Railwa Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention comprises certain improvements in metallic railway-cars, and more especially to gondola cars provided with drop-doors.

The invention consists of certain improve ments in construction and arrangement of details of the car whereby greater strength and other advantages are secured.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a gondola car having my improvements embodied therein.

Figure 1 shows one-half of the car in side elevation, Fig. 2 showing the same in vertical longitudinal section taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 3 being in part a plan view and in part a horizontal section with the floor-plates and doors omitted, Fig. 4 showing an end view of the car, and Fig. 5 a cross-section, the left end portion being on the line 5 5, Fig. 3, and the right end portion on the line 5 5, Fig. 3, Fi 6 being a perspective detail view showing t is buffer-casting and end stake connection. Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the side stake and connection to the floor-support, Fig. 8 being a cross-section of a car, illustrating a modification.

The car illustrated is provided with center sills 1, which are shown as rolled channelbeams and which project beyond the bodybolsters 2 out to the end of the car, the outer ends formin the draft-beams. The car is not provide with distinct side sills, but the car sides are of plate-girder construction, and therefore form combined sides to confine the lading and side sills to carry the load. These sides are formed of the plates 3 top chord 4, bottom chord 5, and vertical stiffening members or stakes 6. These irders are supported on the outer ends of the od -bolsters and at intervals between the bodyolsters are connected to the center sills by means of suitable transverse floor-supports 7. The car-floor 8 is formed of suitable metal lates supported on the center sills, body-bolliters, and transverse fioor-supports, and the ends of the car are formed of metal plates 9. The floor-plates are secured to the car sides by means of the lower chords 5 of the plate-girder sides, which are angle-bars, as shown. Said floor-plates are united to the end plates 9 by similar angle-bars 10, the car not having any end sill other than the end plates 9, angle-bars 10, and vertical stifi'eners or end stakes 11 and top reinforcing-bar 12. The top chord 4 of the sides and top reinforcing-bar 12 of the ends are formed as bulb-angles, preferably having the flange rivm to the plates and the web extending outwardly, as shown. At the corners of the car suitable gusset-plates l3 connect the side and end bulb-angles.

The body-bolsters are practically double trusses, each comprising a bottom member or chord 15 lying underneath the center sills and extending out to the car sides and shown as anglebars, and a top member 16, likewise shown as an angle-bar and extending from the car sides inwardly to the center sills, as shown in Fig. 5, and a suitable web or gussetplate 17, connecting the top and bottom members of the truss and to the center sills. Fig. 8 shows a modification in which the center sills are of reduced depths, so that the top chord 16 of the bolster-trusses extends uninterruptedly across the to s of the center sills.

This figure also shows t e usset-plates extending only a part of the istance from the center sills to the car sides. There is a stake 6 secured to the outer end of each of the trusses comprising the body-bolster, so that I have practicall a double-stake construction at the body-b0 sters. The bottom angles 15 of the two trusses are connected by means of a plate 18, which lies directly in contact with the lower edges of the center sills and extends out nearly to the car sides. The side bearings 19 are riveted to this late. The top bars 16 of the two trusses o the bolster. are united by means of a plate 20, extending from side to side of the car and forming a part of the car-floor. The transverse floor-supports 7 are also shown as trusses comprising the bottom angle-bar 21, extendin from side to side uninterruptedly underneasi the center sills, and a top angle-bar 22, either secured to the center sills, as in Fig. 5, and extending out to the car sides or else extending uninterruptedl across the tops of the center sills when t e latter are of reduced depth, as shown in Fi 8. Between the center sills, in the same p ans as these cross beams, are braces 23, which are shown as sections of channel-bars arranged vertically with their flanges riveted to t e center sills and their webs backing against and riveted to the bottom angle 21 of the floor-supports or as shown in .8 also having theiru rends riveted to 1% tdp angle-bar 22 of saiiflloor-supports.

The side stakes 6 are reinforced at their bottoms by means of a member 25, which may be a casting or a plate, as shown in the "drawings. This reinforcing and connecting neaththe floor inside of the car sides, so that any amount of stren h can be secured. The lower ends of the sta es are riveted to the up wardly-extending portion 27 of these con nect' members and are reinforced thereby at a point where the stakes are weakest, and

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as a conse uence a very light section of stake can. be use These reinforcing and connecting members hold the stakes practically rigid, er ends cannot readily bulge formed as trusses, as shown in the drawings, the reinforcing and connecting member 25 also serves the function of a gusset-plate for uniting the outer ends of the truss members. At the botiybolsters, however, a separate gussetlate 17 is preferably used.

The "oor of the car may either be fixed, as shown in Fig. 8, or may be made up in part or la ly of drop-doors 30, as shown in the other ures, located between the center sills and si es and the transverse underframe members. These doors are formed of plates and are reinforced on all four sides by means of angle-bars. The inner end angle-bar 31 receives the hinges 32. The side angle-bars 33 have their outer ends bent toward each other, so as to clear the stakes, and bent downwardly, so as to receive the windingchain. These downward] bent ends are backed and reinforced by t e outer end an le 34. The winding-shafts 35 extend for t e full length of the car near the bottom of the sides and are mounted in the connecting and reinforcing members 25. A lever with dog, ratchet-wheel, and pawl can be made in the usual way, as shown in Fig. 4. The windin chains 36 are connected at one end to the shaft 35 and have their op osite ends connected to the downward ent ends of the angle-bars 33 bly means 0 hook members 37 which when t e doors are entirely closed hook over the shaft 35 sufliciently far to pass slightly beyond the center thereof. Consequently the load on the door has no tendency to turn the shaft baokwardly. The hooks do not reach over the shaft for enough to revent their being disengaged bv friction w ion the shaft is rotated backwarc ly.

The end stakes 11. are riveted to the end plate and have their lower ends also riveted to the end or buffer casting 40. The latter en the floor-supports are.

is very securely fastened to the draftebeams, as by being provided with inwardly-projectmg webs 41, riveted to the draft-beams, and preferably so sha ed as to also form the outer draft-lugs 42. T casting has an n wardlyprojecting flange 43, which is rivete throu h the lower ed of the end plate and to t e fioor-connectmg angle 10, thus getting a very secure connectibn. The stakes 11 preferably are of angle form and have one flange lying net the end plates, so that the lower en 0 said flange can be riveted through the end plate and to a vertical connecting-angle 44,

which secures the outer ends of the draftbeams tothe end plate. The lower end of the outwardly-projecting flange of the stakes is secured, by means of rivets 45, to outwardlyprojecting webs 46 on the buffer-casting. In this way a ve rigid connection for the end stakes is provi ed. The end casting preferably serves the function of outer drafty the use of the reinforcin and connecting members 25 at each stage deep crossbeams heretofore necessary to keep the car square can be dispensed with and the late girder sides will be perfectly stable an held in true vertical osition in order to effectually carry the 10 This is of course greatly aided by the strong connection of the lower ends of the side stakes, which will prevent the upper ends from bulging out and tend to hold the plate-girder sides in true vertical position.

What I claim is- 1-. A metallic railway-car com rising end walls and floor-plates and dr t-beams a buffer-casting having a striking-face and a vertical web projecting above said strikingface and secured to the end walls, and end stakes secured to the end walls and having their lower ends secured to said casting.

2. A metallic railway-car comprising end walls and floor-plates and draft-beams, a buffer-casting provided with inwardly-projecting webs secured to the draft-beams, and

end stakes secured to the end walls and hava ing their lower ends secured to the buffercasting.

3. A metallic railway-car comprising draftbeams, and a bufi'ebcasting havmg inw yprojecting webs which are secured to the draft-beams and also forming draft-lugs.

4. A metallic railway-car comprising end walls, floor-plates and draft-beams, a butlercasting having a striking-face and a vertical web projecting above said striking-face and secured to the end walls and provided with vertical outwardly-extending flanges, and end stakes secured to the end walls and having their lower. ends secured to the flanges of said bulfer casting.

5. A metallic railway-car comprising end and liner plates, an angle-bar commuting said end and floor plates, draft-beams, a

buffer-casting secured to the draftbesms end having an upwardly-extending flange riveted through theend plates to the connecting angle-bar end having outwardly-project lnif vertical flanges, and end stokes secured to the end plates and having their lower ends secured to the flanges of the under-costing.

6. A metallic railway-oer comprising side walls, stakes secured thereto, transverse floor-supports, and connecting and reinforcing members riveted to the floor-supports and having the lower ends of the stakes riveted thereto.

7. A metallic railway-car comprising side walls, transverse floor-supports, stake connecting and reinforcing members having a. portion extending inwardly toward the center of the car and riveted to the floor-supports and having upwardly-extending per tions, and stakes riveted to said upwardlyextending portions and secured to the side Walls.

8. A metallic railwaycar comprising side walls, transverse floor-supports comprising upper and lower truss members, connecting and reinforcing plates connectin the outer ends of said truss members and aving upwardly-projecting portions, and stakes riveted to said upwardly-extending portions and secured to the car sides.

9. A metallic railway-car comprising side wells, transverse I'looisupports, connecting and reinforcing members riveted to the floorsupports, stakes having their lower ends riveted to said connecting members and secured to the car sides, doors provided in the Moor of said ear, and operating-shafts for said door extending longitudinal of the car and 1nount ed in said connecting and reinforcing members. ii

10. A metallic railweycor provided with e floor having doonopenings therein, doors closing said openings and provided at their sides with reinforcing-bers having their outer ends bent downwardly, a windingshaft, and winding chains leading therefrom to the downwardly-bent ends of said reinforcing bars.

11. A metallic railway-car having a floor provided with door-openings, doors closing said openings and provided with side rein forcing-bars having their ends bent downwardly, an outer edge reinforcing-bar interposed between the door and said downwardly-bent ends, a Winding-shaft, and chains connecting the same with said downwardly-bent ends.

Allies A. TRILL, L. P. MATHER.

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