US828468A - Car-axle-brass replacer. - Google Patents

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- UNITED STATES PATENT t FICE, l NORMAN E. FINCH AND CHARLES D. BROWN, T0F COUNCIL BLUFFS, i CAB-A-xLE-BnAss REPLACER.

Speciiication.of' Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 14. 1908;

Application filed August 3, 1905. Serial No. 272,607.

it may concern: that we, NORMAN E. FINCH and D; BROWN, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Council Bluiis, in 'the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, ave invented a certain new and useful Oare-Brass Replacer, of which the following is a specification. Y

.To all whom Be it known these portions of a car.y Our improvement comprises a base the lower end of which (indicate he object'ofour invention is to providea numeral 18) is designed' to rest fiat on the device of this kin simple, durable, andl outer end of a railwa tie. The central portionof the baseis inclined at an'angle of about twenty-five degrees relative to the bottom-of the base and is indicatdby the numeral 19. In surface' are a number of j u per end lit is rounded and provided-with as ar ened downwardly- .projecting portion 21. ase portion is of such sizeand shape that the be placed. against the rim 17 of a car-wheel adjacent to the point'- where the car-wheel ,engages the rail, andthe other end of the base .may rest upon the outer wa -tie, as shown in 1, thus leaving 'the linc ed portion of the base standing at an angle of about twenty-five degrees relative .to a horizontal line.

he ortion of our device that is designed to lift t e oil-box is ofthe general type known as hydraulic jack and is adapted for use in connection with the b thevwork for which it is mtended as follows: The body portion, which complete 1n one piece, comprises averticallyarranged cylindrical portion 21a and a cylindrical Screwe small assage-Wa said tu e and wit dricalY chamber extending lfrom wayf24 downwardly to the bottom of't e' art 21. Slidingly mounted within this cylindrical chamber is a cylindrical block 25, having at its' top a packing-washer 26, heldV in place by the screw 27.- t ma ly rojects below the ta ere i)toa point` at 28. v he top 'of the part 21a projects above the top of the part 22 and is preferably fiat at 29. Screwed to. the other end ca thlpeaded shaft 31, withone Ain the tube 23 and e, and when thus applied a ro-- tatlon of a crank Will elevate the C11-box and axle from being elevated, hat access. may be had to the brasses on top of the axle to remove and replace them. A l j Ourl invention consists in the .construcand combination of the of a device by which the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in our claims, illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in

part 21 ma Figure 1 shows 'anen'd elevation of a part` of a car resting upon rails, a portion of one of the car-wheels and one of the oil-boxes being shown in section. Said figure illustrates our of thev carposition ready for the removal of the brasses. Fi 2 shows a. longitudinal sectional view 0% our improvement with the base omitted. Fig. 3 shows a detail perspective view of the base portion of our device alone. Referring to the accompanying drawings, we have used the reference-numeral 10. t'o indicate that' portion of the car shown in the drawings. 11. indicates the car-axle fixed to the wheels 12, and each end is provided with a projecting journal 13 near its end and with an annular collar 14 at its end.v l l ASurrounding each journal is an oil-box 15, connected tothe car proper and designed -to rest upon the brasses 16, which `in turn are u on' the journal 13. -On the outer face o the car-wheel 12 is an annular, rim'17, projecting outwardly near the periphery of the wheel.

into the part 22 1s a tube 23, and a 24 communicates with end inserted with- (portion 22 at right angles to it.

a relatively large Cylin..

provided with a packing- IOWA.

end of a railj ase portion and for is preferably formed i 9 the passa e- IOO of the tube 23 isa 30,'and seated in this cap is a screwv g seance y washer 32. On the other end of the shaft 31 tion formediwith a downward projeption to is' a' crank 33. The interior of the tube 23, engage a ange on the outer surface of a carassage-way 24, and the cylindrical chamber whee in the part is to be iilled with oil. The inte- 3. In a device of the class described, a base rior diameter of the tube 23 is materiallyless portion` comprising an outer end shaped to than that ofthe cy drical chamber in whic rest upon a support, a body portion inclined the block 25 is mounted, and hence when the shaft 31 is screwed into the tube 23 the pressure applied to the oil therein will be greatly increased as applied to the block 25, according to the well known principles o hydraulic j In practical use and assuming -that for some reason it is desirable to remove and're- `place the 'brasses in one of the oil-boxes of a car the Ioperator {irstplacesthe base portion in engagement with the wheel and with the 'outer end of railway-tie or other support. He then places the points 280i the block in one of the notches 20 and places 'the top of the art 21" immediately undervthe oil-box. Oiloxes'of this kind vary in size and in distance from the bottom'of thewheel. Hence the 4desirability)7 of providing a base with notches, said ase arrangedon such an in- 'oline that oneor the `other of said notches will be in proper position to receive the pein't'28v and permit t e part 29 to approximately en- .gagathe under ace of the oil-box.

- en the' device has been thus placed in. position, itis onlynecessa torth'e operator to the vcrank 33 in 'or er to elevate the horizontally-arranged cy drical portion beoil-box, and with it the car-frame to which ittween the ends of the vertically-arranged is attached, while the wheel and the axle are d near thetop thereof, and formed 3 5 firmly helddow-n against the rail, and in this with a small passage-way communicating osltion the braSSeS may with the cylindrical chamber and cylindrical and replaced. block in saidv h its I'the-oilhboic atone s de of the car should. lower end projecting beyond the-chamber be elevated. without 'providing means for and afpackrng device at its upper end, 4o hol down the wheel, the weight o'f the communicating with the car-bo would be thrown upon the other screwed into the horizon y-'arranged cylineiid of t, e axle would cause the axle to dricalportion, a screw-cap onits outer end, a tilt until it 'reached a p osit on parallel with 'shaft seated -in the screw-cap, .a packing on Y the lcar-body Hence -in o rder to provide one endof the shaft, a crank on t e other end free access to 'the b rasses itis necessa that thereof, and a liquid contained the 'an apparatus of this kind, comprising oth a tube,'. sssage-'way and cy i means "for elevati the voil-box anda means 6. Ilia device ofthe class described'a jack for holding down t e axle, b e provided. comprising a body portion formed complete Having thus described our invention, what in one v'piece and comprising a verticall -arwe=claim,rand desire to .secure by L etters P-atranged cylindrical portion with a cyln ical font-ofthe United States therefor, 1s chambertherein o en `at its lower end, ahori- Ina'device of the class described a base ed) c portion comprising an outer end designed 'to zontallyarrang ylindrical. ortion between 'the .ends 'of the vertica y-arranged rest on asuitable support, a body portion -in portion andnear'the topthereof, and lclined upwardly and inwardly, and an inner l'end @portion rformed with la projection to enwith a small"passagefway. communicatinY with the cy` drical 4chamber a cylindric galge {'.he lange ontheou'ter surface of acarw ee block in said cylindrical chamber with its 2. In a devicepf the class d scribed, abase --lovver end projecting beyond 'the chamber portion comprising l'an outer-end designed to and a packing device at 'its' upperlend, Va'tiibc communicating with the sagesway an 'rest upon a-support,=a bod portion inclined u andinwardlyan voriiiedwithfnickscrewedinto theihorizont d--cylinon'its-'top surf mense l jdrcal y. ace, Vand anlinner end ponupwardly and inwardly and formed with j ackrests on its top surface, and an inner end por-l tion formed with a downward projection to lengage a flange on lthe outer surface of a car-wheel, and a jack shaped to engage one oi' said jack-rests and also to engage the under surface of 'a car-axle, oil-box.

4. In a device of the class comprising `a body ativel large Icliani er open at its lower end and a so with a passa e-way leadi trom said 'chamber outward y, and a bloc slidingly mounted in said chamber with its lower 'end rejecting beyond the chamber, a packingv evice -at its upper end, a tube extended laterally iromsaid body portion andcommiinicatin with said passage-way, a shaft screwe to the other -end'of .the tube a pack# ing thereon within the said tube and pass e-w-ay.

5. In a device of t e class described la jack comprising la body portion iormedcomp'lete in one piece land comprising ra verticall ranged cylindrical portion with a cylin 'cal chamber therein openinghgt its lower end, a

be easily removed portion, '-a screw-cap Aenits outer -end `a shaft seated in the screw-cap, a packngon assage-way an v described aj ack portion formed with a reltube and -a liquid in ipo lindrical chamber.

formed one end ofthe shaft, a crank on the other end block, the inner end of saidf base portion ro thereof, a liquid contained within the tube, formed with a downward projection to en` passage-way and cylindrical chamber, in gage the 'flange on the-outer surface of a carcombination with .a base portion formed com- Wheel. w

5 plete 'of a slngle plece of metal with its outerv NORMAN E. FINGH.

end designed to' rest on a stationary support,V CHARLES D. .BROWN p and its central portion inclined upwardly and Witnesses: inwardly and formed with notches on its top S. B. SNYDER,

designed to receive the pointed end of said ERWIN P. SNYDER.

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