US83358A - Improved automatic car-cootling - Google Patents

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Y Car Coupling, No. 33,353. Patented oct; 2,7, 1868.

. 1 a I 6 I gime @gstellt (time Mmm-wwwwww WIL-SON BRAGG,'OF GONNERSVILLE, INDIANA.

Y 13mm Patent No. 83,358, daad 00mm 27, 1868.

IMPROVED AUTOMATIC' CAR-COPLIN'G.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Toa/19Min itw'lonmf The inner and closed end .of the chamberB is pro- Be it known that I, WILSON BRAGG, ofOonnersvided with an elastic cushion, I, which prevents too ville, Fayette lcoun Indiana, have invented a new great a concussion when the sliding block C is forced and useful Improvement in Oar-Couplings; and I do back by the entering-link D. hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and i' My car-coupling is operatedinthe following manner: exact description thereof, reference being had to the As shown in iig. 1, the pin F is engaged with the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiilink D in the same way'it would be when the cars are. cation. coupled together, and should it be desired to discon- My invention relates to that class of automatic carnect them, it can be eifected by simply pulling upon couplings in which the pin is-heldin an elevated posithe chain E, which act not. only elevates the pin, so tion by means of a sliding block, which, when forced as to disengage it 4from the link, but it also draws the backinto the draw-head by theenterting-link, persliding block G forward, and thereby ejects the link mits the pin to engage vtherewith; and my improvefrom the draw-head, As soon as the link has been ment consists in connecting the pin and Ysliding block expelled from the draw-head, the pin 'is allowed to with achain, in such a manner that when thepin is drop, and restY upon the top of the sliding block, as elevated, the :block will be drawn out towards the seen in g. 2, and when itis desired to couple the mouth of the draw-head, said chain. also serving to cars, the entering end of the link strikes withinthe force the pin down into the link with a positive moverecess c of \the sliding block, and forces it back into ment, as soon as the sliding block is pressed back in the draw-head, the pin F falling, and passing through lthe draw-head. said link into the aperturea, the moment the sliding In the accompanyingdrawingsblock has travelled a suicient distance. When the Figure l vis a longitudinal section of my improved link is resting in the draw-head, the shoulders ff of car-coupling, with a linkin position within the drawthe pin bear upon the top of the link, and maintain it head. l. in a horizontal position, so that it will readily enter Figure 2 is a similar section, showing the link as the draw-head of an approaching car.

about to enter the draw-head. Although the tendency of the pin is to hold the link Figure 3 is a diagram, 'showing the pin in elevation in ahorizontal position, yet the provision of the rounded and the coupling-link in section. stem G permits said link to play aboutrwithin the draw- A represents a draw-head, having the customary head suiiiciently to accommodate itself to the oscillaan'ng mouth a, and Va longitudinal chamber, B, for tions of the car. v i the reception of the sliding block O, which plays freely The upper portion of the pin being oblong in its horiwithin said chamber. Ixhe forward end of this block zontal section, prevents its turning in the draw-head, has a recess, C, into which the end ofthe link D ts, and thus insures the shoulders of the same bearing and the top of said block is provided with a longituupon the link in a proper-manner. p dinal groove, 0, to the bottom ofwhich is attached one The pinL being' attached to the sliding block, it is end of a chain or other` flexible connection, E, whose compelled4 to descend with a positive movement, and other end is secured to the topi of a peculiarly-conthere is no dangerlof its being jolted out ofthe drawstructed pin, F. The upper and longest portion of` head by the'vibrations ofthe car.

this pin is oblong in its horizontal section,'while its I claim herein as new, and of my invention-, lower end is diminished in size, so as to form a stem, The combination of the chain E, sliding block O, G, which is adapted to enter an aperture, aX, in the and. coupling-pin F,.substantially as and for the purbottom ofthe draw-head. poses specified.

. The enlarged portion of the pin F plays within a In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my suitable bearing, w,in the boss A', which is cast on hand.

the upper side ofthe draw-head, and this boss is pro- A Y WILSON BRAGGP.v vided with a channel,I II, for the passage of the chain E., Witnesses Where the stemG unites Withthe pin F, there are GEO. H. KNIGHT,

formed two shoulders ff', whose oice will be hereafter JAMES H. LAYMAN.

described.

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