US841927A - Car-coupling. - Google Patents

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' No. 841,927. PATENTED JAN-22;, 1907.

M; A. BROWN.

GAR COUPLING.

APPLIQATIOH FILED JULY 24. 1905.

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MARK ANTHONY BROWN,

F sAvANNAH, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOROF ONE- HALF T0 DANIEL G. PURSE, JR, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

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Specification of Letters Ifatent.

Patentedflialn. 22,1907.

Application filed July 24,1906. Serial No. 271.066. I

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, MARK ANTHONY I BROWN, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Savannah, in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Car-Coupler, of which the following is a specification. f

My invention relates to certainnew and useful improvements in car-couplers of'the automatic type, and-especially to-improveinentsover my coupler shown and described in United States Letters Patent N 0. 691,019, and has for its obj ect to improve the general construction of the draw-head, knuckle, I

locking-pin, and lift -lever. J

.Another object of-my invention is "to proiidea coupler which willbe perfectly automatic in operation and one that 'isconnected to the lift-lever by a chain, so that in case the coupler is drawnout by accident it will be suspended above the track, thus preventing the wrecking of, the train by the coupler falling on the track and a still. further object of the invention is 'to provide a knuckle operated by a fiat spring of. such a length that the 1ocking-pin can be located on the opposite side from the knuckle, preventing the knuckle of the other car from-wedging in between points of the knuckle and couplingheads, thereby overcoming the difficulties that often occur with other couplings of be:

coming wedged, so that they cannot bev separated until they are smashedup.

A further object: of my invention is to provide a coupling that can be c upled with both couplers open and who rtaintyand safety on curves and one that the tail-pin can be taken out withoutinterfering with the locking device, as the locking-pinis located to one side of the coupler and is secured therein, sothat it can be removed easily and quickly.

With

these objects in view "the invention consists of the novel features of construction,

combination and arrangement of parts here inafter'iully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of the coupler, showing it attached, to the car. Fig. 2 is a side view showing one drawhead being withdrawn from its place and the lift-lever ust starting to raise the coupler,"

. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same;

draw-bar,

Fig. 4 is a sectional view onrthe'line 4 4 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5. is a'perspective view of the locking-pin removed.

, Referring to the drawings, Aindicates the head A at its end projecting outwardly therefrom and adaptedto register with a corresponding coupling-headcarried by, the other car. The coupling-head A onone side is provided with outwardly-projecting lugs A and between which the perforated .lu B of the knuckleB is secured by a verti- .fla't spring C, secured in the draw-head by .hollow draw-bar provided with the coupling end B, which is of the ordinary form of the bolts 0, is adapted tofit and shove the knuckle olpen when released by the locking means. is provided with an opening D, in which the locking-pin E is adapted to work. The'locking-pin is partly cutaway and-is provided with a beveled shoulder E, adapted to move upwardly on the cam B downwardly by the'coil springs E surroundingthe projecting end E of the pin E and Se cured thereon by a pin E tion of the cam has passed over and securely locks thev knuckle The with a perforated head E having chains F connected thereto. g

Secured in the bearings G and G carried by the car,'is a rocking shaft the arms I and I arm I is connected tothe chains F, carried by the pin, so that when the shaft is rocked by the handle the pin will be lifted, allowing the knuckles to swing outwardly.

The arm Pis provided with a chain I, the. other end of which is connected to the coupling-lever, so that the head will be supported if accidentally detached. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 1. A coupling. device comprising a hollow one end, a knucklepivoted to one side-ofthe he other side ofthe couplir'ig head provided withv a coupling-head, at

and to be drawn after the high porpin is provided 1 I, provided with and the handle I The ing connected to the locking-pin, and the 10 head provided with an arm having a cam- J combination withadraw-bar, havinga coupsurface, a flat spring secured in the drawling-head at one. end, of a spring-actuated head, the front end of which rests in a recess, knuckle provided with a cam-arm, secured to in said arm, a spring-actuated lockingin one side of the head, as ring-actuated pin provided with a beveled shoulder working provided with abeveleds oulder, Workingin through an opening in the other side of the an opening in'the other side of the head, and coupling, and a shaft provided with outa shaft carried the car connected to said wardly-extending arms, one of thearms be-. pina'nd head, for the 111 ose described.

MARK AlQ TI FONY BROWN.

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JOHN W. BURROUGHS.

other to the cou ling-head, and a handle for rotating the shait, for the urpose described.

2. In a device of the kmd described, the

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