US875906A - Railway-car. - Google Patents

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No. 375,006. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. B. F. PREEBLB.

RAILWAY CAR.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 7,1907.

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No. 875,906. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

I B. P. FREBBLE.

RAILWAY GAR. APPLICATION TILED JUNE 7,1901.

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29i in zoom attaining No- 875,906. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. I

B. F. FREEBLB.

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. FREEBLE, OF BROWNSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '7, 1908.

Application filed June 7. 1907. Serial No. 377-794 My invention relates to railway cars, which will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

' he primary object of my invention is-to provide a car which will insure comfort and safety to passengers against injury in all .ordinary accidents.

Another object of m invention is to provide safety to livestoc and other property while in transit in cars.

A further object of my invention is to maintain a perfect equilibrium of the interior of the-cars constructed in accordance with my invention under all cond1t1ons eX-- cept the telescoping of the same, and this though the exterior of the car may turn over and over.

These objects are attained in the structuresof cars represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this applica tion and in which Figure 1, is an elevation of a portion of my improved car partly in section showing the elevation of the circular tracks and also the construction at the doorway to allow for the swinging of the inner portion independently Fig. 2, is an end view of the car one-half being finished and the other half showing the metal end plates fastened to the respective hoops or tracks. Fig. 3, is a detail elevation of the hoops or tracks showing the base beams and journals for the rollers, and also showing the method of attaehing the outside metal plates of the car. Fig. 4, is a detail section on line 4-4 of Fig.

3, showing the construction of the floor sup-.

ports and the'roller journals. Fig. 5, is a detail section showing the arrangement of the windows to allow for the swinging of one portion within the other. Fig. 6, is a detail sec tion showing construction of sliding door when the car is to be used as a livestock or freight car.

My invention relates only to the body of the car, which is preferably made of iron or steel, and has no relation to the car trucks, springs and bolsters.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents a part of the car, Fig. 1, in ordinary construction, and B represents a sectional view as'shown in said figure. 0 represents the hoops or bands and C the tracks. These hoops and tracks are placed about equi-dis- 'tant of the length of the car, as shown in Fig.

1, having in the main portionof the car two windows betweenthe tracks.

In Fig. 2 an end view of the car is shown,-

a part of it being finished and a part unfinished, and showing the metal end plates F fastened to the hoops or bands. In Fi 3 the floor D of the interior chamber of t e car is shown, and also the trucks D on the tracks, and rollers d between the track and the hoo or band, with the manner of fastening't ose trucks so as to roll freely and easily u on the tracks. In this figure the I-beams are shown running longitudinally of the car. The outer frame of the car is also shown in part and the location of the I-beams relative to such frame.

, In Fig. 4, a detail section is shown of the truck riding on the hoop or band, as indicated in line 4'4 of Fig. 3. -'-This shows how the truck will freely pass over the interior surface of the hoop or band;

In Fig. 5 it is shown how the windows will I.

be protected as the interior of the car moves around. These windows, as will be seen 1n Fig. 1, are within the space occupied by two tracks and two bands and so are not affected by the moving of the interior portion of the car. i

In Fig. 6 provision is made for a sliding door on the side of the car ada ted for the transportation of livestock an of freight. This sliding door permits of the ingress and egress of livestock and of freight. The sliding door, as will be understood, opens the space between what would in the ordinary car be given to two windows, or substantially such space. There is nothing essentially different in this door from that in the ordinary freight cars. The interior of the car, however, is provided with the hoops and tracks and roll ers so that the interior of the car will accom+ modate itself to the condition in which the car may be situated. In other words, the interior of the car in which the stock or freight stand or'lie will turn so as to maintain the equilibrium of the interior of the car no matter what position the exterior of the car ma be in. This equilibrium of the interior, wi l the position of the portin all times independently of exterior, through the sup of the circular interior hoops or bands upon't e o'uter circular tracks by means of the Wheels or rollers and bearings (Figs. 3 and 5) attached to the I-beamswhich'form the framework of the floor and upon the termiualsofthe interior bands, not only in case of theoverturning of. the car but at all times be maintained at duriii the ordinary progress of the car, and

will e iminate all rocking from. side to side and jolting motions of the interior, on the roughest roadbed's or sharpest curves, whether compound or simple. It is further evident that this provision for the maintenance of an equilibrium o""he interior at all times will, in case of overturning of the car, greatly lessen the number of that class of accidents occurring by reason of the throwing about promiscuously of the occupants of such cars as do not provide for this maintenance of the equilibrium of their interior at all times.

Itwill also be observed that provision is made for the operation of the windows'by having the window proper apart of the interior finish, ust outside the sash, the frame on each, side of the window is divided into two parts by an arc of a cirble the center of whose radius is the common-center from which all the circles are worked, which parts act independently of each other with a free yet concentric circular .movement, the parts of the 'WlIldOW inside of this arc being a part of the interior of the car and all that part-oi the frame-outside oi this.v are being a part of the exterior body of the car.

' In my car the stepsand doors will be the same as in the ordinary cars.

'Having thus described; my invention, its use and operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is '1 in a railway car the combination with a car the combinationwith its frame provided with a series of circular tracks,- of an interior, rotary chamber pro-- vided with trucks and rollers, substantially as described.

4. In a railway car the comb nation. with its exterior frame havingv interior'icircular tracks, of an interior rotary frame provided with tracks and rollers, and a "stationary floor, substantially as described. I

5; In a railway car the combination with its body frame provided with windows and doors and having interior tracks, of an interior rotary frame having a floor supported-by a hoop, trucks secured to the floor, and rollers between the hoops and tracks, substantially as described. i

6. In a railway car the combination with its body frame supportedon trucks, of a rinterior rotary chamber, having seats for'the accommodation and comfort of passengers, substantially as described.

7. In a railway car the combination with its body frame resting upon and carried by trucks and provided with sliding doors, ofan interior rotary chamber having a floor supported by a hoop, and trucks secured-to the floor, substantially as described.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN F. FREEBLE. Witnesses BEN DotenE'RTY, R. PoLETz.

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