US884310A - Mail-bag deliverer. - Google Patents

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Be it known that I, JOHN F. BLACK, a citi- 'I zen of the United States ofAmerica, and resithe positions they Y simiple and practical means for de nected to the upper l vranged'at r1 ht anglesto each other and dent of Greensburgi county of Westmoreland,

State .of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Ba' -Deliverers, of which the following is a fullv and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a postal car and the adjacent roadbed showing my apparatus in position Jfor delivering a mail-bag- Fig. 2 is a view partiy in vertical section and partly in side elevation of the delivering apparatus detached and ready .for delivering a bag. Fig.- 3 isa front elevation of the same showing the parts in assume just after the bag is delivered. Fig. 4 a plan view of Fig. 2

artly in section on the line 4%4 of Fig. 2.

ig. 5 is a detail view of the tripping lever. Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal `section of the receiving. rece tacle on the roadbed, the cover being li ted to position for receiving the delivered bag. F1 Vis a vertical section on the line 747 o Fig. 6.

The object 'of this invention is to rovide ivering ma -bags Jfrom a rapidly moving train to the stations along the road. Object to provide a sim` receiving receptacle a( into the roadbed adjacent to the track and to automatically close upon the reception of the delivered bag. l

Referring to the drawings by reference characters, a, designates a' standard upon which the working parts of the delivering A device are mounted, this standard being removably mounted in a suitablekeeper b fastened to the edge of the car iioor coinciden-t with the door of the car. Pivotally con- It also has for its le and practical bagleverl composed of a-pair of arms c c and a handle portion d, the parts'd and c being ari being pivote at their juncture to a suitable piate e fastened Vrotatably upon the floor of the car midway the width of thecar. -By means of this right angle lever arrangement the delivering apparatus may be let down into 'the keeper in position for action and may be hoisted up out of the keeper and swung back into the car, the standard a always remainin in a vertieal'position by reason of its pivota apted to be sunkeny end of the standard is aA :settimaV apra "f, isos.

connection tothe arms c` c. By rotatably mounting the lifting apparatuson the floor at e the apparatus may be swung around to a convenient position within the car and may also bejproj'ected out through the opposite'.

door of' the car to""deliver mail-ba s at that side of the'car, a duplicate of ti beinv fastened on the opposite edge of the car oor.

, v Attached to thevface ofthe standard ais a` vertical stationary tube f and projecting from thepupp'er ends of the standard and said tube '1s another rigid tube or bar g, and' mounted' rigidlyon the outer end of thisbar gis a verV vtical plate ordisk Pivotally' mounted onv the face of the v v to swing in a verticalv planeand connected at its lower end by a link j to a rearwardly ointing hook pivotally mounted on the ace of the plate 7L at a point above thel pivot of the lever t.

e keeper plate h is a trip lever/i adapted Concentric with the pivot of the levert on.'

its inner side 1s 'a cam groove Zinto which; through a hole'in the plate h, extends a rodjm which extends along above and parallelfwith ner end with a vertical pawl n, this pawl bei` l l the bar g and isjpivotally connectedlat its in# ing pivoted at its lower end to an ear on the i back of the standard a and' being pressedoutwardly, that is, toward the late h by means of a s ring o, this awl being confined and guide by means o a pair of lugs pon the back of plate a. Y

Extending-.upward thrdugh the tube f is' a4v shaft qu'p'on the upper end of whichis mount- 1 ed 'a cam r which is provided with anotch s in.

its curved inner edge for the receptionof the pawl n' whenthe apparatusy isset forde'liver.- I

mg the bag. A spring i normally tends to throwl this/bam and its shaft backwardlyz' Attached tothe lower end of shaft@` at a f is al.

point belowf" the lower end of tube I weighted arm u which is pivoted to shaft gon a transverse horizontal u and at' its other end is a curved pivot u. Carried at 1 one end 'of this arm uis an upstanding weight.

w which is so located withwreference tothe i hook 7c that when a bag is hung on said hook,`

this arm w will form lower end of the suspended-bag, 'as-shown in Fig. 1. (ln the arm u is formed an upwardly extending stop which 4by reasen of the weight u normallv bears upwardzy against the underside of avflange fj carried rigidly on the lower end of tube this-fiange being a rest or stop for the-5"" 10o arm or rod semi-circular in shape, the straight edge thereof facing inwardly toward the standard a.

f In the roadbedadjacent t the track is sunken a box A provided with a bottom B near its upper edge. .i Pivoted at the rear end of this box is a coverC provided with de l pending wings D which work down through slots in the bottom B. Hinged to the underA side of the cover C, about midway its length, is a 4prop E, whichworks through a lhole in the bottom B and is notched at F to enable it to rest upon the front edge of the hole in the botl angularly turned so as to `be struck b`yaftrip tom and thus pr'op up the cover. Fastened to the top of the cover and rojecting forwardly therefrom is a bar G W ose forwardfend is lever 'i as the train passes. It will be ob served that the prop E tends to swing for wardly when the cover is raised so as to autoprop into place over the box thereby confining and i 25 matically prop the cover 1n its raised position. When the mail-bag is delivered into the ofpn'front of the receptacle it strikes the i and thus permits the cover to drop protecting the bag against the weather until the local agent removes the same.

I prefer hanging the bag on the hook lc by meansfof a short piece of rope having a ring at its upper edge to engage over the hook and a'snap hook at its lower end to engage the ring or strapon the bag.- Then the a paratus is set for delivering the bagit be observed that the lever t stands u wardly in position to be struck by bar G an the cam r 1s locked by pawl n in such position as to hold the steadying arm w in its extended position so that the bag will rest against'it.

-As soon as lever t is tripped backwardly the camA groove Z and rod m release pawlmJ from cam r, thus permitting the s ring t to swing cam r and its shaft aronn backwardly a quarter turn, when the projection r on cam r will strike against the pawl n and will stop the further movement of the cam and its shaft. The rotation of shaft q carries the bag rest w backwardly out of the way of the bag, and after the shaft is turned about a ,quarter turn the stop a; passes off the inner straight edge of cam y and thus permits the weightfuf` to swing downwardly as shown in Fig. 3, and this action swings the steadying arm upwardl bac'k of the tubular standard f where it wil be 'out .of the way.

opposite side doors, of a kee erat the sill of each4 door,- a mail.- bag de ivering device adapted to slide upwardly or downwardly in either one of these keepers, and ashftable lifting and lowering device connected to the delivering device and mounted on the floor of the car at a point between the two doors thereof.

3'. In combination with a car having a keeper secured'to its door'sill, a mail-bag delivering device adapted to be lowered into said keeper and to be raised out of the same, and means mounted on the floor' 'of the car for raising and lowerin said delivering device and drawing it bac into the car.

4. The roadbed receiving-receptacle for mail-bags consisting of a box, a cover 'pivoted at its rear end and adapted to swing u wardly, af prop pivotally attached to t e cover and'depending into the box, a support' for this prop at its lower end, this prop eing located in the path lof the delivered 'bag whereby the injection of the bagwill dislodge the prop and permit the cover to close.

5. A mail-bag receiving receptacle com" prising a box, a cover therefor, means for )ropping u the cover,l said means being located wit in the box in the` path of the incoming bag, whereby the movement of the delivered bag after it enters the receptacle will close the door thereof.

6. In a mail-bag delivering apparatus, a

frame, a suspending hook and means for tripping the same, a steadying arm and .means for automatically swinging the same back out of the way when the tripping device is operated.

7. In a mail-bag delivering apparatus, the` combination of a frame, a suspending hook and a trip device therefor, a steadying arm mounted u on a vertical pivot below the suspendingook, means for` normally swinging this steadying arm backwardl out of the way, and means for automatica] y releasing said means upon the release of the bag.

8. In an apparatus of the class set forth, the combination of a frame, a suspending hook and means for tripping the same, a weighted ivoted steadying arm adapted to engage beliind the bag, and means for automatically swinging the steadying arm back wardly and releasingA it `when the bag is tripped from its suspending" hook, whereby the steadying arm will swing upwardly out of the wa y 9. In an apparatus of the class set forth, the combination of a frame, a suspending hook and means. for tripping it, a vertical shaft carrying on a transverse pivot at its lower end a steadying arm, this arm being provided with a weight normally tending to swing it wardly,1means for holding the arm horizonta ly, al cam and normally swing the arm ackwardly, and

Ei'in'g A tending to means for releasing the cam when the suscarried by the projected end of said lifting pending hook is tripped. device.

10. In an apparatus of the class set'forth, In testimon wheredf I hereunto aix my a' car having o posite side-door-Ways, a base signature in t e presence of tw'o Witnesses' 5 plate mounte to rotate on a vertical pivot this 21 day of Oct., 1907.

In the car floor between the two doorwa s, a v

lifting device mounted to oscillate on a ori- JOHN F BLACK zontal pivot carried by this plate so as to Witnesses: adapt it to be projected out through either WILLIAM R. SLIFER, y

15 doorway, and a mail-bag-hnlfling device EDWIN F. CRWFORD.

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