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US891733A
US891733A US42804508A US1908428045A US891733A US 891733 A US891733 A US 891733A US 42804508 A US42804508 A US 42804508A US 1908428045 A US1908428045 A US 1908428045A US 891733 A US891733 A US 891733A
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    • B61K—AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR RAILWAYS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the object of this invention is to provide extremely simple and 'highly efficient, as well asstrong and durable, means for readily effecting the discharge or delivery of a mail pouch from a car while in motion, and which device when notin use will be entirely out of occupied after a pouch has been discharged.
  • 1 designates a chute which is preferably composed of sheet metal, and'is set on an incline with the lower end of its-bottom slightly curved outward. At its upper end this chute has flanges 2 for the passage of screws or nails for securing it upper end of the chute. This door is of somewhat smaller formation to the floor of a car.
  • the chute is. of such length that it will extend out beyond the rails and about over the ends of the sleepers, and it is firmly secured by braces 3 attached to the sides of its lower end and to the car frame.
  • 4- designates a two-part door, which con-l stitutes, in one position, a trap-door, and in the other position it conceals or covers the The inner 'part of.
  • the mail pouch is' placed on .the inner or smaller part of the door, and the wider part the pouc will immediately fall through the chute and be ejected to one side of the track.
  • the chute being close to the ground,'.th, e danger of injury to the pouch'is greatly lessened.
  • the inner or wider part of the door completely covers the upper end of the chute and being about flush with the floor the parts are out of the way, and at notime is there danger of personsv being injured by this apparatus.
  • The, opening th ough the chute is always closed by one part (if the door or the other. i
  • a mail pouch delivering apparatus designed to be secured: to the'floor of a car, comprising a chute, a two-part door, one
  • a mail pouch delivering apparatus designed to besecured to the floor of a car,- cornprlslng a chute, a two-part door cen-' trally pivoted to said chute, one of said parts fitting within the chute and designed to form a rest or support for a mail pouch, and the other art of the ddor being of greater width than t e chute and designed-to extend over the upper end of the latter when in its closed positron, and means detachably holding said oor in its opened position.

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No. 891,733. I I PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.;
w. M. RAWL.
MAIL POUCH DELIVERER. APPLICATION FILED APRE'ZO, 1908- e uucutoz 025% ILM Fwd UNITED STATES PATENT onrron.
WILLIAM non'rnmn RAWL, or LYKESLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA.
MAIL-POUCH DELIVERER.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Julie 23,100
. Application filed April 20, 1908. Serial No. 428,045.
i To all whom 'it 'ma'y concern.-
Be it known that I, WILLIAM MORTIMER RAwL, of Lykesland, in the county of Richland and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Pouch Deliverers; and -I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of-the invention, such'as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to-make and use the same.
i The object of this invention-is to provide extremely simple and 'highly efficient, as well asstrong and durable, means for readily effecting the discharge or delivery of a mail pouch from a car while in motion, and which device when notin use will be entirely out of occupied after a pouch has been discharged.
Referring to the drawings, 1 designatesa chute which is preferably composed of sheet metal, and'is set on an incline with the lower end of its-bottom slightly curved outward. At its upper end this chute has flanges 2 for the passage of screws or nails for securing it upper end of the chute. this door is of somewhat smaller formation to the floor of a car. The chute is. of such length that it will extend out beyond the rails and about over the ends of the sleepers, and it is firmly secured by braces 3 attached to the sides of its lower end and to the car frame.
4- designates a two-part door, which con-l stitutes, in one position, a trap-door, and in the other position it conceals or covers the The inner 'part of.
than the interior of the chute in which it is designed to work, being hinged or pivoted to the chute at 6, while the outer partis wider thanthechute so that when lowered, as in. Fig. 3, it will extend over the latter about even with the floor of the car. When this wider part is raised, as when a mail; pouch'is to be delivered, it is retained by a hook 7 to which is connected a cord'orchain 8 passed over a suitable pulley'located pref I erably near the side car-door, con venient reach of the mail clerk. s
hook being disenga ed from the outer or .55 In practice, the mail pouch is' placed on .the inner or smaller part of the door, and the wider part the pouc will immediately fall through the chute and be ejected to one side of the track. The chute being close to the ground,'.th, e danger of injury to the pouch'is greatly lessened. As the pouch is discharged the inner or wider part of the door completely covers the upper end of the chute and being about flush with the floor the parts are out of the way, and at notime is there danger of personsv being injured by this apparatus. The, opening th ough the chute is always closed by one part (if the door or the other. i
I claim as my invention z- ,1. A mail pouch delivering apparatus designed to be secured: to the'floor of a car, comprising a chute, a two-part door, one
part fitting within the chute, and the other part of greater width than the opening in the chute, and means within the car for eliga g and holding the second mentioned part 0 the door in its opened position, such second mentioned part, when in its closed position, extending over and protecting the top of the chute.
2. A mail pouch delivering apparatus designed to besecured to the floor of a car,- cornprlslng a chute, a two-part door cen-' trally pivoted to said chute, one of said parts fitting within the chute and designed to form a rest or support for a mail pouch, and the other art of the ddor being of greater width than t e chute and designed-to extend over the upper end of the latter when in its closed positron, and means detachably holding said oor in its opened position.
In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two sub-' scribing witnesses.
WILLIAM MORTIMER RAWL.
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Jon P. LANE,
FREDERICK LYKns.
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