US932337A - Mail-bag deliverer and catcher. - Google Patents

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0. J. SEYMOUR. MAIL BAG DELIVERER AND OATOHER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27.1909.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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I MAIL-BAG same Ivan AND oA'rcnERa application fl1 6d.-Apli127 To I all whom ttmwy concern: I

Be it known that I, OBADIAH J. SEYMOUR, a subject of-the King of Great Britain, residing at 'New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Mail-Bag Deliverers and Catchers, of which the followingis aspecificatiom IThepres'ent invention relates to mail bag deliverers ordroppers and catchers and has for its object -to..provide a construction which, with safety. and without danger of injuryto the mail bags, -will1 allow the de- -livery.Lof-same from and the catching or receiving thereof by a fast moving car or train..

Y -Ap'pl-icant is aware that there are some .x'patents relating to'devices for the same purarm 3 is partl ,ofsquare cross section, as at Figure lshows a, perspective view of the device as attached to the train and of a part on thetrack servin for the o eration of the delivering part of t device; ig..-2 is a per:

spective view of the same and of a stationary m'a I -bag support arranged 'alongth track in-nn'e withthe mail bag catcher,-an Fig.,:-3 is. ;a front view partly in cross section illustrating the operation of the device 1 designates the side .wall. of a "mail car and 2, Zara arms secured to theside'post of the door; case ,1 in which arms is pivotallyand adjustably supported abraced arm .3 reaching outwardly'iro'm the car and capable of being swung inward. The free end of the '4. upon whic part a downwardly projecting hook 5 formingthe mail bag catcher is' mounted,- When thearm. 3 is projected outward this hook extends substantially parallel to the car It has at'its mouth portion spring tongues or. straps fi, 6 projecting vertically toward one another to .normally close the mouth hooky Specification Letters Tatent.

portion. and to serve as re-- tainers for the mail bag whencaught by the I l j'ection'engaging the notch 13 Patented Aug. 24,- I909.

, 1909. 'SeriaINo. 492,466.

Beyond the square portion of the end ocf the arm 3 the latter .-is, cylindrical-lyslraped,

vice. This :device consists of a hub 8 rotatively mounted on the end '7..' Rigidly secured to-orintegual with this hub is an arm 9, to the rear or lower end of which asecond inner surface of the arm 1-0 is a leafor platespring 11 which projects toward. and is adapted toconstantly rest against thea'rm 9, so'as to hold the arms-apart orstretched from one another. .The lower or rear end of the arm has a nose or rojection 12 which slidably bears in a radial ore of the hub and 13 provided in the cylindrical end of the arm 3, and to thereby lock the hub in its posltion. When the arm 10 is swung against the projection 12 is caused to disengage fromthe notch 13, whereupon the hub belng released is allowed to freely .turnupon its axleuntilfstopped by the engagement ofthe projection "-12 into a secondnotch-13 7-. 'At a suitable .pointofethe'huh-fingers or bolts '14, 15 are provided-that are suitably secured in the hub and which in normal position, of the hub project upward in a slant actual supports for the mail bags before. delivery I The operation of the device is as follows At a certain point of the track Where the dereceptacle 16 of the shape shown or the like arm 17 which extends into-thepath of the arm 10. Assuming that a mail bag 18 is susended from one of the fingers projecting Fig:- 1, it will be seen, that as soon as the arm 10 strikes against the, stationary cross arm 17 the latter will cause it, .during the ,con-- tinued .movement of the train, to swing'to- Ward the arm 9, in consequence of which the r0 2nd unlock the hub. Owing to the weightof the mail bag the hub will instantaneously ,swing'around in the direction indicated in -Fig. 3, so that the fingers will be tilted forthe rece tacle 16. The hub will become again loo ed in its tilted position by the proarm 10 is hinged (at 10). Attached to the is adapted to normally engage into a notch (livery ofthe mail from the cars is required, a,

is stationarily arranged, and connected with it or separately arranged is a stationary cross ward and permit the bag to drop down into .as at 7, to-bear the dropping part of the dethe tension of its spring toward thear-m 9.,

in end ing direction. -These fingers serve as the rom the hub, as indicated by dotted lines in ection 12 will be raised from the notch 13 p of the arm 3- until it is readjusted by hand into the initial or normal position. The mail catcher, on the other hand, will operate as follows From a suitable support or frame 20 the mail bag is supported by means of a loop 19which either is permanently secured to the bag or may be conveniently clam ed thereto. This loop rests loosely upon t e frame which is arranged in the path of the hook 5 so that at the instant when the hook will, during the rapid movement of the train, meet the loop, the latter will be caught by the hook and snap through the spring tongues, by which it will be retained on the hook until released by hand after the arm 3 is swung into the car.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a mail bag dropper and catcher, the combination with a car or train and mail bags, of a swinging arm suspended from said car or train, a sleeve orhub rotatively mountthe track, of a swinging arm adjustably suspended from the car or train, a sleeve or hub rotatively mounted on said arm, fingers projecting therefrom, a spring actuated arm fulcrumed in said hub, and means attached to said spring arm to lock the hub on the swinging arm, said spring arm being operated by the stationary arm on the track, while the car or train is in motion.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OBADIAl-l J. SEYMOUR. Vi itn'esses:

\"VILLIAM G. BUTTERLY, Mo'ams BAUMANN.

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