US939249A - Car-mover. - Google Patents

Description

^ R. P. HAGBMAN.

CAB HOVER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1009. y 939,249, Patented N0v,9,1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANDOLPH F. HAGEMAN, OF NEV MADISON, OHIO.

CAR-IVIOVER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RANDOLPH E. Haen- Max, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at New Madison, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Car-Mover, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carmovers and is designed to provide improvements over Patent No. 850154 granted to me on April 16, 1907. It contemplates the construction of a device of this type and character which will eliminate all lateral displacement upon the track; which will be provided with an anti-friction device that protects the point of the shoe and which will further have an adjustable device, whereby the upper surface of the rail may be grasped, while the mover is in operation.

IV ith the above and other objects in view this invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts all as hereinafter fully described, specifically claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein,-

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a car-mover constructed after my improved method. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken along the line 22 of Fig. l. j

Referring to the drawings, there is shown the shoe 1 consisting of two wings 2 spaced at their forward extremities by the integral block 3. These wings have pivoted between them at their rearward extremities the operating lever 4, the fulcrum 5 thereof forming a connection whereby the rearward extremities of said wings are secured together, and which has secured thereto through the instrumentality of the toggle joint 6 the wheel-engaging block or shoe 7, the same having a forward face which is curved on an arc of approximately the same curvature as the wheel rim. This lever is provided on its under face midway between its fulcrum 5 and the pivot 8 of the toggle joint with a transverse stop 9 which prevents the same from being removed by the operation thereof, from its normal position.

In order to provide an anti-friction device at the forward extremity of the shoe l, there is journaled adjacent the block 8 at the outer extremity of said shoe a roller or operating wheel 10, which, when the device is in use forms a chock block between the wheel and the track and facilitates the movement of both the shoe and the wheel.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Application led. July 17, 1909.

Patented Nov. 9, 1909. Serial No. 508,188.

To prevent any lateral displacement of the shoe upon the track there is carried adjacent the block 3, the downwardly project'- ing lugs l1 which are so situated that when the car-mover is in operation the rail is interposed therebetween.

To further facilitate the operation of this device and to eliminate all longitudinal slipping thereof there is provided in the under face of the block 3 an angular groove in which there is disposed the sharpened calk 12 which is in cross section in the form of approximately an equilateral triangle, thus making it possible to change the bearing edge thereof should the latter become worn or dull.

Car-movers heretofore constructed have not been provided as in the present invention with a means whereby the same may be operated longitudinally on the track without any friction or slipping. It will be noticed in the present invention that the roller 10 is interposed between the car wheel and the rail with the calk 12 engaging the latter whereby as the lever arm is depressed, the block 7 by means of the toggle joint 6 is elevated and exerts a sufficient pressure on the car wheel to start the same from its position of rest, after which the tool may be advanced along the rail and the operation repeated without disengaging the tool from the rail.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire'to protect by U. S. Letters Patent is 1. A. car-mover comprising a shoe arranged for engagement with the rail, having a pair of downwardly projecting lugs for preventing any lateral displacement thereof, an anti-friction roller journaled in the forward extremity of said shoe adapted to simultaneously engage the car Wheel and the rail, a lever fulcrumed at the rearward extremity of said shoe, a wheel engaging block carried by said shoe above said roller, and means carried by said lever for actuating said block.

2. A car-mover comprising a shoe, having outwardly projecting lugs to engage the head of a rail, an anti-friction roller journaled in the forward extremity of said shoe adapted to simultaneously engage the car wheel and the rail, a lever pivoted at the rear extremity of said shoe, a wheel-engaging block secured to the extremity of said lever through the instrumentality of a toggle-joint, and an anti-slipping device carried on the loWer face of said shoe adapted to engage the rail in rear of said roller and coperate with the latter to support said shoe upon the rail.

3. A car-mover comprising a shoe, having outwardly proj eoting lugs to engage the head of a rail7 an anti-friction roller journaled in the forward extremity of said shoe adapted to simultaneously engage the Wheel and the rail, a lever pivoted at the rear extremity of said shoe, a wheel-engaging block carried by said shoe above said roller and secured to the extremity of said lever through the instrumentality of a toggle joint, and a tri-angularly formed adjustable anti-slipping device carried on the under face of said shoe in rear of said roller and adapted to cooperate With the latter to support said shoe on said rail.

4. A car mover comprising a shoe having a pair of oppositely disposed lugs adapted to engage the head of a rail, an antifriction roller ournaled in the forward extremity of said shoe and adapted to simultaneously engage the Wheel and rail, a lever pivoted to the rear extremity of said shoe, a Wheel engaging block supported in said shoe above said roller and having a rounded face to engage said wheel, said block being connected to the extremity of said lever through the instrumentality of a toggle joint, and a detachable antislipping device projecting from the bottom face of said shoe in rear of said roller and adapted to coperate With the latter to support said shoeon said rail.

n testimony that I elaim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto al'lixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

RANDOLPH F. HAGEMAN.

lVitnesses A. H. BAUSMAN J. E. HYDE.

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