US940553A

US940553A - Emergency car-coupling.

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Publication number: US940553A
Application number: US44179408A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward Posson
Original assignee: GRAIN BELT CAR SPECIALTY Co
Current assignee: GRAIN BELT CAR SPECIALTY Co
Priority date: 1908-07-03
Filing date: 1908-07-03
Publication date: 1909-11-16
Anticipated expiration: 1926-11-16

Description

E. POSSON'.

BMERGENGY GAR ooUPLzNG. APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1908.

Patented Nov. 161909.

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Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

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Q access accident causes the breaking,l or pulling out of the usual coupling head or drawbar, the apparatus embodying` my invention may he put in place of it. ll the accident pulls the usual dead block oft from the car, the dead block 22 with its depending draw-bar supporting strap 24 may be quickly applied by means of the lag bolts 23. Then. the T-head 36 of the bolt may be hooked into the socket 3l and the flange 2t) set against the dead block 22, the coupling head 26 being supported on the draw-bar supporting strap 24C by having the projecting socket member 3l rest thereon. Then the chain Lll is passed back between the center sill members 20 over The laterally projecting` arms 3U en the eye-bolt 38 pass under the center sill members 20 and thus keep the turnbucklc 3T down where it can readily be reached and operated. chain 41 passes thence between the center sill members Q0 over the body bolster members 2l, behind them and then the locking member l2 is slipped on the chain and secured by means of the yoke 4, pin e'l and eotter pin 4G., Finally, the slack in the chain ell is taken up by rotating the turnbuckle 3?.' Thereafter, the normal coupling head 17 on the opposite car is made to engage the lined knuckle 27 ol the emergency couplingv head 26 and the horizontal top web QS on the emergency couplingl head rests upon the knuckle of the Opposed coupling head. rl`hus, the opposed coupling head 17 in supportingl the emergency couplingV head 2G.

The ifnodification disclosed in lfigs. 9, l0 and ll isv substantially the same as that already described, with the exception that the knuckle here designated as "a is not fixed but is pivoted in the usual manner and has a locking pin flt adapted to be operated by the crank 47 on the operating shaft -fl The emergency coupler shown in lfigs. S) to ll, inclusive, thus conforms strictly to the Master Car Builders standard and satisfies the requirement that Ieach car shally he, equipped with adjustable coupling` a pps; ratus. It will be noted. that in this form ot' my invention the web 28 is retained so that the sound coupling head on the one car assists in supporting the emergency coupling head on the other car. instead oit the single Yvertical bracing flange 30 shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7l have substituted tWo parallel vertical bracing flanges 30' shown in 9 and. l0. ,y l claim:

l. ln cinnbination, an emergency couplinga head having a socket in its end, a bolt having a head adapted to rit into said socket and be displaced therefrom, a chain, and a turnbuckle connecting the chain to ythe bolt.

f2. ln combination, an emergency coupling head having a downwardly opening socket in its end with a supporting ledge on the inside wal-l of the socket, a bolt having a head adapted to lit into such socket and rest upon said ledge, and a chain connected to said bolt.

3. ln combination, an emergency coupling head. having a downwardly opening'socket in its end with lateral recesses in the socket,

The a l`bolt having its head adapted to fit into said recesses, and a chain connected to said bolt. y

4v. ln combination, an emergency coupling head, a chain attached thereto and compris ing an intermediate member with laterally projecting arms, and means for securing the chain to the under framework of the car.

In combination, an emergency coupling head, a pivoted knuckle therein, said head having,` an integral web extending horizontally across at the to from the main part thereof to the part W ich joins the knuckle, a chain attached to the coupling head, and means to secure the chain to the under framework of the car.

t5, ln con'ibiination, an emergency coupling head having' a, socket in its end, a bolt havingY an enlarged head adapted to t in said 'socket and engage the same, and a chain having one end connected to said bolt.

'i'. ln combination, an emergency coupling head, a chain, a turnbuckle connecting the chain to the coupling' head, said turnbuckle havingv opposite laterally projecting arms, and .means for connecting; the chain to the under-framcwork or' a car.

ln testimony whereof, lf have subscribed my name. -v

' EDWARD lili SSN. lllitnesses:

Lucian A. limer, Anna L. Sra/Vis.