US942324A - Combined hanger and track for car-doors. - Google Patents

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E. A. HILL.

, COMBINED HANGER AND TRACK FOR GAR DOORS.

APPLICATION-FILED MAY 15. 1909.

942,324, I Patented Dec.7, 1909.

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amMw/w new and improved 1 which'ithe door i sup vprovide a door construction having UNITED strArEsrATENTormoE.

E nwAnnh. Hunt or oHr-cneo, rtnriwmrs, Assxenon 'ro CHICAGO GRAIN noon. com- Paint, on cHIeAGo, ILLINOIS, A

CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

vcentrist-n1: HANGER Ann rnacxron cAjR-noons.

.tSpecificatioizof Ietters'l'atent. Patented. D ,f7,"-1-909,

i al piieanqn filed Hay 15, mos se ial 110,496,163}

To allwhom it may-concerns? H Be it known-that I, En'wARD HILL,' a citizen-of the JUnited States, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have inventedce'rtain new and use: ful Improvements in Combined Hangers and Tracks for Can; ooljs; of whichthe followin 1s a specification.

v y inventionrelatesfto freight car doors of the Isortwhichare movably hung from the top on' the outside'of-the car, and the invention has 'for itsobject lto provide a merit inthe means used for mountingya door of this kind. upon'the car. which" shall be provide effective means for preventing rain from entering the car over the top" of the 7 door and for likewise 2Y0 weather the rollers Tor similar devices 7 by ported.- y Itvis'a-further ob ect of the invention to the above mentioned necessitate the use of but .a small number of parts, and those of simple conformation, so as .to be "cheaply made "saved inasingle' instance and ,everyfsimpfmmd i i v door. For example-it has been =customary.

to construct the'runewaywhichisupports the ently have to ,grepaired .a. long. I

ey were built and. by "workmen posenee; Ithafs some sort of means intended to prevent; the in I ovei f the top of the configuration seesawhaves flange that will extend down from-the track 'on which the so far ,as my presentinvention is concerned,

door, rollers orftrolleys .run,r-whieh. flange stands for: is calculated ,toystand front of the space which necessarily, vintervenes" be: tween the -top-a.oft rthe dOOl.f .j fflil1d the door construction and arrange protecting from the track belowthe characteristics which shall p and' easily put togethen. It is" ixnportan'tfthat structures of- "this sort should economize material and'the; laborirequired. to produce .thGIIPiLO the 'ut: most extent; inasmuchas they are used in:

- largenumbers;becauseeveryounce of metal way" ffom the shops frame. :This additional flange invents just so much more-metaland serves 110 function except; to keep or tend to keep the rain from beating inoyer thetop. of the door. My invention; in the "embodiment shown, uses a simple L bar which isarranged to extend below the-upper'e'dg'e of the door, that'is, so that the 'liorizont'a'l flange of such bar stands below the edge ofthe'door; the door and; the 'hangers for the trolley wheels or sustaining devices attac the track Without materially increasing the width-of the car at this place over constructions in 'whi'c'h'thetrolleys, are above the door. This arrangement of the. track. below thetop of the door enables me to accom plish a secondary object of my invention, that is, to simplify the construction and mounting of the trolley wheels; With the wheels may. be loosely journaled on the hangers and'will be held in position by their arran 'ementbetween the vertical flange of theL ar andthe hangers.

' 5 The inventionv has for further objects such other new and improvedx constructions in combined hangers and track for freight car doors as will be described in thisspecification and 'mrticularly specified in the claims appended thereto.-

top of the door, the trolley he invention in a preferred embodiment bed -'to the door be; mg arranged to conform .to'this gPQSltIOD of is illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

'Wherein 1. V

' Figure 1 IS a fragmentaryside elvation of a freight car and-outside door.. Fig. 2 a

section taken on line '2-2 of Fig. 1 but on nilar section illustrating a modification, and- FigL L a section illustrating another I modified Sofie-f tjure.

parts in the severalfigures of the drawing. Referring to the drawing, A represents the side of the frejight car, B t-heqdoor; C the roof oi the car and D the upper longitudinal timber of Like characters'of reference indi-.;:ite like loo the can name; 'lIhe drawin'g illustratesa familiar construction of box freight car. The particular construction of car, however, is a matter of no importance as the door and attachments of my invention might be applied to variouscoustructions of cart" i first particularly to Fig.2,

fffthe' outside ofethe" "car iis "seemed, fo an; Ie ty bo1ts-}F,'--a-.b1ock tan f'shaped metal traekfmeinber the" trolley wheels erztheiqiloor ."z'oiti'on illustrated i thefhangers a e providedfwithf-integi al sthdsKlziridthe trol This isfan' ecoxiomical :co'nstrnctiongbht" my invention is'flli'otlimitedtheretoz ff Thej trolf' i t i l be e Wek Pt m d place I ment by-the proxixnity 'offthe LjbarriG to the;

' function, except to protect the upper joint of the door, anda's it involves the use of I between door and thedoor frame has become enlarged by shrinkage of the wood considerable, distance {below-' the il'pper edg'e of the door injthe manner jsh n, {Thertrola 10;.

the projectionlof itheitra "Qtheside of; the V. v serves-m strengthen the attachment between i all'respec'tsi'thfe sa'meas thatishown in Fig.2, except that infthiscase the. trolley -Wheelsare" provided ,With, integral Studs Me, the hangers "Nfbeing perforatedffor such; studs.

ha g siR f'Itfwill be seensthat the L bar' constituting 3 the-jtra'cklfor the trolleys by ;itselfand with 40 ively protects "from the Weather the space 'flange rather too short to adequately fulleyj- Wheels .H fareif monnted' theehangers J- whieh. are 'referahly' bol d -at }their lower was; t9 the ooi' byl hebolts The'upper; portions' go th ferably off: n' l-fi e v. he -dbv rs-*a t n .-"The 0 6 of't i 'i to mini 1 m mbe' j y na. The arrangement also he e rs" ere" toerecess'es' 111. P 1 1 e 'sHl-a'reiloosely" moaned on these studs.

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The; construction shown in} Fig. 3 is" in 5 The construction. of Fig. 4 follows-that of,

flanges ,O l whi'chj tend to lessen the. friction, t-"of the trolleys the ontithene'ed of any additional flange, effect which: necessarilyintexwenes between the top of at door 1 and the door frame. It isn'ot possible "for rain to be'driven in over ;the top 5015' the/door. "In the familiar Z 'bar constructions so commonly used at the prese'nt time, thedependingflan'ge serves no more metal, the tendency-is to make this lil its purpose, particularly. when the space or the loosening or settling of the door on its supports. The result is, that in, many cases the 2 bar constructionofhtrack has terflfrom its position, cannotbecome clogged beyond the lowerfpai't's o theh'ahgersg I Lil doainofl'lin'iit myself to, the, exact. C011 not ,.pro 'ed steamers protectflthe car i'roni ,"th'e w eather,in some instances special hoods.

ect little, if ny,

"structions,iarrangenients: and devices shovlvn, v as' modlfications m1gh t-; be, dev sed which would come Wlthm ;the scope- 'ofmiy. nvert-' t again'StStherain also 1s; efiective to prevent I sparks from; entering the car ver the top,

r, the" oor;

9' 1; The; combination. with gal-railway car HIId a-idOQIQQOf HQ block arranged above said 'gldoor, 1 an inwardly turned L bar attached' -toj said blockand extending.- below the 'l'lpper edge of the door,'jhangers attached to, the

outside of -said door, the upper p'alrts of which arefofllset into the-,- door so as, to be substantially finish with the outer surface of the door, and trolley Wheels mounted ;on the ofl-set'parts of said hangers .to sustain 'the door onjsaid .L bar. t A

e The combination with a: railvtfayr car and:'adoor','of.hangers which arewsecured-Qon car above said g i 3. The combination with a' npperparts thereof be ow the upper edge 0 the door, trolley 'Wheels having axles rigiditherewith mounted in said perforat1ons and a track bar secured to "the car above the door, comprising a vertical member and'inturnedflange,'saidtrack bar sus-- railway can and a door, of hangers secured on the out side of stud-door havm perforations 1n the the outside} of {said door, jthe' upper parts of which .areofi-set into-saiddoor,-'trolley'- wheels mounted on the upper parts oi said hangers-abovefthe bend'u r the 'oif-set and below the .npper edge of the dbon fand a track 1 for said trolleywheelssecnred fto the taining the t'rolle wheels and holding them i from lateral disp acement in the hangers.

3 EDWARD A. HILL. ;-Witnesses t P; H. .TRUMAN, H. L. PEoK,

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