US977705A - Freight-car and the like. - Google Patents

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J. BRYAN.

FREIGHT CAR AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED DEO.1.1909.

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FREIGHT-CAR AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Ifatent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1910.

Application filed December 1, 1909. Serial No. 530,719.

To all whom it may concern: Be it-known that I, JOHN BRYAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yellow Sprin in the county of Greene and State of bio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Freight-Cars and the Like, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to freightcars and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide means foreliminating the long deays incident to the loading and unloading of freight cars.

a To this end it is a further object of the invention to 1provide the car pro er, 2'. a, the

trucks and t e parts immediate y connected thereto, with a removable load 'container which can be attached to and detached from said car, thereby enabling the car to remain continuously in service; and further, to provide means for removing the containers from the cars and replacing the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation, partly in section, showing a car equipped with my invention and means for removing the container; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of such a car; Fi 3 is a view of such a car showing modifie mechanism for removing the container from the car; Figs. 4.- and 5 are other modifications of the means for removing and replacin the container; and Fig. 6 illustrates a mo ified form of the container.

In these drawings I have illustrated one embodiment ofmy invention and have shown the same as applied to a-flat car of ordinary construction comprising the usual trucks 1 and a flat body portion 2. It will be understood that the term car or car proper-as herein used is intended to refer to the trucks and such parts as are permanently connected thereto, including a suitable su porting member which may be either the bo y-of a flat car or any suitable supporting frame. In the form shown inFlg.

1 a container 3 is mounted directly upon the body ortion 2 of a flat car and is of a sha e and to t at' of the ordinary coal car. tainer has portions extending beyond the opposite sides of the car body 2, and, in the resent instance, the floor of the container 18 of greater width than the width of the car body, thus causin its edges-toextend beyond the correspon ing edges of the-car size corresponding substantially This con-- body, as shown at 4. Any suitable means may be provided for securing the container in position upon the car. In the present instance, I have'shown bolts 5 ivotally connected to the car body and a apted to extendthrough openings in the outwardly extending edges of the container, and thus securely clamp the latter in position. Suitable'mechanism is provided for lifting the container from the car to permit the car to bewithdrawn, and then sup orting the contalner in a position tojbe un oaded. In the present instance I have shown this mocha-x nism as comprising two platforms 6 permanently arranged on opposite sides, of the track, upon which the car rests, and arranged close to the edges of the car so as to cause portions thereof to extend beneath the outwardly extending portions. 4 of thecontainer. These latforms are vertically movable, and, to thls end, are shown in Fig.

1 as mounted uponhydraulic jacks 7. 'The jacks for the two platforms are connected to a common source of supply and are con trolled from a common polnt, as shown at 8. Consequently, the platforms on the opposite sides of the car will be raised and lowered in-unison. After the container has been elevated and-the car withdrawn, the jacks maybe adjusted to supportfthe container in that osition which will best facilitate the unloading or loading thereof. After the container is loaded or unloaded, as the case may he, and is ready for removal, the hoisting mechanisms are actuated and the container again elevated to permit the cars to be placed beneath the same and then lowered to place the container on the car. During the time that the container is being loaded or unloaded the car proper is released therefrom and may be utilized for other hauling, and, in this manner, the cars maybe kept in constant use, thereby greatly increasing the amount of hauling which may be accomplished with a given number of cars.

Inasmuch as the containers themselves are comparatively inexpensive to construct a large number of the same can be kept on hand and may be stored,-when not in use, in such a manner as to enable them to be 'quickly placed in service. The construction of the containers is such as to enable them to be stored in a much more compact manner than is possible with railway cars as now' constructed, and, by the use of overhead elevating mechanism, the containers or lacing manner. In Fig raising an can be stored without the use of trackage by stacking the same at the side of the track them in any desired positions.

, the hoisting mechanism for lowering the containers may be ofany'suitable character, and, in Fig. 3 of the drawings, I have shown the platforms 6 as mounted on jacks 9, of the rack and-pinbviousl ion type, which may be connected one to the other and operated in unison in any suitable I have shown themovable portion 10 of the jacks as extending 1 through suitable openings 11 in a stationary platform 12 and en portions of the containers. As here shown there are three of these jacks, but, obviously, the number can be. varied, to suit existing conditions. I

It may also be desirable to raise and lower the containers b means of an overhead mechanism, and have illustrated in Fig. 4 how this can be accomplished by means of a traveling crane, such as is commonly used in railway work, and which, as here shown, comprlses a frame 13 of inverted U-shape havlng at its lower ends rollers 14 which ging the projecting travel on rails 15 arranged parallel with place them on the cars,

. method of handling containers,

4 and on opposite sides of two or more tracks.

The up er or horizontal portion 16 of this frame orins a track on which is mounted hoistin mechanism 17 of any suitable character. y use of such hoisting mechanism the containers cannot only be raised and lowered to remove the same from and rebut they may also lifted from one track to another or one container may be lifted over another. This valuable when it. is desired to remove one of several contamers,

merely lifting the "container from its POSI- tion and carrying the same either over the the track on which thesame laterally mechanisms ,for raising and lowering the containers it is obvious that this can be .accom lished in many waysother th 11 those here s own, but these several methods serve to illustrate the manner in which the containers are used. Further, while I have N here shown the containers as adapted for use on an ordinary flat car,'it will beobvious that they can be mounted upon any suitable supporting frame and secured thereto in any suitable manner.

As a further modification of the invention I have shown, in Fig. 6, an arrangement whereby a series of containers can be mounted upon one car, this being accomplished, in the present instance, by constructing the loaded into the containers at the point of several forms of the are for the cars is especially arranged above asingle track, without disturbing the other this being accomplished by ;the latter has container after the manner of a wagon-bed, which may be loadedat a point of "supply,

hauledto thetrack and placed bodily upon the car, the wheels being, in the present instance, removed to enable the containers to be placed firmly upon the car'body. When the car has reached-its destination these contain'ers are removed bodily and delivered to the point of consumption. In this manner the material is handled but twice, z. ;e., it is supply and unloaded at the point of consumption and the several intermediate han- 'dlings are eliminated, 'It will be obvious that the character, size and arrangement. of these containers may be modified to adaptthe same to the material to be handled and to other conditions. 5

The operation and utilityof the invention will be readily understood and .appreciated from the foregoing description and I wish .it to be further understood that the invention herein shown urposes of illustration only. There: fore, I o not wish 'to be understood as limiting myself to the details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in'the art.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 7 1. The combination, with a track, a truck adapted to travel on said track, a supporting member, and a container; removably mounted on said supportin member, of 100 means,- permanently arrange with respect to said track, to lift said container to permit the withdrawal of saidtruck and said supporting member and to supportsaid contamerafter said truck and sald supporting memberhave been withdrawn. 2. The combination, with a track, a truck adapted to travel on said track, asupporting member, and a' container'mounted 'on sai supporting member and having outwardly extending portions, of lifting jacks, permanently arranged on each side of said track to engage the outwardl extending portions of sald container, an means for actuating saidlifting jacks in unison.

3. The combination, with a track, a truck, and a removable container mo'unted on said truck, of loading platforms ermanently arranged on opposite sides of said track and forming a sugport for said container when can removed from said truck.

4. The combination, with a track, a truck, and a container removably mounted on said truck, of a loading platform arranged on one side of said track and forming a support for the'corres onding side of said-contalner when the latter has been removed from said truck, and meansjfor supporting the opposite side. of said container. a

5. The combination, with trucks, a supporting member, and a container removably said container, and-means for raising and mounted on said supporting member and lowering said platforms. 10 having portions extending outward beyond In testimony whereof, I aflix my signathe opposite sides of said supporting memture in presence of two witnesses.

ber, of permanently arranged platforms JOHN BRYAN. spaced apart to receive said trucks between Witnesses: them and having portions adapted to extend J. FRED ANDERSON,

beneath the outwardly extendlng portions of HARRIET L. HAMMAKER.

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