USRE4543E - Improvement in water-tanks for railways - Google Patents

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JOHN MORTON.

Improvement in Water Tanks for Railways.

No. 4,543, Reissued Sep. 5.1871.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MORTON, OF SEDALIA, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO MQGOWAN BROTHERS PUMP AND MACHINE COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-TANKS FOR RA ILWAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 63,418, dated April 2, 1867; reissue No. 4,543, dated September 5,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MORTON, now of Sedalia, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Iniprovement in ater-Tanks for Supplying Locomotives with \Vater, of which the following is a specification i In thcannexed drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

The same letters indicate like parts in both of the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in coupling the supply and conveyer-pipes of a tank in such a manner that the latter maybe raised and lowered or be rotated horizontally upon the former without breaking joint.

A is a water-tank, from which the water is conducted through a su )ply-pipe, B, opening out of the bottom. This pipe is opened and closed by means of the valve O, the stem of which is adjustabl y attached to the bell-crank through which the valve may be opened by the cord 0 When the cord is released the valve will be closed by the pressure'of the water and the weight G attached to the valve-stem. The pipe terminates with a vertical elbow. D is the conveyer or delivery-pipe, suspended from the pipe B by the rod E, which is swiveled at X so as to permit free horizontal motion, and hinged at Y so as to permit the pipe D to be raised and lowered. The

pin of the swivel X is located in the axes of the vertical elbows of pipes 15 and l), and at right angles to the axes of the pipes themselves. To facilitate the adj ustment of the pipe D over the hole in the tank the pipe is made in two parts, 1) and D, having a telescopic joint, by which the length of the pipe may be regulated at will. passes is bent at the end to prevent the sliding joint D being scparatedfrom the jointD. Weights are attached to the connecting-pipe by cords H passing over adjustable pulleys I to counterbalance the weight of the pipe and facilitate its operation.

In the ordinary water-tanks the connectingpipe is on the line of the pipe opening from the tank, and to aeconnnodate it to the hole in the locomotive-tender the whole train hasto be moved frequently several times backward and forward before the tender can be stopped in the right place.

My improvement consists in so constructing and attaching the connecting-pipe that it may belengthened and shortened, and turned forward or backward, as may be necessary to connect it with the tender.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. In combination with devices for raising and lowering the supply-pipe, the connect-ion, substantially as described, whereby the convcyer and supply-pipes of the tank may be rotated upon each other without separation.

2, The combination of swivel X and jointed rod E with the supply and conveyer-pipes, when the axes of the connecting-mouths are at right angles with the axes of the spouts when in position for delivery. p

3. The swivel-pin X, located in the axes of the supply and conveyer-pipeswhen the latter are in position for deliverywhen said swivel is connected by any suitable device with the su 'iplypipe so as to suspend the supply-pipe and permit its horizontal rotation and vertical elevation' or depression.

4. The swivel X, when located on the top-of the conveyer-pipe, and connected by any suitable device with the supply-pipe so as to suspend the supply-pipe and permit its horizontal rotation and vertical elevation or depression.

5. In combination with the tank A and stationary pipe B, a horizontally-adj ustable connecting-pipe, D, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

'6; The combination of the horizontally-adjust- Witnesses WrLKms Woon,

EDWARD F. WARD.

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