US218A - Constructioer of railroad-cars - Google Patents

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ANTHONY PLANTON, DEOEASED, BY GUSTAVUS PLANTON, ADMINISTRATOR, OF

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROAD-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 218, ldated June 3, 1837.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, GUs'rAvUs PLAN'roN, of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsyl- Vania, son and administrator of the late ANTHONY PLAN'roN, a. naturalizedl citizen of the United States, wishing to secure in trust for the heirs-at-law of the said AN- THONY PLANToN the advantages to be derived from the railroad-car invented by him, do hereby declare that the following is the full and exact description of the same.

The nature of the invention consists in constructing the car without the axl'etrees at present in use, and in giving to each wheel, by means ofits standard, the power of a lateral action, enabling thereby the car to be moved in a circle the diameter. o-f which is extremely small, in fact, no greater7 or even less, than its own length; for by the rotary power existing in the perpendicular pivot-standard, hereafter to be described, it can be made, not only to travel in a straight line, but to follow the sinuosit-ies of any curved line without altering materially its speed. VIn this mode of construct-ion, the running off the track, the lateral friction and the dangers arising from the breaking of axletrees, all of which defects of the present plan, are entirely prevented.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use this invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Construct the body of the car after any of the known forms, and adapt to its under surface four strong circular plates of iron, (see Figure 1st in the annexed drawing, E,) in the center of each of which there is a perforation for the admission of a stoutV so as to allow between them the performance of a rotary action, with antifriction rollers (D D). The neck of the pivot (B) ofthe standard is secured by a head in the inside of the car over the upper plate, withf out interfering with itsk power of rotation, and the lower extremityof vthe standard,

l (A) a short distance from the Vunder surface of its cap, (I) is divided into two forks or legs, (A A) for the insertion of the wheel,

the periphery of which has a concavity or any other shape t-o correspond to the form4 of the rail.

The figure 2d in the drawing shows another mode` of construction on the same principle. In this the upper plate (E) has the pivot fixed into it, so that the.` rotary cast separately with a square hole in the a center to receive the square part of the pivot (H) see Fig. 1st.

What I claim as my fathers invention,

and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent, is-` l. The substitution for the axletrees now in use, of four upright pivot standards, (as above described) which contain the wheels and possess the power of rotation.

2. I also claim their mode of construction, and their application to any form of car or locomotive, that may be used on railroads. Y

l G. ILAN'ION,

' Administrator.

Witnesses: Y v

SIMEoN MASON, WASHINGTON WHILLDIN.

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