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. M. LINCOLN.

CATTLE GAR. No. 249,779. Patented N0v.22,1881

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SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,779, dated November 22, 1881.

Application filed September 15, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC M. LINCOLN, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cattle-Cars; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

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Figure 1 is a top view of the car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal horizontal section on line m @n of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of myimproved car, and Fig. et is a transverse perpendicular section ot' the same.

My invention relates to railway-cars for the transportation of live stock, and is an improvementon the invention described in Letters Pah ent ot" the United States No. 233,630, granted to me, and bearing date October 26, 1880.

rIhe invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents a cattle-car ofthe usual construction, through the door of which the cattle Iare driven, as shown in Fig. 2, entering by means of the plank B. The sliding partition C, traveling upon trucks a, is brought up against the bulloek as he enters and crowds him into the desired position within the car, where two upright stanchions, D, are set in morlises b made iu the tloor and roof ot' the car, and said stanchions contine him on each side of his neck, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The cattle are arranged to stand heading alternately in opposite directions, so that the stanchions which hold one bulloek at his neck serve to secure his neighbors at their'rumps. The cattle are thus separated from each other and supported on each side, in front and rear, while having entire freedom of motion to stand or lie without interference with each other. This method of shipping and confining cattle in transit dispenses with the use of partitions between the cattle, as described in said Letters Patent No. 233,630.

Upon the top of the ear is a hay-box, E, and a water-tank, F. The tank is filled through the mouth c, and has a pipe, d, communicat- (No model.)

ing with it and running longitudinally along the roof to a cross-pipe, e. A suitable valve, G, reached from the top of the car through the opening f, allows the water to flow down through the pipes g into the pipe H on each side ofthe car. Buckets I are mounted upon the pipes H at intervals, the outer end of which buckets are connected by a rod, J, which is made to rise or fall by means of a rod or handle, K, extending therefrom at one end up through the roof of the car. Thus all the buckets I on one side ofthe car can be raised or lowered by one movement of the handle K from the top ot' the car. The pipes H are perforated within the buckets I, so that when the valve G is opened the water flows from the tank into the buckets. By depressing the handle K the buckets are tipped up against the side of the car out of the way of the cattleand are emptied ot' the water, thus preventing the freezing of the water in the buckets in the winter season, as happens in buckets of cattlecars as hitlierto constructed. Openings 7i, are also made through the car-roof to enable the feeding of the cattle.

.By the use of my improved car live stock can be easily and securely shipped, protect-ed from injury during the transit, and can be fed and watered without removal from the car, thereby saving the delay, danger, and trouble incident to the care and control of cattle by the common means of transportation.

lVhen not in use for the conveyance of live stock the car can be used for general freight by the removal ofthe stanchions and the tilting of the buckets.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a stockcar, the combination of the watertank F, connecting-pipes d e g, perforated horizontal pipe Il, tilting buckets I, adapted to swing on said horizontal pipe, operating-rods J K, and valve G, all constructed and arranged/ substantially as and for the purpose described.

ISAAC M. LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

WARREN R. PERCE, ALBERT D. BEAN.

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