US448497A - Car-coupling - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

GAR COUPLING.

Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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TOM FULL BRIGHT, OF DETROIT, TEXAS.

CAR-COUPLING.

To (0Z6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, Ton FULL BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Red River and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Gar- Coupling, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that class known as springpin supports; and the object of the invention is to effect improvements upondevices of this character heretofore existing.

To this end the invention consists of the devices hereinafter more fully described and illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the left side of my improved car-coupling, showing the same as ready for the reception of the link of an approaching car. Fig. 2 is a similar elevation after the link has passed into the drawhead and the pin has been projected therethrough. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter D designates the draw-head of my improved carcoupling, which is guided in a suitable framework supported by and beneath the car-body and so arranged upon its buffer-springs that it will have a slight longitudinal play in said frame-work.

R is a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head and pivotally connected at its rear end to a transverse bar B, which bar is pivotally mounted upon the stem of a yoke Y. To the other end of the bar B is pivotally connected a second rod '1", also guided in the frame-work, and whose free end carries a depending lug G, standing near the other side of the draw-head. By this arrangement, when the draw-head is driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling with another draw-head, the lug G will be pressed to the front.

y is a yoke mounted in the frame-work F at one side, and T is a trip-bar pivoted at one end in said yoke and at its other end engaging aflnotch N on a bar 11, depending from the frame.

P is the coupling-pin mounted in the front endof an operating-lever O, and normally forced upwardly through the hole in the drawhead by a coiled spring S, connecting the body of the operating-lever with the frame-work.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,497, dat'ed March 17, 1891.

Application filed December 17, 1890. Serial No. 375,016. (No model.)

The rear end of said lever is pivoted in the yoke Y, as shown, and its front end passes through the parallel guide-rods L and beneath the trip-bar T.

hen it is desired to couple the car to another car,the link in the latter is locked therein and the two cars are broughttogther. When the approaching draw-head strikes the one here illustrated, the link is guided into the latter by the link-guide I, approximately, as shown, or of any suitable construction, and the draw'head is driven to the rear. This movement carries the lug G forward and disengages the trip-bar T from the notch N, whereby the operating-lever O is allowed to rise by the force of its spring S, and the coupling-pin P is passed upwardly through the link, all these parts having previously been set in a manner which will be readily seen.

It will be understood that thisimproved carcoupling and all of its mechanism are suitably mounted beneath the car-body in such a manner as to be out of the way and practically out of sight. The frame-work F may comprise other parts, which may carry the air-brakes and other devices essential to a railroad-car of the latest type, all as indicated in the drawings, but which I do not consider necessary to be described at length herein.

What I claim is 1. In a car-coupling, the combination,with the draw-head sliding in a suitable framework, a rod R, pivoted thereto, a bar 13, pivoted at its center to said frame-work, one end of said bar being pivoted to the rear end of said rod, and a second rod 9, pivoted at its rear end to the other end of said bar and having a lug at its front end, of a yoke y, mounted in the frame-work, a trip-lever T, pivoted in said yoke, a depending bar at at the other side of the frame-work, having a notch N engaging said trip-bar, and a coupling pin pressed normally upward through said drawhead by a spring and held in uncoupled position by said trip-bar when engaged in said notch, the whole operating substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head sliding in a suitable framework beneath the car-body, a rod R, pivoted to one side of the draw-head, ayoke Y, mounted in the frame-work near its free end, a bar B,

centrally pivoted upon the stem of said yoke, one end of said bar being pivoted to the rear end of said rod R, and a second rod 2', pivoted at its rear end to the other end of said liar and having a lug G at its front end, of a yoke 3 i mounted in the side of the framework, a tripbar T, pivoted in said yoke, a depending bar )1 at the other side of the frame-work, having a notch N engaging said trip-bar, an operating-lever O, pivoted in the rearinost yoke Y and carrying a coupling-pin 1 at its front end passing normally upward through a hole t Witnesses:

J. N. Nonnis, W. G. IIAMILToN.

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