US60299A - Improved cab coupling - Google Patents
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- Figure 2 is atop view of the same.
- Figure 3 is an end view of a car with the coupling attached. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.
- This invention relates to a new and improved arrangement of a device for coupling railroad cars, and coni sists of books suspended to the draw-bar of the cars, which are adjusted by raisingand lowering with side levers, so that they can act as self-coupling devices, and may be readily disconnected.
- a A represents railroad cars provided with the couplings a a of this invention, which are wrought iron bars, pivoted at their rear ends to the draw-bars or car truck at b, and intended to pass through a slotted guideplate, It, and the car, and also through or between proper hunters.
- a a are made in the form of a loop, 01, as shown in fig. 2, with a hook, c, setting 'hackwardbehindthe loop, as shown inrfig. 1.
- Each of the coupling bars a a. has a chain, e, attached to it, connected with a side lever,f, which has its fulcrum fixed at g, in front of the car frame, and works at its free end in a slotted rack frame, 1', on the side of the car for the purpose of raisingand lowering the coupling bar to connect and adjust the height of the couplings when required.
- a side lever,f On the free end of the leverfis a flat spring, is, lying lengthwise uponior,
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Description
C. WEAVER.
Car Coupling.
No. 60,299. Patented Dec. 4, 1866n Witnesses; lnvento r,
IMPROVED GAR COUPLING.
' CLEMENS WEAVER, OF EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Letters Patent No. 60,299, dated December 4, 1866. l
SPECIFICATION.
*TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Be it known that I, CLEMENS WEAVER, of Easton, in the county of Northamptonyand State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and improved Car Coupling; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,
I clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which-+- Figure 1 is a side sectional view of two cars fitted with the coupling of my invention, in the line a: z, fig. 2. I
Figure 2 is atop view of the same. 4 t Figure 3 is an end view of a car with the coupling attached. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.
This invention relates to a new and improved arrangement of a device for coupling railroad cars, and coni sists of books suspended to the draw-bar of the cars, which are adjusted by raisingand lowering with side levers, so that they can act as self-coupling devices, and may be readily disconnected.-
A A represents railroad cars provided with the couplings a a of this invention, which are wrought iron bars, pivoted at their rear ends to the draw-bars or car truck at b, and intended to pass through a slotted guideplate, It, and the car, and also through or between proper hunters. The free or forward ends of thecouplings,
a a, are made in the form of a loop, 01, as shown in fig. 2, with a hook, c, setting 'hackwardbehindthe loop, as shown inrfig. 1. Each of the coupling bars a a. has a chain, e, attached to it, connected with a side lever,f,, which has its fulcrum fixed at g, in front of the car frame, and works at its free end in a slotted rack frame, 1', on the side of the car for the purpose of raisingand lowering the coupling bar to connect and adjust the height of the couplings when required. On the free end of the leverfis a flat spring, is, lying lengthwise uponior,
against it, which bears against one side of the slotted rack frame 2', and holds the lever in position in the rack teeth at any point to which it may be set, while by closing thc-springmp close against the lever it maybe I moved up and down freely in the rack for raising and lowering the coupling-bar a. It will be seen that the hooks c and the loops d, on the ends of the coupling bars a, are so shaped and related to each other that when i the cars approach each other to be connected, the loops will, either of them, pass over or under each other,- so
that the hook of the one will be sure to catch in the loop of the other, and thus by the act of bringing the ends; of the car's together they will beself-coupled. For disconnecting the couplings, by depressing the free end of I the lever f, the connecting chain e will raise the upper coupling bar a, andrelease its loop from the hook of the under bar on the opposite car. V Having thus described the construction and application of my invention to railroad cars, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patnt, is-
The arrangement of the loop and hook coupling bars a a, pivoted to the car frame and, connected with the lever f when applied to railroad cars for coupling them together, substantially as herein described.
' CLEMENS WEAVER.
Witnesses J. A. TRANS'UE,
J osnrii Quasnsn.
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