US890157A - Apparatus for loading cars. - Google Patents

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No. 890,157. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. T. S. MILLER & J. H. DICKINSON. APPARATUS FOR LOADING CARS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18. 1903.

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No. 890,157. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. T. s. MILLER & J. H; DICKINSON. APPARATUS FOR LOADING CARS.

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No. 890,157. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. T. S. MILLER 65 J. H. DICKINSON.

APPARATUS FOR LOADING CARS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18. 1903.

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THOMAS SPENCER MILLER, OF SOUTH ORANGE, AND JOSEPH H. DICKINSON, OF MONTOLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed August 18, 1903. Serial No. 169,862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS SPENCER MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of South Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, and JOSEPH H. DICKINSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montclair, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus Adapted for Loading Cars, of. which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is. to provide an apparatus of the general class of which an example is shown in our Letters Patent No. 726325 dated April 28, 1903, having one or more of the following capabilities: (1) to be carried upon a car without unduly extending beyond the sides of the car; (2) to act as its own locomotive; (3) to have its supports extended further under the sides of the car than is shown in our said Patent No. 726325; 1) to be movable along the top of the cars.

In the accompanying drawings, we have shown a form of apparatus embodying all of the above capabilities but we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to this form or to the presence of all of said capabilities.

Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus in operation for loading. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the apparatus in position for standing upon or running along the tops of the cars. Fig. 4 is an end view of the same in the position to be carried upon and act as its own locomotive for the car. Fig. 5 is a side view of the same.

1 is the ordinary railroad track.

2 are the ordinary railroad ties.

3 and 4 are the ordinary platform and wheels of a platform car.

5 is a platform corresponding in width substantially with the width of the car, and in length substantially with the special car hereinafter described. This platform is supported so as to be movable from end to end. of the train by the wheels 6 which run on the rails 7 extending from end to end of the train on the several car platforms; as runners we do not, however, limit ourselves to form of wheels or the presence of rails.

Upon the platform 5 is mounted the superstructure which may be of any desired form for supporting the guides or sheaves of the loading-rope 8.

9 is a water tank which is preferably placed in the position shown to better counterbalance the weight of the load, from which tank vwater is supplied to the boiler 10 which may supply steam to the cylinders 11, 12 and 13.

The cylinder 11 constitutes part of a ropedrum-engine by which the loading-frictionrope-drum 14 and the car-propelling-frictionrope-drum 15 are operated.

16 is a car-propelling rope extending from the rope-drum 15 around the sheave 17 and secured to the train of cars, as shown in Fig. 1. 1

18, 18, etc. are four legs, of like construction, pivotally secured to the four corners of the latform 5 by the vertical pins 19. Each of t ese legs preferably cons1sts of the two side plates 18, 18*, between which the foot operating mechanism is mounted.

20 is an upward extension of each of the legs 18 which is pivotally secured to the super-structure by the pin 21 in vertical alinement with the in 19. The said pivotal mounting of the Tegs 18 permits each of the legs to be swung from the lateral position shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, to the longitudinal position shown in Figs. 4 and 5, in which longitudinal position they are within the range of the car width permitting said legs (the feet being removed therefrom) to travel through any pass which is of sufficient width to permit the passage of the ordinary car.

22, 22, etc. are four feet, each of which is pivotally secured between the lower extremi ties of the members 18 18 of each leg on a pin 23. Each foot 22 is fixed to an arm 24 which is coupled by a pin 25 to a slotted lever 26, fulcrumed at 27, and in turn coupled by the link 28 to the piston rod 29 of the cylinder 12 or 13. By this foot-operating mechanism the power of each of said cylinders is applied to moving a pair of said feet from the nonsupporting position ofFig. 3 to the supporting position of Fig. 2 wherein the burden of supporting the loading apparatus is transferred from the car platform 3 to said feet and the cars are free to be run longitudinally under platform 5 by the power of the rope 16, or otherwise, as shown in Fig. 1.

Y We do not, I, however, unless expressly so stated in the claims, wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to legs of the above construction since, broadly speaking, the legs may be any form of members adapted to support the derrick outside of the cars passing beneath the same.

3 is the platform of a special car, which should preferably constitute the last car of the train, and which is sufficiently short to permit the legs 18 to be swung into the longitudinal position shown in Fig. 5. This said car carries a pair of car wheels 30 which form a traction engagement with the rails 1. Upon the aXle 31 of the car'whee'ls 30 is fixed a sprocket 32 connected by the chain 33 with a sprocket 34 on the platform 3 which is geared by the gears 35 and 36 to a sprocket 37 on."

the platform 5, connected by a chain 38 with the sprocket 39 on an engine shaft. When the loading apparatus is run onto the special car 3, the gear 36 will mesh with gear 35, and through the train of mechanism just described the loading apparatus engine will drive the car-driving-wheels 30 so that the apparatus not only propels itself, but also the car or cars along the track.

Having thus. described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a log-loading machine the combination with a conveyance, of a log loader movably mounted thereon and provided with means adapted to propel said conveyance while thus mounted thereon.

2. In a log-loading machine, the combination with a conveyance, of a log loader, slidably mounted thereon, and provided with means adapted, while said loader is resting upon said conveyance, to propel the same.

3. In a log-loading machine the combination with a base frame adapted to be moved from one car to an adjacent car,of means mounted upon said frame for propelling said cars while said frame is resting upon one of the same.

4. In combination, a portable platform, legs therefor adapted for supporting it over a car and a movable connection of said legs with said platform whereby said legs may be moved from a lateral to a longitudinal posi tion.

5. In combination, a portable platform, legs adapted for supporting it over a car and a movable connection between said legs and said portable platform whereby said legs may be swung from a position at the sides of said car platform to a position at the ends thereof.

6. In combination, a portable platform, mechanism adapted for supporting it over a car, a driving wheel on said car, an engine on said portable platform and operative connections between said engine and said driving wheel. I

7. In a loading apparatus, in combination,

a portable platform, legs for the support of,

the same, articulating feet secured to the legs and mechanism whereby said feet are operated to support the platform and lift it sufliciently to allow the passage of the cars beneath the platform and between the legs of the same.

8. In combination, a portable platform, legs for the same, inwardly turned feet movably secured to said legs, a power mechanism on said platform and connections whereby the power of the same is transmitted to the movement of said feet.

9. In combination, a car, a portable platform, traction mechanism mounted upon said car, power mechanism mounted upon said platform and adapted to be engaged or disengaged with said traction mechanism by the relative movement of said car and platform.

10. In combination, a portable platform, two pairs of movable members adapted for supporting .the same over a car and a vertical cylinder whereby each pair of moving members is operated.

11'. In combination, legs adapted to straddle the rails of a railroad track, a derrick and an engine supported by said legs, a car adapted to run on said track independently of said derrick, means whereby the support of said derrick and engine may be transferred from said legs to said car, a traction mechanism on said car and an operative connection between said engine and said traction mechanism. Y

12. In combination, legs adapted to straddle the rails of a railroad track, a derrick and an engine supported by said legs, a car adapted to run on said track independently of said derrick, detachable driving connections between the engine and the car, runners interposed between said derrick and the car and a connection between said engine and said car whereby said derrick may be moved along the car on said. runners.

13. In combination, legs adapted to straddle the rails of a railroad track, a derrick and an engine supported by' said legs, a car adapted to run on said track independently of said derrick, detachable driving connections between the engine and the car, runners interposed between said derrick and the car and means whereby the support of said derrick and engine is transferred from said legs to said runners.

14-. In combination, legs adapted to straddle the rails of a railroad track, a derrick and an engine supported by said legs, a car adapted to run on said track independently of said derrick, runners interposed between said derrick and the car, means whereby the support of said derrick and engine is transferred from saidlegs to said runners, a traction mechanism on the car, an operative connection between said engine and said traction mechanism and a connection between said engine and said car whereby the derrick may be moved along the car on said runners.

15. In combination, legs adapted to straddle the rails of a railroad track, a derrick and an engine supported by said legs, a car adapted to run on said track independently of said derrick, traction mechanism on said car and connections interposed between said engine and the traction mechanism adapted to be engaged or disengaged by the relative movement of said car and derrick.

16. The combination with a vehicle, powertransmitting mechanism carried thereby, of a frame independent of said vehicle, hoisting and conveying apparatus carried by said frame, an engine mounted on the frame for operating the hoisting and conveying apparatus, and power transmitting mechanism carried by the frame and adapted to co-.

operate with the power transmitting mechanism of the vehicle to propel the latter.

17. The combination of a vehicle, a frame independent thereof, hoisting and conveying mechanism carried by said frame, movable supports connected to the frame for sustaining the latter independent of the vehicle, mechanism carried by the frame for moving said supports to permit the frame to be lowered on the Vehicle, an engine on said frame, power transmission means between the engine and the vehicle for propelling such vehicle, and means for disconnecting the power transmission means from the vehicle.

18. The combination with a frame, of hoisting and conveying apparatus carried thereby, a plurality of pivoted su ports for sustaining said frame, and means or swinging said supports on a vertical aXis around said pivots.

19. The combination with a vehicle, of a frame, a plurality of pivoted supports for supporting said frame independent of the vehicle, an engine, connections between the engine and the supports for actuating the latter to support the'frame independent of the vehicle, or to lower such frame upon the vehicle, and means for connecting the engine with thevehicle to propel the latter the desired times.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS SPENCER MILLER. JOSEPH H. DICKINSON. VVitnesses RICHARD W. SEABURY, JOHN SINCLAIR.

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