US1597091A - Merchandise brace - Google Patents

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E. M. M MAHAN' I MERCHANDISE BRACE Flled March 27 1925 Aug. 24 1926;

ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 24, 1926, I i I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND M. MGMAI-IAN, OF CUSHING, OKLAI-IQMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDGAR F. HEREIN, OF CUSHING, OKLAHOMA.

MERCHANDISE BRACE.

Application filed March 27, 1925. Serial No. 18,726.

This invention relates to means for bold and bottom faces of the head 12 are provided 40 ing or chucking freight in position in freight with holes 15 in registry with opening 20, cars. It is of great importance to see to it the purpose of which may be explained that when freight is spotted for shipment later. As to the method of fastening these in freight cars that it shall be fixed in spotted rails, that is a matter of mechanical judgposition, and, especially is this so in connecment and it does not matter, so far as this 45- tion with fragile goods and wares and liqinvention is concerned. aids, and explosives. It is of the utmost im- For association with these rails as menportance that explosive containers sh'all have tioned, are bars 16, formed in any suitable u) no movement whatever, and the present manner and preferably of channel steel and method of nail chucking is entirely valueless they have their ends bifurcated at 17 to fit 50 for any fixing of spotted goods in freight the head 13 of the rail 11 and through the cars, on account of the sudden impacts to flanges 18 and 19 of this channel steel bar 7 which these cars are almost continuously openings 20 are formed tocorrespond with subjected. the openings 15 in the head 13 and through A simple method for taking care of the these openings a pin 21 is dropped and it 55 situation is comprehended in my invention, having an opening 22 may receive a nail, shown on the accompanying sheet of drawcotter-pin or other retainer. ings, In Figure 1 the bars are retaining units Figure 1 is a fragment of a freight car, 23, 2a and 25 of different capacity or bulk.

' with invention applied, holding units of It is to be understood that so far as the 60 commodity, invention is concerned it is primarily Figure 2 is a plan view with roof removed, directed to the idea of making a holding and showing the invention in place, place for cross bars in a freight car, and the 25 Figure 8 is a perspective of the retaining character of these holders and the size and rail and an end of the retainer, and shape of the bars may be varied within the 65 Figure 4 is a detail in section showing the scope of the invention. i assemblage of rail and retainer. Having thus set forth the invention. I The car 5, wheels 6 and bolsters 7 con claim' 7 I stitute nopart of the invention, but, equidis- A freight car having walls, a rail having tantly disposed about the inside of thecar a head and secured to said wallsand havwalls 8, 9 and 10 are metallic rails 11 coning openings, bars co-operating with the stituted, preferably of a one-piece rib, head and being bifurcated, and a pin for formed of a head 12 and flanges 13 that are holding the head and the bar in co-operative adapted to bear against the inside of the contact. Y

walls 8, 9 and 10 of the car. This flange is In testimony whereof I have signed my held to the car walls in any suitable manner name. a

for instance by bolts 14 passing through the V head 12 and into thesaid walls. The top V EDMOND M. MGMAHAN.

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