US29219A - Coupling fob - Google Patents

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0. HOOD, Jr.

Car Coupling.

Patented July 17, 1860. v

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OTIS HOOD, JR., OF TURNER, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND H. G. LE BARON, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

COUPLING FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,219, dated July 17, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTIS H001), Jr., of Turner, in the county of Androscoggin, in the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improved Coupling for Railway-Carriages; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes a top View of the said coupling as applied to the bunters of two separate carriages. Fig. 2, a side elevation of it, and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of it under such circumstances.

In such drawings, A and B exhibit the two hunters, each being furnished with a link socket a. From one of them a connection link D extends, it being held therein by a pin 6, extending downward through the bunter. There is hinged to the said bunter, a shackle pin supporter or frame E, and in such manner as to be capable of being moved up and down in a vertical plane. This sup porter E, carries a shackle pin F, which projects downward from a cross bar 0, carried by said frame E, and resting on a spring (Z, arranged therein as shown in the drawings. Furthermore, the other bunter is furnished with an elevator Gr, consisting of two inclined surfaces or cams c, 0, projecting upward from the mouth of its link chamber and arranged with a passage f, between them. Each of these cams terminates in a vertical or nearly vertical shoulder 9, and directly in rear of them, the bunter is provided with a vertical passage H to receive the coupling pin F. The shackle pin supporter E, may be constructed with an opening z', in order that after the cross bar 6, may pass beyond the shoulders before mentioned and so as to carry the shackle pin F, directly over the hole, H, such frame E, and pin F, may simultaneously drop downward so as to cause the pin to pass through to the hole H, and link D. In order to unshackle the two cars it will only be necessary to raise the link supporter above the elevator or cams far enough to lift the shackle pin out of the hole, H, in which case a subsequent backward draft of either will separate the two cars.

From the above, it will be seen that in order to either shackle or unshackle the two cars, it will not be necessary for a person to go between their two platforms, the whole being accomplished from one of them; and furthermore should either the shackle pin or link break the shackle pin supporter F and the shoulders of the elevator will serve to maintain the cars in connection. Thus by my invention I not only avoid the danger of injury which is liable to result to a person while going between the platforms of cars for the purpose of shackling them together, but maintain the connection of the two cars in case of breakage of either the link or the shackle pin. During the approach of the two cars for the purpose of being connected, the link will enter and pass into the chamber of the opposite bunter, the shackle pin supporter being forced against the elevator and raised by the same as specified.

I claim My improved railway carriage coupling having its separate parts constructed and arranged in relation to each other and so as to operate together substantially as shown and described.

OTIS HOOD, JR. IVitnesses:

SUsAN BARBOWS, H. L. I-Inssnv.

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