US397199A - Stock-car - Google Patents

Description

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J. MONTGOMERY.

STOCK GAR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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J. MONTGOMERY.

STOCK CAR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1889 WITNESSES a Jlttor ney UNITED STAT S PATENT EFICE.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, OF EAST MILLSTONE, NEW JERSEY.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,199, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed April 4:, 1.888!

T0 QLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MONTGOMERY, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Millstone, in the county of Somerset and Stateof New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in. Stock-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cars the bodies of which are specially designed and built for feeding and watering eral figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of my stock-car. cross-section taken in the plane of line :0 a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of hinged or folding shuttenboard for the hay-rack, showing the shutterboard in unnatural position. Figs. a and 5 are side and perspective views of two forms of water distributers. Fig. 6 is a section similar to Fig. 2, but showing the form of hay-rack illustrated in Fig. 3. of details of one form of watering apparatus,

the same as is shown in Fig. 1; Figs. 8, 9, and l 10, respectively, sectional, perspective, and

plan views giving in detail the construction of the preferred form of drinkingtrough. Figs. 11 to 14 are diagrams illustrating details of drinking-trou hs; and Fig. 15 is a sectional end view of thedrinking-trough shown in Figs. 1 and 7, and in addition showing a guttor for waste water.

The body a of the car is made with doors 1) the drinking-troughs with water.

at opposite ends of' opposite sides (see full and dotted lines, Fig. 1) for the greater convenience in loading and unloading and for the betterarrangement or distribution of the Fig. 2 is a vertical Fig. 7 is a perspective view replace the break in the usual foot or run- 90 Serial No. 269,597. (No model.)

feeding and watering appliances, presently described.

In one or both ends 0 of the car a small door, (I, is provided (see Fig. 2) for faeilitat 'ing the entrance of a person into the car when for any purpose it is necessary for him to get at and among the animalsor other freight. Trap-doors e e are also provided in the end or ends of the car, and substantially on the floor-level, (see Fig. 6,) for facilitating the loading and unloading of rails, lumber, and other long freight.

Hay-binsff are arranged on each side of the car in the roof, and open into hay-racks, as will presently appear. The hay-bins terminate short of the center of the car, so as to leave an open. space for the clearance of snow .and rain and for the reception of the water tank or receiver g, as set forth in my concurrent application before referred to; but in order to complete this specification I will say here that this tank or receiver is a metal vessel having its bottom g slanting both ways from a median line or plane, so as to theroughly empty or drain the vessel, and constructed with two inlet-columns, g g which straddle the ridge-pole 71 of the car and project through the roof of the car on each side of the ridge-pole, thus obiiating the necessity of cutting away the ridge-pole for the reception of the water-tank, as has been the case in some prior constructions. The tank is rigidly suspended from the roof of the car in this position and location by any suitable means. A hinged cover, g is attached to the mouths of the inlet columns g g to eX- I elude dirt and cinders, and also to cover or ning board on the top of the car, and to fa cilitate the filling of the tank-for example,

by means of the apparatus forming the subject of my concurrent application entitled, apparatus for supplying trains of stock- 5 cars with water. The inlet-columns g g have the overflow-pipes q gff leading down to the e. ves of the car-roof, and the distributingpipes o g leading from opposite sides of the bottom of the tank into position to supply I00 In Figs. 1, 7, and 8 I have shown the drinking-troughs '2 as composed of a number of individual basins, (heretofore patented, and

hence not, per se, of this i'nvention,) which are suitably journaled in the car. The basins are arranged, by preference, along each side of the car from the doors to the opposite ends, and all the basins on each side, in order to be simultaneously operable, are connected together by rods j, extending from the door at each side of the car to the opposite end. The journals of the troughs are projected through the ends of the car, and are squared and. provided with crank-armsj whichare connected to rods j", secured to the ends of the car and extended up into convenient reach of a trainhand on the roof of the car. By this construction all of the basins on each side of the car may be operated simultaneously to bring them into position to contain water for the animals in the car to drink, and afterward to tilt or tip them toward the sides of the car to empty them and throw the water outside the car.

In my ase B, I have confined the invention of trough-operating mechanism to means for operating simultaneously the troughs on opposite sides of the car, at the same time I have provided for operating them singly; but I reserve to this case the operatingof the troughs singly by the direct connection of the operating-rod to a crank or arm applied separ atcly to the journals of each trough. However, I may use in this case the trough-operating mechanism of the other, though I do not claim here specifically suehmechanism.

For the purpose of catching the splash from the drinking-troughs, and also to insure the discharge of the waste water outside the ear, I employ gutters 7t beneath the troughs, (see specially Figs. 2, (j, and 15 for det-ails,) and referring specially to this lastnamed figure (15,) the gutters are constructed as follows: A board, It, seton edge is extended along the front edge of the trough throughout its length, and a bottom board, 75 is connected by a water-tight joint with this board It, and has a fall or pitch downward and outward 'f pp 'the said board, being extended slightly beyond the outside face of the car,- so as to insure the conveyance of the waste water not only outside the car but also away from it. The boards composing the gutter are firmly supported and braced and the gutter secured to the side of the car by metallic brackets 76 The boards 7;, herein referred to as protection-boards, subserve the ends of preventing injury to and dislocation of the troughs by the surging and crowding of the cattle, and also by the loading of bulk freight, such as boxes, lumber, rails, &c.

As heretofore constructed, the drinkingtroughs have been of sufficient width to fill the space between the side walls of the car and these protection-boards when the troughs are in position for holding water, as in Fig. 11; but the depth. of the troughs is so much less than their width, or their journals are so disposed that when the troughs are not in use and are turned up against the sides of the car there is quite a space left between the boards and troughs, as indicated in Fig. 12. Now it is not an uncommon thing for rearing animals to get their legs over these protection-boards and between them and the reversed troughs, and oftentimes in their e'itorts to free them.- selves their legs are broken. To remedy this evil, I make my troughs of equal width and depth on radii from their journals extending to their sides and bottom, and, if desired, to their top, so as to fill in the space between the side of the car and the protection-board in both positions of the troughs, as clearly indicated in Figs. '12 and ii, disposingof their journals appropriately to this end.

Where the trough is composed of a number of basins they are supplied with water from the tanks at a lllllllll'llllll use of pipe by employing a single conduit, I, over each row of basins, (see Figs. 1 and 7,) withwhich the distrilniting-pipes of the tank are conneetcd. Inasmuch as it is desirable to use as light (and consequently cheap) pipe as possible,l make up the conduit of basin lengths of pipe and unite these lengths of pipe by Ts, into the shanks of which latter nipples or nozzles Z are inserted. I prefer this construction because of its economy, for a conduit-pipe of sutficient thickness to admit of tapping in order to insert the nipples would not only add to the weight of the car, but would be expensive. However, I do not ex elude from my invention this last form of pipe, but am mindful of the fact that its use would greatly reduce the labor of fitting the Ts. The nipples are curved, preferably, so as to break the force of the downiiowing column of water, and hence convey it to the troughs with as little splash as possible. An-

other and preferred form of trough is shown in detail in l igs. 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10, and it consists of malleable cast heads in, of semicircular shape, or nearly so, provided with rightanglcd flanges, to which is riveted the body portion m of the trough. The body portion material.

In order to stiffen and brace the trough, I provide flanged partitions m disposed at suitable intervals transversely of the trough, and riveted, soldered,brazed, or otherwise secured to it. The partitions are provided with. openings on at their bottoms, (see Figs. 8 and 9,) so as to permit the passage of the water from one end of the trough to the other. Another function of these partitions is to reduce swash in the troughs. The trough thus construct-ed may be in a single length extending from one end of the car to the door at the other end, as shown in Fig. 10; or it may be divided and coupled byinterlocking heads of any suitable sort, as indicated at m in l, 5, and 9.

The troughs may have the intermediate journals, as shown, or they may be hinged to the car-sides at their rear edge. \Vhen the troughs are joined, as at on, these joints may ,may be sheet iron or steel or other suitable 'the dampers in doors to stove ash-pi ts.

be utilized to provide an auxiliary bearing for the'troughs.

I do not enter into the details of the bearings or supports for the troughs, as they are within the mechanics sphere and will be such as circumstances require.

. To supply the troughs with water, the dis-- tributing-pipes g, coming down from the tank at the center of the car, may be closed by screw-caps u, just above which and in opposition are orifices n a in the pipe to eject the water in opposite directions in. a gentle man ner. This ejection of the water gently and with as little force and splash as possible may be still better secured by the use of the T. (Shown in Fig. 5 at n as applied to the pipe 9 Any device which will divert the falling water from a line following that of the pipe will accomplish,essentially,the object I have in view. Two forms of hayrack are shown one in Fig. 2 and the other in Figs. 3 and 6.

In Fig. 2 the rack 0 may be of ordinary slatted form, or the peculiar slatted form set forth in Case 13. It is hinged at 0' to the side of the car, and has a lip, 0 supported on a stationary timber or stop, 0 near the roof of the car. lVhen in the position of use, Fig. 2, the rack is firmly secured by its hinges and the lip o and stop 0 'When not desired for use, it may be turned on its hinges 0 fiat against the side of the car, and be held in that position, as by a hook, o engaging an eye, 0", though any other device may be em-,

ployed.

To close the rack against the animals in the car, shutter-boards 19 may be hinged at their upper ends to the stops 0, or elsewhere, and any suitable medium operable from outside the car may be employed for raising and lowering them.

It is taken for granted as understood that the racks may be arranged on either or both of the sides of the car, and that they are accessible from and fed by the hay-bins f.

Instead of the hinged flap shutter-board, I may employ a sliding sh utter-board constructed and arranged to operate very much like (See Figs. 3 and 6.) The part 0 may be as before, and the sliding member may be a duplicate of and secured parallel to the member 0, as by clips p, and it is adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of the part 0. This movement of the sliding shutter-board may be accomplished by a lever, q, pivoted outside the car, so as to be operable from the .roof, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and connected by a flexible joint, q, Fig. 3, with the sliding board 13. This flexible connection admits of the movement of the hinged portion on its hinges.

The stopping and star-tin g of the trains and their passage over rough roads throwthe eattle with considerable violence against the ends and sides of the cars, often bruising and otherwise injuring them. I propose to alleviate this diificulty by padding the protectionboards, as indicated at r in Fig. 14, and the ends of the car, as indicated at s s sin Fig. 2, with such material as cocoa-mattin or other durable but yielding fabric.

Either form of drinking-trough herein described, and either form of hay-rack set-forth in this specification, may be employed in the conversion of ordinary stock-cars into so-called palace stock-ears, agreeably with the invention described in my Case B, before mentioned. So, also, the water-distribut-ers may be adapted to that, invention. I

Instead of using the shutter-board hayracks, I may here employ the rack specified in Case B. I

In a word, the parts described in the two cases are interchangeable by obvious mechanical expedients; but I have separated the inventions on the line of adaptability to new cars and to the conversion of old cars, bearingin mind the economical question presented in the two instances, and thus bringing the inventions within the requirements of railway management.

What I claim 1. In a stock-car, the water-tank c, straddling the rid ge-pole substantially midway between the ends of the car and provided with distributing-pipes 9 terminating in outlets composed of horizontal openings leading "from opposite sides of such pipes over the drinkin g-troughs, combined with such troughs, substantially as described.

2. In a stock-car, water-tanks straddling the ridge-pole substantially midway between the ends of the car and provided with distributing-pipes g g, each havingthe opposite openings, n n, and closed by screw-caps n, and arranged over the drinking-troughs, combined with such drinking-troughs, substantially as described.

3. The gutter composed of the vertical protection -board 7;, slanting bottom 20 and braces connecting the protection-board an d bottom and securing them to the side of the car, in combination with the tilting drinkingtrough arranged wholly within such gutter 'and of a width and depth relatively to its journal to fill the spaces between the protection-board and sides of the car bothwhen in use and when not in use, and means for tilting the troughs, substantially as described.

4. The gutter composed of the vertical protection-board 7e, slantingbottom 13, and braces 75*, connecting the protection-board and bottom and securing-them to the side of the car, in combination with the tilting drinkingtrough arranged wholly within such gutter and of a width and depth relatively to its journal to fill the spaces between the protection-board and sides of the car both when in use and when not in use, and having its journal extended through and outside of the end of the car and connected with the crank j from which the operating-rod 7' extends up to the roof, substantially as described.

5. A folding hay-rack fixedly hinged at its lower end to the side of the car and adapted to be folded up fiat against the side of the car,

and provided with a lip to engage stationary stops depending from the upper part of the car when the rack is inclined for use, substantially as described.

6. The hay-rack hinged at its lower end to the side of the car and adapted to fold up against the side of the ear, and having a lip to engage stationary stops depending from the top of the car, combined with a shutterboard and means to move it to open and close such rack, substantially as described.

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