US728298A - Car-loader. - Google Patents

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No. 728,298. 'PATENTED MAY 19, 1903.

' B. H. REYNOLDS.

- GAR LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED AIR. 10, 1901.

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'IPATENTBD MAY 19, 1903.

E. H. REYNOLDS;

CAR LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1901.

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CAR LOADER.

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Patented May 19, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

' EARL H. REYNOLDS, F STERLING, ILLINOIS.

CAR-LOADER.

, SPECIFICATION Iorming part of Letters Patent No. 728,298, dated May 19, 19033.

Application filed April 10, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL H. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Loaders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of car-loaders especially designed for loading grain, 'middlings, bran, 850., into cars,although my present invention is equally adapted to loading sawdust, sand, fine coal, and other commodities which it may be found desirable to load intocars, the holds of vessels, or other storage-places.

The particular class to which my inventionrelates is exemplified by Letters Patent No. 614,891, granted to me November 29, 1898, the rotary distributing apparatus illustrated in said patent being equally well adapted for use in my present invention-either in the form shown in the said patent or in the form shown in the present application.

This invention has for its primary object to enable the loading of both ends of a car or oppositely-disposed distant parts of any receptacle at the same time and, if desired, from the same source of supply or from separate sources of supply and with the same or with difierent kinds of commodities.

Another object of my invention is to so support the distributing apparatus that it may be introduced into or withdrawn from a car without disconnecting the parts of either the driving or supportingmechanism, Where by the distributing device may be projected into and operated substantially at thecenter of the car upon its own permanent supports instead of upon temporary supports, as here; tofore.

These and such otherobjects as may here-- inafter appear are attained by the devices illustrated .in the accompanying d riawings, in

whichp Figurel is'a perspeotivehview of: aicar-i loader embodying my, invention, showing the samein operative position-in a car,;the body of which is broken away to more clearly disclose the loader. apparatus shown in Fig. 1 with the car-body shown in horizontal position. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail plan view of the freeend of ing apparatus of the loader.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the Serial 5 5 ,2 31. (No model.)

a view s'imilarto Fig. 2, but showing a modification of my invention; andFig. 7 is a side elevation of-the loader with the car and a portion of the building shown in transverse section.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in'the several figures of the drawings.

Referring; by letter to the accompanying drawings, A indicates the body of a car, B

thewall of a building, such as an elevator,

in which the grain is stored, and C a flexible spout leading from the weighingscales or storage-bins of theelevator to the distribut- As shown in the drawings, the distributing apparatus consists of a pair of cylinders D, having closed ends and provided with lateral extensionsE- from the lower side of their peripheries, constituting discharge-spouts, such casings being pivotallysupported upon the-shafts F, (although they may be pivotallysupported independently of said shafts,) upon which shafts withinihe caSing is mounted a spider, carrying upon each of its arms a blade G of substantially the shape of the interior of the casing and operating much as do the blades of an ordinary rotary fan. These distributing devicesneed not differ essentially from those illustrated in my aforesaid patent and are preferably adjustable in theirbearings, so

' that the direction in which the deli very-spouts E thereof will point may be readily adjusted andfixed, suitable means being provided for locking theminto any adjusted position, such as the spring han d-bars H, (shown more clearly in Figs. 4 and 5,) rigidly secured atone end to a relatively-fixed cross-bar I and provided withv a tooth or projection J, adapted and ar-. ranged to engage a segmental rack K, rigidly secured to the side of thecasingof the distributingdevice. I

. "As shown in the drawings, the distributing devices are arranged to be simultaneously fedfrom the same spout and through openings in the periphery thereof. Tothis end the end of the spout G is so shaped as to fit properly in the crotch between the abutting casings D, in each of which is formed a pcripheral opening L, and to avoid the necessity for close fitting, as well as provide for more ready adjustmentof the casings, the generally triangular space below the opposing peripheries may be filled with a block M, as more clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the upper edge of which block projects up between the casings and is pointed or beveled from opposite sides, so as to assist in deflecting the grain into the casing D as it falls from the spout, the distribution being substantially uniform, although it may be controlled and varied by providing an ordinary damper in the spout (3, so as to throw more or less of the grain to one side or the other of the spout near its discharge end, which device is so obvious as not to require illustration.

It will be understood that the blades in the rotary distributing device rotate continuously in opposite directions and serve to discharge the grain at high velocity from the spouts E, so that it will be deposited in the extreme ends of the carer other storage-place. Such a device is quite large and more or less cumbersome, and its value over hand-labor in loading and trimming grain depends upon the rapidity with which the loading is accomplished, and if such a device had to be set up, adjusted, and secured in each car and taken apart and removed therefrom at each loading operation it would have little or no practical value, because the loss of time in getting the apparatus into and out of working shape would more than compensate for the greater rapidity in loading the car; but any loss of time which results in detaining the car or in limiting the number of cars that may be loaded in a given time as compared with doing the work by hand, no matter how many men are necessary, will be fatal to the commercial value of a device of this kind. Therefore, in addition to the desirable capability of loading both ends of the car at the same time, I propose to have my device I so supported that it may be placed in operative position in and withdrawn from a car with the utmost expedition and without uncoupling any of the mechanism or driving gear, whereby the time involved in loading a car is reduced to the minimum. To this end the shafts F and the casings D of the distributing devices are journaled in a rectangular frame N, the side bars of which are prolonged and pivoted at O to a' second rectangular frame P, which latter frame is pivotally mounted upon a driving-shaft Q, bearing in suitable brackets R, preferably secured to the wall B of the building in which the grain is stored. The shafts F are connected by a swivel or knuckle joint S on a line coincident with the pivots O with the parallel shafts T, which latter are suitably journaled in the frame P and carry upon their inner ends bevel-gears U, meshing with corresponding bevel-gears V, keyed upon the driving-shaft Q, to which power may be applied in any suitable manner, as by the belt and pulley shown in the drawings. The front bar P of the frame P is bent down, as more clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, so as to underlie the prolongations of the side bar of the pivoted frame N beyond the pivot connection 0 of said frame to the frame P, so that when the pivoted frame N is in the extended position shown in the drawings the pivots O and the cross-bar P together serve to maintain the pivoted frame in alinement with the frame P without other support. It will thus be seen that by having the swivel connection S in the sectional flexible shafts F 'I coincident with the pivots O the frame N, carrying with it the distributing devices, can be folded back upon the frame P without binding of any of the parts. This preliminary folding is necessary to enable the frame P to swing upon its pivotal support, so as to lie up against the side of the building out of the way when not desired for use or in changing from one car to another. In other words, if the entire frame were of such a length when extended as to bring the distributing devices nearly to the center of the car, or, in fact, much more than half-way to the center of the car, it would be impossible to swing the supporting-frame up upon the shaft Q, as a, pivot for the frame P without first folding the frame N back upon the frame P, because the arc in which the frame would otherwise move is so long that it would strike the roof of the car and could not be withdrawn. With my support, however, it is only necessary to disconnect the spout C from the distributing devices and allow the same to hang down by the side of the building, as usual, when the distributing devices, with their pivoted supplemental supporting-frame, can be first folded out of the door of the car and over onto the main pivoted frame P, over which by drawing upon the rope W, attached to the main frame, the latter can be swung up so as to lie in a vertical position against the building entirely out of the way of the moving cars.

In practice I simply hitcha block and tackle to the supplemental frame and the wall of the building, thus enabling one man to move the apparatus into and out of operative position without any appreciable loss of time and without the necessity for uncoupling any of the parts. Of course when the apparatus is down in operative position the main frame P rests at its outer end upon the usual halfdoor of the car, where it remains during the loading operation. It will also be noted that the apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 does not extend to the center of the car, and hence in order to deliver the grain properly into the car the two distributing devices must be set at an oblique angle to each other, a center line through the spout of each running approximately to the center of the ends IIO , can be set at right angles to their driving-- shafts and the main and-supplemental, frame.

of the car. This is necessary in a construc-, tion such as that shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, Where the supplemental frame N is simply' pivoted to the main frame P because of the limitations put upon the distance into the carwhere the supplemental frame may project by the height of the car-door, as hereinbefore" explained. By the construction shown in Figs, 6 and 7, however, which is the preferredconstruction, this ditficulty is obviated, oe-v cause I provide a sliding as-well asa pivoted,

The essential differences are that the shafts. T are made telescopic and the pivots O in-- stead of passing through the side barsof the main frame P, as in the first-described construction, connect the supplemental frame with blocks 0, which slide in grooves in the side bars of the main frame, said bars being. preferably in the shape of channel-iron to afford proper guideways for said blocks. By this construction the distributing devices and in line with each other,-while thesupplemental frame has both a pivotal and-sliding connection with the main frame.

Obviously the details of construction may.

be varied without departing from the spirit of my invention, and any suitable means may.

be employed for operating. the drive-shaft or transmitting. the power from said. shaft to;

the distributing devices, and, so far as'relates to the broad idea of my invention, asingle distributing device may be employed and supported in the manner hereinbefore described instead of the double devicesshown, although the latter is preferred because of its greater.

capacityand particular adaptation of the supporting devices thereto,the single distributers being usually satisfactorily supported without such mechanism.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car-loader, the combinationw-ith a supporting-frame, of-a distributing apparatus consisting of a pair-of rotary distributing devices,comprising cylinders having closed ends and inletand outlet openings, said distributing'devices being placed back to back and -ar-.

ranged to discharge inopposite directionsnw 2. Ina car-loader, thecombination with a supporting-fram e, of a distributingapparatus consisting of. a pair of rotarydistributing-devices comprisingcylinders having closed ends and inlet-and outlet openings,said distributin g devices being placed back to back-andarranged in an angular position with relation to each other.

In a car-loader, the combination with a sup porting-frame, of a distribn ting apparatus consisting of apair of rotary distributing devices comprising cylinders having closed ends and outlet-openings, said distributing devices being placed back to back andhaving adjoining peripheral inletopenings, and -a .single.

feed-spout connected with the openings of both distributing devices.-

4. In a car-loader, the combination with a su pporting-frame, of a distributing apparatus v consisting of a pair of rotarydistributing de-.

vices comprising cylinders having closed ends and outlet-openings, .a. single feed-spout dis-- charging into adjoining inlet-openings in the peripheries ofboth cylinders and independent openings discharging from thecylinders.

in opposite directions.

-5.. In.a carl0ader, the combination with-a;

supporting-frame, of a distributing apparatusconsisting of a pair of rotary distributing devices comprising cylinders having closed ends and outlet-openings, said distributing devices being placed back to back and arranged to dischargein opposite directions, a single feed-.

spout discharging into adjoining inlet-openifngs in the peripheries of both cylinders, and ablock arranged between the cylinders and below the feed-spout and having its upper. end beveled from opposite sides to deflect the grain. into the cylinders.

I 6.. In a car-loader, the combination with-a rotary distributing apparatus, of a supple-N mental frame supporting the same, a main frame pivoted at one end to swing in a verti-' cal plane and apivot connection between said main and supplemental frames;

i 7. In a car-loader, the combination with-a distributing. apparatus, of. a supplemental I -frame supporting the same, a mainframe IIO pivoted at one end to swingin a vertical plane and a sliding pivotconnection between'said inain and supplemental frames.

8. Ina car-loader, the combination with distributing apparatus, of a supplemental.

frame supporting the same, a mainframe pivoted at one end, a pivot connection be tween said mainv and supplemental frames,

anda driving shaft forthe distributing 31pm;

paratus provided with a swivelor knuckle joint intermediate .of its length.

9. Ina car-loader, the combination with a distributing apparatus, of a supplemental frame supporting the same, a'main frame pivoted at one end, a pivot connection hetweensaid main and-supplemental frames and a'telescopic driving-shaft for operating the distributingapparatus.

10. In a car-loader, the combination with a .distributing apparatus, ,of a supplemental .frame supportingthe same, a main f-rame pivoted atone end, a pivot connection be tween said mainand supplemental frames,

and artelescopic driving-shaft pr0videdwith1 ,1

&

12. In a car-loader, the combination with a main frame provided with guideways in its sides, of a supplemental frame provided with blocks sliding in said guideways, a distributing apparatus supported by said supplemental frame and a telescopic driving-shaft provided with a swivel or knuckle joint opposite said blocks.

13. In a car-loader, the combination with a rotary distributing device, of a supplemental frame supporting the same, a main frame pivotally supported at one end, and a pivot connection between said main and supplemental frames.

14. In a car-loader, the combination with a distributing apparatus, of a main frame, and a supplemental frame supporting the distributing apparatus and having a pivoted and sliding connection with the mainframe.

15. In a car-loader, the combination Witha driving-shaft, of a jointed frame swiveled about said shaft, driving mechanism extending lengthwise of the frame and jointed corresponding to the frame, and a rotary distributing apparatus carried by the outer frame-section.

EARL II. REYNOLDS.

\Vitnesses:

WM. 0. BELT, KATHRYN MCLAREN.

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