US835528A - Railroad-car. - Google Patents

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C. H. HOWARD. RAILROAD OAR.

PATENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

APPLICATION FILED JULYZO,1906

CLARENCE H. HOWARD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RAILROAD-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

Application filed July 20, 1906. Serial No. 327,052.

To It whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE H. HOWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

, Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad- Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to the dead-block of a railroad freight-car, which is used asa stop for the horn of the coupler when bufiing, and ordinarily consists of a wood block having an iron face-plate or angle-piece and fixed to the end sill and projecting end portions of the draft timbers of the car-un'derframe.

The object of my invention is to provide a rigid and durable metallic structure specially adapted for use'as a combined dead-block and connecting piece or brace to the end sill and adjacent butting end portions of the middle longitudinal sills of a car-underframe in those cases where the ordinary draft-timbers are eliminated and the draft-rigging combined directly with the car-body bolster, such as in the arrangement described in the Letters Patent granted to Harry M. Piiager, October 18, 11904, No. 772,370, for an improvement in draftrgear for railroad cars, or directly with the said longitudinal sills, as the case may be.

The invention consists in features of novelty, as hereinafter described and'claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, whereon-- v Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved combined dead-block and brace as applied to the end sill and longitudinal sills, broken away, of a freight-car underframe in which the ordinary draft-timbers ar'e not used Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section thereof on line 2 2 in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, a top plan View of the same, the sills being seen in dotted lines.

Like letters and numerals of reference denote like partsin all the figures.

a a represent my improved combined dead-block and brace, which is preferably composed of cast-steel integral throughout and may be of any suitable design in con guration and cross-section, such as shown, or otherwise, as desired. g

The dead-block, proper, a, in the present case is preferably formed with a bottom horizontal projecting portion 1, whichis preferably box-shaped in cross-section and suitably configured on its outer face for engagement by the coupler (not shown) in the usual manner, the rear wall 2 of the bottom portion 1 being extended upward therefrom for a suitable distance and adapted to bear against the outer face of the end sill b of the car-underframe and thenceformed with an upwardly-extending offset portion 2, adapt-,

ed to bear against the sheathing 3 of the carbody, which is inserted thereat between the ofiset portion 2 and the end sill b, as shown, the block a'being secured to the end sill b therethrough bythe truss-rod bolts 4 and intermediate bolts 5 or their e uivalents, as

found most suitable, or, if desired, the rear wall 2 2 of the dead-block a may be level throughout and bear against the sheathing 3 or end sill b, as the case may be.

On the under side of the dead-block a opposite or thereabout to the end of each middle longitudinal sill c of the car-underframe is formeda' depending portion 6, which in the present case is an extension of the boxshaped bottom portion 1 of the dead-block a, and from each depending portion 6 projects rearwardly an arm a, which extends beneath and is adapted to bear at the top against the under side of theend sill I) and adjacent end portion of the corresponding middle longitudinal sill c, the bearing-face of thearma being preferably at right angles, or practically so, to that of the rear wall 2 2 of the dead-blockc.

. The arm a may be channel-shaped, as shown, or otherwise in cross-section and is secured to the'end sill l) and longitudinal sill c,nrespectively, by the u right bolts 7 7 as shown, or otherwise, as ound most suitable. To the dead-block a on the under side of thedepending portions 6 are fixed the end portions ofthe carry-iron d for the couplershank c, Fig. 1, by bolts 8, as shown, or in an% other suitable manner.

y this invention the end sill b and middle longitudinal sills c are mutually supported and firmly secured together in every direction'by the combined dead-block and brace a, a, thereby greatly increasing thestrength, rigidity, and durability of the underframe.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a railroad-car, the combination of a metallic dead-block adapted'to bear against the outer face of the end sill, two opposite arms l In testimony whereof I have signed my integral with the said block and having an name to this specification in the presence of extended bearing longitudinally against the two subscribing Witnesses.

under side of the middle longitudinal sills, CLARENCE H. HOWARD. and means for fixing the said block and arms Witnesses: to the said sills respectively, substantially as I CHARLES W. BLOCK,

described. EDWARD W. FURRELIQ.

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