US2493720A - Railway car door protector - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 3, 1950 U NIT ED STAT S; OF F I CE.

2,493,720 I 1 RAILWAY oannoon lnorno'roa Patrick J. Hogan, New Haven, Gonn.

Application February 12, 1945, SerialNo. j577;531

My invention relates to railway rolling stock,

and particularly to a means for protecting the doors of railway house'cars from damage because of a shifting of the lading thereagainst' due to service movements of the car, which comprises the principal object of the invention.

Another object of the invention is to so design the door protector so that it may be installed upon new cars or upon cars already in service.

A further object of the invention is to provide a door protector in such a manner that'either of two types of lading retaining means may be used to protect the door from the shifting ofsaid lading,

A still further object of the invention is to provide a door protector that may be installed upon cars already in service without damage to.

any of the parts thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description thereof. Referring now to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a railway car door frame showing my improved door protection posts, with protecting bars, bands and auxiliary.

door inplace.

Figure 2 is a vertical, section on line, 2--2. of Figure 1 showing the car door inplace,

Figure 3 is a broken horizontal section on line 3-3 of Figure 1 showing the car door in; place;

Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view of! a portion of a car door opening.

Figure 5 is a view similar to figure 2 showing the protecting bars. as removable from the outside of the doorway.

Figure 6' is a perspective view, similar tqFigure 4, of the modification shown in Figure 5.

In the drawings, the door posts are indicated at I the door post angles at 2 held to the door posts by means of bolts 3. Side wall sheathmg of the car is indicated at 4 and the, front 5,, and rear 6, door stop angles are secured to the side sheathing 4 and post angles 2 by means of the row of rivets indicated at 1. The front door stop angle 5 is provided with a reflange 8 which functions as a portion of weather sealing means, and the rear door stop angle is provided with a portion 9 of weather sealing means secured thereto, as by the rivets Ill. The door is indicated at H and is of the usual sliding type, provided with front l2 and rear l3 weather sealing means which are cooperative with the reflange 8 and sealing means 9, respectively, when the door is closed, to prevent dirt and other elements from 4 Claims. (Cl. 2030.)

entering theca-rbetween the vertical edges of the door and adjacent door frame. The car side sills are indicated-at- M: upon which the door posts I and angle 2 rest, and the car side plate is shown at t5 which extends acrossthe tops of the door and side postsof the car from end to=end of the car.

In cars having sliding doorsof the type just described, it is apparent that shouldthe carbe loaded with a plastic lading or the like, which might: shift rather violently to one side -orthe other-during service, movements of the car, thatpart, of the lading adjacent the doors may quite conceivably engage the door with. such violence that. the force would injure the door or ruin the sealing elements, -orboth, so; that the door could not be operated, .or. the'seals. would not. be tight, and thereby destroy a considerable portion of the utility of the door;

My invention, therefore, comprises a door protection post, preferably of channel-like form, with the edges of theflanges 20 and 2| thereof secured, as, by welding- 22 and 2 3,respectively, to the door stop. angles; 5 and- 6 and the inner edge of the; door post angles 2 and I provide such a door protection. post for each door post of thecar. It will be noted that one, flange, 21' and the web 33 of; each; protection post is provided with inverted L.-sh aped slots 2,4 and that a portion of the material in. the web 33, which is. cut awayto. make the slot, is bent inwardly, asv shown at 25, at. right angles to said web, to provide a sort of shelf at the bottom of the slot 24 The upperportion of the slot. 24 which extends across the flange 2i is slightly deeper than the thicknessof'anv ordinary 2 x- 4, whereas the portion ofsaid slot. in the web 33 is slightly wider than the width of a 2 x 4, so. that the ends of 2 x 4 pieces of lumber 34', of the proper length, extend across the door opening from protection post to protection post and may be slid laterally into the upper portions of opposite slots and then dropped into the lower portions thereof where they reston the shelves 25 and are thereby held securely by gravity in the lower portions of the slots, To. protect certain types; of lading, as for example, barrels or large boxes, from being shifted against the doors, these 2 x 4 protecting bars may be suflicient. When, however, the lading is more plastic, such as bulk potatoes, or grain, it is obvious that an auxiliary door would be required in addition to the 2 x 4s. Therefore, I have provided the auxiliary door which comprises a series of tongued and grooved boards 26 secured together by the battens 21, and which auxiliary door may be nailed to the 2 x 4 protecting bars with the vertical margins of said auxiliary door resting against the flanges 2| of the protection posts, and the battens 21 positioned between said protection posts and against said 2 x 4's.

Auxiliarydoor boards may be nafled directly to inside face of 2 x 4's so as to obtain a flush condition with inside lining of cars.

For those instances when the character of the lading permits, such, for example, as relatively large boxes of light weight material, I have provided an alternative means to take the place or".

the 2 x 4 protecting bars. In Figures 1, 4 and 6 it will be noted that I have provided a series of vertically spaced slots 3|] in the web 23 and flange 2| of each door protection post.. These slots are for the application of handing iron strips extendable between said posts and which are found to be sumcient for protecting the door from larger units of lighter material.

In Figures and 6 I have shown the L-shaped slots 24 as facing the outside of the car so that the 2 x 4s may be removed progressively from the outside of the car as the car is unloaded if such is necessary due to the character of the lading. L-shaped slots may be arranged so that 2 x 4s may be removed progressively from the inside of; car as well, as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof, within the scope of the claims, will occur to persons skilled in the art.

I claim:

1. For use in a railway car having a doorway between spaced post assemblies, each assembly comprising a vertical metallic member having a portion lying in a plane normal to said doorway and a metallic door stop secured to said member and having a part substantially in the plane of said portion, and a door for closing said opening engaging-said door stop when' in closed position;

means to protect said 'door'from outward thrust of ladirig within the car, said means comprising a verticalchannelmember facing each post assembly'. with'th'e flanges of saidc'hannels welded to said portion and part, respectively, to provide reinforcements for said post assemblies, one flange 4, said web, and the slot in a flange of said member communicating with the slot in the web, said web slot being wider than said flange slot, the upper edges of said slots being substantially in the same plane, whereby one end of a beam may be inserted laterally through said flange slot and dropped vertically into said web slot and be supported by said shelf-like portion and retained in said opening by the walls of the web opening.

3. A door protector for a railway car having a doorway between spaced post assemblies and a door for closing said doorway; said protector comprising channel-shaped members having the flanges thereof secured to said asemblies, respectively, with the "webs thereof spaced from said assemblies, the webs of said members being prodoorway between spaced post assemblies and a of each channel provided with a-slot 'communi eating with a 'slotin the web of the channel,"the slot in'the web being wider than the slotin-the flange,,with the upper edges of the slots being in of said member, a shelf-like portion extending I inwardly from the base of said slot normally to Thefollowing references are of record in the member I vided with slots, a protector bar extending between said members With the ends thereof installed within said slots so as, to be supported by the webs of the channel-shaped members and the depth of the slot in the web being less than the width of said web so that the unremoved portion of the webs of said members resist outward thrust of a lading against said bar, a flange of each member being provided with a slot commum'cating With the upper part of said slot in the web thereof, the upper edges of said slots being in substantially the same plane, the slot in the web being wider than the slot in the flange, whereby the ends of said protector bars may be inserted laterally through said flange slots and dropped vertically into said web slots and retained therein by the walls thereof.

4. A door protector for a railway car having a door for closing said doorway; said protector comprising channel-shaped members having the flanges thereof secured to said assemblies, respectively, with the webs thereof spaced from said vassemblies, the webs of said members being provided with slots of less depth than the width of said webs, a flange of each member being provided'with a slot of less width than the slot in the web, and communicating with the upper part of-a web slot, the upper edges of said slots lying in substantially the same plane, a protector bar extending between said members with the ends thereof within said slots so as to be supported by the webs of the channel-shaped members and so members resist outward thrust of a lading against said bar.

PATRICK J. HOGAN.

REFERENCES CITED file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date I Stanley Feb. 21, 1911 Monk Apr. 1, 1919 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date hat" the unremoved portion of the webs of said Thomas Oct. 8, 1935 France 1934 I

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