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A. KIMBER.

MAIL POUCH DELIVERER.

No. 496,518. Patented Mey 2, 1893.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM KIMBER, OF INDIANAPOLISQINDIANA, ASSIGNOR 'OF THREE- EIGHTHS TO ERNEST W., BRADFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

MAIL-POUCH DELIVERFER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,518, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed September 3| 1892. Serial No. 444,984. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ABRAHAM KIMBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Pouch Deliverers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My said invention relates to an improved construction of devices for throwing mail pouches from or onto moving postal cars, as will first be fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

` which are made a part hereof and on which sini- Y ilar letters of reference indicate similar parts:

Figure l is a cross section through a car provided with my improved throwing apparatus, showing the stationary portion along-side the track in side elevation, and Fig. 2, a perspective View of the box and throwing device therein separately. v

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent a box or receptacle, B a throwing apron therein, C a pivoted trip lever, and D a stationary strike or arm. Y

The box, A, is of a size adapted to receive a mail pouch, and may be secured rigidly to the under side of the postal car at or near its edge, as shown in Fig'l, or may be located in ,any other convenient place on the car, when used as a portion of an apparatus for throwing the pouch from the car; and when used as a portion of an apparatus for throwing the pouch onto the car it may be located on a post, platform or any other suitable support provided in the proper position alongside the track. Vhen located as shown in Fig. l, communication is had therewith through a trap door in the floor of the car.

The apron, B, is preferably of flexible material, such as canvas or leather, and is of a width substantially equal to the length of the box, A. Its lower end is tacked or otherwise secured to the front edge of the bottom thereof. Its other end is connected by means of a cord, b, with a spring, B', attached to the car framework above said box, preferably near the top of the car. Said spring is arranged to normally draw the apron upward to, and hold it in, the position indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 1. Said cord preferably passes over a sheave, b', at the rear side of the box, and under a sheave, b2, at its front side, so that it may` lie close to the wall of the car in which position the spring is preferably located. It is also provided with a knot or enlarged part, b3, thereon at that point where it will engage with a notch in the trip lever, C, and hold said spring distended to allow said apron to lie substantially in that position indicated by whole lines.

The trip-lever, C, is of substantially the form shown, pivoted near its center, with one end extending out through a long openingiu the side of the car, and the other end extending in along-side the vertical portion of the cord, b. Its inner end is provided with a notch on each side thereof adapted to receive said cord, but not sufficiently large to permit the knotor enlarged part, b3, thereon to pass through.

The strike, D, is any convenient form of arm mounted on a post along-side the track in position to contact with the lever, C, and turn it upon its pivot as the car passes.

The operation of my said invention is as follows: it being desired to use the device,

the cord, b, is pulled down until the part, b3, thereon ymay be engaged beneath the notch on the proper side of the lever, C, which will be the side toward the rear of the car. The mail pouch is then dropped into said box on top of the apron, B, and as the car passes the post, the trip lever is struck by the arm, D, swung to one side or the other, disengaging said part, b3, from the notch in the lever and permitting the spring to fly up and drawsaid apron quickly into the position indicated by the dotted line, throwing the pouch thereon into a receptacle, D', located along-side the track, or, when the device is used to throw onto the car, at a convenient point thereon to receive the pouch.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A device for throwing mail pouches, consisting of a stationary box, a lexible apron IOO therein secured at one end to the front edge of said box and at its other end to a spring, a trip lever for holding Said apron in a relaxed position in said box, and a device for operating said lever as the car passes a given point, substantially as set forth.

2. In a mail pouch delivering apparatus, the combination of the stationary box, A, the ilexible apron, B, connected at one end to the front side thereof, a spring, B', located above said box, a cord connecting said spring and the other end of said apron, a trip-lever, C, pivoted in the side of the car, an enlarged part on said cord adapted to engage with a notch in the side of said lever, the opposite end of said lever extending` out through a Slot in the side of the car, and a stationary device l0- cated in position to strike said projecting end as it passes and operate it, substantially as Set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature hereto, iu presence of two Witnesses, at fashington, District of Columbia, this 2d day of September', 1892.

ABRAHAM KIlWIBER. fitnessesz EMMA M. GILLETT, W. J. NEWTON.

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