US651005A - Weather-guard for freight-car doors. - Google Patents

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No. 65|,005. Patented June 5, I900. S. H. CAMPBELL. WEATHER GUARD FOR FREIGHT GAR DOORS.

(Application filed Apr. 5, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STERLING I-I. CAMPBELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE Q 85 H COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

WEATHER-GUARD FO'R FREIGHT-CAR DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,005, dated June 5,1900.

Application filed April 5, 1900. Serial No. 11,637. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, STERLING H. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather- Guards for Freight-Car Doors, ofwhich the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to the weather-guard applied to the rearward side of a sliding freight-car door and its object is to provide means for effectually excluding rain, snow, and dust by so deflecting the air-currents that they will pass by and not enter the joint which necessarily exists between the member of the guard which is attached to the carbody and the member which is attached to the door, and this object is attained by the construction hereinafterfully described and which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a detail side elevation of the body of afreight-car and its door, some of the parts being broken away. Figs. 2 to 5 are detail sections on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 and show slight variations in the form of the guard. I

The car-body is represented at 10, and a sliding door of any desired form of construction at 11. The rear door-post is shown at 12 and, as is usual in car construction, projects beyond the side of the car-body.v A metal plate is attached to this post and extends from top to bottom thereof and hasv a leaf 13, which projects backwardly from the post and is inclined inwardly toward the The particular means for securing the plate to the post is not material. Preferably the plate is made angular, having the one leaf 13, already described, and another leaf, which lies against the post and may be secured thereto by means of screws or otherwise. This attaching-leaf may either lie along the rearward face of the post, as shown at 15, or it may be secured to the outer face of the post, as shown at 16, 17, and 18. The angle of the plate, if the construction of Fig. 2 is followed, will be at the outer rearward angle of the post 12. If the attachingleaf lies against the outer face of the post, the angle may be in the same place as shown 'in Fig. 3, or the attaching-leaf of the plate may be longer, as shown in Figs. Land 5, the angle being somewhat removed from the post.

A guard-plate is attached to the door at its rearward end and extends from top to bottom thereof. This plate extends inwardly from the face of the door, sothat its inner edge is substantially in line with the inner edge of the deflecting-plate 13. It may be an angleplate, having a leaf 19, adapted to lie against and be attached to the inner face of the door and having an inclined leaf 14, which projects inwardly and forwardly, or it may be attached directly to the rearward edge of the door, as shown at 20, and may consist of a flat plate, as shown in Fig. 4, or an angle-plate, as shown in Fig. 5, the angle being at the inner angle of the door, the projecting portion 21 of the plate being inclined forwardly. The construction shown in Fig. 3 is somewhat preferable to the others because cheaper of manufacture, the two plates being identical in form.

The trouble from rain and snow and dust is mainly encountered when the car is traveling in such direction that the rearward edge of the door is in advance. The air-currents enter the pocket bounded by the door, doorpost, and side of the car-body, following along the latter and being deflected outwardly by the post.

In all forms of construction heretofore in use a joint has been left into which the aircurrents thus deflected may enter, reliance having beenplaced upon the tortuous form of the passage to prevent the moisture and dust from entering the car. In the construction herein shown the air-currents when debe caused to enter therein, especially if the plate attached to the door does not project beyond the edge of its companion. This result is accomplished in all of the forms of construction shown in the drawings,the essential consideration being that the plate attached to the post be inclined inwardly and backwardly and that the guard-plate attached to the door cover the pocket necessarily existing between this inclined plate and the inner face of the door.

I claim 1. In a weather-guard for sliding car-doors, a plate adapted for attachment to a door-post and to incline backwardly and inwardly from the front face thereof.

2. In a freight-car, in combination, an outwardly-projecting door-post, and a plate attached thereto and having a leaf inclined backwardly and inwardly from the front face thereof.

3. In a freight-car, in combination, an outwardly-prjoecting door-post, and a plate attached to the front face thereof and extending backwardly and inclined inwardly.

4. Ina freight-car, in combination, an outwardly-projecting door-post, a sliding door, a plate secured to the post and extending backwardly and being inclined inwardly from the front face thereof, and a plate secured to the door at its rear end and extending inwardly beyond the plane of the inner face of the door to substantially cover the first-named plate.

5. In a freight-car, in combination, an outwardlyeprojecting door-post, a sliding door, a plate secured to the post and extending backwardly and being inclined inwardly from the front face thereof, and a plate secured to the door at its rear end and extending inwardly and being inclined forwardly beyond the plane of the inner face of the door to substantially cover the first-named plate.

STERLING II. CAMPBELL. lVitnesses:

PAUL CARPENTER, E. M. KLATCHER.

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