US921848A - Passenger-car. - Google Patents

Description

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1s, 190s.

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.PASSENGER GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1a, 190s.

Patented May 18, 1909,

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15 said end sills are at the 59 stairwa narran sraras FELIX Koen, or ahum/UE, rENNsvL VANIA, OFPITTS'BURG, PENNSYLVANIA, CORPORATION oF NEW rerum? onirica ASSIGNOR TO 'PRESSED STEEL CARCOMPANY,

JERSEY.

PASSENGE R-CAR.

Specification of Lettere Patent.

Patented Mey :18, '1809.

Application led June 13, 1908. SerialNo. 488,344.

and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of slightly more than one-half of the,A end underframe yof a passenger' ear embodying the elements of the inventlon; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig 1s an endelevation of and Fig, 4 1s a longitudinal section on theA the same,

. line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

An object of the present invention is to construct an underframe for a passenger car in which the material is economically disposed, in whichgreat strength is procured and agood appearance of the structure preserved.

l A specific object of the present invention is to provide an improved end sill forming a sup ort for the car steps and a recess or poc iet for the sliding the buffer plate, and i shapely end for the car.

foot-plate carried by likewise forming a Another specic object of the (present ini vention is to provide an improve combined side stem bracket and follower lug plate for the car draft rigging andbulling mechanism.

Referring nowin detail to the drawings, 1

'35' represents the car center sills continuous throughout the entire length of the car from l end sill lto end sill; 2 are the end sills carried by the center sillssl at their ends. End sills` 2 are of pressed metal formation preferably,

built-up form;

being bent or shaped in a broken line along their outer flanges to give the proper shape to the end of the car.

outerend of the end sills of greater depth' than the outer flanges of the end sills, and these inner flanges of the endsills form rigid supports for the car step,

hangers 3, the opposite hangers 4, of the being supported by the, car body andsills, of lany suitable construction. End sills 2 are provided in their upper surface centrally with recesses or pockets 6 The inner flanges of adapted to receive a sliding footlate 7 car.-

ried by buffer plate 8 supporte on 'buffer stems 9 (passed through perforations in the front an rear flanges of end sills 2, through which means buffer stems 9 are supported and guided in their movement. v

10 are bu'er'springs mounted on stems `9 and confined in position in any suitable manner. Y

11 is a foot-plate riveted'or otherwise sejecting outward y over recess or pocket 6 and overlapping sliding plate 7.

12 is the platform floor plate or sheeting, its outer edge resting on and supported by the upper surface of end'sill 2.

Center sills 1 ma extend through the inner flanges of end s ls 2 if desired and be riveted to the outer flanges and thus form a stiffener or strut between the two flanges of each end sill.

,sst-ems and 15 the side stem springs. y

16 is the draft spring or springs mounted on shank 13 in suitable manner between follower plates 17.

118 are combined follower lug and side stem bracket castings. Castings 18are provided with suitable seats or pockets for springs 15 .and suitable lugs ada ted to be engaged by the followers 17. T ese castings are so sha ed that the side stem spring seats or soc ets, when the castings are riveted in place on the center sills, are located on the outside of the center sills and the follower lugs are located on the inner side of the center sills, that is, between the two sills. arrangement of casting is far simpler than structures heretofore made `and is more simly and quickly secured to the center sills. ilhis casting may, furthermore, be suitably ribbed and reinforctd for the purpose of strength.

following is what I claim as new therein and desire tosecure b Letters Patent nel-shaped end sill having innerand outer flanges perforated on either side oftheir longitudinal centers in combination with buffer stems extending through said perforations.

p 2. In a car underframe, an end sill having 13 is the coupler shank, 14 the coupler side v.Having thus described my invention, thev 1. In a car un erframe, an inverted chan-m cured to the up er surface of end sill 2, proan inner flange deeper at its outer end 'than the outer fiange and increasing in depth tol ing in abroken lineand avstraightinnerfienge ward its center in combination with a step] dee er at its outei` end than the outer Bange henger supported'by seid inner Han e. I andp increasing in/depth toward its center.

3. In a ear underfrafme, en end siii having i The fore ning specification' signed at 5 an inner ange deeper at its outer end than McKees Roc s, Allegheny county2 Pennsylthe outer Hnge and increasing in depth tovena, this twenty-eighth de of May,v 1908.

ward itscenter. FE IX KOCH.

4. In a 'car underframe, an inverted chen- Witnesses: nel-shaped end sill having an outer ienge of i T. J. JONES,

i c the same depth throughout its length extendi G. C. LAMBE.

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