US975449A - Journal-box. - Google Patents

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J. E. OSMER.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1908;

Patented Nov. 15, 1910.

' upon the top of the-journal box.

' ward on the arm 6, at one side of the axis 3 STATES JOURNAL-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 15, 1910.

Application filed September 21, 1908. Serial No. 453,985.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. OSMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use.- ful Improvements in Journal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates particularly to the journal boxes of railway cars.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved cover or lid for a journal box.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of one form of journal box embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the box, portions being shown in section.

In the embodiment which has been selected for the purpose of illustrating the invention, the journal box 1 is provided witha cover or lid 2 which is pivotally attached to the box in any suitable way, such as by means of a pin 3 extending through lugs 4 and 5 upon the cover and the box, respectively. A means is provided for holding the cover in open and closed positions, which means, in this instance, comprises an arm 6 fixed with relation to the cover 2 at each side thereof, each of said arms being pivotally connected with a rod 7 that lies within a housing upon the journal box. and extends loosely through an opening 8 in said housing, whereby said rod is p1votally mounted in the housing. Surrounding the rod 7 is a coiled spring 9 which bears at one end against the bottom of the housing, and at its other end against a collar or shoulder 10 on the rod 7. Theupper end of the housing, in this instance, is open.

8 are drain openings.

The. opening movement of the cover 2 is limited by suitable means such as stops 11 fixed to the cover and arranged to impinge When the cover is in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, the spring 9 exerts its force upof the cover, to hold the latter ti htly closed. When the cover is raised upwarf against the action of said spring into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the point of pivotal connectionbetween the arm 6 and the rod 7 passes to the other side of the axis 3, whereupon the spring 9 serves to hold the cover in theraised position.

I claim as my invention:

l. The combination, wit-h a journal box I and pintle-engaging means; a stop with relation to said lid and adapted to conhaving a top wall and vertical side walls, 7

of a pivotally mounted lid for closing an opening in the forward side of the box, said lid having a crank arm fixed thereto at one side of the lid; a rod attached at its upper end to said arm; a perforated portion on the outside of one of the side walls of the box through which portion the lower end of said rod extends, said perforated portion forming a fulcrum for said rod, said rod havin a ing in the forward side of the box, sai lid having an arm at one side thereof; a housing on the outer side of one of the side walls of the box; a rod connected to said arm and pivotally supported within said housing, said rod having a shoulder thereon; a coiled spring surrounding said rod and hearing at one end against said shoulder and at the other end against the bottom of the-housing, said arm being arranged to throw to opposite sides of its pivot; and a stop attached to said lid. 7

3. The combination, with a journal box having a top and an openmg in its forward side, said top wall having pintle-supporting means near its forward edge, of a lid for closing said opening, said lid having pintle-engagin means uponits upper edge; a pintle exten ing through said pintle-supporting means tact said top wall to limit the opening move ment of the lid; a crank arm fixed to said lid near its axis of-oscillation and at one .side edge of the lid; a rod movably attached at its upper end to said arm; a portion on the outer side of one of the side walls through which said rod extends loosely and 4. The combination, with a journal box,

of a pivotally mounted lid having'a crank arm at one end thereof; a housing-.on-one side ofthe box. said housing having an openwall and vertical side walls.

ing in its lower end, upwardly flaring walls, shoulder and at its other end against the hotand an open upper end; a rod connected at tom of said housing, said arm being ar- 10 its upper end to said 'crank' arm, said rod ranged to throw to opposite sides of its extending through saidhousing and its pivot and a stop attached to said lid.

lower end lying in the opening in the lower JOHN E; OSMER' end of said housing said rod having a shoul- Witnesses: der thereon; a colled spring surroundin GEORGE. L. CHINDAHL, said rod and bearing at one end against sai I C. PAUL PARKER.

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