US106204A - Improvement in car-cottfling - Google Patents

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R11-'X & REXgJr.

N Car Coupling. i Y y No. 100,204. Patented Aug. 0,1070.

diurna (sans parte can.

yLetters'Patent N 106,204, dated August V9, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARJCOUPLING.

The Schedine referred to in these Letters Patent and makhg pa'rt of the Banu To alLwhoin it may concern: A v

Be it known that we, WlLLIAM A. REX and J osnee; M. REX,Jr., of Butler, in the county of De Kalb and yState of Indiana, have invented a new and .improved Car-Coupling; and we-do hereby declare that the following is a vfull, clear-,and exact descrip vtion thereof', which will enable others skilled .in the fart to make and nsethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing formingpart of thisspeciiication. v

My invention,relatesto devices much .usedffor coupling' cars, and the nature thereof consistsin the arrangement vot' parts, jhereinafter described.

The said coupling-pins are provided with oonnect ing-rods and levers, arranged/lor raising them from Ithe top sides oi' ythe cars.

Figure l represents a front elevation of a car prol vided. with our improved coupling devices, and

Figure 2 is ahorizontal section of a pair of couplings.

Similar' letters of reference indicate correspomiling The buffer-heads A are madehollow at the ends,

i 'for the receptionA of the draw-links Bin the usualv way,

and'in thesehollow spaces are provided the curve-.jl Aspring jaws, the ends of'\vlricli,`near the mouths'o the buffers, are widely sepa-rated, so as to receive the links when forced in, and guide them to the proper position to receive the pins D, opposite which the said jaws approach each other when' the links are disconnected,

so nearly as to serve as a support to hold the bolts up until they are .forced open by the entering link, and the boltallowed to fall, ixrdoing which it passes through the link.

These jaws may be. arranged in any preferred way, to' operate n themanner described, being either curved bars of metal pivoted at thc rear ends E, and provided with sprin'gsllT to' force them together, o1' the bars themselves may be springs, and rigidly' connectedat the' rear to the sides of the buffers, or to bolts traversing them in any way.

We propose to provide braces G above the bufi'ers, to support and guide'thc pins vertically, and we make enlargements, H, on the latter, to yprevent falling too far, and being'drawn too high by the rods I or levers K, which we provide for raising the bolts when standingr by the sides of the cars or on the tops.`

The jaws vare grooved at the points where they bear against the sides of the link, so that when a link is projecting from one buffer it will be support-ed horizontally for entering the buierof an approaching can, and thereby the cars may be coupled self-actingly.

The pins may also be held up to admit the pins by spring catches L on the levers K taking into notches in the side of the car.

Having thus described our invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The arrangement of the spring catclnlever K L, rod I, and the connecting-link by which the pin D is operated, all-as shown and described. W. A. REX.

J. M. REX, JR.

`Witnesses:

ABRM. J. PINCHE; O. H. Woonoox.4

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