Improvements in and relating to Railway-car Journal Boxes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1892
QUALLEIN OF MOTIVATION.
Improvements in and relating to Railway-car Journal Boxes.
1, CHARLES THOMAS SCHOEN, a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at No. 220 Western Avenue, in the City and County of Allegheny and
State of Pennsylvania, one of the United States of America, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to make a pressed steel journal or axle box
for cars, which may be interchanged with what is known in the United States
of America, as the Master Car Builders' standard of cast iron boxes, when
necessary.
In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, in the several figures of
which like parts are similarly designated,
Figure 1 is a top plan and half section.
Figure 2 is a side elevation.
Figure 3 is a rear view and half section, and
Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section.
The cover, a, may be a casting, malleable or otherwise, drop forging or of pressed
steel, but for the purposes of this case I will describe it as a casting, and as such it
is made with parallel transverse lugs, b, to receive the arch-bar of the truck; also
with lateral eyes, 61, 61, to receive the connecting bolt or bolts; also with the lug,
to receive a usual lid, d; also with a slotted projection, e, for the insertion of the
dust-guard,f; also with the downwardly projecting lugs, g, and also with a groove, h,
in its under side to receive the upper edges of the pressed steel body, i, of the box,
such body being united with the cover by riveting or otherwise fastening it to the
lugs, g.
The body, i, is formed of a single piece, of soft steel plate or other wrought metal,
bent to shape and otherwise manipulated and treated. It is provided with the
parallel lugs or projecting ribs, j. for the lower arch bar; the parallel side lugs or
projecting ribs, k, for the fastening bolt or bolts, a front lip, l, for the lid, and a rear
wall, m, having the opening for the axle nib or journal, n. Lateral shoulders, o, and
a bottom groove, p, are made in the body to receive a partition plate, q, to form the
box for the dust-guard, f. Both the rear wall, m, of the body and the partition, g,
are let into grooves in the cover, as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 4.
The sides,
bottom, rear wall and front lip are made integral.
r, is the brass or bearing of usual construction, held in place by the lugs, s,
depending from the cover and also by the key, t, which in turn is kept in place by
the lug, u, also depending from the cover, but of course I do not limit my invention
to these details, inasmuch as my invention consists broadly in a journal box having
its body of pressed steel or like wrought metal, and a separate top.
By the construction of box herein described it is possible to interchange with
cast iron boxes of the said Master Car Builders' standard, and hence my boxes are
available in replacing useless boxes on rolling stock already built. Another and
very important advantage of these boxes is that there is a saving of upwards of
nearly four hundred pounds of dead weight in the eight boxes of a car.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A journal box comprising an independently constructed top of suitable
material and formation
mhinnd with
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page_text: steel, made separate from the top and composed of sides, bottom, a rear wall and a
front lip made integral and fitted and secured to such top, substantially as
described.
2. A journal box comprising a top having a groove in its under side and down-
wardly projecting lugs, combined with a body struck-up from wrought metal,
having its edges fitted in said grooves. and fastened to said. lugs, substantially as
described:
3. In a journal box, a wrought metal body provided with lateral shoulders, o, and
a.bottom groove, p, combined with a partition plate, 7, fitted therein to separate off
or form in the rear of the box a compartment for the reception of the dust guard,
substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of September 1892