US977059A - Cash and package carrier. - Google Patents

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H. M. WEAVER.

CASH AND PAGKAGE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 1909.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Mix E3555 Allorney EPIC HENRY M. WEAVER, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

CASH AND PACKAGE CARRIER.

Application filed January 2, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. WEAVER, of Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Package Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in cash and package carriers,one object of the invention being to provide simple means for propelling the cars; to reduce friction on the propelling cords, and to relieve the cords of excessive wear.

A further object is to provide propelling iechanism employing a single series of pulleys and a single cord, in which the cord will be prevented from contact or engagement with the car.

A further object is to provide propelling mechanism which shall be durable in construction and in which the wear on the parts will be reduced to a minimum.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a cash carrier mechanism illustrating my improvements. Fig.2 is a sectional view on the line c-ac of Fig. 1.

1 represents a depending standard intended to be secured in any suitable manner to the ceiling or superstructure of a room. A bracket 2 is secured to the lower end of the standard 1 and provided with a forwardly projecting arm 3 with which the track-wire at is connected through the medium of a block 5. The bracket 2 is provided with a rearwardly projecting lug or ear 6, to which brace rods 7 are attached. A friction tube 8 is secured on the track-wire 4 and on this friction tube the car 9 is adapted to run as it reaches the station. A friction shoe 10 is located within the car and will be pressed against the tube 8 by means of springs 11 so as to increase frictional engagement between the tube 8 and the car and act as a brake for the latter as it approaches the station. The car 9 is provided with hook-portions 12 which project above the plane of the trackwire and in these portions, the journals of wheels 13 are mounted, the latter being thus Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

SeriaI No. 470,461.

adapted to run on the track-wire in the usual manner.

A bracket 1a is secured to and projects forwardly from the standard 1 a considerable distance above the lower end of the lattersaid bracket being provided at its free end with a depending arm 15. An arm 16 is secured to the standard 1 immediately over the bracket 2 and to said arm 16, one end of a bar 17 is secured. The bar 17 is disposed parallel with the trackway 4 and at its forward end has secured thereto a bracket 18. In order to maintain the bar 17 and the bracket 18 in proper position, a brace rod 19 is secured at one end to the latter and at the other end to the depending arm of the bracket 14.

Two pulleys 20 and 21 are mounted in the bracket 14 and a pulley 22 is mounted in bracket 18. One end of a cord 23 is secured to a sheave-block or frame 24 and after passing over the pulley 20 is passed about a sheave or pulley 25 mounted in the sheaveblock or frame and from thence the cord passes over the pulley 21 and then is extended forwardly and made to pass about the pulley 22 mounted in the bracket at the forward end of the bar 17. After passing over the pulley 22 the cord 23 is extended rearwardly and secured to a trolley 26 which is movable on the bar 17. The trolley 26 comprises a body portion 27, to the respective ends of which metal bands are secured and made to embrace the bar 17 loosely so as to permit the trolley to slide freely thereon. The body portion 27 of the trolley is provided at respective sides with laterally projecting members, such as lugs 28, and to these lugs the respective arms of a wire loop 29 are attached. The loop 29 projects rearwardly and downwardly from the trolley 27 and its cross-bar or that portion which connects its respective arms will be in position to be engaged by the hook portion 12 at one end of a car as the latter approaches a station.

The sheave-block or frame 24 has attached thereto, a depending pull cord 30 provided at its lower end with a handle 31.

As a car approaches a station, the hook portion 12 at the forward end of said car will engage the wire loop 29 and thus cause the trolley 26 to move rearwardly on the trackway afforded by the bar 17 and when the car shall have reached the station, the parts will be in the positions shown in Flg.

1. In order to propel the car forwardly over the track-wire, the operator will pull the sheave-block 2d downwardly by means of the pull cord with the effect of op erating the cord 23 and consequently moving the trolley 26 forwardly on the bar 17 As the trolley is thus propelled forwardly it will, through the medium of the wire loop 29 propel the car over the track-wire with a speed which will be about four times as great as that given to the pull cord 30 by the operator. It will be observed that a single series of pulleys and a single operating cord 23 is employed and hence the friction will be materially less than where a greater number of pulleys and a series of operating cords are used, as has heretofore been the custom with cash and package carriers of the type to which my invention relates. It will also be observed that the car never comes into engagement with the operating cord but is propelled by the trolley through the means of the connection therewith afforded by the wire loop 29. My improvements therefore avoid excessive wear on the operating cord, such as has been experienced with prior constructions in which the car is caused to engage and have frictional contact with the operating cord.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is,

1. In apparatus of the character described, the combination with a trackway for a car and a trackway for a trolley, of a trolley freely movable on said last mentioned trackway, a wire loop attached to said trolley and projecting downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, the rear end of said loop terminating an appreciable distance rearwardly of the trolley, and means for propelling said trolley to propel the car.

2. In apparatus of the character described, the combination with a depending standard and a trackway for a car secured thereto, of a rigid bar supported by said standard above the trackway, a trolley freely movable on said bar and provided with arms or projections, a loop connected with said arms or projections and extending downwardly and rearwardly an appreciable distance rearwardly of the trolley, and means for operating said trolley to propel a car.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a trackway for a car, of a bar disposed parallel therewith, a trolley freely movable on said bar, lugs projecting laterally from said trolley, a metal loop secured at its ends to said lugs and disposed in position to be engaged by a car on the trackway, and means for propelling the trolley to propel the car.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a support and a trackway for .a car connected with said support, of a bar also connected with said support and disposed parallel with said trackway, a trolley movable on said bar and provided with engaging means for a car, a bracket projecting from the support, pulleys mounted in said bracket, a pulley at the forward end of said bar, a sheave-block or frame, a sheave therein, a cord securedat one end to said sheave-block or frame and pass ing over the sheave therein and the pulleys in said bracket and also over the pulley at the forward end of said bar and having its other end attached to the trolley, and means connected with the sheave-block or frame for operating the same to transmit motion to the trolley for propelling the car.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY M. WEAVER.

lVitnesses M. McE. IVELDON, M. A. DRAKE.

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