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R. D. TURNER.

Car Coupling.

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Witnesses.

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Inventor:

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AM. PHOTO-LITHO.CO. N.Y. (OSBORNE'S PROCESS.)

United States Patent Office.

REUBEN D. TURNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,849, dated July 8, 18C2.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Reuben D. Turner, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Car-Coupling; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The character of said drawings is clearly indicated by the titles which are appended to each figure of the same.

Each bumper-head, A or A', of myimproved car-coupling has a link, I or Γ, permanently secured within its flaring mouth by means of a pin, K or K', the said links projecting outward beyond the mouths of the respective bumper-heads about the same distance that the ordinary coupling - links do from the bumper heads of the usual description of carcouplings.

A catch, B or B', of the shape represented in Figure 5. of the drawings, is hinged within and at the front end of a longitudinal slot formed in the upper side of the mouth of each bumperhead, and a notch or shoulder formed in the lower side of the mouth of each bumper-head receives the lower end of each of the hinged catches when they are allowed to fall into the fastening position represented in Fig. 5. The said hinged catches are of such a shape that they will swing freely inward and upward when they are outwardly struck by the ends of the links IF, and as soon as the ends of said links have passed a sufficient distance within the mouths of the bumper - heads the said hinged catches will swing downward again and be received into the spaces within the links, as shown in Fig. 5, and by so doing they will couple the bumper-heads of my improved carcoupling with each other by a doubly secure fastening—viz., by the joint action of the two links 11', the two permanent pins K K', and the two hinged catches Β B'.

Suitable handles, F F', are jointed or otherwise secured to the upper extremities of the hinged catches Β B' for the purpose of enablingthem to be conveniently drawn upward. A flange, H or H', projects from the sidesand inner edge of the head of each hinged catch B or B' a sufficient distance to cover the mouths of the slots in which the said catches play, for the purpose of excluding snow or ice from the said slots when the catches are hanging in the fastening positions shown in Fig. 5.

Each hinged catch Bor B' has a shoulder, D or D', formed in such a position on one side of the head of the same as to prevent the catch from being drawn upward to a position higher than that represented in Fig, 2, or from being elevated to such a. position that the catches will not, simply by force of gravity, reset themselves in the position shown in Fig. 5 the moment that they are relieved from all lifting force.

The link which projects from the mouth of each bumper-head of my improved car-coupling can be readily coupled with any other bumper-head by the use of the ordinary coupling-pin.