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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
NED EASTMAN BARNES, OF WILLIS, TEXAS.
HOT-BOX COOLER AND OILER.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Sept. 29, 1908.
Application filed September 26, 1907. Serial No. 394,770.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, NED E. BARNES, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Willis,
in the county of Montgomery and State of
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Hot-Box Coolers and Oilers,
of which. the following is a specification.
This invention relates to devices for cool-
ing and lubricating the journal boxes of rail-
10 way cars, and embodies in its organization a
supply tank or vessel adapted to contain a
cooling and lubricating liquid and having a
discharge pipe through which the liquid is
delivered to the journal box or boxes.
15 The invention has for its objects to pro-
vide a comparatively simple, inexpensive de-
vice of this character which may be readily
installed for use, one wherein the liquid will
be delivered directly onto the journal or
20 journals for oiling and cooling the same, thus
to relieve or prevent what are known as hot
boxes, and one in which the discharge of the
liquid may be readily controlled and be di-
rected to one or more of the journal boxes, as
25 circumstances require.
With these and other objects in view, the
invention comprises the novel features of
construction and combination of parts more
fully hereinafter described.
30 In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1
is a perspective view of a device embodying
the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view partly
in section and on an enlarged scale of one of
the clamping screws. Fig. 3 is a view show-*
35 ing a modified embodiment of the invention
and illustrating. the device applied for use.
Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a
tank or vessel preferably composed of sheet
metal and of trunco-conical form diminish-
40 ingly tapered from its rear toward its for-
ward end and having in its upper wall ad-
jacent its rear end an inlet opening closed by
a screw cap 2, there being provided at the
forward end of the vessel and in substantial
45 alinement with its bottom wall a discharge
spout 3 equipped with a cut-off valve 4 and
terminating at its outer end in a vertical de-
pending portion 5, while formed on the lower
side of the tank at points adjacent its ends
50 are a pair of loops or bails 6 through which
are threaded straps or bands 7 adapted to
encircle the vessel and having at their meet-
ing ends pivoted suspending members or
rings 8 for a purpose which will presently
55 appear.
The tank 1 is supported by a pair ofbrackets 9 each comprising a horizontal por-
tion 10 and a separable vertically depending
portion 11 provided at its lower end with a
vertically spaced series of openings 12, one co
of which receives an engaging member or
hook 13 adapted for engagement with the
adjacent pair of rings 8 for suspending the
tank 1, there being formed on the outer end
of the bracket portion 10 an L-shaped en- 65
gaging portion 14 and on its inner end a
bearing portion 15 to which the upper end of
the vertical portion 11 is connected by means
of a clamping screw 16 having at its outer end
a finger piece 17 and at its inner end a bear- 70
ing head 18 swiveled onto the screw and
having applied to its active face a covering
19 of leather or other friction material se-
cured to the head by screws 20.
In practice, the tank or vessel 1 is filled 75
with a mixture of oil and water or other suit-
able cooling and lubricating liquid and sus-
pended from the brackets 9 with the portion
5 of the discharge spout positioned over and
for delivering the liquid onto the journal, it 80
being understood that the brackets 9 are pre-
viously arranged upon a portion of the truck
frame and clamped thereto by means of the
screws 16, which it will be observed perform
the further function of connecting the ver- 85
tical bars 11 with the horizontal portions of
the bracket. When it is desired to deliver
liquid from the tank onto the journal the
valve 4, which remains normally closed, is
opened and .the liquid in flowing onto the 90
journal cools and lubricates the same for
preventing the formation of or relieving a hot
box. It will be understood that the tank
may be filed by removing the cap 2 and that
when the rings 8 are engaged with the hooks 95
13 the straps are held m place on the tank
and the latter removably suspended from
the brackets.
In Fig. 3 the device is shown applied to a
car 21 by engaging the brackets 9 with one 100
of the longitudinal sill beams 22, there being
also shown in this view a slight modification
of the invention, wherein the discharge spout
leading from the tank 1 is in the form of a
pipe or duct 23 of a length to extend the en- 105
tire length of the car for supplying the cool-
ing and lubricating liquid to all of the journal
boxes 24, with which the pipe 3 is connected
through the medium of vertically depending
portions or tubes 25 equipped with cut-off 110
valves 26. In the. operation of this form of
the device, one or more of the valves 26 areNo. 899,939.
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Barnes, Ned Eastman. Hot Box Cooler and Oiler, patent, September 29, 1908; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512584/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.