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Patented April 19, 1904.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ANDREW J. ZILKER, ALBERT L. TIDMARSH, AND CHARLES J. ARMSTRONG,
OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.
ELEVATING BRICK-CAR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,710, dated April 19, 1904.
Application filed April 9, 1903. Serial No. 151,905. (No model.)To all whon it may concern:
Be it known that we, ANDREW J. ZILKER,
ALBERT L. TIDMARSH, and CHARLES J. ARM-
sTRONG, citizens of the United States, residing
5 at Austin, in the county of Travis and State
of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Elevating Brick-Car, of which the following
is a specification. _
The invention relates to improvements in
xo elevating brick cars or trucks.
The object of the present invention is to
improve the construction of elevating brick
cars or trucks and to provide a simple, inex-
pensive, and efficient car or truck designed
15 for use in a brick-yard for carrying bricks
from a machine to a yard, kiln, or drier and
from yard or drier to kiln or for otherwise
handling bricks or other ware and adapted to
be run beneath a pallet containing bricks and
2o elevated to raise the pallet from its supports
to permit the same and its contents to be con-
veyed to the desired point.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide a car of this character which will have
25 its elevating - frame arranged close to the
ground to enable a large number of bricks to
be conveniently loaded on it.
Also the invention has for its object to pro-
vide a brick-car in which the mechanism for
30 raising and lowering the upper frame may. be
operated at either end of the car to avoid turn-
ing the latter end for end and to obviate the
necessity of providing turn-tables and trans-
fer-cars for that purpose.
35 With these and other objects in view the in-
vention consists in the construction and novel
combination and arrangement of parts, here-
inafter fully described, illustrated- in the ac-
companying drawings, and pointed out in the
40 claims hereto appended, it being understood
that various changes in the form, proportion,
size, and minor details of construction within
the scope of the claims may be resorted to
without departing from the spirit or sacrific-
45 ing any of the advantages of the invention.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva-
tion of an elevating-car constructed in accord-
ance with this invention, the upper frame be-
ing lowered. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is
50 a side elevation, the upper frame of the brick-car being elevated. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal
sectional view, the parts being arranged as
illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a horizontal
sectional view. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail
sectional view illustrating the manner of 55
mounting the slidable wedges for raising and
lowering the upper frame of the car. Fig. 7
is a transverse sectional view of the same.
Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view on the
line 8 8 of Fig.7. 60
Like numerals of reference designate corre-
sponding parts in all the figures of the draw-
ings.
1 designates a lower or - truck frame pro-
vided with front and rear bearings or jour-. 65
nal-boxes for the reception of front and rear
axles 2 of wheels 3, which may be flanged, as
illustrated in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings,
when the car is designed to run upon a track
4; but the flanges may be omitted and the car 70
may be. constructed to run upon the ground
similar to an ordinary brick-carrying truck.
The bearings 5, which may be constructed in
any desired manner, are preferably arranged
to receive the axles at points between the 75
wheels, as shown, and the lower frame 1 is
mounted directly upon the axles to provide a
low truck to facilitate handling a large load
of bricks or other material.
The lower frame 1 is composed of. channel- 8o
iron sides 6 and connecting transverse end
bars 7, provided with central outwardly-ex-
tending bifurcated arms 8, forming supports
for operating-levers 9, hereinafter described,
for raising and lowering an upper frame 10. 85
The channel-iron sides 6, which are provided
with horizontal flanges 11, form guides or
ways for movable antifriction devices which
support reciprocatory wedges 12. The anti-
friction devices consist of a series of antifric- 90
tion rollers or wheels 13, arranged within an
oblong frame 14 and connected with the same
by pivots or spindles 15, extending through
the rollers or wheels and through suitable per-
forations of the sides of the oblong frame, as 95
clearly illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 of the draw-
ings. The rollers are arranged upon longi-
tudinal ribs or ridges 16, spaced apart, as
clearly shown in .Fig. 7, and forming tracks
for the antifriction devices, which are limited ooNo. 757,710.
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Zilker, Andrew J.; Tidmarsh, Albert L. & Armstrong, Charles J. Elevating Brick Car, patent, April 19, 1904; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513680/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.