Car Coupling.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the l…
more
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Appell, Charles E.
Item Type:
Refine your search to only
Patent
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department