US Patent: 1,103,452
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| Coupling Lock for Wheeled Vehicles
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Patentee:
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| Marquis J. Todd (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, Erie County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Apr. 23, 1913 |
| Granted: |
Jul. 14, 1914 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Buffalo Pitts Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
In an application for patent filed by me April 22, 1913, now Patent No. 1,083,777, I described. means for locking a coupling-bar to either of two adjacent vehicles of a train of vehicles, the means described for that purpose in such application being manually- shiftable so that as the coupling member is locked to one vehicle it is unlocked from the next adjacent vehicle. The object of the present invention is to provide for automatically locking and unlocking the coupling member coincident with any reversal of direction of travel of the train, such coupling, member being always locked to the forward end of the following or succeeding vehicle.
Claim:
In combination with a pair of wheeled vehicles, a coupling member between such vehicles, locking mean's carried by said coupling-member for locking the latter to one or the other of said vehicles, and means for automatically shifting said locking means coincident with the reversal of direction of travel of the vehicles, to unlock the coupling member from one vehicle as it is locked to the other vehicle. |
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