. The railroad and engineering journal . sary to go into a detailed des-cription of the Miller device as above shown, for, from thedrawing, it will be evident to those readers who are me-chanics precisely how the parts operated. The windlassfor opening the hooks and the like mechanism for open-ing the gates is clearly shown and needs no explanation. .\mong the earlier patents, the first which is worthy of ]notice is the patent of Joseph Miller, No. 11,940, datedNov. 14. 1854. I This earlier Miller (who we believe was a cousin of Ezra jMiller, the inventor we are speaking of) showed two hookswi
. The railroad and engineering journal . sary to go into a detailed des-cription of the Miller device as above shown, for, from thedrawing, it will be evident to those readers who are me-chanics precisely how the parts operated. The windlassfor opening the hooks and the like mechanism for open-ing the gates is clearly shown and needs no explanation. .\mong the earlier patents, the first which is worthy of ]notice is the patent of Joseph Miller, No. 11,940, datedNov. 14. 1854. I This earlier Miller (who we believe was a cousin of Ezra jMiller, the inventor we are speaking of) showed two hookswith a single bevel, but each pivoted in a bumper-box ofold and well-known construction. The hooks were sepa-ated not by a sidewise motion as in the 1863 Miller patent,but by an up-and-down movement. Fig. 2 is taken fromthe 1854 patent of Miller, showing the parts partly insection. that they were forced to couple and remain coupled bythe springs Z) Z*. If no buffers or bumper-boxes wereused, then the two ends of each hook would strike the. Fig- 3. JONES COUPLER, 1855- cavity in the opposing hook, and a buffer would be thusformed. The patent of E. L. Keeler, No. 24,938, dated Aug. 2,1859, showed two hooks disconnected from any couplingor bumper-box. The hooks were separated by rotating Vol. LXI, No. 9 ] ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 402 them. Fig. 4 is an engraving of the hooks taken from thepatent.
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