. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Refrigerator Car Door. A new refrigerator car door, handledby the Trenton Malleable Iron Company,of Newark, N. J., called the TrentonRefrigerator Car Door (Johnson pat-ent), is shown in our line illustra-tion. It is composed of one piece andis a flush door, but comes out and slidesaway from the opening, similar to theflush doors in use on ordinary freightcars. As will be seen from the engraving,there is no chance for this door becom- SECTION 01 DOOR IRON. with lugs fastened to the door. These
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Refrigerator Car Door. A new refrigerator car door, handledby the Trenton Malleable Iron Company,of Newark, N. J., called the TrentonRefrigerator Car Door (Johnson pat-ent), is shown in our line illustra-tion. It is composed of one piece andis a flush door, but comes out and slidesaway from the opening, similar to theflush doors in use on ordinary freightcars. As will be seen from the engraving,there is no chance for this door becom- SECTION 01 DOOR IRON. with lugs fastened to the door. Thesebrackets, being beveled, enables the doorto be forced in tightly to the seat at thebottom. A chain fastened to the bottomof the door connecting to and sliding ona rod under the car, prevents the doorfrom swinging out when opened. It willalso be seen that the hangers or trolleyssupporting the door on the track haveroller bearings on the side to take up thefriction due to the eccentric hanging of thedoor when open. To operate the door the lever is disen-gaged from the rack and forced to the po-. TRENTON REFRIGERATOR CAR DOOR. ing unfastened and swinging out so as tofoul passing trains, which when it hap-pens with the ordinary door does con-siderable damage, sometimes even caus-ing wrecks. It will also be observed thatthe door can be opened from any plat-form, thus getting rid of the necessity ofopening the door before coming up tothe platform and backing the car awayfrom the platform before being able toclose the door. sition shown by the dotted lines. This op-eration rotates, by means of link motion,the rocker shaft, which throws the doorout and upwards, disengaging the lugsfrom the brackets at the bottom andthe whole door is swung out ready to bemoved away. To close the door it isonly necessary to push the bottom of thedoor in and force the lever back to itsfirst position which drops the door downand the lugs fit into the brackets at the 552 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING D
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