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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
FERDINAND JOSEPH ARNODIN, OF CHATEAUNEUF-ON-THE-LOIRE, FRANCE,
AND MARTIN ALBERTO DE PALACIO, OF BILBAO, SPAIN.
MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING LOADS.
;SRECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,724, dated April 15, 1890.
Application filed March 26, 1888, Serial No. 268,526, (No model.) Patented in France November 5, 1887, No. 186,773 in England
December 21, 1887, No. 17,573; in Belgium February 29, 1888, No, 80,816, and in Spain April 10, 1888, No. 7,506,
To all twhon, it may concern.
Be it known that we, FERDIN AND JOSEPH
ARNODIN, a citizen of the Republic of France,
residing at Chateauneuf-on-the-Loire, in said
5 Republic, and MARTIN ALBERTO DEPALACIO,
a subject of the King of Spain, residing at
Bilbao, in said Kingdom, have invented a new
and useful Improvement in Means for Trans
porting Loads from one Place to Another, (for
Io Which Said ARNODIN has obtained a brevet
d'invention of the Republic of France, No.
186,773, dated November 5, 1887, and for which
they have jointly obtained a patent in Spain,
No. 7,506, dated April 10, 1888; a patent of
I5 Great Britain, No. 17,573, dated December 21,
1887, and a brevet in Belgium, No. 80,816,
dated February 29, 1888,) of which the follow.
ing is a specification, reference being had to
the accompanying drawings.
20 Our invention relates to means employed
for transporting a load from one point to an
other across a water-course or ravine, or where
the conditions are not favorable for making
a road, or where it is impossible or difficult,
25 to build an ordinary bridge.
In carrying out our invention we employ a
girder or light bridge-like structure support
ed on piers, towers, or other elevated supports
at a sufficient height-say high enough for
3o the highest vessel to pass under-and pro
vided with rails or ways, upon which runs a
frame-work mounted on rollers, to which are
attached metal rods or cables for suspending
a platform or car, which may be, for exam
35 ple, at the height of the banks or quays of a
river or Water-course, and within which or on
which are carried the passengers, railway
cars, or other vehicles, animals, or other mer
chandise which it is desired to transport
40 across the river, water-course, ravine, or space
which is spanned by the girder.
Our improvement consists in certain means,
hereinafter described and claimed, of support
ing the said frame-work on the rails or ways,
45 and of Suspending the platform or car from
Said frame-Work, and in certain means, here
inafter described and claimed, for producing
the movement of the said framework and and 5.
suspending the platform or car upon the said
rails or ways.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rep
resents an elevation of a bridge of the Sus
pension type furnished with a transporting
apparatus according to our invention. Fig.
2 represents a side elevation, on a larger 55
scale, of a portion of one of the girders of the
bridge, a rail supported thereon, a set of
wheels or rollers running on Said rail, a por
tion of a frame suspended from said wheels
or rolliers, and a portion of one of the suspen- 6o
sion rods or cables by which the car or plat
form is to be suspended from said frame. Fig.
3 represents a transverse Section of a portion
of the bridge corresponding with Fig. 2. Fig.
4 shows a side elevation of a portion of a 65
bridge-girder on a smaller scale than Figs. 2
and 3, with two adjacent sets of wheels or
rollers-such as are shown in Figs. 2 and 3
running thereon. Fig. 5 is a plan correspond
ing with Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents in section 7 O
a portion of the floor of the suspended plat
form or car and a portion of the propelling
apparatus and a motor therefor on a larger
scale than Fig. 1.
Similar letters of reference designate corre- 75
sponding parts in all the figures.
Referring to Fig. 1, the bridge therein rep
resented is a suspension-bridge of the ordi
nary type, but so constructed that it only con
tains parts necessary for the Support and 8o
travel of the carrying-frame and car Suspend
ed therefrom. No flooring is necessary. There
is only a narrow gang Way 2, Fig. 4, for the
passage of the man whose duty it is to grease
and keep the rolling part of the apparatus in 85
order. The bridge-platform consists only of
two beams a, Fig. 3, held together by cross
ties b and furnished at their lower parts with
angle-irons c, upon which are supported rails
d, which serve as the track for the flanged 9o
wheels e. These wheels are united in pairs by
axlesf, and two of these pairs of wheels are
brought together in such manner as to con
stitute a train of four wheels, as may be seen
by reference to and comparison of Figs. 4 95
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Each of the axles.fof a train has suspended
on it a stirrup g, Figs. 2 and 3. There are then
two of these stirrups for a train of four wheels,
and they carry at their lower ends pins h,
over each of which are passed two other stir
rups i, to which the branches are bolted, as
shown in Figs. 2 and 3, through the longitudi
nal piece j of the traveling frame, which is
shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This frame is thus
O suspended from the different trains of wheels
by the system of stirrups g i, the number of
the trains of wheels necessary to sustain it
depending upon its dimensions and upon the
weight which it itself has to carry. In the
drawings, Fig. 1, it is supposed that there are
Seven trains of wheels on each side, fourteen in
all. The frame is composed of the longitudi
nal bars j, secured together by cross-ties k,
which will be hereinafter further described,
and by diagonal braces l, Fig. 5. It is from
this rolling frame that the transporting-car
?m is suspended, as shown in Fig. 1, by means
of rods or metallic cables n, conveniently at
tached in triangular form. These suspension
25 rods or cables are attached to stirrups o, rid
ing on the longitudinal barsi of the rolling
frame and resting on saddles p, bolted upon
the said bars, Fig. 2.
We will now describe how the movement is
given to the transporting car or platform m.
and the rolling frame j k l from which it is
suspended, with reference to Figs. 1 and 6.
Across the river or water-course therein rep
resented there is laid from one bank to the
35 other a cable or chain p', the ends of which
are firmly secured to the shore. This chain or
cable is long enough to lieupon the bottom of
the river with considerable slack. This cable
or chain passes under the car or platform m.
over a chain wheel or pulley q, the shaft or
axle q of which is supported in bearings
fixed under the car or platform, and the said
chain wheel or pulley has rotary motion given
to it in either direction from a reversible mo
45 torm', placed upon the floor of the car or plat
form m. This motor may be of any conven
ientor suitable kind-as, for instance, a steam
engine or an electric motor. The main shaft
r of this motor is represented in Fig. 6 as
geared by spur-gears r" q' with the shaftg
of the pulley q. In passing over the pulley
or wheel q the chain is lifted from the bottom
to plunge again into the water as soon as it
passes, thus leaving the navigable channel
completely free. This means of propelling 55
the car or platform will prevent any oscilla
tion of the suspended car or platform by tak
inghold upon the bottom of the river or water
course. Moreover, this method of propelling
or giving motion to the car or platform insures
it always arriving at the desired landing-place,
and being there securely held during the em
barkation and disembarkation.
What we claim as our invention, and desire
to secure by Letters Patent, is 65
1. The combination of the frameik l, the
wheels e and their axles, the stirrups g, sus
pended on the axles, the pins h, provided in
said stirrups g, and the stirrups i, suspended
on said pins and supporting the said frame,
the said stirrups g and i forming a double ar
ticulation between the wheels and the frame,
as herein set forth.
2. The combination, with a girder or bridge
span provided with tracks and supports there 75
for, of the rolling frame running on said
tracks, a car or platform suspended from said
rolling frame, a motor on said car or platform,
and a chain or cable secured at its ends and
passing over a pulley or chain wheel driven
by said motor, substantially as and for the
purpose herein set forth.
In testimony whereof we have signed this
specification in the presence of two subscrib
ing witnesses.
FERDINAND JOSEPH ARNODIN.
MARTIN ALBERTO DE PAIACI0.
Witnesses:
CHARLES ASSI,
LOUIS GENES.