US1198142A - Packing for journal-boxes. - Google Patents

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UNITED WIA IE@ PATENT UI I IUA.

CHARLES MILLER, 0F FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE TO THE FRANKLIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Franklin, in the county of Venango and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing for JournaLBoxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a loose or non-compressed packing material for the journal boxes of railway rolling stock in which a relatively large amount of gray yarn is utilized. This material may be variously composed of cotton or wool, or a mixture of cotton and wool, and like all shoddied materials it is devoid of life or resiliency.

In utilizing gray yarn for packing purposes the problem is to maintain it in contact with the journal to be lubricated, and this difficulty is particularly pronounced when used in journal boxes where the packing is necessarily beneath the journal. Excepting for this difficulty, gray yarn pro vides an admirable absorbent and conductor for the lubricant. It is durable; does not readily heat; and is comparatively inexpensive. In utilizing it as an element of so called waste packing the principal and heretofore insurmountable diiiiculty has been to maintain it in operative condition and in contact with the journal, the natural tendency of this lifeless, non-resilient material being to settle in a compact or sodden mass. With the invention herein this difliculty has been overcome by providing a fibrous resilient element, together with means for so uniting the yarn with such element as to prevent separation when in use and thereby forestall the natural compacting tendency of the yarn.

The invention may be variously embodied.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sgph 12, 19116 PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKING FOB JOURNAL-BOXES.

1,198,142. No Drawing. Application filed. March 14, 1916.

Serial No. 84,247.

In a preferred adaptation, the gray yarn is mixed with Louisiana moss and cotton rips, the latter owing to its pubescent character serving as a binder for maintaining the yarn and moss thoroughly and permanently intermingled. A desirable mixture consists of approximately 40% yarn; approximately 20% Louisiana moss, and approximately 40% cotton rips.

Various fibrous resilient elements have been proposed heretofore for use in journal box packings, including Louisiana moss, and while the latter is preferred, the invention is not limited thereto. And while the tentaclelike, downy or hairy surfaces of cotton rips provides for effectually uniting the yarn and resilient fiber, any other intermediary possessing a like characteristic is within the purview of the invention.

I claim:

1. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn, a fibrous resilient element, and a binder element for uniting the yarn and the resilient element.

2. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn, a fibrous resilient element, and a fibrous pubescent element for uniting the yarn and the resilient element.

3. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn, Louisiana moss, and cotton rips.

4. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn about 40%, Louisiana moss about 20% and cotton rips about 40%.

I11 testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MILLER.

l/Vitnesses:

G. F. Pnouorjoo'r, F. D. Si-IEETZ.

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