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(No Model.) 4. Sheets-Sheet 1. F. J. ARNODIN & M. A. DE PALACI0. MEANS FORTRANS

(No Model.) 4. Sheets-Sheet 1. F. J. ARNODIN & M. A. DE PALACI0. MEANS FORTRANSPORTING LOADS. No. 425,724, Patented Apr. 15, 1890, N : S | | 77/2072 esses 9A4 446.e., 6&Z 2%-4-22er THE NORRIS PETERs co, Photo-litHo, washington, c. c. (No Model.) 4. Sheets-Sheet 2. F. J. ARNODIN & M. A. DE PATACI0. MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING L0ADS. No. 425,724. Patented Apr. 15, 1890. A-zaza esses o2. Z72.2/e/2ZZY 94 (evee, 32%.1at a 12% (No Model.) 4. Sheets-Sheet 3. Y F. J. ARNODIN & M. A. DE PAI, ACI0. MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING LOADS, No. 425,724, Patented Apr. 15, 1890. Witnesses, (No Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet 4. F. J. ARNODIN & M. A. DE PALACIO. MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING LOADS, No. 425,724, Patented Apr. 15, 1890. A/zz72 essey ar Z722/22 (67. 9A4 &é 2:3. 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 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 and 5. O 25 35 45 2 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 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 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 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 torm', placed upon the floor of the car or plat 425,724 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 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 uploads/Science et Technologie/ patent-us425724-arnodin.pdf