Bingham Bulletin | 1939-04-21 | Page 3 | Use of Car Couplings

t'se of Car Coupling, Railroads first started changing Ezra Miller patented his automatic coupler in 1863. By 1870 it was in general use in the middle and western west-ern states and a few years later in use on most of the railroads in the United States. The Pennsylvania railroad in 1878 made the Janney coupler, which was patented by E Janney 'n 1877. standard equip! ment for its passenger cars. In 1887 a recommendation of the Master Car Builders' association for the adop-tion adop-tion of vertical plane couplers dis-continued dis-continued the use of the pin and link couplers on all roads. The Janney coupler was made standard by this association in 1888.