US1285050A - Station-indicator. - Google Patents

Description

A. N. CORNlSH. STATION INDICATOR APPLICATION FILED 111LY18,19|6.

Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

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ARTHUR n. coRNIsH, or CLIFF, OREGON.

STATION JNDICATOR.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR N. CoRNIsH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cliff, in the county of Lake and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Station Indicators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements on devices which are known generally as station indicators and which are used in passenger coaches and railway trains for the purpose of indicating for the information of the passengers the name of the next station at which a stop is expected to be made. This invention has for its 0bject to produce a device which can be cheaply manufactured and comprises a construction which is of a few parts that will not become an inoperative device.

A further object of this invention isto provide a device which is compact and can be easily applied to a railway coach and will not take up a considerable lot of space, but will be of such a construction that will be easily readable by the passengers.

With the above objects in view the invention consists in a novel detailed construction hereinafter fully described in this specification, particularly pointed out in the claim and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a plan view,

Fig. 2 is a side View,

Fig. 3 is a. perspective view of the frame, and

Fig. A is a plan view of the key.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a. pair of rollers having mounted thereon an apron 2 preferably of canvas or any other suitable material. The apron has printed thereon the names of stations occurring along the line of route of the car. A spindle 3 is secured to each end of the rollers 1 and is provided with a transverse slot 4 in the end thereof.

A pair of Vertical uprights 5 are each provided with a pair of bearings 6 to receive the spindles 3. These bearings are of such a right angles to the Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented NO 19, 1918. Application filed July 18, 1916.

Serial No. 109,941.

size as to snugly receive the spindles 3 so as to prevent their accidental rotation.

A pair of horizontal arms 7 have their ends extended rearwardly, as illustrated at 8, and secured to the vertical uprights 5 adjacent the upper and lower ends of said vertical uprights. The free ends 9 of the horizontal arms are extended rearwardly at portions 8 so as to form a flat attaching flange. The flanges 9 are provided with apertures adapted to receive screws or other suitable fastening means whereby the station indicator may be secured to the wall of a car. The vertical uprights 5 being secured to the horizontal arms 8 as illustrated at 10, form an efficient framework which will support the rollers l on which the apron 2 is mounted in full view of the passengers. The upper horizontal arm 7 has printed thereon Next station and any other suitable advertising matter can be placed upon the lower horizontal arm 7 making a. device capable of a station indicator as well as an advertising device.

A cylindrical key 11 is provided at one of its ends with a transverse bar 12 adapted to fit into the transverse slot 4 of the spindle 3 to prevent the key 11 from rotating upon the spindle 3. The key 11 is also provided with a transverse handle 13 adjacent its other end by means of which the rollers 1 may be rotated to change the name of the station.

It will be seen by this construction that the applicant has invented a device which is of few parts and not liable to become inoperative as that of devices of similar nature which are now upon the market.

If desired the above referred to parts may be located within the glass casing (not shown) to protect them from dust and other foreign matter.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A station indicator comprising a pair of relatively spaced vertically disposed uprights, spaced bearings secured to the uprights adjacent each end thereof, spaced horizontal rollers journaled in said bearings, an apron wound on said rollers and having characters thereon, spaced horizontally disposed arms located in spaced relation to the rollers and in a plane above and below the axes thereof, said arms having anguiariy related ends extending rearwardly and secured to the uprights intermediatetheir ends and having their termii'iais disposed rearwardiy of said uprights and bent to form attaching feet adapted to be secured to a support, and means rotating the rollers.

ARTHUR N. CORNISH.

ii 'itnesses SPENCER I. Coemsfi DUDLEY M. LONG.

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