US949878A - Street-car. - Google Patents

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I c. 0. BIRNEY. Q STREET GAR.

' APPLIOATIOE FILED KAR.24, 1908.

949,878. 7 Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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APYLIOATIOH FILED [A314, 1908.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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CHARLES 0. BIRNEY, OF ST. LGUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE PAY-AS-YOU-EN'IEE. CAR CORPORATION, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. CHARLES O. BIRNEY, a citizen of the United States. and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certam new and useful Improvements in Streettion containing a full, clear, and exact depanymg drawings, forming a part hereof.

My Invention relates generally to street cars, and more particularly to the car platform and entrance,- my ObjGCtbeing to construct a car or car platform embodying What IS con nnonly known as the pay-as-you-enter principle, which arrangement necessitates the provision of entrance and exit doors between the platform and body of the car, thus permitting all of the passengers entering the car to pass through one door and to pass through a second door when leaving the car, and the conductor being adjacent the entrance door, where he has full View of the entire platform, and is therefore in posit on to receive the fares of passengers entering the car and to properly signal the motorman or car driver.

A further object of my invention is to provide a hinged exit door frame which may due-tor, and which exit door frame and exit door are adapted to be moved into position to closc the opening normall used as an exit, thus leaving the entire platform clear and unobstructed when occupied by the mo torman or car driver.

Tothe above purposes, my inventionconslsts in certain novel features of constrdction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the aceompan ying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a horizontal section taken through the center of one end of a car body and platform constructed in accordance with mr invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged section talten approximately on the line 2-2 of F 1g 1, showingthe lower portion of the exit door and its frame; Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, showing the bearin s for both ends of the movable post to which the exit door frame Specification of Letters Yatent.

Application filed Karen 24, 1908.

STREET-CAR.

is hinged; Fig. 4 is a perspective of a filler plate which is utilized in. closing the slots in the plates which receive the ends of the movable post; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross section. Cars, of which the following is a specifica- Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 1 designates the car body, 2 scriptlon, reference being had to the accom- Y the platform thereof, and arranged at the endof the body adjacentthe platform are the usual corner posts 3 and 4. Arranged at the outer corners of the platform are the vestibule posts 5 and 6, and arranged on the side of the platform between the posts 1 4 and 6 is a. step 7.

Positioned between the car body and the platform at a pointapproximately half way between the corner posts 3 and 4 is a center post Spend adjacent the corner post 3 is a post 9, to which is hinged an entrance door 10, of any suitable construction. the free edgev of which swings against the center post-8.

Set into the edge of the platform 2, immediately adjacent the step 7 and extending approximately half way from the corner post 4 to the corner post 6 is a plate 11, provided witha longitudinall extending slot f 12, and normally positioned in this slot 12 be swung open when desired by the con-f is a filler plate 13, in which is formed an aperture 14, which permits the plate to be engaged and removed when desired.

Positioned in the under side of the plat- 1 form hood innuediately above the plate 11 t is a corresponding slotted plate 15, and re moi ably positioned in the slot therein is a filler plate 16. An exit door post 17, preferably in the form of a hear snetal tube, is provided on its end; with pins 18 which engage in the plates 11 and 15.

Hin ed in any suitable 'manncr to the post 1 is an exit door frame 19, and fixed to the bottom thereof is a metallic threshold plate 20 beneath which is po itioned and held for rotation a roller 21, which bears directly upon the platform 2. The door frame 19 is of such width as that when the post 17 occupies the outer ends of the slots in the plates 11 and 15, the free side of said frame bears against the center post 8, ahd thus entrance and exit assage-ways are formed on the platform eading into and from the interior of the car. An exit door 22 is connected by means of hinges 23 to the door frame 19, and the said exit door heing of such width as that when it is swung out of the door frame its free edge closes against the corner post -l, and thus said exit door, together with the entrance door 10, closes the openings between the car body and platform.

When a car of my improved construction is in use, the various parts are in the positions shown in Fig. 1, and the conductor being immediately adjacent the center post 8, where he is in position to receive the fares of the entering passengers, and where he has full view of the platform and step, and can therefore readily see the movements of the passengers, and thereby govern the signals to the motorman or car driver stationed on the opposite platform. The passengers entering the car pass between the osts 6 and 17, and after paying fare to t e conductor enter the car by swinging the entrance door 10 inward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The passengers leaving the car engage and swing the exit door 22 outward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, into position in the door frame 19, and said passengers now pass out through the space. between the osts 4 and 17.

Should't 1e conductor stationed on the car platform desire to assist a passenger to alight, the entire door frame 19 and the door 22 in said frame can be swung outward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus permitting the" conductor to pass into the exit passage-way traversed by the passengers in leaving the car. \Vhen the entire door frame is thus swung open or closed, the roller 21 rides upon the car platform, thus makin the movement of said door frame free anc reducing the friction between the platform and said door frame, which latter is of considerable weight.

iVhen it is desired to move the post 17 into position immediately adjacent the corner post 4, as is necessary when the car platform is transformed so as to be occupied bv the motorman or car driver, the filler plates 1 and 16 are removed from the slotted plates 11 and 15, and the post 17 is unwed into a position immediately adjacent the corner post 4, during which movement the pins 18 travel through the slots in said plates 11 and 15, and after this operation has been completed the filler plates are reseated in the slots in the plates 11 and 15, and thus the entire platform is free and unobstructed, and that portion of the car between the platform and car body is entirely closed.

A car of my improved construction is comparatively simple, provides means whereby passengers entering and leaving the car (pass through separate doors, thereby avoi' ing confusion and crowdin and provision is made whereby the con uctor remains at a fixed station, where he may readily receive the fares of all the passengers entering the car, and where he is in position to see the movements of the passengers getting on and off the car, and can therefore properly signal the motorman or car driver without danger of inju to passengers in the act of getting on or o the car.

I claim:

l. The combination with a street. car of a post arranged. on the car platform adjacent-the step, a door frame hinged to said post, and an exit door hinged in the frame and adapted to normally close the exitopening in the end of the car.

2. The combination with a street car of a movable post arranged on the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to themovable post, and an exit door hinged to the door frame and normally closing the exit-opening at the end of the car.

3. The combination with a street car of a movable post arranged on the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to the movable post, a roller arranged on the bottom of the doorframe, and an exit door hinged to the door frame and normally clos ing the exit opening at the end of the-car. 4. The combination with a street car of a center post arranged between the corner posts of the car body, a. movable post arranged err' the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to the movable post, the free edge of which frame closes against the ".enter post, and an exit door hinged to the door frame and normally closing the exit opening between the center post and one of the corner posts of the car body. 5. The combination with a. street car of a center ost arranged between the corner posts of the car body, a movable post arranged on the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to the movable post, the free edge of which frame closes against the center post, a roller arranged on the bottom of the door frame, and an exitdoor hinged to the door frame and normally closing the exit opening between the center postand one of the corner posts of the car body.

6. The con1bination with a street car of a movable post arranged on the car platform adjacent the step, means whereby said post is held in a fixed position, a doorframe inged to the movable post, and an exit door hinged to the frame and normally closing the exit opening, in the end of the car.

7. The combination with a street car of a movable pest arranged on the car platform odjacent the step, meansovhereby said i In testimony whereof, I have signed my gosh is held in a fixed position, a door name to th1s specification, in presence of two ame hinged to the movable post, a roller 'suBscribmg Witnesses.

arranged on the bottom of the door frame, 3 CHARLES O. BIRNEY. 5 and an exit door hinged to the frame and Witnesses:

normally closing the exit opening in the M. P. SMITH,

end of the car. E. L. WALLACE.

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