US977359A - Passenger-car. - Google Patents

Description

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CHARLES H. ANDERSON, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

PASSENGER-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Appliqa'ton filed August 18, 1910. Serial No. 577,77?

To all vwhom fit may concern.'

Be it known that l, CHARLES H. ANDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the coungty of King and State ot1 Washington, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification,

My object is to provide a passenger-car, of the type having its entrance and exit at one side at or toward the middle, with improved, means so arranged that the conductor may,} While remaining-in a certain convenient location, readily control the entrance and exit of passengers and attend to the collection of fares. f v

My present improvements are especially adapted for cars employed in interurban service to facilitate the loading and unloading of passengers and collection of fares and reduce to a minimum danger of accident to passengers boarding or leaving the ear at stations. The car, for application to Whichmy present invention, as illustrated, is especially adapted, is shown and described in Letters Patent hitherto granted to me (see, for example, Patent No. 943,213, dated December 14, 1909).

ln the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a broken plan section ofthe central portion ot' a passenger-car body provided with my improvements; Fig. 2, locking and releasing mechanism for the exit doors, the view being taken on irregular line in Fig. 3; and Fig. 8, an enlarged broken cross-section taken on irregular line 3 in Fig. 1.

Thev car shown has a single compartment for passengers, extending from end to end,

and provided with a door Midway between the ends of the ,car the floor al. is cnt away at one side, leaving a space for steps '5, 5, wholly within the car-body and leading to a main door-opening divided by a central post G. The main door-opening has :folding-doors 7, closing approximately flush with the side lof the car body. The construction oii the folding doors l and their operating means forms no partof the present improvement, but is described in detail in a separate pending application Serial No. 530,013, led by me November 26, 1009. lt is thought srdlicient to state in the present connection that the doors 7, which completely close the door-opening at the foot of the steps, are or may be, in practice, under the control of the motorman, who is instructed, or compelled by the construction of the door-operatingmechanism, to close the doors before ,he starts the car and-open the doors only after-he has brought the' car to a stand-still.

At each side of the stairway is a narrow', inwardly-projecting partition 8, 8, terminating at thev inner edge of the stairway, as

shown, Where are located posts 9, 9, from/ which extend rails or barriers 10, 10 to gateposts 11, 11.

barriers 15, 15 Which be curved, as indicated, extend to posits 16, 16, in the posiY tion shown. Surrounding the. companion gate-posts 11, 12 are rotatable sleeves 1T, 17 carrying the swinging- gates 18, 18, which are held normally closed in the position shown, by springs 19 connected at their op.` posite ends, respectively, with the sleeves 17 iand post-sustaining socket-pieces 20, which latter form bearings for the sleeves 17. i ,It is to be understood that the posts 11 and 12 are stationary Within the sleeves 17 While the latter may turn in the bearings 2O and are provided, respectively, beneath the bearings,`

as shown in Fig. 2, is beneath the licor-4 and the free endi of the'arm, or lever, 29 is pivotally connected With the lower end of a treadle, or plunger-rod, 81 extending up.

Ward through the floor, in the position shown. A spring 36 fastened at one end to the under side oli the lloor and its oppo site end to the lever 29 tends to hold the ' parts 23, 99, 30 and. S1 in the position indicated.

The floor-space 32, between the barriers 15 and steps 5, is intended fer the assemblage of passengers who 'are about to leave the car and ulater for passengers who, hav- ;ing entered the car, are awaiting the collection ot'their fares. The open space between the posts 16 is for the entra-nce of= passengers to the passenger seating-sections of the car. The condnctors position is In the positionsl shown .are gate- posts 12,12 from which extend rails or' .barriers-13, 13 .to posts 141, 14. Rails or at 35. The gates 18 Which bar the exit of passengers from the seat-sections 34C to the spacev 32 are locked in their normally-closed position by the engagement of the iingers 80 with the notches 25, as shown in F ig. 2.

In practice, when the conductor, for eX ample, announces the approach of the car to a station, he presses his foot upon the treadle 31, thereby rocking the shaft 28 and releasing the fingers 30 from the notches 25. fassengers intending to leave the car at that station are then free to onen the gates 18 and pass onto the assemioly-space 32. While the gates are held open by passengers passing through them, the conductor may release the treadle so that the opened gates Will'be held in opened position by engagement of thetingersO with the notches 26. Vv'hen all passengers intending to leave the car have assembled on the floor-space 32 the conductor may press down and then release the treadle 311, thereby disenga ing the lingers 30 from the notches 26 an ,causing the a'tes to be closed by their s rings i9 and oeked by the engagement of t e lingers 30 with the notches 25. Thus, when the car stops at a station'and the doors 7 are opened the passengers assembled on the floor-space 32 may leave the car quickly and permit other passengers Who Wish to board the car to ascend to the licor-space 32, and pass as their fares are collected through the entrance-space 33.

l he present 'arrangement makes it possible to establish and enforce rules governing the movements of passengers which will limit the time necessary ,for the stoppage of the car at stations. By making 1t a rule that passengers about to leave the car shall have passed through the gates 18 by the time .the car stops, that no passengers shall enter at the doors 7 until those leaving have alighted, and by allowing entering passenl gers to assemble in the space 32 bel'ore time is taken to collect their fares, the length of time in which a car must stop at a station may be reduced to a minimum. This ar rangement coupled with that involvingthe closing of doors 7 before the par starts into motion, and their opening only after the car is stopped, not only minimizes danger of accident to passengers, in boarding or' alighting from the car, but Awill operate, in a large measure, at least, to disprove the contentions of those who falsely claim redress for alleged accidents, or accidents alleged to have heen caused through the fault ofthe railway employees.

While l prefer to construct my improvements throughout as shown and described, they may be variously modiied in themat'ter of details of construction Without departing from the spirit of my invention as defined by the claims.

wWhat I claim as neuT and desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. In a car-body, passenger-seating endsections, an assembly-space for passengers between said sections, a main entrance and exit opening in the canbody at one side of said space, barriers separating said space from said sections, a single entrance-Way between the barriers leading from said'space to the end-sections, exit-Ways from the endsections to said space, gates in said exiti- Ways, and means, under control from a con"- ductors position, for locking and unlocking said gates.

2. ln a car-body, passe11geiscating endsections, an assembly-space Jfor passengers between. said sections, a' main, door-con'- trolled, entrance Aand exit openingin the car-bodyat one side of said space, barriers separating said space from said sections, a single entranceway between the barriers leading from said space to the end-sections, separate exitovays from the end-sections to said space, gates in said exit- Ways, and means, under control from a conductors position, for locking and unlocking said gates.

CHARLES ll. ANDERSUN. ln presence of Monats B. Saxons, R. E. BANKS.

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