US1016683A - Passenger-car. - Google Patents

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L. B. FISCHER. PASSENGER G R, APPLICATION FILED DECAL 1908..

1,016,683 Patented Feb. 6, 1912.-

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@fziveni'w L. E. PIS CHER. PASSENGER CAR.

, AP PL IOA TION FILED DEQ.11, 1908. 1,016,683.

' Patented Feb. 6, 19-12. I

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lJNtTE- sra'rs PATENT OFFICE.

LOUISE. FISCHER, 0F DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIS C; DUNBAR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. i

PASSENGER-GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Application filed December 11, 1908. Serial No. 466,950.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LOUIS E. FISCHER, residing at Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to passenger cars and is designed more particularly for use in connection with street railway cars.

The objects of the invention are, first, to provide a car having adjacent ingress and egress passages which may be controlled by an oificer stationed near one of said passages and in a posit-ion which will permit him to observe the passengers as they enter and leave the car; second, to so arrange the ingress passage that the passengers entering the car will pass close to the officers station, thereby enabling him to collect the fares as the passengers enter the car, whatever, if any, may be his other duties; third, to arrange theingress and egress passages at the front end of the car adjacent to the station of the motorman or other otiicer who may also have control of the motive power; to provide closures for preventing ingress and egress, respectively, through said passages which may be controlled by said motor-man or other ofiicer from his station and to so arrange the ingress passage that the passengers entering e car will be obliged to pass close to .1142 rnott-rrmans station, thus enabling motorman to collect the fares and in such case placing the car entirely under the control at the motorman and eliminating the cond to! or second otiicer usually employed; and fourth, to provide the rear portion of the car with a single passage leading to the exterior thereof and having a closure under the control of an officer at the front end of the car, thereby enabling the rear end of the car to be maintainednormally closed and to be opened from the front of the car in the case of an emergency. jects the car is provided with an ofiicers section which is usnallylocated at the forward'end of the car and in front of the passengers section, which latter occupies the major portion of the car. Ingress and egress passages extend fromthe passengers section to the exterior of the car at one side of the officers section and are separated one from the other by a suitable dividing To obtain these several ob-- structure. The passages are provided with closures. which may be controlled from the ofiicers section to permitor prevent the passage of persons to and from the car. An oflicers station is arranged at a point adjacent to the ingress passage and in such' relation thereto that the ofiicer 0ccupying the same can collect the fares from the passengers as they enter the car. \Vhen it is desired to place the car' entirely in the control of a single officer the motive power controlling devices and the passage controlling devices are placed adjacent to the oiticers station and he is thus enabled to control the movements of the car and the entrance and exit of passengers therefrom and to collect the fares from the passengers as they enter the car. The rear portion of the car is preferably closed and provided with an emergency exit which has closure operable from the ofiicers section ing drawings, in which Figure 1. is a top plan View of a car embodying my invention after removal of top; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional View taken from plane 22 of Fig. i; Fig. 3 shows in horizontal section the forward portion of the car; Fig. l is a view partly in vertical section, taken transversely of car just back of doprways from and to front platform.

In these drawings I have shown, for the purposes of illustration, one embodiment of my invention, and, as here shown, the reference numeral 1 indicates a car body supported upon the usual trucks and normally closed at one end. i The car body is provided at that end opposite the closed end, which in the present arrangement, is the for' vard end of the car, with an ofiicers section, such as a platform 2. The car alsohas in the forward portion,. thereof and usually upon the platform 2 an otlicers station which, in the present instance, is arranged at the left hand side of the oflicers section and has the'motive'power controlling devices arranged in a position' to be operated by the officer from his station. The

station may, if desired, be'separated from.

the remainder of the platform or oflicers section, and, ashere shown, it is divided therefrom by means of a partition 6, the

' dividing structure or partition being of such whereby the passengers. entering the car through the passage 4 are obligedto pass close to the otlicers station.

In theconstruction shown, the partition 6 has glass doors 7 and 8 closing passages to passenger section 5 and passage 4, and tl e aperture, or fare window 9, with shelf 10 communicating with passage 4, over which 'fares may be paid or change be made. Any

suitable fare receptacle, as indicated at 11, may be located in or near the aperture 9, and the aperture may be provided with-a door or screen toenable closing when desired.

The passage 4 lead from a step 12 of any ordinary construction at the side of the 0thcers section and is enlarged into the platform space 13 and curved to pass the ofiicers station 3, where faremay be paid through the aperture 9, or deposited in the receptacle 11 before the passenger passes through the door or other closure 14, which opens inwardly into passenger sect-ion 5. Though the employment of the door 14, or, if preferred, a turnsti'le in lieu thereof, is clearly not of the essence of my invention, yet in practice its use will be found desirable, and

I prefer to lock the same normally against movement except under release by the oflicer through actuation of any suitable release mechanism. This release mechanism may be as best shown in Figs. ,1 and 3, although it will be appreciated that any suitable release means, whether mechanical, electrical, pneumatic or otherwise, may be substituted for that shown.

A bell crank lever 15 is pivoted at its elbow in the officers'section, and preferably at the stat-ion 3, and one arm of this lever forms a handle 16and the other arm 17 pivots at its end to a rod 18, whose other end other officer rotates the handle 16, this pivots to the end of arm 19 extending from the door 14. When the door 14 is in closed position, the various pivot centers are in a common line, and therefore the door cannot be opened. As soon as the motorman or straight-line pivot arrangement is broken ing thereof by the motorman. After the enj trance of a passenger into the passenger section 5, the door 14 is automatically restored, in some suitable manner, to its closed position and again locked against movement except upon actuation of the release mechanism.

A register 20 is connected with thedoor 14, and actuated by the opening of the latter to record the number of passengers entering the car, thereby providing'a check upon fare receipts. As shownin Fig. 2, the register 20 is mounted on the framework above the door 1.4, the actuating arm 21 extending downwardly from the register and in the path of the arm extending upwardly from the door 14 and pivoted theretoat 23, a spring 24 tending to hold the arm in vertical position against the door. hen the door is opened, the arm 22 engages the lower end ofarm 21 to raise said arm to cause actuation of the register, and the pivotarrangement of the arm 22 enables this arm to travel past the end of arm 21 when the door is again closed.

A second passage 26 extends from the passengers section of the car to the step 12 at the side of the oflicers section and constitutes the, egress passage. This egress passage is preferably arranged between the ingress passage and that side of the car opposite the oflicersstation and may be separated from the ingress passage by any suitable dividing structure or partition,-such as a railing 25, so arranged as to interpalse no material obstacle to the operators -vision. A suitable closure is provided to control the movement of passengers through this passage, and, in the illustrated embodiment, this is accomplished by a door 27 arranged at the inner end 'of the passage and held against movement toward the interior of the car.

A post 28 supporting at one end the railing 25, carries the doors 14 and 27. Should it be desired, the door 27 also may obviously be locked, by any suitable means, against movement except upon actuation by an oilicer f any suitable release mechanism. This release mechanism may be similar to that shown for controlling the door 14 and would comprise the operating lever 29, the connect ing rod 30 and the arm 31 extending from door 27. l

'Separation of ingress and egress passages in suitable manner, as in the construction shown, will be found not only convenient but important in practice, and I prefer-also that passage 4 be used for ingress, and passage 26 for egress, but obviously, with through passage 4 andunight be intercepted in departure, if desiredbya door or turnstile, located in front of aperture 9. instead of as now shown in drawings, so that the door 1% may be suitably interposed between the aperture and. point of exit from car. Each passage may, of course, be suitably designated at its point of entrance for the guidance of those boarding or leaving. the car.

To afiord an additional or emergency exit, there maybe provided preferably in the normally closed rear portion of passenger section 5, a door 32, which may be normally locked, but provided with any suitable release mechanism for actuation by an oflicer. This release mechanism may be similar to that shown for the doors 14 and 27. comprising an operating lever 33, the rod 34 and the arm 35, extending from door 32. Additional release mechanism actuated by manually thrown lever 36, within glass faced case 37, may be provided to meet the contingency of inability of the officer to actuate the release mechanism 35.

It will be found convenient to provide, in cars embodying my invention, a rear platform or portion 38 separated by swinging or sliding doors 39 from the main portion of passenger section 5, and suitably equipped with seating accommodations to afford a comfortable and suitably isolated compartment for smokers.

From the foregoing description, it will be readily appreciated that a person taking passage upon a car embodying my invention will enter the passage 4 by step 12,

under the observation of the motorman or oflicer, who will been abled therebyto determine the proper moment for starting the car without jeopardy to the'safety of the intending passenger." The latter, after boarding the car, proceeds through passage 4 to fare window 9 and after there paying fare, he continues through the inwardly opening door 14 to the passenger section of the car.

It will be obvious that in the absence of a door or turnstile, only at rare intervals would any attempt be made on the part of a passenger to ride free, or to annoy the motor- 4 man by failing to pay fare at the window 9,

as detection would be immediate, and the motorman by stopping the car could quickly reach the passenger by entering through door 7 into passenger section But by providing a gate or turnstile, as shown in my preferred embodiment, the possibility of trouble with a passenger who may reach passenger section Without depositing fare will be averted, if movement of door 14 be placed under-control of the operator, who can thus refuse to release locking mechanism system. which may be installed, or by verbal request, thereupon passing through door :27 into egress passage 26, and after the car has reached a stop, by step 12 to the street.

It is evident that there will be no danger that the operator will start the car in ignorance of the attempt of any passenger to alight, as the process of leavingthe car occurs under the operators observation, and if outwardly swinging door 27 also be under the control of the operator, it will be impossible for the passenger to pass therethrough into egress passage 26, until the operator has released the mechanism by which such door is locked, which he may do simultaneously with or immediately before the stopping of car. It is evident, therefore, that the type of accident which is perhaps most frequent in connection with passenger the motorman, not only will it be feasible to dispense wholly with the expense of a conductor, collector or other agent for the purpose of collecting fare, but the danger of missing fares will be wholly averted.

It will be apparent that a car embodying my invention need not be limited in con struction to that type commonly referred to as a single-end car, butthat each end may be constructed similarly to the construction of the forward end of the car shown in the accompanying drawings, in which event suitable doors may be provided at the sides of the car at points of entrance and exit, or other provision made to enable the closing at all times, while the car is in use, of the end which for the time being or on any particular run may constitute the rear, without in any wise departing from the spirit of my invention.

It will be obvious also that my invention does not necessarily preclude the retention of an additional employee or conductor or other agent upon the car for the purpose of collecting fares, but that if. desired that method of fare collection may be used whenever desired, without detracting from or de parting from my invention, or in any respect necessitating modification or alteration of the construction of a car embodying the same.

It will be noted that the construction of the car is such as to constitute what may be termed a near side car, that is, a car having the entrance and exit both at the forward end of the car on that side near the'point' from which the passenger will enter the carer at which he will alight, thus placing the-passengers entering and leaving the car directly under the observation of the motorman or other operator.

Many-modifications of the minor details of my invention will readily suggest themselvesto those skilled in the art to which it appertains, and I do not desire to be limited in shown and described. -It will be noted that my invention contemplates a platform having three divisions, two of which constitute ingress'and egress passageways, respectively, both .leading from one side. of the platform to the passengers section and separated by ture and the third division constituting an oflicers station which, in the present instance, is the motorm ans station.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 'ters Patent is:

1-. A passenger carnormally closed at its rear end and comprising a passengers seca station and normally tion an operators station, a passage adjacent to and separated fromsaid-operators ment in one direction, and a passage adjacent to the first-mentioned passage and nor- 'mally closed against movement in the opposite direction.

2. A passenger car comprising a passen-' gers section, a motive power operators station at the forward end of said car, a passage adjacent to and separated from said motive power operators station, means for normally closing said passage againstmovement in one direction, operating mechanism 'forsa'id means operable'from sa1d mot1ve power operators station, and a passage adjacent to the first-mentioned passage and 'nprma'lly closed against movement in the opposite direction.

3. In a passenger car havlng a normally closed rear end, a platform at the forward end, an operators station located on said platform, an entrance passage adjacent to said operators station and between said operators station and the egress passage and direction, and an egress passage adjacent to the entrance against movement in one direction. I

4:. A passenger .car comprising a passengerjsection normally closed at one end and- .provided with a smoking compartment, a, "motive power operators station, contiguous passages for opposite movement from passenger section'to car exterior, both of said passages being separated from but one thereof being contiguous to said operators station. i

5. A passenger car provided at one end only with motive power controlling apparatus and entrance and exit, the other end having a normally closed exit under control a divisional struc-' closed against move movement in one passage and normally closed extending from said passengers the exterior .of thecar in the rear of said of said power controlling appassage. -7. A passenger 'car having a passenger section and a platform at one end, said platform being divided to provide a motive power operators station and an egress passageway and an ingress passageway between 1 sa1d egress passageway and said operators station, a door controlling passage to egress passageway from said passenger section, and

a door controlling entrance to said passenger section from said ingress passageway, both doors being undercontrol of the operator in said operators station. 8. A passenger car having at one end a motive-power operators station, an ingress passage and an egress passage, and having at its other end only an emergency outlet,- said ingress and egr'ess*passages and said outlet being all controlled by in the operators station.

9. A passenger car having a passengers section, and an oflicers section at one end, a divisional structure on said oflicers section forming an ofiicers station, ingress and egress passageways extending from the same side ofsaid ofiicers section tosaid passengers-section, a dividing structure separating said passageways for substantially their full length, doors to close said passageways, and means remote from said doors and operable from said ofiicers station to close said doors.

10. A near side'passenge'r car having its rear end normally closed and comprising a passengers section, and an officers section at the front end thereof, said officers section comprising three divisions, one constituting an ofiicers station and the other two constituting passageways, one for the ingress and formed to require passengers on.

and'the other for the egress of passengers,

both wholly at the front end of the near side of the car and both leading from one side of said oflicers section to the passengers section, and divisional structures separating 1 the-three divisions. v

11. A passenger car having a passengers section, an oflicers section at the front end thereof, ing from one side of said ofiiccrs section to said passengers section, a' divisional struc ture to separate said passa es, doors to close sa1d passages, means opera le from sa1d ofli-- a passage cers section to control 'said doors,

section to officers section a closure for said Y assa e ingress and egress passages extendand means operable from saidoflicers section to control said closure.

12. A passenger car having a passengers section, an officers section at one end thereof, an otficers station, an ingress passage extending'from one side of said officers section 'to said passengers section and arranged adjacent to said ofiicers station, an egress passage extending from said passengers section to said side of said otticers section and arranged between said ingress passage and the side of said car, doors to close said passages, and means operable from said oflicers station to manipulate said doors.

13. The combination in a passenger car, of

a body portion, a platform at the forward said doorway, and means for operating the door at the platform at the front of the car and also at a point at the rear of the car near LOUIS nriscnnn.

Witnesses: I V WALTER L. MURPHY,

CARL W. BRAND. 4

end of the body portion, a door-way at the rear of the ,car,1a door arranged to close

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