US1054785A - Street-car. - Google Patents

Description

.D. A. L. MGDONALD. STREET GAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1912.

Patented-Mar. 4, 1913.

resided in t standing on street cars as heretofore built asource of passageway and extended room for passeners waiting' to pay their fares, a separate extended waiting place to the seats at either the level ofthe conductors location enables hadvantage has been experienced by passenmy invention. To this tlonsover the tracks horizontal and at the height necessary to clear the "ditio'nal acoommod .-0n the rear platform STREET-CAR.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 191 2 To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, DUNCAN ALFRED Lao- 1 01.1)v MCDONALD, of the city of'Montreal, ployed with a s i ,Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, mechanism in 01 aveinvented certain new and useful Imlowered provements in Street-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescript-ion of the same.

, My invention relates particularly to street cars of the pay-as-you-enter type.

I have discovered that in connection with the rear platform. A further advantage is t at standard ti c'k equipment may be eniained in the re rrangemcnt of the brake mechanism howe 'er in that the pull upon the main brake lever is more direct and consequently gr: ater braking efficiency is obtained. For fullcomprehension, however, of my I invention reference must be had to the ac considerable inconvenience and danger to passengers boarding. and awaiting their .urn to pay their fares before entering, has he necessity at rush hours of the steps until those ahead of have entered the car. A further dis-' this specification in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts, and

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Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in ion them gitudinal vertical sectional view; Fig. 2 is a gers'preferring to stand in the open air, there being a lack of, accommodation and too great crowding on the platforms.

To obviate these defects is the object of end I construct the car having its pori Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 illustrates a modification. he car body is indicated at b and, ex cepting for the base or floor portion, it may of any approved construction familiar to those skilled in the art; and

car with the floor of the truck as her and the portion between the trucks horizontal and'lowered to about the evel at which it has been the practice to'loeate the lowermost step. One side of the car' is provided with-an opening divided in two parts, .one for entrance and the tofore, also planes, the parts at, cl, over the trucks being of the usual height While the part 6 between these ends .is lowered'to practically the,level atwhich the lowermost step is usually located. A pair of steps f f one at each end of the car lead to the'front and rear platform.

no side of the car body i yisiong'ui ding the entering passengers to videsv the doorway into entrance and the conductor who 1s incloseo thereby in poexit portions h and-2' preferably twothirds and one-third respectively of the full width of the doorway. A tortuous division rail extends from the post 9 inwardly in a substantial quadrantally curved portion is, then a straight portion m transversely to the car, and terminating in a portion n disposed parallel to the opposite side ofithe car and separated therefrom by sufficient space 'to provide a passage-way from the part of the car at the rear of the doorway to the front part thereof, such rail ending at a point separated from a second rail. This second rail consists of a straight portion 7) bearing the fare-box receptacle 9 and apo1- tion 7' within which the conductors seat a is located. These two rails inclose the vestiside of the entrance. tages of this form of are required excepting The principal advancar are that'nosteps at the front exit, ad- I ation is-provided for pass'enge'rs waiting to pay their fare by what may be termed an enlarged vestibule, the smokers and others neferring to standingare separated from the, conductor and consequently do not distract his attention from his duties; and the front and rearplatforms being raised above 1m to see whether I passengers are alight ing at the front and what is trainspiring on An advantage is ob companying drawings forming a part of horizontal sectional view taken on line A A bule of the car, and provide accommodation for the conductor and an exit passageway.

The raised front platform of the car has an exit door t with steps a similar to those with which pay-as-you-ente'r cars are usually provided. y

The two exits, one at tl a middle of the car and the other at the front afi'ord passageway accommodation equal to the wide entrance to the vestibule.

This construction of car body necessitates a change in the brake mechanism. The rods 1: are taken direct from the underside of the lower level body-base to the brake lever w on the rear truck instead of through a vertically vibrating lever on the latter as heretofore thus reducing the lost motion and economizing the power of the brake cylinder.

In Fig. 3 the floor is shown with its first raised portions adjacent to the main doorway and instead of adjacent to the platforms as in Figs. 1 and 2, the idea of multiple horizontal floor nembers being maintained, however, such being the principal feature of my invention.

Whatl claim is as follows:- 1. A pay-as-you-enter street car having front'and rear platforms and a relatively depressed middle portion with steps leading from the middle portion to the platforms and a stepless middle combination doorway having provision for entrance and exit, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and consisting of a quadrantal portion, a portion transverse to the car and a portion parallel to the side ofthe car and a division with inclosure for the conductor, such divisions being relatively spaced,-'and an, exit doorway with steps at the front platform.

2. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms with relatively depressed in termediate portion, and combination entrance and exit doorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and consisting of aqua'drantal portion, a portion transverseto the car and a portion parallel to the side of the car and a division with inclosure for the conductor, such divisions being. relatively spaced.

3. A pay-as-you-enter ste less car having end platforms with relative y depressed intermediate portion, and combination entrance and exit doorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and a division dividing the doorway from the body of the ear consisting of a straight transverse member with a forward bend with inclosure for the conductor, such divisions being relatively spaced. I v I 4. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms with relatively depressed intermediate portions, and combination entrance and exit doorways, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and consisting 01' a quadrantal portion, a portion transverse to the car and a portion parallel to the side of the car, and a di\ ision dividing the doorway from the body of the car consisting'of a straight transverse member with a forward bend with inclosure for the conductor, such divisions being relatively spaced.

5. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms with relatively depressed intermediate portion, and combination entrance and exit doorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and a division dividing the doorway from the body of the car consisting of a straight transverse member with a forward bend with inclosure for the conductor, such division being relatively spaced, the front of the car having an exit doorway, the entrance portion of the com bination doorway beingequal to the two exits.

6. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms'with relatively depressed intermediate portion, and combination en'- trance and exit doorways, a tortuous division dividin a quadrantal portion, a portion transverse to the caranda portion parallel to the side of the car, and a division dividing the doorway from the body of the car consisting of a straight transverse member with a ward bend with inclosure for the conductor,

the doorway and consisting of forsuch divisions being relatively spaeed, the

specification in the prcsence'of two wit nesses.

DUNCAN A. Witnesses A. Micnsnn, F. E. MCLENNA.

L. MCDONALD.

an exit doorway, the e combination 'door-

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