US1105830A

US1105830A - Parcel-back

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Publication number: US1105830A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1914-08-04
Anticipated expiration: 1931-08-04

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E. POSSON. PARCEL RACK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26, 1913,

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Patented Aug/1, 1914.

3 BHBETS-SHEBT 3.

INVENTOR.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. FHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON, D. C.

A TTORNE YJ Q STATES: PATENT. OFFICE.

EDWARD POSSON, OFiGHICAGO,

ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FAY E. POSSON, OF PARK.

RIDGE, ILLINOIS.

PARCEL-RACK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD: PossoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Parcel-Backs, of 'which the following is a SPBClfiCELtlOI)...

My invention relates to parcelracks, and the rincipal object of the invention is to provide a parcel rack to be placed above the seats of a railway car, or in other analogous situations, which will be so constructed as to inclose or partially inclose, the valises or other arcels which it holds or supports so as to e ectually prevent them from accidentally falling or being thrown from the rack.

The parcel racks ordinarily employed in railway cars are simply shelves or ledges and it has not infrequently happened that suit cases and other like parcels havebeen dislodged from these racks by the vibration or swaying movement of the car, for example, and have fallen down upon the pas sengers, causing more or less serious in uries for which the railroad companies have been held responsible.

The invention has fora further object to provide a novel and improved form of parcel rack which, besidessecurely engaging and holding the parcels from accidental dislodgment, will. be simple, compact and strong, inexpensive to manufacture and of sightly appearance.

The invention has for further objects such other new and improved constructions, arrangements and devices relating ,to parcel racks as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated, in certain preferred embodiments, in theaccompanying drawings wherein- Figure 1 is an end elevation of one form of the. invention; Fig. 2, a front view of the same showing one of the sliding gates in its open position; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2 butshowing both gates closed; Fig.

4:, a sectional view, taken on line 4--4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a detail View of one of the cross pieces of the slatted shelf structure; Fig. 6, a detail view of one of the ad ustable hangers for supporting the upper guide rod for the gates; Figs. 7 and 8, sectional views taken on lines 7-7 and 8-8, respectively, of Fig. 6; Fig. 9, is a sectionalview of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A'u 4, 1914.

Application filed December 26, 1913.1 Serial No. 808,859.

end of one of the guide rods and associated parts; Fig. 10, a front view of a modified construction; Fig. 11, a sectional View taken on line 11-11 of Fig. 10, and Fig. 12, an end elevation of the device shown in: the preceding two figures Like characters of reference designate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In the drawings, 25 designates the side wall of a railway coach and 26 thedeck of the same.

Referring first to Figs. 1 to 9 inclusive, the rack consists of a shelf and a pair of sliding gates, which latter are mounted on a at the forward edge of the shelf and the other ad ustably supported from the deck pair of guide rods, one of which is arranged of the car. The shelf, or rack proper, is

shown as made up of a plurality of longitudlnally extending rods or slats 27 connected by cross pieces 28 which are sup orted on rods 29, 3O fixed in a pair of end brackets 31 secured to the side wall of the car and sustained at the middle by a similar bracket 32, the rods 27 passing through the center The con- The upper guide rod 37, in this con? deck of the car by means of han ers 38 (Figs, 6, 7 and 8) having threadet stems 39 adapted tobe received in socket members 4O affixed to the deck, the threaded stems 39 being engaged by adjusting nuts all arranged in recesses 42 formed in the socket members 40. The upper guide rod 37 is preferablytubular, and is secured to the hangers 38 by

screws

36, 36 like the screws fastening the lower guide rod to the end brackets, the screws 36" extending through perforations 43 in the hangers. The purpose of making the supporting devices for the upper guide rod adjustable is to adapt the rack to cars having roofs of different pitch. i

Each rack is preferably provided with thecas'e may be. For example, the gate 455' ers 38.

two sliding

gates

44,45 Consisting of longltudinally extending rods and end, mem

bers to'which'the rods are secured, the end members of the gate 4A being designated 46 and those of gate 45 being designated 47. The end members are formed with perforations at opposite ends and the gates are loosely mounted on rods 34, 37., The mem bers a6 are formed so that they extend out farther than the members i? which permits the gate 44 to be moved to a position in frontof gate 45, or the gate 45 to be pushed back of gate As the rods 3d, 37 are round so'that the gates have a pivotal as well a sliding relation therewith, the lat- "ter will accommodate themselves to differ- V out positions of the socket members l0 and different adjustments of the threaded hang- Operation: In order to place the suit case or other parcel A on the rack one of the gates is slid on the

guide rods

34, 37 to a position 'infront of or behind the other, as

"may be pushed'bac'k of the gate 44, that is, from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that 1 shown in'Fig. 2. The .parcelis then placed in the rack and the gate moved back tov its closing position. If the other end of the rack is to be used, gate 46 is manipulated in:

a similar manner. :Ihis form of rack, it willijbe observed, besides being constructed soas to prevent the parcels supported thereby from being accidentally dislodged, is very Strong, the outer edge of the shelf being sustained by the gates and the devices for attaching ftheupper guide rod to the roof of the car.

The rack above described is what mi ht be termed a two-unit rack, that is, it has two gates'and may conveniently be arranged so that it will serve two seats. Obviously the modified in, other respects without def-parture from the principles of'the inven- Same principles might be employed in the construction of a rack having a larger number', of gates. The (lei/1C6. might also be tion." Therefore I do not wish to be understood as limiting the invention to the precise constructions, arrangements and devices shown except so far assaid constructions, arrangements and devices are made specific limitations in certain of the claims herein.

A" possible modification of the device is shownin Figs. 10 to 12 inclusive. In this construction the upper guide rod for the slidinggates, designated 48, 49, instead of being supported from the deck of the car is mounted upon projections 50 formed on the end brackets 51. In other details the construction of this rack may be the same as that of the rack previously described- Iclaim: 1'. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a supporting element, of a pair of retaining elements at the forward edge of the supporting element which are movable so that one may stand in front of the other, for the purpose described.

the like, the combination with a supporting element, of a Pair of retaining elements at the forward edge of the supporting element which areslidable one over the other.

4;. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination wlth a shelf, of

upper and lower guide rods arranged adj acent to the forward edge of the shelf, and a gate movably mounted on said guide rods.

In a parcel'rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf, of

upper and lower guide rods arranged adjacent to the forward edge of the shelf, and apair of gates slidably mounted on said guide rods and constructed so that they may be moved'to positions one in'front ofthe other,

6. In a parcel rack for railway cars and 1 the like, the combination with a shelf, of

a retaining gate slidably mounted at the forward edge of said shelf.

7 In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with'a shelf, of a pair of retaining gates slidably mounted at the forward edge of the shelf and constructed so that they may be moved to positions one in front of the other. Y

'8. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf, of upper and lower guide rods arranged adjacent the forward edge of said shelf, a gate slidably and pivotally'mounted onsaid guide 1 rods, and means for adjusting the position of the upper guide rod. v

9. Ina parcel rack for railway cars. and

the like, the combination with a shelf, of

upper and lower guide rods arranged ad jacent the forwardedge of said shelf, a pair of gates slidably and pivotally'mounted on said guide rods and constructed so that they may be moved to positions one in front of the other, and means for adjusting the position ofthe upper: guide rod, I

10.111 a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf structure, of end brackets for'the same, a guide rod secured between said brackets, a guide rod arranged above the aforesaid guide rod, 7

and a pair ofgates slidably mounted on said guide rods and formed so that'they maybe moved to posltions one in front of the other.

11'. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf strucmounted on said guide rods and formed so that they may bemoved to positions one in front; ofthe other, and means foradjustably sustaining the upper guide rod.

12. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf structure, of end brackets for the same, a guide rod secured between said brackets, a guide rod arranged above the aforesaid guide rod, a pair of gates slidably and pivotally mounted on said guide rods and formed so that they may be moved to positions one in front of the other, hangers for the up er guide rods having threaded stems, soc et members to receive said stems, and adjusting nuts on said socket members to engage said stems. i y

13. The combination with a parcel rack,

of means for securing the same to the side wall of a railway car or the like, and adjustable means adapted to support the outer edge of the rack from the deck of the car.

14:. The combination with a parcel rack, of means for securing the same to theside wall of a railway car or the like, ad-

justable means adapted tosunoort the outer edge of the rack from the deck of the car comprising socket members, hangers having threaded stems, and adjusting nuts in sald socket members to engage the threaded stems of the hangers.

15. In a parcel rack for railway cars and the like, the combination with a shelf structure, of end brackets supporting the same,

upper and lower guiderods fixed to said end brackets, and a pair of gatesslidably mounted on said guide rods and constructed so that they may be moved to positions one in front of the other.

EDWARD POSSON;

, Witnesses:

F. E. POSSON, ARTHUR G. J OHNSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for :flvecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 1,105,830.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,105,830, granted August 4, 1914, upon the application of Edward Posson, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Parcel-Racks, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 102, strike out the reference-numeral and comma 36,; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 1st day of September, A. D., 1914:.

[SEAL] R. F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.