US112731A - Improvement in hose-tunnels for city railways - Google Patents

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LAUREN GE MY ERS, OEA PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA..

` Letters Patent N0..112,731, dated March 14. 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN HCSE-TUNNELS FOR CITV RAILWAVS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the'same.

I, LAURENCE MYERS, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Hose-Protector for Railroads, of which the'following is a specification. 4

.Nature and Qly'ect of the Invention.

My invention consists of a chamber, closed at thel ends, andv arranged below and extending beyond the rails of a track,land provided with detachable or movable covers, as fully described hereafter, so that hose can be passed across the line of the track without in- :terfering with travel on the latter, or interrupting the continued iiow of the water.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a plan view of partvof a rai1road-track, showing my improved hose-protector;

Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line 1 2, g. l; l

Figure 3 is a perspective view of abox or case which may be used in carrying out my improvement; and

Figures 4, 5, and 6, perspective views ofthe covers of the box.

General Description'.

A A are cross-ties, arranged in the usual'manner, and supporting stringere B B, to which are secured the rails E;

A chamber or recess is formed below and beyond the rails; and in this recess, in the present instance, is tted a box, D, the ends of which extend beyond the outer sides of the rails.

The ends of the stringers abut against the sides of the box-ribs e e,on which conne the stringere laterally;

and in the bottom ofthe box are openings for the passage of water and for the reception of spikes a, by which the box is secured to the cross-ties.

To the top of the box, between the rails, are fitted lids F, which, in the present instance, are detachable, although they may be secured permanently to or form a part of the box; and to the ends of the box which extend beyond the rails are fitted detachable llids G G Y V yond the rails, being covered between the rails, and

provided, at the, outer sides of the latter', with detachable or movable lids, in the same manner -as the box.

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. The within-described boxI), with its recesses f j, ribs c e, and covers F G, as set forth.

In testimony that the above is'my invention I havel hereunto set my hand and alhxed my seal this 4th day of August, 1870.

LAURENCE MYERS.. [L s.]

Witnesses:

STEPHEN Us'rrex, THOMAS J. BEWLEY.

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