US114940A - Improvement in railway gates - Google Patents

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idnitt rztin @anni @dan SIMEON HEATWOLE, 0F BRIDGEWATER,VIRGINIA.A

Letters raient No. 114,940, dated may 16,1811.

`IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY GATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: f the lume.

To all whom it 'may conce-rn 1 Be it known that I, SIMEON H. HEArwoLn, of Bridgewater, in the county of Rockingham and in the -State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad Gate; and do hereby declare that' the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of. this specification.

' The nature of .my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a railroad gate, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in` the art to which my invention appertains to make andv use the same, I

- will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a plan view. A A represent the rails of the track, and

Y Y B B the gates, which move in frames or guides C O crosswise overthe track.

Along the inner side of one of the railsA are laid two Alevers,`l) D, one on each side of the gate, said levers Y being pivoted at their outer ends, and free to move up and-down at their inner ends.

0n the under side of each of the levers D, near .the inner end, is a projection, a, which rests in a groove orrecess onv an arm, b, extending from a rocking shaft, E, said shaft being placed 'under the track and parallel withit.

' On the outer side of the rocking shaft E is a long weighted arm, G, which turns the shaft far enough so that the levers D D will be, for a certain distance from their inner ends, slightly above the track.

On the underside of the same shaft is anotherv arm, d, to the lower end of which is pivoted a har, H, which connects with the 'lower end of a lever, I, said lever being pivoted to one of the frames, 4O, and its upper end provided with a pin inserted in a slot on oneof the gates B.

The other frame has a similar lever, I', pivoted to it, and connected with the .other gate in the same uianner'; and the lower end of this lever is, by a rod, f, connected with the connecting-bar H', vas shown in iig 1 throws the gates B Btogether, and, when any pressure comes upon either of the levers D, such as whenv cars pass over, when the flanges of the wheel will press the levers down, the gates are thrown open uutil the pressure is removed, when the weighted arm Witnesses EDM. F. BROWN, 0. L. Evnn'r.-

It will readily be seen that the weighted arm G y

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