US1244182A - Toy railway. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. DOENCH.

TOY RAILWAY.

Awucm'on FILED was s. 1911 Patented Oct; 23, 1917'.

GEORGE A. IDOENCH, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY RAILWAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 0015.23, 1917.

Application filed June. 6, 1917. serial N0. 173,086.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE AnoLrH DOENCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Railways, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate to'toy railroads, and are designed toeffect the automatic imitation of advance signaling, etc., by means of the contact of a fore wheel of the locomotive or motor car with a section of rail constituting a lever which actuates the signal as herein more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1, is a top View of the toy;

Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional elevation taken upon plane of line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, is a like view showing the signal set; 1

Fig. 4, is a transverse sectional elevation taken upon plane of line 4%, Fig. 1.

Toy railroads are usually made and sold in sections which may be coupled together to form continuous tracks commensurable' in length with the number of sections employed. These sections are usually made of metal, and are a well known commodity in the trade. While not confining myself strictly to a metallic structure of all the parts I have herein shown and described whatmay be designated as my signal section as mainly so made, and as adapted to conform to and couple up with such commercial road sections referred to to form a component part of a road.

Thus in the drawings B, represents a sheet metal base adapted to receive the usual metallic tie pieces Z), to which the rails a, a, are secured. 0, is the third rail, presuming the road to be electrical as is ordinarily the case.

Both rails a, a, and 0, are hollow in part at least, certainly at the ends, and one extremity of each is formed with a coupling pin a, c, to fit into the corresponding rails in the next adjoining section. The only exception to this is the portion a", of the right hand side rail which is a fiat core strip over which the span of hollow trip lever rail a fits like a cap, said trip lever rail a being pivoted at one end to the flat core or strip a as at a Projecting from the outer side of the hollow trip lever rail a is a lug or eye in the drawings.

the wheel 20, isshown ust prevlous to itsv piece a, recessed to receive the outer end of" the long arm d, of the signal actuating crumed in the aforesaid bearing plates 6,

b",-the weight 7,011 said lever f, being below the fulcrum and the upper part of said weighted lever f, beingpivotally connected by a link 9, with a rock lever 72, upon which the signal 2', is mounted. This signal rock lever, as shown in the drawings, consists of an upright member 72, pivotally supported upon and between brackets 6 6 upon the upright 6 attached to the base B, a short upper arm h,- to which the link 9, is connected, and the lower arm 72 carrying the signal 2'.

This signal 2', may be of any desired form or character, that shown in the drawings consisting of the representation of a flagman 2', who is housed normally in a hut or inclosure j, from which he emerges at the approach of a train or locomotive, the actuating front wheel w, of which is shown Thus .111 Figs. 1 and 2,

contacting with the pivoted end of the trip lever rail span 62 while in Fig. 3, .said' wheel 20, has encountered and depressed said trip lever span (2 thereby rocking the actuating lever (Z, the counterweighted lever 7', and the signal rock lever h, and causing the latter to swing the signal 2', into visible position ahead of the advancing motor. As soon as the last wheel leaves the free end of the track lever (t the counterweight 7, returns the parts to normal position, to so remain'until the lever rail a is again depressed.

As before stated the character of the signal 2', may be varied without departing from the spirit and intent of my invention in this respect, the essential features being the trip lever rail span a the signal actu ating lever (Z, the counterweighted lever f, and the rock lever 72, on which the signal is mounted, all pivotally connected as set forth.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. A section of toy railway of the character designated, comprising a base, rails positioned thereon, one rail being formed with a trip lever span pivotally attached to the rail of which it forms a portion, a signal actuating lever pivotally connected with said trip lever span, a counterweighted lever pivotally connected with said signal actuating lever, a rock lever pivotally connected with said counterweighted lever, and a signal device mounted on said rock lever, for the purpose set forth.

2. A section of toy railway of the character designated, comprising a base, rails positioned thereon, one rail being formed with a trip lever span pivotally attached thereto, a signal actuating lever pivotally connected with said trip lever span, a counterweighted part, a link pivotally connecting said actuating lever with said counterweighted part, and a signal actu ated by said counterweighted part, for the purpose described.

8. A section of toy railway of the character designated, comprising a base, rails positioned thereon, one rail being formed With a trip lever span pivotally attached thereto and consisting of a hollow cap rail fitting over a central core, a signal actuating lever pivotally connected with said trip lever span, a counterweighted part, a link pivotally connecting said actuating lever with said counterweighted part, and a signal actuated by said counterweighted part, for the purpose described.

GEORGE A. DOENCH. WVitnesses:

GEO. WM. MIATT, DOROTHY MIATT,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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