US1549123A - Driveway - Google Patents

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L. N. ANDERSON DRIVEWAY Filed 001;. 23, 1922 awuembo' z lore/1Z0 Nflnderson.

Patented Aug. 11, 1925.

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LORENZO N01 17001) ANDERSON, OF HAVIKINSVILLE, GEORGIA.

DRIVENAY.

Application filed October 23, 1922. Serial No. 596,460.

T 0 (a l 10. mm it may concern Be it known that I. Lolunrrzo Annunson, a citizen of the United States, residing at l-lawkinsville, in the county of Pulaski and State of Georgia, have invented. cer tain new and useful Improvements in Drive ways, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a driveway to be used at railroad crossings or other dangerous places and has for its object to cause the person driving across the dangerous place to slow down speed before reaching a dangerus position.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a driveway that it will cause the driver to slow down speed he passes over a dangerous place without injuring the vehicle.

With these and other objects in view which will be apparent to those skilled in this art as the description proceeds, the invention will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings in which the same reference characters indicate like parts in all the views and in Which:

Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my invention as applied to a railroad crossing.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a side view in elevation of one of the middle walls having a post thereon.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 rep resents an entrance of my improved roadway and to the exit of the right hand side of the roadway approaching the railroad 15.

My driveway is divided by structures 6, 6 in two sections, 3 being the entrance of the right hand section approaching the railroad from the right, Figure 1, and at being the exit of this section of the driveway, suitable structures 5 and 7, 5 and 7 being placed on the extreme outer edges of the sections of my driveway as clearly shown in Figure 1. The

structure 6 or 6 may conveniently carry a post 8 on which suitable directions may be conveniently posted.

The floors 11 of my driveway are constructed with comparatively deep corrugations so as to produce considerable jolts if the vehicle passes thereover too fast, but not sufficiently deep to injure the vehicle when passing over at a moderate speed. 1 preferably arrange my corrugations diagonally of the roadway since this position prevents both front or both hind wheels encountering a corrugation at the same time and thus lessens the jolting, but at the same time is particularly adapted to warn the occupant of the passing vehicle of danger ahead by the peculiar jolting action that would be experienced in running across diagonal corrugations in the roadway. The road beds are conveniently made of cement and may be conveniently slightly slanted for proper drainage It will be understood that the road bed might be placed only on one side of the den ger object or on both sides, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A, driveway in which there is a dangerous place, said driveway being constructcd near such place with oblong curved structures on either side of the driveway,

said structures being pointed at either end, the curved portions of the structures being opposite each other, thus narrowing the driveway at this point, the driveway having comparatively deep corrugations extending diagonally thereof approximately from one structure to the other whereby the wheels of a crossing vehicle will not strike the same corrugation at the same time to cause an unpleasant jolt but the jolt will be sufficient to cause a driver to slow up before reaching the dangerous place.

2. A driveway in which there is a dangerous place, said driveway being constructed on either side of such place with oblong curved structures on either side of the driveway, opposite each other with the curves on opposite sides of the driveway extending from points gradually towards each other and then outwardly to points near the dangerous place whereby the approaches to the dangerous place will be comparatively wide a considerable distance from the dangerous place and gradually contract to approximately the width of a vehicle to thus cause care on the part of the driver, and attract his notice to the dangerous place.

3. A railway crossing comprising a drive way, an oblong pointed curved structure near the middle of the driveway dividing it into two driveways, oblong curved structures opposite the first structure, the curves of the structures reducing the two portions of the driveway to a width approximately that of a single vehicle, said structures terminating in points opposite each other and approximately in lines parallel with the railway track.

4. A railway crossing structure comprising a railway and driveways approaching it from either side thereof, said driveways being bounded on each side near the railway by suitable pairs of walls, the walls of each pair converging toward each other, then diverging away from each other, and forming entrances and exits on both sides of the railway, said driveways being provided with corrugated floors extended transversely of the general direction of the driveways and approximately from the wall on one side of the driveway to the wall on the other side, the corrugations being suiiiciently deep to warn by the jolting caused thereby, of? the presence of the railway crossing, but not sufiiciently deep to injure the vehicle as it crosses over.

5; A road structure for railway crossings comprising corrugated floors on the sides of the railway and in proximity thereto, the floors being bounded at the ends of the corrugations by oblong curved walls, the curved portions serving to narrow the driveways to approximately the width. of a single vehicle, two of the curved walls occupying a middle position between the outside curved walls, and a post extended between the two middle curved walls, said post being adapted to receive directions and warnings.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

LORENZO NOPCWOOD ANDERSON.

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