US1752731A - Bumper - Google Patents

Description

L. CARUSO April 1, 1930.

BUMPER Filed Jan 19, 1929 ATToRNmgf Patented Apr. 1930 'UNITED STATE-s PATENT OFFICE f LOUIS CARUSO, OF IRVINGTON, NEWfJER-SEY., ASSIGNOR TO' THE LIONEL CORPORA- Y TION, .OF NEVI YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK BUMPER,

i 4Application ledvJanuary 19,` 1929. Serial N`o.i333,562.`

v ways so arranged that the act of placing the bumper on an energized section of toy railroad track will automatically illuminate the bumper.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a bumper which can be readily secured to toy railroad track so as to prevent trains on the track Vrunning beyond the desired stop. y

The accompanying drawings show, for

l purposes of illustrating the present invention, one of the many possible embodiments in which it may take form, it being understood that the drawings are illustrative of the invention rather than limiting the same.

In these drawings: Y

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view through one form of bumper;

Figure 2 is an end view ofthe bumper taken in the direction of the arrow 2 of Figure 1; Y

Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view through the lower part of the lamp socket; and

Figpre 4 is a diagrammaticview illustrating t e wiring.V Y

In the form of, construction here shown,

, the bumper includes a body in the form of a die casting 10 adapted to tit on the track rails 11 vand 12 of toy railroad track and having provisions for an electric lamp socket 13. The bumper casting 10 has two downwardly extending side flanges 14 and 15' vadapted t pass down outside the track rails as indicated, and these side flanges carry screws 16 adapted to be passed under the tread portion of the rail so as to prevent the bumper from being accidentally lifted off the trackl section.

The lower rear corner of the bumper casting has downwardly extending side flanges 17 which are adapted to engage with the base anges 18 of the track rails and which are adapted to engage with the cross tie 19 to limit sliding movementof the bumper along the Vrails thereby making it unnecessary tov rely upon the clamping actionof the screw 16 which might bend the rails.

An insulating plate 2O is mounted inside the bumper by means of screws 21. This in .sulating plate is carried above the track rails and supports a spring contact member 22. This contact member is secured by means of a pair of hollow rivets 23 and 24 and passes from the-upper side of the insulating plate down through `a hole 25V and is then bent as indicated so as to pass up through a hole 26 in the insulating plate. `The extreme end 27 of theu spring Contact overlies the upper face of the insulating plate 20. A wire 28 is secured to the-contact strip by a screw 29 and theV other end of the wire is carried up casting 10 where itis secured to ka conducting center contact'32 supported on an insulating disk 33. The socket lug 31 is internally threaded as indicated to receive a lamp'base Y 34 and thelamp bulb 35 is adapted to be disposed in a recess 36 in the upper part of the casting.

. A cover or shield 37 may also be provided. LThis shield maybe in the form of a sheet metal stamping of the desired shape and hav.

ing downwardly extending prongs 38 adapted to pass through slots inthe bumper casting v10 and to be bent outwardly as indicated at 39 to secure the shieldinplace. The bumper may (also be provided with forwardly extending bump receiving lugs 40 and 41 against which the end of a caror locomotive may be brought. These lugs are spa-ced'l apart so `that the car coupling device may pass in betweenvthem thereby preventing injury to the coupler. v

bumper to be illuminated at any time that the Ythrough'a hole 30 in the socket lug 31 of the p a conducting body adapted `to rest on thel" track rails of toy railroad track, aninsulated contact supported from the body in a position to contact with a center or third rail,a lamp socket having one side grounded to the conducting body, and an insulated centercontact connected with the first mentionedcontact. a y a 2. Abumper for toy railroads comprising a conducting body adapted to rest 'onthe track rails of toy railroad track, an insulating plate carried b the body above the track rails, an insulatec contact supported from the plate in a position to contact with a cen- `ter or third rail, a lamp socket having one side grounded to the conducting body, andan insulated center contact connected with the Lrst mentioned contact.

` 3. A bumper for toyrailroads comprising a conducting body having side flanges adapted to embrace the treadsof the track rails of i toy railroad track, an insulated contact suptions, a rear wall and a perforate top wall adapted to receive an electric lamp.

7. In a bumper for toy railroads, a body having side flanges adapted to pass down outside the track rails of a toy railroad, side walls extending upwardly above the rails, forwardly extending bump receiving portions, a rear wall and a top wall having a socket forming projection internally threaded to receive an electric lamp, a center insulated contact carried by the base of said projection, an insulated Contact carried by the lbody member in a position to engage a center or `third rail, and a conductor connecting said contact-s.

f Signed at Irvington, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, this 11th day of January, 1929.

LOUIS CARUSO.

ported from the body in a position to contact with a center or third rail, alamp socket h aving one side grounded to the conducting body, and an insulated Acenter contact cone nected with the first mentioned contact..

4..; A bumper for toyrailroads comprising a conducting body having side flanges adapted to embrace the treads of the track rails of toy railroad track and downwardly extending abutments adapted to engage a cross tie to limitsliding ofthe bumper on the rails, an insulated contact supported from the bodyin a position to contact` with a center or third rail,` a lamp socket having one side grounde ed to the conducting body, and an insulated `center Contact connected with the first mentioned Contact. i

5.`An accessory for l prising a conducting body adapted to rest on `the track rails of toy railroad track, an insulating plate carried by the body above the rails, and acentrally located spring contact carried by the plate and projecting downwardly to engage a center or third rail.

6. In a bumper` for toy railroads, a body having siede flanges adapted to pass down outside the track rails of toy railroad, side "walls extending upwardly above the rails,

Vforwardly 'extending bump receiving por* toy railroads, comi i los

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