US1770561A - Stop signal - Google Patents

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H. J. VASCONCELLES STOP SIGNAL July 15, 1930.

Filed Nov. 15, 1929 WWW],

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OFFICE HARVEY J. VASCONCELLES, OF JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS STOP SIGNAL Application filed November 15, 1929. Serial No. 407,422.

This invention aims to provide a means The highway 1 is broadened as at 10, the whereby the motor-driving public will be rib 3 and the posts 4 being located at the trained and admonished to pr ceed with caubroadened portion 10 of the highway and tic-n in driving an automobile across a railwhere the highway is of maximum width.

road track. Because the highway is broadened, as at Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 is a fragmental the posts 4 are spaced laterally from the line vertical section taken crosswise of the highof travel and are out of the way, the posts, way, and Figure 3 is a vertical section taken nevertheless being in full view of the drivers lengthwise of the highway, parts being of approaching vehicles. The broadening 10 broken away in Figures 2 and 3. of the highway, as at 10, tends to emphasize In the highway 1 leading to a railroad and call attention to the posts 4 and the track 2, there is placed a passable obstrucsigns 7 thereon. tion, such as a rib 3, there being short upright I claim: posts at at the ends of the rib, the inner sur- In a device of the class described, a railfaees of the posts beingconvexed, as at 5, to way and a highway leading to the railway,the deflect the wheels of a vehicle onto the rib highway being open fortrattic along its longi- 3 and not oil it. The posts 4 carry standards tudinal center, the highway having a passable 6 provided with signs 7 including a stop obstruction, in the form of a transverse rib, warning 8 and a legend 9 that indicates how extended entirely across the highway and many tracks there are to be crossed at the constituting means for admonishing a vehicle railroad 2. driver on the highway as to the proximity The rib 3 may be painted a conspicuous of the railroad track, combined signal and color, and may be marked Stop rise, as wheel-deflecting posts joined to the ends of shown at 10, in as large letters as desired. the rib and to the highway, the highway The rib 3 is far enough from the track 2 being broadened, the rib extending unbroso that the Operator will have a chance to kenly between the posts, the rib and the posts bring his car to a stop after running over the being located at the broadened portion of the rib 3 and before encountering the track 2. hi hwa a d where the highway is of maxi- Somo distance back from the rib 3, L erhap mum width, the inner surtaces of the posts about four hundred feet from it, there is a being conveXed to deflect the wheels of the sign 11 on a post 2 by the side of too highway vehicle toward the longitudinal center of the 1, the Sign being marked indicated at 14, highway at the ends of the rib, to indicate that both a railroad and a stop In testimony that I claim the foregoing as rise or rib 3 are ahead, the distance to the my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

railroad track being stated. HARVEY J, AS CELLE A car driver noticing the sign 11 will slow down, but it he does not slow down, the rib 3 will give his car a bump which will admonish him that the railroad is ahead, and he 40 will have opportunity to apply his brakes.

The sign 7 will show him that he is expected to stop, and will post him as to how many tracks he has to cross.

By means of the device claimed, the public 45 will be instructed, after a short period of use, to approach arailroad carefully.

A preferred form has been shown and described, but I can make others, within the scope of what is claimed, and still keep Within 50 the spirit of my invention.

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