US261923A - Safety attachment fob bailway cabs - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. HENN.

- SAFETY ATTAUHMENT FOR RAILWAY CARS.

Patented Aug. 1, 1882.

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INVENTO m Z ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDUABD HENN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,923, dated August 1, 1882. Application filed .Iune 1882. (No model.)

' City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Attachments for Cars, of which the followingiis a specifica- -tion.

This invention relates to an improved safety attachment for cars, whereby the occupants can conveniently escape from the car in case the same is thrown oft'the track and on its side, set on fire, or otherwise wrecked; and the invention consists of a railroad-car provided with escape-openings in the root, and with sliding roof-sections actuated by suitable mechanisn from the inside of the car. i I

In the accompanyingdrawings,Figure1 represents a side view, partly in longitudinal section, ofa railroad-car with my improved safety attachment. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same on a larger scale; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are a detail side view, end view, andplan of the mechanism for operating the sliding sections of the car-roof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a railroad passenger-oar, the root'of which is provided with one or more escape'openings, a, of sufficient size for admitting the passage of a person. The escape-openings a are closed by sliding roof-sections B,-the flangedsides of which are guided in longitudinal ways b on the roof. The sliding root-sections B are fitted to overlapping flanges a 'of the intermediate fixed roof-section, G. The sliding roof-sections B are operated by a suitable actuating mechanism, D, which consists of two rack-bars. d, that are connected by fixed arms d to the slidingroof-seetionsB. Therack-barsdareguided in suitable ways secured to the inside of the car-roof. The rack-bars d are moved in opposite directions by means of pinions d which are turned in opposite direction to each other by a gear-wheel, f, having handles f for operating the same. The rack-bars d d are arranged at such a distance from each other that the pinions d can mesh with each other in the space between the racks, as shown in Fig. 5. The first pinion d, which is engaged by the gear-wheel f, is made wide enough to engage the second pinion 01 which engages the second rack-bar, so that by turning the actuating gearwheel ft-he rack-bars are moved in opposite directions, and thereby the sliding roof-sections on the top of the car are opened or closed. The shafts of the pinions and actuating gearwheel are supported by a fixed hanger-plate, 0, applied to the root of the car, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In place of the actuating mechanism described, any other equivalent operating mechanism may be used for moving the sliding r00fsections, as I do not confine myself to the specific construction shown.

The invention is specially designed for passenger and railway mail cars, as it furnishes a simple and convenient means whereby passengers and employs may escape 'i'rom the car when the same is thrown over on its side and set on fire or otherwise wrecked.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten t- As an improvement in railway-cars, the combination of the car roof having transverse es-' cape-openings, with sliding roof-sections, guiding-ways. and mechanism arranged at the interior ot' the car, consisting of two rack-bars, d (1, arms (1, pinions d, turned in opposite directions to each other, ge'ar-wheelf, handles f, and hanger-plate e, substantially as. described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDUARD HENN.

'Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL,

SIDNEY MANN.

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