US274355A

US274355A - Station-indicator

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Publication number: US274355A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-03-20
Anticipated expiration: 1900-03-20

Description

(No Model.)

B MQORARY.

STATION INDIGATOR.

Patented Mar. 20 1 83.

ATTORNEYS,

UNITED STATES PATENT Eric.

BEN MOCRARY, OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

STATION-INDlCATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,355, dated March 2 0, 1883.

Application filed November 15, 1882.

To all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that I, BEN MGORARY, of Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Street and Station Indicator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improveddevice for indicating the several streetsor stations of a horse-car 'or stage-line route successively, and to call the attention of the passengers to the indicator every time the same arrives at the name of a street or station.

The invention consists in a board containing the name of the streets or stations, over which board a pointer-nut is moved by turning a screw-shaft on which the pointer-nut is' mounted, which pointer-nut carries a gong pro-- vided with a clapper, which clapper is operated to sound the gong at each station or street name by a stud projecting from the indicatorboard opposite the corresponding names of the streets or stations. The screw-shaft can be rotated by hand or automatically from the vehicle axle orwheel.

Reference it to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of my improved street and station indicator. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional elevation of the same and of part of the car-floor. Fig.3 is an enlarged detail view of the pointer and the gong-clapper.

The names of the streets or stations are arranged in their proper order within a frame, B, which is secured in a conspicuous place within the stage or car. The names may be placed on removable slides, or they may be fixed permanently, as the circumstances may require. A vertical screwshaft, A, is journaled in the frame B, and passes through a nut, O, which is'adapted to travel up and down in a vertical groove or slot, D, between the two vertical rows'of street or station names.

On the nut G a pointer, E, is formed, which points to the names of thestreets and stations. An arm, F, is pivoted to the other end of the screw-nut U, and its inner end terminates in two curved spring-prongs, G G, provided at the ends with knobsor balls J, which are adapted to strike against a gong or bell, K,

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which is held on the nut G and covers the clapper G J. A spiral spring, L, on the pivot h up or down, the piece 0 strikes against thesaid studs, and thereby the clapper is held for a moment, and is then suddenly released and strikes the gong, thereby calling the attention of the passengers to the indicator. A bevel-cog wheel, a, is mounted on the lower end of the screw-shaft A, and engages with a bevel-cog wheel, b, on a horizontal'shai't, S, below the car-bottom.

The shaft S can be provided with devices by means of which the driver or conductor can rotate the same to indicate streets; or the shaft S can be connected with the wheel or axle of the vehicle, so that the apparatus will work automatically.

Parts of the stationindicator can be used for advertising.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Y 1. In a street and station indicator, the combination, with the frame B, containing the names of stations or streets, of the screw-shaft A, the nut 0, having a pointer, E, the pivoted arm F, the spring-prongs Gr, terminating in balls J, the gong K, and the studs R, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a street and station indicator, the combination, with the frame B, containing the names of stations and streets, of the screwshaft A, the nut 0, having a pointer, E, the gong K, the clapper F GJ, the L-shaped piece 0, the spring P, and the studs B, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

BEN McORAR-Y.

Witnesses:

G. G. CONVERS, I. L. BUTTERFIELD.