US287644A - Plains - Google Patents

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SEAT FOR STREET CARS. No. 287,644. ?www Patented Oct. 30, 1883..

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UNITE STATES WILLIAM DON, on NEW YORK, AssIGNoR TO'WLLIAM WHITE, or WHITE- V PATiNT 'OFFIC 5 PLAINS, N. Y.

SEAT FOR STREET-CARS.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 287,641, dated October 30, .1883.

' Application filed July 12,1333.` (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DON, acitizen of the United States, residin'g at New York, .n the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gar-Seats, of 'which the following is a specification. F

This invention is especially adapted to the seats of street-cars, 'and particularly of such cars in which the seats extend crosswise. It consists in hand-rails for the seat ends; also, in curtain-rails combined with the hand-rails, and in top rails for the seat-back, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a portion of a car containing my invention. Fig. .2 is a 'cross-section thereof. Fig. 3 is adetail view of parts.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts,

The letter-A designates two adjacent seats extending crosswise of the body of a car. These seats face in opposite direction, and are furnishedwith a back, O, whichis common to both, and which is joined at the ends to posts on opposite sides of the car, such posts being interned-iate of the seats.

The letter D indicates hand-rails located at.

the opposite ends of the seats, respectively;

These rails extend continuously from the front directly to the seats by screws or other suitable means, such endsbeing curved, while the upper ends and intermediate portions thereof are fastened to the post B through the medium of 'socket-piecesfiwhere'by the rails are held in proper relation to the seats and posts.

The letter H denotes *rails located at the top of the car for receiving the ourtains -used ed thereby, and hence the car-body is left free a of the fastenin'gs commonly used for holding the curtain-rails in positionr The means employed for connecting the curtain-rails H to the hand-rails D consist of a screw-nipple, e,

formed on the upper end of the hand-rails, l

respectively, to'project through a suitable hole in the curtain-rails, and of a clampingnut, s, fitted on the end of the nipple. It will be perceived that this union is very simple and inexpensive, while it permits the disconnection of theparts when desirable or necessary.

the back C of the seats. -The opposite ends of this-back rail are fastened to the posts B by screws or othersuitable means, and the interand not only tends to heighten the back, but

also acts as a brace to the posts. One of the socket-pieces o is located at about the midlength of the back-rail I, where the latter is divided, as at Z, into two parts or sections, and by this means the rail is adapted to receive the socket-pieees from the plain inner ends of its Sections, instead of from the outer ends, while the joint between the Sections 'is hid from view.. Said method of applying the socket-pieces o is desirable when the outer or opposite ends of the back-rail are fastened to the posts B in the manner stated, because such ends are bent laterally and widened, thus preventing the passage of the socketpieces thereon.

It is preferred to make the several rails mentioned of metallic tubing for lightness and strength.

What I claim as new, Letters Patent, is.-'

1. The combination, with the adjacent carseats and intermediate posts, of the hand- -rails extending continuously from the front edge of the seats, respectively,to a point near and desire to secure by The letter I designates a rail' surmounting the top of the posts, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the adjacent carseats and internediate posts, of the hand- 5 rails extending` continuously from the front edge of the seats, respectively, to a point near the top of the posts, the lower end of such rails being fastened directly to the seats, and the upper ends and internedate portions [o thereof being fastened to the posts by socketpieces, substantiaily as and for the purpose described.

3. The eonbinatio,with the adjacent seats, the internediate posts, and the hand-rails ex- I 5 tending to a point near the top of the posts, of the eurtain-rails united to the upper ends of the hand-rails, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. The conbinationwith the adjacent seats, the internediate posts, and the hand-rails ex tending to a point near the top of the posts,

of the c'urtain-rails united to the upper ends of the hand-rails by means of the screw-nipple and clanping-nut, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The conbination,with the adjaeent seats, the internediate posts, and the back common to both seats, of the sectional back-rail having its opposite ends fastened to the posts, and the internediate portion thereof fastened to the back by socket-pieees, one of which is lor eated at the nid-length of such rail, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

"WILLIAM DON. EL. s.]

\Vitnessesz W. HAUFF, CHAS. WAnLnns.

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