US425220A - Crossing for elevated cable railways - Google Patents

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l E. R GUERRA. CROSSING POR ELEVATEDGABLE RAILWAYS.

No. 425,220. PatentedApr. 8, 1890 WITNESSES.'

INVENTUH @few/u L i S BY .l

UNITED STATES ELIAS R. GUERRA, OF HACIENDA DE SAN MATIAS, JALISCO, MEXICO.

CROSSING FOR ELEVATED CABLE RAILWAYS.

'SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 425,220, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed February 13, 1890. Serial No, 340,279. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ELIAS R. GUERRA, of Hacienda de San Matias, Jalisco, Mexico, a citizen' of Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crossings for Elevated Cable Railways, of which the following is a specification.

The object'of my invention is to provide a new and improved crossing for elevated cable railways, which is so constructed that the rails of the crossing are at all times open for the tracks running in both directions, so that a car on either track can pass without meeting any obstructions, which crossing` is automatically closed for each track by a car running on said track when it reaches the crossing, the crossing being automatically opened after the car has passed.

The invention consists in the combination, with a rail, of a hinged section, a spring for automatically raising said section, and a hinged bar for swinging down the section when a train or car arrives.

The invention also consists in the construction and combination of parts, as willbe fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of -a track-section provided with my improved crossing. Eig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Each rail A has a part cut out to form an opening or gap through which the cable-grip of a car passing in adirection at right angles to said rail can pass, said openingbeing closed in each rail by the track-section B, hinged at one end to the rail A. A Wire rope or chain C has one end secured to a pin D, projecting laterally from the hinged rail-section B, some distance from the pivot of the same, which rope or cha-in C is passed over a suitable pulley D, and the other end of said rope or chain is secured to a powerful spring E, suitably fastened to a standard on the track or to any other suitable object of said track. A bar F has one end mounted on the pin D of the hinged railsection B, and the other end rests loosely on a grooved roller G on the outside of the rail A. Both tracks are provided at the crossing with hinged rail-sections, as shown in Fig. 2, and normally all said hinged sections are held in raised position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. Lby the action of the springs E, the bars F also being in raised position, as shown in dotted lines'in Fig. l.

IVhen a car arrives at the crossing, the treads of the wheels acting on the upper edges of the bars F force said bars downward, thereby swinging the corresponding hinged sections B from the vertical positions shown in dot-ted lines in Fig. l to the hori- Zontal positions shown in full lines in Fig. l, thereby closing the gaps in the rails and permittin g the train to pass safely over the opening. The hinged rail-sections B of the other track, at right angles to the one on which the car is passing the crossing, remain raised. After the last wheel of the car has passed over said hinged sections B the springs C swing the said rail-sections C upward again, thus leaving clear the opening at the crossing for a train passing in a direction at right angles to the direction taken by the train that has just passed. The four hinged sections of the crossing do not interfere with each other, as the hinged sections of one track only can be lowered at a time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination, with a railway-track having a gap or opening, of a hinged railsection for closing said gap, a spring for keeping said section in raised position, and a bar arranged adjacent to the rail and connected with said hinged section, substantially as set forth.

2. In a railwaytrack, the combination,with rails having gaps, of hinged sections for closing said gaps, springs for swinging` the hinged sections into raised positions, a bar connected with each hinged section, and a roller on which that end of the bar opposite the one connected with the hinged section rests, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with Atwo tracks cross# ing each other at right angles and in the same plane, each rail of each track having a gap at said intersection, of a hinged section piv- IOO oted t0 each rail for closing the gap, a spring my invention Ihavo Signed my naine in pres- Connectod with each hin god section for keeponce of two Subscribing witnesses. ing the hinged section in raised position, and

a bal' pivotod to each hinged section and al'- 4ELIAS R. GU ERRA. 5 ranged adjacent to the corresponding rail, Witnesses:

substantially as sot forth. OSCAR F. GUNZ,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as WILLIAM' HAY.

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