US474902A

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Publication number: US474902A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1909-05-17

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RVD. COCHRAN. STRRR'T CAR CURTAIN.

No.- 474.902. Patented May 17, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR DfoooHRAN, on INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

STREET-CAR CURTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,902, dated May 17, 1892. Application filed February 15, 1892. vSerial No. 421.547. (No model.)

To all whom t may coli/cern.:

Be it known that '1, ARTHUR D. COCHRAN, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, andState of Indiana, haveinvented certain new a/nd usefulImprovements in Street-Car Curtains; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like figures refer 1o likeparts.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in street-car curtains, and to one that is especially adapted for use on open or summer cars, and will be understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a part of a car, showing one of my curtains drawn down and parts of two others. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line w w, Fig. l, showing the curtain thrown up. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional View on the line a: Fig. 1, showing the lower part of the curtain, it being drawn down. Fig. 4 is a crosssection on the line 'y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a crosssection on the line z z, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a side view showing the connections of the curtain to the lower stiening-wire, and Fig. 7 shows a plan and edge view of the bottom stiening-wire.

In detail, 1 is the frame-work of a streetcar, 2 the seats, and 3 the connecting uprights. These uprights, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, have semicircular grooves 4 on opposite sides, and at the bottom of each a block or casting 5 is set, in which the lower end of the vertical rod or wire 6 is placed and retained in position by a set-screw 7, the rods 6 extending upward and nearly to the top of the uprights and just above the guide-wheels 8, mounted in brackets 9, secured to the uprights 3 on either side of the rod 6.

10 is the curtain, which is attached to any ordinary spring-roller supported within the car, as shown at 11, and the curtain passes over the idler-roller 12, in line with the vertical rods 6. The curtain 10is formed by lapping over its sides and stitching the same together, the lower ends being secured at each side around the rings 13, formed on either end of the stiffening-wire 14, the cloth or curtain material being held in place by the wires 15, which press the material into the grooves 16, formed in the rings orloops 13, these wires passing through small holes 17 in the Wire 14, as shown in Fig. .7. The curtain thus formed is secured in place by slipping the two rings 13 over the tops of the vertical rods 6, the brackets 9, with their guide-wheels 8, being afterward putin place. The curtain can then be moved up or down upon the rods, being guided by them, and at the same time the guide-Wheels 8 prevent the rods 6 from being strained or pulled out of place, and the wire loops 15 around the rings at the bottom of the curtain prevent anyfrictional contactwith the curtain material, so that the curtain is not easily worn or injured by tearing.

1S is a rubber stop pivoted on the inside of one of the uprights 3, as shown in Figs.2 andv 3, and is for the purpose of holding the curtain in its lowest position when drawn down, and should at any-time the curtain be pushed up by any one not experienced in its use the rubber stop would contract and allow this to be done. -At the same time its `strength is entirely sufficient to prevent the curtain from being thrown up by any sudden jolt or jar of the car. The advantage of this curtain over the ones ordinarily in use is that there is no space left at either side by which rain or air can penetrate into the car, and the construction and operation'of the curtain is so simple that it is not likely to get out of order, as is the case with ordinary curtains. Should at any time either of the vertical rods G be bent or broken, the set-screw 7 in the socket-block 5 can be loosened and the old rod readily taken out and a new one put in place.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. In a street-car curtain, suitable uprights having vertical grooves on their opposing faces, vertical rods removably seated at the base of such grooves, a curtain supported from a spring-roller above such rods, the sides of such curtain hemmed around the vertical rods, the bottom of such curtain attached to a horizontal wire having loops fitting around the upright rods, such rods held in a vertical position at their top by means of guide-wheels, which bear on the curtain, substantially as shown and described.

2. A street-car curtain suspended from a suitable roller, its two sides hemmed, and its lower edge secured to a wire having rings at either end, suoli rings and the hem of the kcurtain adapted to work upon vertical rods within the grooved faces of suitable uprights, such rods retained in their vertical position by means of guide-Wheels, which bear on 0pposite sides of the curtain out-side of therods, such Wheels mounted in brackets connected to the uprights and a guide-wheel at the top ot such rods, and a catch at the lower end for holding the curtain in a lowered position,

substantially as shown and described.

3. A curtain suspended from a` suitable roller, the sides of such curtain heinmed, its lower edge attached to a stiffening-wire hav ing rings or loops on its outer ends, such rings and the hein of .the curtain adapted to work up and down on vertical rods suitably connect'ed to the frame-work of a 'car at their base, their upper ends retained in a vertical position by guide-wheels, which bear against the curtain outside of the rods, substantially as shown and described. f

4. A street-car curtain suspended from a suitable roller, the sides of such curtain hem med, a stiffening-wire attached to its lower edge, rings formed on the ends of such wire having grooves in their faces, the side hems of the curtain fitting over such rings and re- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I hand this 11th day of February, 1892.

ARTHUR D. COCHRAN.

Witnesses: Y

H. D. NEALY, E. B. GRIFFITH.