US475844A

US475844A - Railway-car

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Publication number: US475844A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-05-31
Anticipated expiration: 1909-05-31

Description

G. BAYH'A. RAILWAY GAR.

(No Model.)

Patented May 3l, 1892. Zzg/ NEW gm mufmrruu., msumomu, u. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE BAYHA, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,844, dated May 31, 1892.

Application filed February 5,1892. Serial No. 426.449. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BAYHA, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present improvement is designed as a protectionJ to the employs and others upon railway-trains against attacks from robbers. It is designed more especially for express-cars.

It consists in what might be termed a fort arranged at any suitable point within the car and adapted tO receive the express-messenger in the event the car is entered or attacked by persons attempting robbery or violence to those in charge of the car and its contents. The construction in question is large enough to receive one or a few persons, such as the express-messenger and such others as are likely to be employed with him, and it is so constructed that they can readily enter it and afterward close it against the entrance of others, and it is provided with loop-holes or other Openings through which the parties Within the fort can fire upon whoever may be within the car but Without the fort, and it is Otherwise suitably constructed for the purposes in question, all substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary express-car havin g the improvement, the side of the car boing broken away to exhibit the fort; Fig. 2, a vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, of the fort; Fig. 3, a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig.2; Fig. 4, a horizontal section on the line 4 4 Of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 avertical section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents an Ordinary car.

B represents the fort. It may be arranged at any part of the car, and it is preferably located in the vicinity of the doorway c. It is usually secured to the car-floor a', both to steady it and to prevent it from being Overturned. It is of suitable height for a person to stand upright within, and preferably somewhat higher. It can be entered through the doorway b, which by the occupant can be closed by means of the door b', and the door can be fastened, say, by means of the springactuated latch b2. Ventilation is provided for at the Opening b3 between the roof b4 and the wall h5 of the fort. In the present instance the roof is sustained by means of the straps h6 and it overhangs the wall. There are loop-holes b7 for the occupants to fire through, and they are preferably at a sufficient elevation to bring them above the head of the occupant when standing upright, and who can use them by raising his arm sufficiently to bring his weapon into position to tire through them. Below the loop-holes are sight-holes bs, through which the occupant can take observations. The tlangeb9 beneath the loop-holes aids in guarding the occupant of the fort from shots from without. The entire structure is preferably composed of metal. The door b', instead of swinging, as shown, may be arranged to slide. The fort preferably has its own metal ioor Z110, as shown.

I claiml. The combination, with a car, of a fort having the roof raised above its wall, the loopholes, the sight-holes, and the flange beneath the loop-holes, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a car, of a fort, said fort having the loop-holes, the sight-holes, and the iiange, said flange being beneath the loop-holes, and said sight-holes being below the loop-holes.

fitness myhand this 27th day of January, 1892.

GEO. BAYHA.

Witnesses:

C. D. MOODY, C. K. JONES.