US483420A

US483420A - Signal and stand

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Publication number: US483420A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-09-27
Anticipated expiration: 1909-09-27

Description

(No Model.)

G. T. BROWN. SIGNAL AND STAND.

Patented Sept. 27, 1892.

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GEORGE T. BROWN, OF SEDALIA, MISSOURI.

SIGNAL AND STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,420, dated September 27, 1892.

Application filed September 25, 1891. Serial No. 406,871. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. BROWN, residing at Sedalia, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signals and Stands, of which the following is a specication.

My invention is in the nature ot' an irnproved signal-liag and stand for carrying the signal-flags on the front part of a locomotive or other similar situation; and it consists in a cylindrical column containing several tubular chambers and also an outside socket at its base, in combination with ags of different colors rolled upon their staffs and slid into said tubular chambers and a removable cappiece for the chamber, also provided with an outside socket for holding the top of the liag which is being displayed while housing and protecting the others, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Figure I is a side elevation of the signalstand with one of the flags displayed. Fig. II is a longitudinal section of the stand, and Fig. III a transverse section through line scm of Fig. I.

In the drawings, A represents the cylindrical column, which has a flanged base a, provided with screwholes, by which it is securely fastened to the pilot or front part of the engine. This column is formed with three (more or less) tubular chambers l), each adapted to receive a flag of a special color, which flag is rolled around its staff and is slipped endwise into one of said tubular chambers.

B is the cap or cover for the upper end of the column. This fits down over the upper end of the column and has upon its side a bayonetslot b, which is adapted to be engaged by a stud or screw b2 on the upper portion of the column to lock the cap securely to its place.

Upon the cap B there is formed orattached an offsetting socket b3, which when the cap is locked in place comes in line with a socket b4, formed in the base a of the column. These sockets receive the opposite ends of the sta or rod of the Hag while the latter is being displayed. This staff is simply a metal tube c with a longitudinal slit in its side, and the flag C is detachably secured thereto by hav- 'lng a corded hem c2 on one side, which is slipped endwise into the tubular staff with the ag portion projecting through the slit, as shown in Fig. III.

When no signals are to be displayed, all the ags are furled about their stas and are securely housed in the tubular chambers of the column, being protected from the weather by the cap. Vhenever a signal is to be displayed, the flag of the desired color is withdrawn and its staff inserted in the two sockets b3 b, with the flag exposed, the cap being locked down to place by its bayonet-slot and GEO. T. BROWN.

lVitnesses:

E. W. STEVENS, S. F. RossE.