US551865A - Street-corner indicator - Google Patents
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- Our invention relates to indicators for street-corners adapted to be arranged flush or approximately flush with the pavement, and to be held in place by the paving-blocks, and the object in view is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device in which the lettering is protected from injury by pedestrians and by accumulations of water.
- Figure l is a perspective View of the device arranged in the operative position in a pavement.
- Fig. 2 is a similar view of the indicator detached.
- Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line..3 3 of Fig. 2.
- Fig. et is an inverted perspective viewwith the filling partly omitted.
- the L-shaped body portion 1 of the device is preferably constructed of metal and is provided in its upper face and parallel with its arms with slots or elongated openings 2 adapted for exposing the name of a street.
- the upper surface of the casing 1 is convexed to form a watershed, and narrow drain-grooves 3 extend from the outer extremities of the slots to the contiguous extremities of the arms of the casing to carry off water accumulating in the slots or openings upon the upper surface of the glass protecting-plates 4:, which are arranged in said slots, and which are inserted from the inside.
- These glass protecting-plates cover the lettering indicating the streets, said lettering being applied to the inner orlower surfaces of the plates in any suitable or preferred manner, and the plates are held in place by means of pliable clamps 5 secured to the under surface of the top of the casing and extending under the plates. These clamps also serve to protect the plates when the filling 6 is inserted in the casing, such filling being introduced in a plastic state and being of such a nature as to harden and thus form a solid block resembling a paving-block.
- the material employed may be plaster-of-paris or other cement adapted for the purpose.
- ears 7 arranged upon the inner surfaces of the arms of the casing to serve as means for preventing the core or filling from becoming displaced when by reason of shrinkage it has become slightly loosened in the casing, and the casing is provided at the extremities of its arms and contiguous to its angle with lateral flanges 8,which are adapted to be arranged below the plane of the paving-blocks 9, such as bricks or other devices used for this purpose, whereby the indicator is held by the pavingblocks to prevent accidental displacement.
- glass may be substituted by any other suitable transparent material, and other means than those described may be employed for draining the upper surface of this transparent protectingplate, such as arranging the upper surface of the same flush with the upper surface of the casing and convexing it as described and shown in connection with the casing.
- a street indicator having a hollow L- shaped casing provided in its upper side with elongated openings or' slots, transparent protecting-plates arranged within the casing and covering the slots, the lettering being placed beneath the protecting-plates, pliable clamps arranged within the casing to secure the plates temporarily in their positions, and a core or filling of cement arranged within the casing, substantially as specified.
- a street indicator having a hollow casing provided with an elongated slot or opening, a transparent protecting-plate arranged within the casing to cover said opening or slot, the lettering being arranged beneath said plate, clamps for securing the plate in position, ears arranged at the sides of the casing opening or slot, the lettering being arranged beneath said plate, and means for securing the plate and lettering within the casin g, substan- 1 5 tially as specified.
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Description
UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.
HENRY LEIVIS AND CHARLIE KAYLER, OF NE\V LIBERTY, ILLINOIS.
STREET-CORNER INDICATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,865, dated December 24, 1895. Application filed April 20, 1895. Serial No. 546,492. (No model.)
To all whom, it may concern:
Be it known that we, HENRY LEWIS and CHARLIE KAYLER, citizens of the United States, residing at New Liberty, in the county of Pope and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Street-Corner Indicator, of which the following is a specification.
, Our invention relates to indicators for street-corners adapted to be arranged flush or approximately flush with the pavement, and to be held in place by the paving-blocks, and the object in view is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device in which the lettering is protected from injury by pedestrians and by accumulations of water.
Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of the device arranged in the operative position in a pavement. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the indicator detached. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line..3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. etis an inverted perspective viewwith the filling partly omitted.
Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.
The L-shaped body portion 1 of the device is preferably constructed of metal and is provided in its upper face and parallel with its arms with slots or elongated openings 2 adapted for exposing the name of a street. The upper surface of the casing 1 is convexed to form a watershed, and narrow drain-grooves 3 extend from the outer extremities of the slots to the contiguous extremities of the arms of the casing to carry off water accumulating in the slots or openings upon the upper surface of the glass protecting-plates 4:, which are arranged in said slots, and which are inserted from the inside. These glass protecting-plates cover the lettering indicating the streets, said lettering being applied to the inner orlower surfaces of the plates in any suitable or preferred manner, and the plates are held in place by means of pliable clamps 5 secured to the under surface of the top of the casing and extending under the plates. These clamps also serve to protect the plates when the filling 6 is inserted in the casing, such filling being introduced in a plastic state and being of such a nature as to harden and thus form a solid block resembling a paving-block. The material employed may be plaster-of-paris or other cement adapted for the purpose.
In addition to the above construction we employ ears 7 arranged upon the inner surfaces of the arms of the casing to serve as means for preventing the core or filling from becoming displaced when by reason of shrinkage it has become slightly loosened in the casing, and the casing is provided at the extremities of its arms and contiguous to its angle with lateral flanges 8,which are adapted to be arranged below the plane of the paving-blocks 9, such as bricks or other devices used for this purpose, whereby the indicator is held by the pavingblocks to prevent accidental displacement.
It will be understood that glass may be substituted by any other suitable transparent material, and other means than those described may be employed for draining the upper surface of this transparent protectingplate, such as arranging the upper surface of the same flush with the upper surface of the casing and convexing it as described and shown in connection with the casing.
Various changes in the form,proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the'advantages of this invention.
Having described our invention, what we claim is 1. A street indicator, having a hollow L- shaped casing provided in its upper side with elongated openings or' slots, transparent protecting-plates arranged within the casing and covering the slots, the lettering being placed beneath the protecting-plates, pliable clamps arranged within the casing to secure the plates temporarily in their positions, and a core or filling of cement arranged within the casing, substantially as specified.
2. A street indicator, having a hollow casing provided with an elongated slot or opening, a transparent protecting-plate arranged within the casing to cover said opening or slot, the lettering being arranged beneath said plate, clamps for securing the plate in position, ears arranged at the sides of the casing opening or slot, the lettering being arranged beneath said plate, and means for securing the plate and lettering within the casin g, substan- 1 5 tially as specified.
In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of tWo Witnesses.
HENRY LEWIS.
. CHARLIE KAYLER.
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MAY WALTER, JEANETTE FRIEDMAN.
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