US553477A

US553477A - Switch and signal apparatus

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Publication number: US553477A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-21
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-21

Description

Patented Jan. 21, 1896.

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UNITED [STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VIBE C. SPICER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION SWITCII AND SIGNAL COMPANY, OF SW'ISSVALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SWITCH AND SIGNAL APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,477, dated. January 21 1896.

Application filed May 21, 1892. Serial No. 433,846. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern: brackets are formed bearings for the shafts Be it known that I, VIBE C. SPIGER, a citi- 1, which are made polygonal or other irreguzen of the United States,residingatChicago, lar shape in cross-section. The journals 2 in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, for these shafts are formed by sleeves having 55 5 have invented or discovered certain new and a round exterior portion adapted to fit the useful Improvements in Switch and Signal bearings 011 thebrackets and having an in- Apparatus, of which improvements the followternal contour corresponding to the cross-secing is a specification. tional shape of the shafts. These sleeves The invention described herein relates to which fit the shafts snugly are held thereon 60 IO certain improvements in devices technically by set-screws 4, or the shaft may be locked known as lead-outs, which are employed as against slipping longitudinally through for connecting the operating-levers with the the sleeve by upsetting aportion of the shaft switches and signals. These lead-outs consist at each end of the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 9. of round shafts provided with arms to which The

arms

5 and 6, to which the operating 65 the operating-levers in the tower and the levers and the connections to the switch and pipes or wire leading to the switch and signal signal-operatingmechanism are attached, are mechanisms are connected. It has heretoprovided at one end with sockets 7 of an infore been customary to weld the arms to the ternal size and shape to fit the shafts easily shafts prior to shipping them to places of and snugly, as shown in Figs. 4-, 5 and 6. 70 use, in order to prevent any slipping of the These arms are held as against movement arms around the shafts. It frequently hapalong the shafts by set-screws S, as shown in pens that in erecting the switch and. signal Fig. 4, or by upsetting portions of the shafts plant circumstances will require such alteraon each side of the sockets, as shown in Fig. tions as to necessitate a change in the posi- 9. If desired, the eyes or sockets at the ends 75 tions of the arms; but as the arms are welded of the arms may be split, and then clamped on, these changes involve considerable labor, tightly around the shafts by means of bolts delay and expense. 10, passing through lugs 9 formedin opposite The object of the present inventionis to so sides of the split, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 construct the lead-outs that an adjustment and 8. In order to prevent any rattling of 80 of the arms around and along the shafts can the sockets or eyes, when using rods square be readily made at the point of erection of the in cross-section and the split eyes or sockets, plant. which bear upon three sides of the shafts, In general terms the invention consists in filling-pieces or washers 11 are slipped upon the construction and combination, substanthe bolts 10. These filling-pieces are made 85 3 5 tially as hereinafter fully described and with a series of flat faces and the holes for claimed. the passage of the bolts are bored eccentric In the accompanying drawings, forming so that by rotating the washer a firm'bearing apart of this specification, Figure 1 isaplan thereof on the shaft may be obtained, as view of a lead-out embodying my invention. shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The eyes or sockets 0 40 Fig. 2 is a sectional detail view of the end of may beheld tightly upon the shafts by means one of the lead-out shafts to which the operof wedges 12 driven between the bolt or a ating-lever is connected. Fig. 3 is an end sleeve surrounding the same and the shaft, view of one of the journal-sleeves. Figs. at as shown in Fig. 8. and 5 are detail views of the arms, showing I claim herein as my invention- 5 the manner of attaching them to the shafts. 1. Inaswitch and signal apparatus, amech- Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are sectional detail views anism interposed in the connections between showing various modifications of the manner the operating lever or levers and the part or of attaching the arms to the shafts. parts to be operated thereby for changing the In the practice of myinvention the brackets direction of movement of the connections, 100 for the rock-shafts are constructed in the said mechanism consisting of one or more usualmanner, and on the upper ends of these shafts and two or more arms mounted on each shaft, one or more of the arms being capable of angular adjustment around and of longitudinal adjustment along the shaft or shafts, one of the arms being adapted for connection with the operating lever or levers and the other arm or arms with the part or parts to be operated by said lever, substantially as set forth.

2. In a switch and signal apparatus, a mechanism interposed in the connections between the operating lever or levers and the part or parts to be operated thereby for changing the direction of movement of the connections, said mechanism consisting of one or more shafts angular in cross section, journal sleeves fitting on said shaft or shafts and having round exterior surfaces, and removably at tached to the shaft or shafts, and two or more ment around the shaft, one of the arms being adapted for connection with the operating lever and the other arm or arms with the part or parts to be operated by said lever, substantially as set forth.

3. In a mechanism for connecting operating levers, &c., with the switches or signals to be operated, the combination of a shaft angular in cross section, an arm provided with a split eye or socket corresponding in contour to the shaft, bolts. for clamping the eye or socket around the shaft, and filling pieces having a series of fiat faces and an eccentric opening thereto arranged on the bolt, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

VIBE C. SPICER.

itnesses:

JOHN H. KINZIE, MoRRIs THEIN.