US596409A - Adjustable seat and support for railway post-offices - Google Patents

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W. E. LOVE.- ADJUSTABLE SEAT AND SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY POST-OFFICES. N0. 596,409. I Patenjed D 28,1897.

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WILLIAM E. LOVE, OF MADISON, TENNESSEE.

ADJUSTABLE SEAT AND SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY POST-OFFICES.

SPECTFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,409, dated December 28, 1897'. Application led July 8, 1897. Serial No. 643,857. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, WILLIAM E. LOVE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Seats and Supports for Railway Post-Offices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an adjustable support for railway postal cars and the object is to provide a seat and support for the postal clerks While at work in the car when the said car is in motion.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a transverse section of a postal car, showing my improved support in place. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the car, showing the adjustable standard in elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the adjustable seat. FigA is a similar view of the should er-support. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail of the standard.

1 represents the iioor ofthe car.

2 represents a longitudinal groove in the floor, and t 4t represent notches or recesses arranged at suitable intervals in said groove .to receive the lower end of a vertical standard 5, the upper end of which is provided with a shoe 6, which encompasses the longitudinal bar7, secured to the brackets 8 and 9, fixed to the roof of the car. This standard is preferably tubular in form to receive the sliding bolt 3, the upper end of which is arranged to engage one of a series of 'transverse notches l1, formed in the bar 7, and which correspond to the recesses in the groove 2.

The lower end of the bolt 3 is pivoted to one end of the lever 10,iixed on the rod 27 ,mounted in the tubular standard 5, and a shorter bolt 2S is pivoted to the opposite end of said lever and its lower end projects through the end of the standard in the groove and into one of the series of recesses 4 4t in the car-floor. The

rod 27 is provided with a projecting handle 29, by means of which said lever and the bolts 3 and 28 may be projected beyond the upper and lower ends of the standard to engage their respective notches in the rail and groove in the car-floor, and a quarter of a turn of the handle 29 will release them to permit the adj ustment of the standard to a new position.

12 represents a bracket, which is adjustably secured to the standard 5 by means of a hand-screw 13, and 4its forward end is provided with a recessl/i, which receives a rod 15, the outer end of which terminates in a horizontal seat 16, while the hand-screw 13 permits the vertical adjustment of the seat to suit the convenience of the operator while at work at the mailing-table.

2O represents a bracket vertically adjustable on the standard by means of the handscrew 21. This bracket is vertically adj ustable above the seat 16 to support the shoulders or back of the operator, and its forward end is'provided with a horizontal recess 22 to receive a rod 23, the front face of which is provided with a vertical shoulder` brace or rest 24, and its inner end is provided with a fixed collar 25, on each side of which is located a spiral spring 26, which encompasses the rod and permits the adjustment of the brace to the body of the operator to take up the vibration imparted by the momentum of the car.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope ofmy invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. A railway-car,having its floor 1, provided with a longitudinal groove 2, a series of notches et, 4, formed in said groove, a longitudinal horizontal bar 7, vertically fixed above and parallel with said groove, a series of notches 11, 11, formed in said bar, in combination with the adjustable standard 5, the shoe 6, formed on the upper end thereof, the bolt 3, mounted in the upper end of the stand- IOO ard, and adapted to engage the notches 11, 1l in the bar '7, the bolt 28, adjustably mounted in the lower end of said standard and adapted to engage the notches in the groove 2, and the adjustable bracket l2, provided With the seat 16, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination With the vertical standard 5 and means as described for longitudinally adjusting the same in a car, of the seatbraoket l2 adjustably secured to said standard and provided With the seat 16 horizontally secured to the outer end of said rod, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with the standard, the adjustable seat 16 and the bracket 2O adjustably secured to said standard above said seat,

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