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US633166A
US633166A US69137198A US1898691371A US633166A US 633166 A US633166 A US 633166A US 69137198 A US69137198 A US 69137198A US 1898691371 A US1898691371 A US 1898691371A US 633166 A US633166 A US 633166A
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  • the present invention consists of improvements in electric feed devices for motor-cars driven by electricity. 'lheinvention consists more particularly in a device for making and breaking the current between the feed-line and the contact-heads of the'sectional conductors each time the car passes over the line.
  • Figure 1 is a cross-section through one of the devices and through the channel under the rail, in which the plow runs;
  • Fig. 2 a side elevation of a part of the line, showing the channel in longitudinal section',
  • Fig. 3 a plan of the device with the channel in section;
  • Fig. 4 a sectional side elevation showing the roll which is operated by the plow, and
  • Fig. 5 a detail view of the cover of the housing, seen from underneath and drawn to a larger scale.
  • the device consists ot' a box 1, having an upper cylindrical part and a lower rectangular part and having a channel-like part, to In this channel the plow of the car, having the knife-like edge 19, runs and passing between the rolls 5 and the stationary roll Sa pushes the former roll 5 inwardly against the action of its spring 6.
  • rIhe roll 5 is mounted in the bifurcated end 4 of a bar 4, adapted to slide in a guide in the housing 1.
  • the interior end of the said bar 4 is formed to a rack, which engages a ring of teeth 3, formed around the cup-shaped lower end of the vertical spindle 3.
  • the latter is made in two parts coupled together by a square end on the one part sliding in a corresponding socket of the other, or the said ⁇ end may be of a polygonal section and the socket accordingly shaped.
  • the spindle is guided or supported at its lower-end in au inner chamber of the housing 1 and at its upper end in the cover 2 of the said housing.
  • the chamber is tightly closed by a cover and a' joint-ring 1S, of elastic material, and has a down wardly-extending covercylinder, which encircles the shaft or spindle 3 and dips into the cup at the bottom ot' the latter. This cup is filled with quicksilverand completely closes the chamber against dust and dampness.
  • au insulated disk 15 of insulating material, which is provided with two contact-points 13 and 14, and above this again, fast on the spindle 3, is a rotary disk, of insulating material, 9, having formed therein the contact-points 10 and 11, which may be connected together by a conductor 12, embedded in the said disk, as shown at Fig. 1.
  • the contacts 10 and 11 and 13 and 14 are so arranged that when the disk 9 is turned they will make the circuit from the feed-conductor 16, with which 14 is in connection'through 11, 10, and 13, which latter is in connection with the sectional conductor leading to the contact-head for the car-feed.
  • the spring 6 operates to return the parts to their initial positions after the device has been operated by the plow, and its action may be supported and increased by means of a flat spiral spring 21, mounted on the cover 2, and which acts to turn the disk 9 back when the plow has released the roll 5.
  • the disk 9 is provided with an upwardly-extending pin 20, which is attached to the free end of the spring 21, said pin extending upwardly through a slot 20 of the cover-flange, as will be seen from Fig. 5.
  • the counter-roll 8 is mounted in a fork 8, fast in the channel-wall.
  • any other device might be emin, insulated contacts, one connected with the4 feed-line and one with the sectional conductor, a rotary disk fast on said spindle and IOO having contacts to contact with said stationary .contacts when the disk is turned, a horizontally-extending roll projecting into the plow-channel and means in connection with a roll-supporting bar to turn the said spindle when the said roll is acted on by the plow substantially as described.
  • a housing having an inner chamber a vertical spindle mounted therein and having a Quicksilver-cup at its lower end, a cover to said inner chamber having a downwardly-extending sleeve to dip into f said cup said sleeve inclosing the said spindle, rotary contacts fast on said spindle and stationary contacts connected up as specified to contact with said rotary contacts when the spindle is turned, a horizontally-guided slidebar to extend out of the said chamber into the plow-channel in the path of the plow and means in connection with said slide to rotate the said spindle when the slide is moved by the plow and means for returning the parts to their initial position substantially as described.

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Patented Sept. I9, |899.
C. F. P. STENDEBACH.
ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
(Application filed Sept. 19, 1898.)
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C. F. P. STENDEBACH.
ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
(Application led Sept. 19, 1898.)
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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.
UART, FRIEDRICH PIIIIIIPP STENDEBACII,` OF LEIPSIC, GERMANY.
ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,166, dated September 19, 1899.
Application filed September 19, 1898. Serial No. 691,371. (No model.)
To (r/Z whom t may concern.-
Be it known that I, CARL FRIEDRICH PHIL- IPP STENDEBACH, a subject of the King of Saxony, and a resident of Leipsic, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Feed Devices for Motor-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.
The present invention consists of improvements in electric feed devices for motor-cars driven by electricity. 'lheinvention consists more particularly in a device for making and breaking the current between the feed-line and the contact-heads of the'sectional conductors each time the car passes over the line.
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible,reference-is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denote si milar pari s throughout the several views.
Figure 1 is a cross-section through one of the devices and through the channel under the rail, in which the plow runs; Fig. 2, a side elevation of a part of the line, showing the channel in longitudinal section', Fig. 3, a plan of the device with the channel in section; Fig. 4, a sectional side elevation showing the roll which is operated by the plow, and Fig. 5 a detail view of the cover of the housing, seen from underneath and drawn to a larger scale.
The device consists ot' a box 1, having an upper cylindrical part and a lower rectangular part and having a channel-like part, to In this channel the plow of the car, having the knife-like edge 19, runs and passing between the rolls 5 and the stationary roll Sa pushes the former roll 5 inwardly against the action of its spring 6. rIhe roll 5 is mounted in the bifurcated end 4 of a bar 4, adapted to slide in a guide in the housing 1. The interior end of the said bar 4 is formed to a rack, which engages a ring of teeth 3, formed around the cup-shaped lower end of the vertical spindle 3. The latter is made in two parts coupled together by a square end on the one part sliding in a corresponding socket of the other, or the said `end may be of a polygonal section and the socket accordingly shaped. The spindle is guided or supported at its lower-end in au inner chamber of the housing 1 and at its upper end in the cover 2 of the said housing. The chamber is tightly closed by a cover and a' joint-ring 1S, of elastic material, and has a down wardly-extending covercylinder, which encircles the shaft or spindle 3 and dips into the cup at the bottom ot' the latter. This cup is filled with quicksilverand completely closes the chamber against dust and dampness. Above the cover is au insulated disk 15, of insulating material, which is provided with two contact- points 13 and 14, and above this again, fast on the spindle 3, is a rotary disk, of insulating material, 9, having formed therein the contact-points 10 and 11, which may be connected together by a conductor 12, embedded in the said disk, as shown at Fig. 1. The contacts 10 and 11 and 13 and 14 are so arranged that when the disk 9 is turned they will make the circuit from the feed-conductor 16, with which 14 is in connection'through 11, 10, and 13, which latter is in connection with the sectional conductor leading to the contact-head for the car-feed. The spring 6 operates to return the parts to their initial positions after the device has been operated by the plow, and its action may be supported and increased by means of a flat spiral spring 21, mounted on the cover 2, and which acts to turn the disk 9 back when the plow has released the roll 5. The disk 9 is provided with an upwardly-extending pin 20, which is attached to the free end of the spring 21, said pin extending upwardly through a slot 20 of the cover-flange, as will be seen from Fig. 5. The counter-roll 8 is mounted in a fork 8, fast in the channel-wall. Instead of the rack and pinion, any other device might be emin, insulated contacts, one connected with the4 feed-line and one with the sectional conductor, a rotary disk fast on said spindle and IOO having contacts to contact with said stationary .contacts when the disk is turned, a horizontally-extending roll projecting into the plow-channel and means in connection with a roll-supporting bar to turn the said spindle when the said roll is acted on by the plow substantially as described.
2. The combination of a housing having mounted therein a vertical spindle, contacts to rotate with said spindle, stationary contacts to contact with said rotary contacts when the spindle is turned and make contact from the feed-line to the sectional-line contact-heads, a horizontal slide guided in the said housing and extending into the plowchannel and means in connection with said slide to turn the said spindle when the plow pushes it inwardly and means for returning the spindle to its initial position when released substantially as described.
The combination of a housing having an inner chamber a vertical spindle mounted therein and having a Quicksilver-cup at its lower end, a cover to said inner chamber having a downwardly-extending sleeve to dip into f said cup said sleeve inclosing the said spindle, rotary contacts fast on said spindle and stationary contacts connected up as specified to contact with said rotary contacts when the spindle is turned, a horizontally-guided slidebar to extend out of the said chamber into the plow-channel in the path of the plow and means in connection with said slide to rotate the said spindle when the slide is moved by the plow and means for returning the parts to their initial position substantially as described.
4. The combination of a housing having mounted therein a vertical spindle, contacts fast to said spindle and stationary contacts connected up as specified, to contact with said spindle-contacts when the spindle is turned, a slide-bar to slide horizontally said bar being mounted in the housing-wall and extending into the path of the plow, a rack at the end of said bar and a ring of teeth on the end of the said spindle with which said rack engages and means for returning the parts to theirinitial position when the plow has released or passed the end of the said slide substantially as described.
5. The combination of a housing having an innerchamberandavertically-mounted spindle therein made in two parts, a contact-disk on the upper spindle part and contacts to contact with stationary contacts mounted as specified and connected up in the manner described, a Quicksilver-cup formed at the lower end'of the said spindle, a cover to the chamber having sleeve encircling the said spindle and dipping into the Quicksilver-cup, means for coupling the two spindle parts, a horizontally-sliding bar extending out of the chamber into the plow-channel in the path of the plow and means for rotating said spindle when the bar is moved by the plow and for returning the parts to their initial position substantially as described.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.
CARL FRIEDRICH PIIILlPl S'IENDllliMlli.
Witnesses:
HERM. SACK, RUDOLPH FRICKE.
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