US654926A - Railway-car. - Google Patents

Description

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' RAILWAY cA.

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T. L. STATE.

RAILWAY CAR.

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RAILWAY GAR.

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RAILWAY CAB.

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THOMAS L. STATE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN F. PRFN'IIS,y OF `SAME PLACE.

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sPEeIFIeATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,92?, dated July 31, 1.900. Appiaaion tiedApru 21, 1899'. serai No. 713,915. ditmaal.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, THoM'AsL. STATE, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved` Railway-Oar, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention'is to provide means for increasing the seating and carrying capacity of railway-cars and also to more ro comfortably and conveniently arrange these accommodations, which end I attain by providing a car with two floors, on the lower of which are arranged reception-rooms, toiletrooms, a parlor, and state-roomsand on the upper of which are arranged sleeping-berths and also apartments in which hand-baggage i f parlor-floor of the car--is located below the may be stored.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define zo the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to tire accom panying drawings, forming a part of this specification,"t

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe views.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of my invention' on the line 1 1 of Fig. vFig. 2 is a similar view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a similar View on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. et is a diagrammatic view illustrating the 3o horizontal framing on which-the loweriloor of the car is built. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the vertical framing. Fig. 6 is a View illustrating the convertible seats for the upper Iioor of thecar. Fig. '7 is a sectional view on the line 7 7 of Fig.1 3, and Fig., 8 is a similar view on the line S' 8 of Fig. 3.

The main horizontal framing of the car, on

which framing the lower floor is built,con,

sists of two outer beams 9, of any desiredcon- 4o struction, joined at their extremities by transverse beams 10, which latter beams are located, respectively, at the ends of 'the car. Situated intermediate the ends of the beams,

9 and running transversely Abetween them are a number of beams 11, joined toA each otherby longitudinally-extending beams 12. These beams 11 and12 are located inward from the beams 10, so as .to form spaces 14, in which are received the trucks 15 of the car, as indi- 5o cated best in Fig. 3. A. number of vertical beams 16 stand on the beams 9 andare toilet 33.

joined by intermediatelongitudinal beams 17 and upper longitudinal beams 18. Crossbraces 19 (see Fig. 5) may also be provided, as shown, and these cross-braces may be located at any desired point on the car-framing.` All of the `frame-beams described may be of any desired form. It is preferable, however, to employ I-beams, as shown. Ialso desire it to be understood that this framing is not an essential part o f my invention and may be changed "to any other suitable form.

The car is constructed, as indicated best in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with a main saloon or parlor 2O on its lower floor. This parlor may be provided with chairs and other furniture 21. The floor of the parlor ZO-that is to say, the

uppersides of the trucks, and this Hoor is also constructed with a passage or corridor 22, leading toward one end of the car and colnmunicating with a number of state-rooms 23, provided with, berths 24. Thse berths may be either in the form of seats convertible into berths or they may be berths in permanent form, as desired. At one end of the car, directly over the truck, (the left-hand end in Figs. 2 and 3,) I provide a smoking-room 25,`

communicating with a toilet-room 26 for gentlemen and also` with an apartment 27, containing Washstands'and the like. This apartment communicates with a corridor 28, one end of whichleads to a door 29, and the other end of which leads to steps 30, passing down into the parlor 20. At the other end of the car (the right-hand end in Figs. 2 and 3) I provide a corridor 31,reached by steps 32,lead ing upfrom the corridor 22 and communieating with a ladies dressing-room 32 and I alsoA provide a ladies receptionroom`34 in communication with the apartments 32 and 3,3, in whichrreception-room chairs and' other furniture may be arranged as desired. The corridor 31 leads outward to a door 35 atV the adjacent end of thepar. I further provide side doors 3 5 and 37,-le`a`d`ing into the carintermediate the'end'sthereof, the door 36 communicating with the parlor 20 and the door 37 with the corridor 22.

4The top iioor of the car over the parlor 20, the corridor 22, and state-rooms 23 are formed IOO in a' single large apartment 38, in which are convertible 'into berths or berths 'in perma-A such as storage and for buet-rooms.

nent form. vI have shown them to be chairs convertible into berths. At each end of the car, at the upper iioor thereof, I provide an apartment 40, designed to receive hand-baggage and also useful for Various purposes, The upper floor is reached by stairs 41 at each end of the car and'respectively leading from the corridors 28 and 31. The stairs 4l lead upward to a landng-platform42, located just below the iloor of the upper apartment 38, as

shown best in Fig. 3, fromwhich platform 42 lead oppositely to the apartments 40.

`The car is provided with numerous windows and other orifices for light and ventilation. `Thus the lower apartments are lighted by windows 45 and ventilated throughopen-f ings46. The upperl compartmentSS islighted bywindows'lt and ventilated throughopenings" 47 'and the apartments 40 are provided with'small openings 48 for light and 'Ventile-' tion.';V Theconvertible chairs or seats shown in the present form of the invention are illustrated in detail in' Fig. 6, where it will be seen that these. devices when adjusted as seats have backs 49 and seats proper, 50.` Thebacks and seats are supported on suitable framings 5 1, whichf'ramings are each formed withver- Vtifcally-extending spaces therein receiving.A

partitions v52. These' partitions may below# ered, as indicated by the f ull' lines'in Fig. 6, when the berths are not to be used, and when the'cha'irs are converted into seats the parlV titions may be raised, as indicated bydotted lines at the leftin Fig.`6, thus separating the berthsthe onel froml the other. The ad` justableor outer edges of the `seats proper, 50,.are provided'with swinging sections 52, adapted to be supported in horizontal VpOfSi.-

tion by the hinged legs 53. vWhen thede vicesY are adjusted as seats, thelezztensions 52a are throwndownwardly, as indicated vby the fulllines to the left in Fig. 6; butwhen the seats are to be converted into berths the sections 52a are thrown out horizontally and supported by the legs 53, as indicated by dotted linesat the left in Fig. 6 and by the full lines at the right in said figure. By this arrangement either seats or berths may be 'and scope of my invention. Sider myself entitled to all such variations furnished. In. conve rting'.the` seats into berths the, backs .49 are throwindown over theseats proper, 50, and the extensions 52, thus lforming comfortable cushions, on which the passengers may lie. This arrangement Vavoids the necessity7 of1 handling and carrying mattresses'forV the berths.

.Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit Hence I conas may lie within the scope of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I

i claim 'as'new and desire to secure by Letters stairs 43 lead to the apartment 38 and stairs 44 Patent- 1. A railway-car, having aframe compris'.L ing vside sillsextending throughout the length of the c ar, end sills extending between the endSQf the side sills, and transomsextending between theside sills intermediate ,the ends thereof, the transoms being spaced from ,the -corresponding end sills to form va place dfor the trucks between` the transoms and end sills and between the side sills.

partments, such stairs leadingup to the upr per main compartment and tothe upper end compartments. i Y

Y3. A convertible seat for railway-cars, having a back, a seat proper, a frame onwhi'ch the seat is mounted, a seat extension hinged towtheyframe, anda leg pivotally mounted on the seat extension to hold the extension horizontally in line with the seat, the back being capable of folding down on the seat and its extension to form a berth.

TUI-IOMAS L. STATE.

Witnessesz.

e HENRY G. HOLMES,

JAMES V. OX'roBY.

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