US730361A - Reflector. - Google Patents

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No. 730,361. PATENTED JUNE 9,1903.

' R. FYFE.

REFLECTOR. APPLIOATIOEI FILED Mn. 25. 1903.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented .Tune 9, 190

PATENT OFFIC.

:ROBERT FYFE, OF LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REFLECTOR.

SPEGIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,361, dated June 9, 1903.

Application filed March 25, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT FYFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reflectors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in reflectors; and it consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of a street-car,showing my reflector applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device unfolded for use. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the device when not in use. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a car, showing an adjunct in the shape of a speaking-tube to be resorted to by the motorman. Fig. 6 is a detached view of the swinging end of the tube in side elevation, and Fig. 7 is a front elevation thereof.

The object of my invention is to construct a reflector specially applicable to street-cars and similar vehicles Which'will enable the motorman to see byreflection when a passenger has safely boarded the rear platform of a car or stepped off the car, so as to avoid accidents resulting from starting the car at improper moments. V

In detail the invention may be described as follows;

Referring to the drawings, 0 represents a As now generally constructed the floor of the platform is connected to the roof R thereof by side posts 1. To the post 1 myinvention is applied, the same consisting of a sleeve 2, adjustable vertically along the post and secured thereto when once adjusted by a bindingscrew 2. Pivoted to the sleeve 2 is an arm 3, having a sliding extension 4, to

Serial No. 149,505- (No model.)

7, whose opposite end is pivoted to the medial portion of a lever 8, whose base is pivoted to the sleeve 2 and whose free end is connected to one endof .a rope or chain9, having its opposite end fastened to the roof R. The weight of the reflector and arm 3 is sufficient to normally fold the parts to the position shown in Fig. 4. Should the motorman desire to ascertain the condition of things on the rear platform, he draws on the rope 9, Fig. 2, thus swinging the reflector outwardly.

person P will be reflected, and he can ascertain without leaving his post Whether a passenger has boarded the car or stepped oif therefrom, and should a signal be given him at an improper time to go ahead he can take the precaution not to start the car until the safety of the passenger is insured.

Should the car be packed and the motorinans line of vision be for any reason obstructed, he can inquire as to the condition of thin gs o n the rear platform through a speaking-tube 10, whose forward end is provided with a swinging mouthpiece l1 and the rear end with a flaring sound-distributer 12, the response being communicated to him through a return tube 13, having aflaring distributer 14. When occasion to use the mouthpiece 11 does not arise, it can be swung .up out of the way, (see dotted position, Fig. 7,) the said mouthpiece being suspended from the resilient arms or springs 15, having lugs 16, adapted to enter'corresponding recesses 17 in the upper deflected end of the mouthpiece, the grip of said arms being sufficient to hold the mouthpiece when swung to the position rev ferred to.

The rays of light coming from any object or carried by the platform thereof, a sliding tween the adjacent inner end of the arm and an to the arm, a lever pivoted to the sleeve and intermediate portion of the lever, a reflector a link pivoted respectively to the inner end at the outer end of the arm, and means for of the arm and to an intermediate point along oscillating the lever, the parts operating subthe lever, the parts operating substantially r5 5 stantially, as and for the purpose set forth. I as, and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a reflector In testimony whereof I affiX my signature comprising a suitable sleeve, an arm pivoted in presence of two Witnesses.

to the sleeve, an extension for said arm, a re- ROBERT FYFE; flector having a conical frame or holder 10- Witnesses: l0 cated at the outer end of said arm, a ball-and- EMIL STAREK,

' socket joint connecting the frame or holder G. L. BELFRY.

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