US770107A - Street-car. - Google Patents

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No. 770,107. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. G. B. PRICE.

STREET GAR.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 30, 1903.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,107, dated September 13, 1904.

Application filed December 30, 1903. Serial No. 187,186. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. PRICE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakmont, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in street-cars, and has for its object to insure a perfect and automatic registration of the number of passengers without delaying the entrance of the passengers or the starting of the cars pending the collection of the fares; and to this end my invention consists in providing each car with a side corridor or receiving-compartment and a passage between said compartment and the body of the car, in which is arranged a recording-turnstile, and in other features of improvement, as fully set forth hereinafter and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional plan of a street-car, illustrating one embodiment of my invention; and Fig. 2, a sectionalelevation thereof looking in the direction of the arrow.

The body A of the car may be of any usual or suitable construction and proportions, is provided with seats suitably arranged, and preferably has both a lower deck C and an upper deck D, communicating through the medium of a stairway E, shown as a spiral stairway, leading upward from the interior of the body of the car-that is, so that access can only be had thereto after the passenger has entered the car and paid his fare and has been registered.

To secure the certain or automatic registry of each passenger, the car is provided with a registering-turnstile F, which must be passed and operated before a passenger can obtain access to the body of the car. This turnstile should turn only in one direction-that is to say, inward. As a number of passengers often board a car at the same point and it would not be advisable, or in many cases permissible, to let the car remain stationary while the passengers are paying their fares and passing the turnstile, I arrange the turnstile in a passage-way or compartment B at one side of the car and into which the passengers may enter freely-as, for instance, through the door G. As shown, this compartmentB is in the form of a corridor arranged within and extending a suitable distance along one side of the car and is of such capacity as to admit a number of persons at one time, so that all desiring passage can enter the receiving-compartment without material delay, permitting the car to be started onward after they have thus entered the corridor or compartment and to continue its movement while the passengers are successively passing the turnstile and are being registered thereby. It will thus be seen that the registering of each fare is insured without delaying the entrance of passengers or the progress of the car.

The conductor might of course collect the fares by making the customary rounds after the passengers have entered and registered; but preferably there is provided a conductors' box or station H adjacent to the turnstile F, with a window opening into the corridor or compartment, through which the fare can be collected, and a detent I serves as a means of preventing the rotation of the turnstile until released by the operating of a handle 2 by the conductor.

The outlet J is shown arranged adjacent to the conductors station and is controlled by the conductor. As shown, the outlet is provided with a sliding door K, which the conductor can open by drawing it inward. If a swing-door be used, it should swing only outward, so that passengers could not by entering the car at this point evade the turnstile F. By this arrangement the exit of each passenger takes place directly under the conductors eye and control and the danger of apremature starting-signal, with resulting injury to passengers, is obviated.

An additional door M may be provided in the side of the car close to the turnstile and conductors box for use in permitting the exit of passengers who after entering the corridor discover that they have boarded the wrong car or in any other unusual circumstance or emergency.

It will be seen that by the above arrange ment every passenger entering the body of the car is registered without possibility of by fares are paid upon entering the car, the

use of a two-story or double-decker car on a busy line becomes at once practicable, inas-,

much as the conductor is thus relieved of the necessity of mounting a stairway in order to collect fares on the upper deck and while thus engaged of being prevented from attending to his duties below, including proper signaling to the motorman or driver.

As best shown in Fig. 1, the body of the car is divided by partitions having sliding doors, so that one compartment may be for first-class fares and the other for second-class fares or smokers.

Without limiting myself to the construction and arrangement shown, I claim 1. A street-car provided with a receivingcompartment extending along one side thereof, an entrance thereto, a registering-turnstile between said compartment and the body of the car and an exit therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. A street-car provided with a receivingcompartment extending along one side thereof, an entrance-door thereto, a registeringturnstile between the compartment and the body of the car, and a conductors box or station adjacent to the turnstile, substantially as set forth.

3. A street-car provided with an entrancedoor. a receiving-compartment extending along one side of the car and communicating with the door, and a passage from the compartment to the body of the car provided with a registering-turnstile, substantially as set forth.

4. A street-car provided with an entrancerelease the turnstile, substantially as set forth 6. A street-car provided with an entrancedoor, a receiving-compartment communicating therewith, a passage from the compartment provided with a registering-turnstile, a detent whereby the conductor can secure and release the turnstile, and an outlet from the body of the car having a door controlled by the conductor, substantially as set forth.

7 A street-car provided with an entrancedoor, a receiving-compartment communicating therewith and extending along one side of the car, a passage from the compartment provided with a registering-turnstile, a detent whereby the conductor can secure and release the turnstile, and an outlet from the body of the car having a door controlled by the conductor, substantially as set forth.

8. A street-car having lower and upper decks, a staircase between the same leading from the interior of the car, an entrance-door, a side receiving-compartment communicating therewith and with the interior of the car, and a passage between said compartment and the interior of the car provided with a registering-turnstile, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OHAS. B. PRICE. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. FosTER, FRANCIS S. MAGUIRE.

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