US77338A - Improved suppobts foe passengers in oars - Google Patents

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HENRY s. VROOMA'N, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

am Patent No. 77,338, dated April 28, 1868'.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Bcit known that I, HENRY S. VROOMAN, of the city of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Method of Constructing and Applying Flexible Braces or Supports for Passengers while Standing or Walking Inside HorseRailro'ad Cars; and that the following is.a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form'apart of this'specification.

Figure 1, of'said drawings, represents a-side'elevation, and Figure 2 an end elevation of a mode embodying my improvement. The straps or braces used at present, pending from the roof of tlie car, for passengers to take hold of when standing, or passing in or out of the car, have but one point of attachment above, so thatpersons seeking support from them are subject to be swayed forward and back when the car is started or. stopped. The unstable character of these supports or braces arises from the fact that the vertical position of the strap, when-hanging,

naturally has to be changed to an inclination of some twenty degrees before they will constitute horizontal support to passengers. requiring, in all, .a swaying movementot some forty degrees of the lower end of tho brace to constitute a support .both ways, as is'nceded, from the reverse movements caused by the starting and stopping of the car. a

To overcome this unstable and treacherous character of the supports now'in use, and prevent passengers from staggering and. treading upon cach'other in the endeavor to maintain their balance, I use the ordinary strap, formed at-the middle into a loop, suitable for-passengers to grasp'with the hand, and attach the two ends above at separate points, so as to permanently constitute two angles-the one inclined forward and the other backward-forming a permanent support, whether the car he started or stopped, producing reverse movements.

I will more particularly describe my improvement by reference to the drawings. I

A, fig. 1, is the base of two uprights, 3B, which support the'horizontal red O, to which the strap or brace D is attached. 7 p I The strap D, as will be seen, is formed into a loop at the middle, suitable to clasp with the hand, and is then crossed and fastened together just above the loop, the ends extending upwards on diverging angles, and pass over and rest upon the horizontal rod C at such distance apart-as to form the required angles in the strap to'constitute a brace either direction; i

The ends of the strap, after passing over and around the rodC, are riveted atff to the vertically-inclined portions oi it, and kept at the required distance apart uponthe red by means of the horizontal bar or brace, E,

attached to the strap at each end, as seen in fig. 1.

The principle upon which this double-acting flexiblebrac is constructed 'may be embodied and applied in many ways. The whole middle portion of the strap, pending from therod 0, maybe made' to constitute one loop, or one single strap may be used, of suiiicient width at the upper end to constitute a donble-actingbrace Consequently,

l claim broadly as new, and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A doublevacting flexible passcngerrsupport in horse-railroad cars, constructed substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described. 4 I

H. S. VROOMAN.

Witnesses:

G-no. F. Henna, 'lnoms RUSSELL.

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