US775300A

US775300A - Elevated-railway switch.

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Publication number: US775300A
Application number: US13315402A
Authority: US
Inventors: James Hughes
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-11-28
Filing date: 1902-11-28
Publication date: 1904-11-22
Anticipated expiration: 1921-11-22

Description

PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

J. HUGHES.

ELEVATED RAILWAY SWITCH.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28,1902.

N0 MODEL.

W 6 m M f James flay/ 65.

Patented November 22, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JAMES HUGHES, OF MOUNT VERNON, IOWA.

ELEVATED-RAILWAY SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,300, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed November 28,1902. Serial No. 133,154. (No model.)

be it known that 1. JAMES HUGHES, a citizen of the United States. residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Linn, in the State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Elevated-Railway Switch, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to elevated railways, and has for its object to produce asimple and convenient method of switching cars from a track at one level to another at a lower or higher level.

The nature of the invention will fully appear in the description and claims following, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whieh- Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating my improved switching apparatus as applied to two tracks at different levels. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3is an end View showing the track shifting or switching mechanism.

In the drawings, A denotes the arched substructure of an elevated railway. Above this, supported by posts B. are two tracks O and .D, respectively, the latter above the former high enough to allow cars to pass under it. To switch cars from one of these tracks to the other is the subject-matter of this invention, and the apparatus for this purpose will now be described.

A portion of the lower track E is inclined, as shown, until the top of the grade is about half-way to the level of the upper track. Corresponding to this inclination of the lower track the upper track has a section Finclined in the opposite direction, with the free ends of its rails beveled to rest on top of the lower rails, as shown in Fig. 1.

section of track is adapted to swing laterally, as shown in Fig. The switch-track is sup- J is a winch,

The other end adoins the level upper track, and the inclined to which is connected a cable K, making a number of turns about it. The ends of the cable are attached to opposite sides of the switch-track, respectively. The winch is actuated by a train of gearing L, mounted be tween the posts B and B and operated through the medium of a crank M.

The operation of the device is so simple as to require little description. Swung to one side, as shown in Fig. 2, the lower line is open for the passage of cars along it. \Yhen, however, it is desired to transfer a car moving to the right to the upper track, the switch track is swung over parallel with the lower track, and the car may then pass up the grade to said upper track.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of elevated railway tracks at different levels, the lower track having an ascending inclined portion, an oppositely-inclined section of track leading to the upper track, with one end free to swing sidewise, supporting posts and girders for said tracks, hangers with antifriction -rollers to support the swinging track on cross-girders, and means substantially as described to swing said track back and forth.

2. The combination of elevated tracks at 1 different levels, the lower track having an D. L. Born, V. M. Moons.