US834466A - Switch-operator. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED 300T. so, 1906.

N. T. GOULD. SWITCH OPERATOR. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1906.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEwToN THoMAs ooULuoF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. Assionoa oF ONE-HALF To GUSTAV F. DORMAN AND RUDOLF E. FUCHS, or sAoRA- MENTO, CALIFORNIA.

SWITCH-OPERATOR.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 2'], 1906. Serial No. 314,058-

,To all whom, it may. concern:

Be it known that I, NEWTON THoMAs GOULD, a citizeno'f the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento, State of California, have invented a new and useful Switch-Operator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for operating the switch-points of railway-tracks, more articularly of street-railway tracks and it as for its objects to provide a simplyconstructed and efiicient device for the purpose under the control of the motorman or other attendant on the moving car.

With this and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necess'arily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the vparts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the inventionv or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a part of my invention combined with streetcar tracks and with a switch-point, showing the improved device in position in the center of the track adapted to shunt rolling-stock to either of said tracks. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the switch-controller or tappet in position on a car and part of a railway-car on which the switch-controller or tappet as part of my invention is mounted.

In the improved device is comprised two general ortlons, one portion located within the roa -bed of the track and coupled to the switch-point and another portion connected to the car and adapted for operation by the motorman or other attendant to actuate the switchoint. a

In Flg. 1 the tracks ac and-1' r and the switch-point b, pivoted at p, are of the usual construction, and the point-operating portion of the device consists of a switch-rail c, disposed longitudinally of the rails a a, and

upon a plate at base It, to which it is pivoted at 'i. The free end of switch-rail c is coupled switch-point b at g, the rod e, attached to the switch-point at g and to the switch-rail at f,

operating beneathv the plate or base. it. .s s ows an open s ace in plate h to allow free operation of r0 6 and switch-rail 0. Disposed at acute angles to switch-rail c are the guide-rails d d The guide-rails d d, which are secured to the base h, are so disposed at acute angles to switch-rail c that when the pulley 7c of the tappet j in Fig. 2 is engaged etween the guide-rail d and the switch-rail c the switch-point b will be held open and the car will be shunted to the left, and when engaged between the guide-rail d and the switch-rail 0 switchoint b will be closed and the car will go straight ahead. By this mechtransversely by a rod e to the free end of the anisrn and arrangement it is obvious that the switch-point may be operated by engaging the tap et of the switch-controller on one side or t e other of switch-rail c.

The portion of my invention attached to the car A, as shown in Fig. 2, consists of the sleeve or pocket frame n, attached to and extendin through the floor B of a car, tappet 3' set bac of fender E operating in sleeve n and supported by a hinge-jointed rod m. On the upper end of the tappet is a pedal-plate 0, and helical spring Z surrounds the tappet and is impinged against the under side of the pedal-plate 0 and against'the upper side of sleeve it. To the lower end of tappet i is suspended, a pulley k of such construction and adjustment as to engage the switch-rail c and ulde-rails d d and operate the switch-point as desired. I

The operation and advantages of my invention are, owing to the extreme simplicity of its construction, readily understood and a preciated by those skilled in the art to w ich it pertains.

Fig.2 shows roughly the car A upon the track a approaching the switch-point b. The motorman or operator places his foot u on the edal-plate 0 of the tappet and the u ley 7c of the switch-controller is instantiy engaged between guard-rail d and switch-rail c or the guard-rail d and the switch-rail c, as is desired, and the switch-point b will be set so as to shunt the car to the tracks 1" r or straight ahead on the track a a by the time the wheels D of the car shall have reached the switchpoint I). The operation of this device and improvement in switch-operators is inevitable, and when the switch-controller or tappet is engaged with the switch-rail c the switchpoint I) must be set and that without stopping the car.

It will be noted that on each car must be placed four switch-controllers, two at either end of the car or one controller so adjusted that it may be shifted to the right or to the left sufficiently to place it-in position so as to engage the switch-rail. on the proper side.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent In combination, a switch-point, a base having an opening therethrough, a switchrail pivoted to the up er surface thereof, a

connection between t e switch-point and hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of April, 1906.

NEWTON THOMAS GOULD.

Witnesses:

MILTON MORE REMINTQN, WILLIAM SUNDERLAND HOWE.

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