US848590A - Car and railway switch. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTBD MAR. 26, 1907.

F. S. GALLUP, G. SHANAHAN & F. L. 65 J. N. GALLUP.

CAR AND RAILWAY SWITCH.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG.Q,1H06.

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FLOYD S. GALLUP, CHARLES SHANAHAN, FREDERICK L] GALLUP, AND JOHN N. GALLUP, OF HANCOCK, IOWA.

CAR AND RAILWAY SWITCH.

L'atented lVLarc'n 26, l9b7.

Application filed August 9, 1906. Serial No. 329,948-

To (1,71 Tull/077W it Hui/y concern:

Be it known that we, FLOYD S. GALLUP, CHARLES SHANAI-IAN, FREDERICK L. GALLUP, and JoiIN N. GALLUP, citizens of the United States, residing at Hancock, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have in vented. a new and useful Car and Railway Switch; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in railway-switches; and its most essential object is to provide a device of this character comprising means fixed upon the bottom of the car, adjacent the forward end thereof, consisting of a springpressed bolt having a rearwardly-curved lower end adapted when downwardly pressed to operate the switch-block, which in turn operates the point-rails of the switch.

A car and railway switch equipped with this invention allows the motorman to throw the switch without leaving the car and at the same time allowing him to give his full at tention 'to the power and brake, obviating the necessity of stopping the car for the purpose of throwing the switch with an iron bar.

Furthermore, the invention is simple in construction and very efficient and when manufactured in accordance with the showing ofthe drawings accompanying this specification may be easily adapted in practice.

This invention, as shown, is applied to 'a street-railway, but may be adapted to others as well without deviating from the invention.

This invention comprises, further, objects and combinations of elements, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and

shown in the accompanying drawings, and the novelfeatures thereof will be particularly pointed out by the appended claims.

To attain a full and correctunderstanding of the'details of construction and combination offeatures, elements, and advantages,

reference is to be had to the hereinafter-setforth description, in connection with the ac companying drawings, wherein Flgure 1 1s a side elevation of a car, showing the switch-operating mechanism upon the bottom thereof. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the switch-operating mechanism. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a switch equipped with which is embedded in the concrete in the cen' ter of the rails. This bed-plate forms a perfect smooth surface upon which the switchblock is adapted to have pivotal movement-- that is, when a spring-pressed bolt is operated, causing the switch-block to be operated. This switch is never at any time lying parallel with the rails, but is always upon an angle which will either allow the switch to be opened or closed, allowing the car to travel either straight ahead or indirection at angles thereto. One end of the switch-block is tapered, as shown at 6. This is for the purpose of allowing the spring-actuated bolt, which is provided with a recess 19, to easily receive the rib 20 of the switch-block for throwing the point-rails.

The means for operating the switch-block comprises a cylinder 7, secured to the bottom of the car, having a presser-bolt 8 mounted therein, which is provided with a may happen to be in the p ath of the appro achin car.

l EXtending transversely of the presser-bolt is a pin 12, between which and the bottom of the cylinder a helical spring 13 is interposed which is for the purpose of throwing the bolt back to normal position, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The cylinder is braced by a suitable bracerod 14, one end of which is secured, as at 15, to the cylinder and the other secured, as at 16, to the bottom of the car, as shown in the.

drawings. This brace-rod is also braced by nels 24 upon each side of the casing 18 and is provided with link-latches 25, having downwardlyextending portions 26, which are adapted to engage or disengage the recesses 27 of the point-rails 1, so as to allow for the ready insertion or removal of the said point rails for cleaning purposes or to allow the old point-rails to be replaced by new ones, as will be readily observed.

From the foregoing the essential features and elements and the operation of the device, together with the simplicity thereof, will be plainly observed and when manufactured in accordance with the invention an inexpensive market will be obtained therefor.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful by the protection of Letters Patent is 1. In combination with a switch, comprising the point-rails, a switch-block, a bed plate therefor, a casing u on which the bedplate rests, said switchlock having a de- 1pending lug extending into said casing and aving a lateral movement therein, said lug having a slot, a rod fulcrumed therein the ends of which rod having means for engaging or disengaging the point-rails.

2. In combination with a switch, comprising the usual point-rails, a switch-block, a bed-plate therefor, a spring-actuated presserbolt having a recess for throwing the switch block, a casing upon which the bedplate rests, said switch-block having a depending lug extending into said casing and having a lateral movement therein, said switch-block also having a longitudinal tapering rib to be received by the recess of the presser-bolt, said lug having a slot therein, a rod fulcrumed therein, the ends of which rod having link-latches for engaging or disengaging the oi11t-rails, having recesses to receive said link-latches.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FLOYD S. GALLUP. CHARLES SHANAHAN. FREDERICK L. GALLUP. JOHN N. GALLUP. Witnesses:

OHIO Knox, BETTA DOOLITTLE.

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