US851843A

US851843A - Means for stopping and releasing toy railway-vehicles.

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Publication number: US851843A
Application number: US29259605A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ekko Sollmann
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-12-20
Filing date: 1905-12-20
Publication date: 1907-04-30
Anticipated expiration: 1924-04-30

Description

No. 851,843. PATENTED APR. 30, 1907. B'. SOLLMANN.

MEANS FOR STOPPING AND RELBASING TOY RAILWAY VEHICLES. AYILIGATIOH rmm D20. 20, 1905.

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To all whom, it may concern.-

EKKO SOLLMANN, OF HOBOKEN, NETV JERSEY.

MEANS FOR STOPPING AND RELEASING TOY RAILWAY-VEHICLES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed December 20, 1905- Serial No. 292,596.

Be it known that I, EKKO SOLLMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hoboken, in the county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, (whose post-ollice address is 1006 Bloomfield street,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Stopping and Releasing Toy Railway- Vehicles and I 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 apper- .tains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved device for toy railways designed to arrest move ment of the vehicles thereof. Preferably, the invention is designed to act automatically in the performance of its function and is adapted to act gradually upon the moving body and arrest its further movement in such a manner as to prevent derailment. In prior devices of this character the means for stopping toy railway trains have consisted in devices which bring the vehicle or train suddenly to a position of rest, which devices have been found to be (lOfQCflY'O owing to the light construction of toy vehicles and to the consequent tendency thereof to leave the rails.

To this end the invention consists, broadly, in the provision of an element adapted to be moved into engagement with the railway vehicle in a manner to gradually arrest the movement thereof, engagement of the vehi cle with said element being a frictional en gagement in contradistinction to an abutting engagement.

The invention will be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings and will be more particularly pointed out and ascertained in and by the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 illustrates the preferred embodiment of the invention showing an automatically acting device, said view being taken on. line 11 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a double track show ing my invention applied thereto. F 3 is a sectional view of the device of my invention taken on line of Fig. 4, showing an embodiment adapted to be operated by hand. Fig. 4 is a view looking in the direction of the arrow 4 of Fig. 3.

Like characters of reference designate similar parts throughout the different figures of the drawings.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the device of my invention is applied to a double track and the devices of each track are so connccted that a vehicle or train on one track will serve to operate the device in a manner to arrest its movement and the movement of the vehicle or train of the adjoining track, although it will be understood that the invention may be fully realized as applied to a single track.

a and 5 indicate the double track which is mounted upon suitable sleepers, as shown, each track being provided with a movable element in the form of braking rails c and d which, as shown, are disposed between the rails of said tracks. Each of the rails a and d is provided with a sloping end portionc and d located in a manner to be engaged by appreaching vehicles. The rails c and d are movably mounted in a manner to be brought into and thrown out of engaging proximity with the vehicle, the mounting shown com prising cranks. The rails c and (Z are so disposed as to engage vehicles traveling inv opposite directions and in order to effect operation of rail 0 through rail (l and vice versa two of the cranks c and c are connected by a shaft 0 which is mounted in bushings c and a secured in the rails of the tracks a and b. The opposite ends of the rails c and d are mounted in cranks and c. The crank c is mounted in a bushing c and the crank c in bushings The cranks of the rails c and d are so disposed that when one rail is thrown into an operating position the remaining rail is thrown into anon-operating position and vice versa so that all trains passing in opposite directions are stopped at a single point in each trip. The rails are provided with means adapted for engagement with the vehicles in a manner to throw said rails into an operating position which means consists as shown of levers 'i and i, the former being mounted on shaft c and the latter upon crank e and the cranks of the tracks 0 and (Z are angularly disposed with respect to each other.

The vehicle indicated by g is provided with means for engaging said track levers which, as shown, consists of a stop arm 7) The engagement of the vehicle with the braking rails may be effected by the provision of a braking member f pivotally mounted upon the forward vehicle as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the said lever fbcing mounted in a manner to permit rearward and prevent forward movement of the same. As shown, the ve- IIO of the vehicle by skidding the front wheel Z through the arrangement hereinbefore described. The operation of the device is as follows. As the vehicle 9 advances toward the rail (Z the stop arm 71 engages the lever i throwing the same into a position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The rail d is elevated into engaging proximity with the vehicle preferably through the brake lever f and the latter is by engagement with the rail (Z thrust rearwardly into engagement with the wheel preventing the latter from rotating and thereby skidding the wheel Z. The operation of raising the rail 61 serves to lower the rail and raise lever t into engaging proxvehicle provided with a brakmg member, a

imity with the vehicle upon the track a ap proaching from an opposite direction to that of the vehicle 9 on the track Z). Thus, when the vehicle on track a approaches the lever i which has been swung to the right by engagement of the vehicle will, be returned to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 raising g the rail 0. In the form shown in Figs. 3 and l, the operation of raising the rail 0 is effected manually by means of a lever m connected with the shaft The rail 0 is hung upon cranks the same as in the preferred construction. In order to make the toy more attractive a semaphore g may be employed which as shown is pivoted on a support 29 and connected by a link and crank it with the lever m.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a toy railway the combination with a vehicle provided with a braking member, rails for said vehicle, a movable element adapted to cooperate with said member, and means associated with said element and adapted to be engaged by said vehicle to throw said element into engaging proximity to said member.

2. In a toy railway the combination with a vehicle provided with a depending brake member, rails for said vehicle, a movable braking rail, and means associated with said rail and adapted for engagement by said vehicle to throw said braking rail into engagement with said member.

3. In a toy railway the combination with a vehicle provided with a pivotally mounted depending braking member, rails for said vehicle, a braking rail, cranks supporting said rail in operating and non-operating positions, and a lever adapted for engagement with said vehicle and serving to throw said rail into an operating position.

4. In a toy railway the combination with a vehicle provided with a pivotally mounted i :1 v depending braking member, of two sets of main rails, braking rails disposed between braking member, and an element adapted to be raised into engaging proximity with said braking member to engage the same with said means.

6. In a toy railway the combination of a supporting wheel and a stop arm, means operated by said supporting wheel and adapted to be engaged by said braking member/a movable brake rail, and a lever associated therewith and adapted to be engaged by said stop arm to throw said brake lever into engagement with said braking member.

7. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles, two sets of rails therefor, movable elements forsaid rails connected to operate in unison and adapted to arrest movement of said railway vehicles, and means associated with said elements and adapted to be engaged by said vehicles whereby said elements are thrown into engaging proximity with said vehicles to arrest movement of the same.

8. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles, two sets of rails for said vehicles, a movable element for each of said sets of rails connected to operate in unison, said elements being so connected that when one is in an operative position the other is in a non-operative position, and means associated with said elements and adapted for engagement with said vehicles whereby said elements may be singly thrown into engaging proximity with said vehicles.

9. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles provided with braking members, two sets of rails for said vehicles, movable elements adapted to be thrown into engaging proximity with said braking members and connected to operate in unison, and means associated with said elements and adapted for engagement with said braking members whereby said elements are thrown into engaging proximity with said braking members.

10. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles provided with braking members, rails for said vehicles, movable elements for said rails adapted to be thrown into engaging proximity with said braking members, said elements being connected to operate in unison-and to cause one element to be thrown into an operative position and the other to be thrown into a non-operative position, and means associated with said ele merits and adapted for engagement with said vehicles for throwing said elements into operative proximity with said braking members.

11. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles, two sets of rails therefor, and movable elements for said sets of rails adapted to cooperate with said vehicles to arrest movement of the same, said elements being connected to operate in unison.

12. In a toy railway the combination with railway vehicles, two sets of rails therefor, and movable elements for said rails adapted to cooperate with said vehicles to arrest movement of the same, said elements being connected to operate in unison and disposed 13. In a toy railway the combination with l railway vehicles provided with two sets of i traction wheels, rails for said vehicles, movable elements for said rails adapted to be thrown into operative positions, and means associated with said vehicles and the traction wheels thereof and adapted for engagement with said elements.

1.4. In a toy railway the combination with a rail ay vehicle provided with a traction wheel, rails therefor, a movable element adapted to be thrown into an operative position, and means associated with said vehicle and the traction wheel thereot and adapted for engagement with said element whereby the movement of said vehicle may be arrested.

15. In a toy railway the combination with a railway vehicle provided with a tract-ion wheel, a braking member and means whereby said member may retard movement of said wheel, rails for said vehicle, and a movable element adapted to engage said braking member and therethrough act upon said traction wheel.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EKKO SOLIJMANN Witnesses ALEX \VILLE, IIANS Konnnn.