US871587A - Street-car signal. - Google Patents

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PATENIBD NOV. 19, 1907.

G. S. HENNINGBRJ STREET OAR SIGNAL.

APPLIQATION FILED APRA, 1907.

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' GEORGE S. HENNINGER, OF LINTON, INDIANA.

STREET-GAR SIGNAL.

peeification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1e, 1907.

Applicationffiled April 4. 1907i Serial No. 366.365-

To all whom-it may concern: I

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. HENNIN- 'GE'R, oflLinton, county of Greene, and State of-In'diana, have invented a certain new and useful Street-Car'Signah and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

eXact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like lettersircfer to like parts.

Theobject of this invention is to provide a conveniently mounted and operated signal.

at the rear end of a street car or the like and preferably-operable by the motorman at the front of the carto indicate to persons crossing the track behind the car that another car is 'coming from an opposite direction on a.

' prarallel track, so as to prevent the person last mentioned car. a j vidual is crossing a track in the rear of a car om running into or being run down by the Accidental 1n ur1es to persons are. quite common where the indiand does not see or hear a car coming on a parallel track in the opposite direction until he gets on the second track and it is too late to escape the second car.

One feature of this invention consists .in providing means normally out ofthe way under the rear platform of the car that can .be thrown outward to the rear and beyond the rear platform of the car by the motorinan or conductor of the car and thus project across the path of persons crossing in the rear of the car. This and the other features of my invention willbe understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa side elevation. of a street car centrally .broken away with the signal operated and the signal bar projecting to the rear. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of a portion of the rear part of the car with the signal mechanism in place andin normal and unoperated condition, parts bein 'broken away. Fig. 3 is a central verti cal section through a portion of the floor at the rear of the car and an actuating rod showing the electric switch for operating thebell signal, parts being broken away. Fig. 4 is? the same as Fig. 2..with the parts in theiroperated position. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through'the front platform of the car showing the means actuated by the motorman for setting the signals in operation, parts being broken away. Fig. 6 is an elevation of tothe floor of the car. and is operated from the battery 33 through touch with the contact point39.

the extreme end of the signal arm showing the danger si n thereon.

Indetail the invention is combined with a car 10 having ward end of which constitutes the frontv platform and the rear end of which constitutes the rear platform. Under the rear latform a signal arm 12 is fulcrumed on'a bo t 13 at a point that will enable said signal arm to project considerably to the rear of the car when it is operated, as seen in Fi s: 1 and 4. The extreme end of said signal arm is widened a suitable floor 11 the forand vertical and contains the words Car- The signal arm I fulcrum and having pivoted to it ahand-actuating rod 15 that runsto the front of the carand there it is pivoted-to the S-sliaped lever 16 which is fulcrumed on the pin 17 in the lower end of the bracket 18 depending from the front platform. A pedal 19,-is pivoted at its lower end to said lever 16 and projects up into an opening in the front platform in position for the motorrnans foot.

When the pedal 19 is depressed by the motorrnans foot the rod 15 will be moved from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 4 and that will cause the signal arm 12 to be thrown out beyond the rear of the car in the path of a person crossing behind, the-car. 20 returns the rod 15 and the other parts as- A spiral spring' sociated therewith to their unoperated posiapparatus 31 mounted on a frame 32 secured This is an electric bell conductors 34, 35 and 36. A switch for closin the circuit which includes the-battery and beill is shown in Fig. 3 and is operated by the rod 15. That rod has an enlargement at 37 which, when the rod is moved forwardly en gages a spring 38 secured to the bottom 11' of the car and moves itscontact pointin'to is connected with the part 38 and the wire 36 is connected with the part 39 of the switch. From the foregoing it is seen that I have The wire effective sight and sound. signals operated by 'a si g le means, the r,0d 15', and that is Opel ated'hy the motorman at the "fro'ritend of the "$33.1 SO' th3lt"Whfl6V hiS cmis stahdingfif hesees .{ahappmachi-figc-ar about to pass, he can operate these signalspj" Toenable pelts'onsl after night-togs eegthe signal bmf. when it; extends outfr oi n the rear of theft-er, I p'ro' vide alight on it; s tn incanrdescent lamp 5 0'; which is mounted in'a hole vt'xLg-cut in: the elgna'l atm 12 and being cennecjted wlth two el'ectnc'al conductors 52 and" 53, which extend to the geneml'-1 i' "h.ting eys+ temfof the' can, so that the light wi h continue tdShip-aslonghs the eerie lighted.

'What I c1 1im1 es m-y invention .anddesim secure by Letters I Patent "is '1; The-cemb'"nati0t1 with ecazj 'ofstsignet arm pivoted under the car, esprmg fer "hold ing it normallyfltnderthe car,- andmeans for actuating. it so as .to' eauseit'tb'extend rear- 2. The .combihatiqn with wear-,4o' us1gnal smm mol mtejd jlinde r the car and eda ted when p'erme: to; extend remetdly- .em

thecane-rod,pivotednto it exteridingto' the front pf: the car 01 operating stud emtch; mechanism adafited tote epemted'by the, 'motormzinat t actuating said r'od and; a, spring 01f mum:

ing the parts to theii'junopemtel.

"e "from. "end ioffithe ear .1" er 'ql 3; The combmatio'n with, av eat, 01 a signal ,erm m-oented under the" end-et'the' ar stiid adapted to extend: rearwardl'j tom the ear when operated, a rod for. actuating 'saidjarm' that'f 'extend's :tojthe front efld o f the car,

means-at the frontfendief the car to enable the motorman to, epenite said rod, eh'ele'ctric h'eIl'inQu ntedunder the 'reali' end of the-cap and a's'witch for controllingsaidlbell that is elosed by the ectuatilig-mbyemeht.ofjsaid 150d, whereby the-Then will ing-when thesigr lnal armextends rearward1y'..;

4. Theeomliinetiontwith ;-a Scar, 0f- 5 Signal arm inmmted under the epdef-the ear-end adapted .to extend "i'eztrvv, ti'd !y from the car when Qperat ed; a 176d. for actuating said 'armf 'that extendsf to the'frbntend-Of the 05113 means at the front end of the es t vf to enable the mqtormen toqperete lseidtodl/ an ewe;

'trie lamp mounted on said i-gnstl arm, and a switch for controlling said" lenip. .thatd'sv' closed "by the actuating movem'er itl of' said rod; whereby the lamp will: shine when the;

' sig'iia'l' arm, extends; ree'r-wardly;

In witness, wheree'f I have hereunto at; fixed .mysignaturejn the presence offthe W1t-, messes. 116121111 namedj 7 GEORGE s; HENNJNGER; WRMS S Y ERNEST K.; GA WETJB; DAVID TEBEENEI

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