US895946A - Device for handling amusement-cars. - Google Patents

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No. 895,946. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908.

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMU$EMENT CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.13,1908.

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DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMUSEMENT CARS.

APVPLIGATION FILED APR. 13,1908.

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ATTORNEYS WITNESSES AQHILLE FIBIAVA'TI, OF FREE'PQRT, NEW YORK,

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMUSEMENT-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Application filed April 13, 1908. Serial No. 426,776.

To all whom "it may-concern:

Be it known that I, AcHILLE F. BIAVATI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Freeport, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Device for Handling Amusement- Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to amusement maing drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a pair of elevators for lifting the cars, and further showing p'qrtions of railroad tracks upon which the cars are adapted to glide; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary section upon the line 22 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow, and showing the car when raised and ready to be released from its support in I tively to the track.

the elevator and Fig. 3 is a vertical section upon the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow,and showing the 'arrangement of the supports for automatically holding the car and for guiding the car rela A'framework 4, having the form of a. double tower, is provided with braces 5, 6, crossing each other, and is further provided withsuit able roofs 7, having more or less of an ornamental character. The elevator cars are shown at 58, and are raised and lowered by aid of rods At 10 are shown gates throu h which the passengers enter the framewor of the elevator.

At 11 are shown the gates for entering the elevator cars.

Mounted within each car 8 is a pair of rocking beams 12, said rocking beams being connected by hinges 13 with a floor beam 14. Interposed intermediate of the rocking beams 12, is a third rocking beam 15 of slightly greater width-than the others. 'Connecting together the rocking beams 12, 15, are cross These cross beams and the rockbeams 16. ing beams together constitute a strong platform. Extending upwardly from this plat- 3 form are standards 17, and carried by the latter are side beams 18, which, of course, move with the platform, being otherwise rigid. A center rail 19 is mounted upon the beam 15. A car 20, having in this instance the shape of a boat, is provided with a keel portion 21, and journaled within the same are wheels 22, each wheel being provided with two flanges 23, and running upon the rail 19 in such manner that the flanges 23 are disposed upon opposite sides of the same. Mounted upon the sides of the car 20, are brackets 24, and journaled within the latter are rollers 25, which'cngage the inner faces of the beams 18.

1 Mounted in the bottom of the elevator car is ,a beam 26, and connecting this beam with the adjacent beam orrail 19, are toggle links 27, 28, 29, arranged inpairs, as indicated in Fig. 2, the links of one pair being longer than those of another pair. The ower toggle links are mounted rigidly upon stub shafts 30, 31, 32. Arms 33, 34, 35, are mounted upon these stub shafts, these arms all being "of the same length, and connected together by a rod 36. This rod is connected with the lower end of a lever 37, this lever being j ournaled at 38 upon thebeam 12, and being provided with a handle portion 39, whereby the lever and be actuated.

At 40 are rails adapted to be brought into registry with the beams 18, and at 41 is a stationary beam corresponding to the beam 12 and provided with a rail 42, said last-mentioned rail corresponding in cross section with the rail 19 and. registering therewith whlgn the elevator is inthe position indicated 1n 1g. 2. T

v The operation of my device is as follows: The elevator car being in its lowermost posie tion, the gates 10 are opened, and the assengers enter the elevator car and take t eir' seats. The gates 10 are now closed, and the elevator car lifted in a manner well on erstood in this art.- Arrivingat the upper level (see upper left-hand port1on of Fig. 1), the operator now grasps the handle 39 and draws it to the left, according to Fig. 2. The lever 37 thereu on-forces the rod 36 to the right, turning t e arms 33, 34, 35, and moving the various toggles, as indicated in Fig.

parts connected with it, may- 2. The platform carried by the toggles is thus elevated, the right-hand portion of the platform being raised a considerable distance as compared with the central portion thereof,thus tilting the car 20. The beams 18 having been alined with the guide rails 40 and the rail 19 being likewise 1n alinement with the rail 42, the car simply runs downwardly by its own gravity. The rollers engaging the beams 18, or rails 40, kee. the car always in its roper position, an the wheels 22 are unab e to leave the central rail 19 or the central rail 42, because of the action'of the flanges 23.

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

' 1. The combination of an elevator car, a platform mounted therein and movable relatively thereto, a plurality of se arate. toggle joints, each connected with sai elevator car and with said platform, means controllable at will for actuating all of said toggle joints at the same time, and a car mounted temporarily upon said platform and adapted to run therefrom by its own weight, when said platform is tilted. v

2. The combination of an elevator, provided with a member movablevertically, rails connected with said member and disposed opposite each other, a car mounted edwith said elevator, a track for supporting said car, and means for starting said car from said elevator relatively to said track.

3. The combination of a stationary track, an elevator car disposed ad'acent thereto, a fragmentary track mounte within said elevator'car, means for inclining said fragmentary track, a passenger car no'rmall su ported upon said fragmentarytrac ral s carried'by said elevator'car and disposed on opposite sides of said passenger car, rollers mounted upon said passen er car and adapted to engage said rails, other rails mounted fixedly in position and adapted to register with said rails carried bysaid elevator car, and a track mounted fixedly in osition and 'ada ted to register, with said ragmentary trac carried by said elevator car.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ACH-ILLE F. BIAVATI.

Witnesses:

* M. H. STOERGER,

RUDOLPH ,SOH'USTERQ

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