US936814A

US936814A - Sleeping-car berth.

Info

Publication number: US936814A
Application number: US45837808A
Authority: US
Inventors: Peter Rubinovitch
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-10-19
Filing date: 1908-10-19
Publication date: 1909-10-12
Anticipated expiration: 1926-10-12

Description

P. RUBINOVITOH.

SLEEPING GAR BERTH.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 19, 1 908.

Patented 001;. 12, 1909.

Witnes's es:

1mm ntOT": 1Z4,

iNIJREW. Bv GRAHAM 00-, FHOTO-LI'THOGHAFNERS. WASNNGIQ'N, Dr C.

rn'rnn RUBIN'OVITCI-I, or iaosron, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLEEPING-CAB BERTI'I.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 19%).

Application filed. October 19, 1908. Serial No. 458,378.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER RUBINOVITOH, a subject of the Empire of Russia, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeping-Car Berths, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention relates to an improvement in sleeping car berths and has for its object, to construct a berth, which is adapted to turn up into a vertical position with a sliding bar and a movable support jointed at their inner ends to a sleeve fixed to the compartment partition and directly to the compartment partition, respectively, and with said bar at its outer end adjustably connected with said support; and which is also adapted to turn down into an extended position by extending said bar and support and locking them together, so that the berth shall be supported in its extended position, without the aid of any supports resting on the floor or other supports fixed to the berth frame or to the sides of the compartment of the car.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1. represents a side elevation of my improved berth in its turned up or vertical position, also a portion of the berth frame; Fig. 2. is a plan View of the bottom of the upper part of the casing; Fig. 3. is a perspective view in its extended position; Fig. 4. is a front elevation in partial section, Fig. 5. is a cross section of a compartment ma sleeping car, with the berth in its extended position.

Referring to the different figures, A. represents a sleeve fastened to the compartment partition C. of the car by means of the screws, a. a. Pivoted at one end to this sleeve by means of the bolt 6. is a bar B. having sliding engagement at its other end with the berth frame E. by means of trunnions b b. on either side of the bar engaging internal grooves e, of a longitudinal slot 6 of the berth frame E. The berth frame E. is pivoted to the section partition C. at e, by means of a hinge member 6 fastened to the bottom, or preferably to the side, of the berth frame by means of the screws 6.

Fastened to the upper side of the bar B. is a casing D. composed of a fiat plate d surmounted by a box shaped portlon (Z, the two portions being fastened together by screws 0?, in holes cl (Fig. 2), and the plate being fastened to the bar B. by means of screws (Z16. In the space between these two members of the casing is slidably mounted a latch plate 03, having a widened lower extremity (1 adapted to engage a notch e in the top face of the berth frame member E. In order to withdraw the latch plate from engagement with the notch e a rock lever 0Z forked at its lower end is pivoted on the transverse pin 03 fastened across a slot d in the member d of the casing, the forked ends being adapted to engage on either side a transverse pin d bridging a slot d in the latch plate. It is evident from Fig. 4, that a downward pressure on the outer end of the lever d will cause the lever to rock about the pin cl*, so that one of the forked ends will engage the pin d and move the latch plate out of engagement with the notch. In order to hold the latch plate yieldably in either its operative or retracted position, a latch pin (Z pressed outwardly by a coiled spring al is provided in the bar This pin passes through a perforation in the plate cl and its rounded outer end is adapted to seat itself in one of two depressions d, on the under side of the latch plate d", when the latch plate is in its engaging or retracted position. On a movement of the lever d however, the pin is wedged inwardly against the spring a? by the inclined face of one depression thus allowing the latch plate to move freely till the end of the pin may engage the other depression. At e in the berth frame E. forward of the butt 6 is a hole opening into the internal slot a and used for the removal of dust from the slot when the support E is raised up. The figures represent the fittings at one side only of the bar B. and of the berth frame E. When the berth is in an inclined and extended position, as shown in Figs. 3, 4:, and 5, the bar B. is pivoted at one end to the sleeve, by means of the bolt, 6. and the catch 0Z is slidablyengaged with the notch 6 in the end of the berth frame E., so that the berth is securely fastened together.

To turn the berth up into a folded and vertical position, first withdraw the catch cl from the notch 6 by pressing forward the rock lever (Z then raise the outer end 6 of the berth frame E., on the bolts 1) and 6, while the pointed end 6 and the trunnions b. b. of the bar B. move forward and upward in the internal grooves e in the longitudinal slot 6 from the butt 6 toward the outer end '6, of the berth frame E. until the berth is folded together in a vertical position, against the section C. of the compartment of the ear.

Claims.

1. A sleeping car berth comprising a sleeve fixed to the berth frame, a sliding bar and a movable support fixed to the inside of the berth-frame, and ointed at their inner ends, to said sleeve and berth frame, respectively, said bar having a pointed end and two trunnions placed opposite each other, at its outer end, and said support having a butt, a dust hole and a transverse slot at its inner end, a longitudinal slot and interior grooves in its central part, and, an outer end opening, and said pointed end and trunnions being adapted to run in said longitudinal slot and grooves, respectively, and, a casing fixed to the top and outer end of the bar and having a rock lever and a slidable catch connected together in a recess therein; said catch being adapted to fit into said transverse slot and lock the berth, When it is extended, and the same to be withdrawn from said transverse slot, when the berth is to be turned up into a vertical position, substantially as set forth.

2. In a sleeping car berth, the combination with a berth frame, of a sleeve fixed to same,

a sliding bar jointed, at its inner end, to said sleeve and having a pointed end and two trunnions placed opposite each other at its outer end, a casing fixed to the top of the outer end of the bar and having a rock lever and a slidable catch connected together in a recess therein and a movable support fixed to the inside of the berth-frame and jointed, at its inner end to the berth frame and having a butt, a dust hole and a transverse slot, at its inner end, a longitudinal slot and internal grooves, in its central part, and an outer end opening; said pointed end and trnnnions being adapted to run back in said longitudinal slot and grooves, respectively, and, said catch, to fit into said transverse slot and lock the berth together, when the berth is extended; and said catch, to be withdrawn from said transverse slot and said pointed end and trunnions, to run forward, in said longitudinal slot and grooves, when the berth is lifted into its vertical position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

PETER RUBINOVITCH.

Witnesses \VILLIAM N. REED, MILAN F. STEVENS.