US963722A - Passenger railway-car. - Google Patents

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L. E. PADEN. PASSENGER RAILWAY CAR. IAPPLIOATION FILED rBB.23,1910.

Patented July 5, 1910.

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LEVIS E. PADEN, OF PHLADEIJPHI'A, PENNSYL'ANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PAY-WITHI CAR COMPAN'YpOF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A. CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

PASSENGER RAILWAY-CAR.

Application filed February 23, 1910. Serial No. 545,340.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l', LEWIS E. PADEN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at the` cit-y of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelpliia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Passenger Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relatesfto a passenger railway car of particularly the type, which has become known as a. pay-within passenger car; and in such 'connection my invention relates more particularly, first, to the feature Vin such a car of. registering or recording every entering passenger thereby-to prevent dishonesty bya conductor; second, the feature of closing hinged slidable door-meiny bers .in unison with the movement ofa step so that when the door is slid, the hinged member thereof may be caused to swing outivard to admit passengers and when slid to normal position. both door members protect against entrance,I except under control of the conductor; and third, the feature of arranging the conductors station so as to be converted interchangeably into entrance and enit ivays by simply shifting a bar and without interfering with regular registering or recording of entering passengers -about the conductoi"s station by the turnstile thereof.

M y invention stated in general terms, consists of a passenger lrailway car, when constructively arranged for operation in substantially the"manner hereinafter described and claimed.

'l'he nature and scope of my present invention will be 'more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in Which- Figure l, is a side elevational. view of a pay-within car provided with hinged slidable door-members in which one, the hinged member isladapted to swing'out. Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional view of the car, showing a registering or .recording turnstile, a conductors station arranged adjacent thereto, hinged slidable door-members, the hinged one of which being shown so as to swing "-utwaii to admit passengers and the dooriz'ienibers so arranged as to work in unison with the movement of the step, inwtghis view Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1910.

of the interior of a car, embodying the several defined features of my said invention.

Referring to the drawings, a is a car of the pay-within type, as shown. This car is provided with a elosable vestibule or platform al, which merges into the main body a2, of the ear. At about Where a vestibule merges into the main'car-body is located beyond a center point thereof, a registering or recording turnst-ile Z), located ineither. or both vestibules. Adjacent to the'turnstile 7;, in either vestibule a1 is located the conductors station a, within the main car-body a?, as shown. This station is provided-.With vertical uprights c, c1 and c2, supporting two bai's c3 and c4, hinged to each otherand suitably connected with the said uprights, that is, so as to be shifted onto each other to provide an aisle a3, between the main body a, and a vestibule a1,`about the' location of a turnstile, to permit when the hinged bars c3 and (A, occupy the right-angular relationship to each other, asshown in full and dotted outline in Fig. 3,'the closing of lthe entrance-Way to the lmain body a-,`except through the turnstile by revolving one of the wings thereof. The tui'nstile l), is provided with a pawl and ratchet connect-ion b1 and b2, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, so as to be enabled to revolve the turnstile Ain one direction only and to be locked against revolving in an opposite direction to prevent the exit of passengers.

It will thus be seen that each passenger entering the car .Will be registered by turnings of the turnstile Z). In case of undue congestion within the car at certain periods, constantly occurring, if .desirable to discharge passengers from the entrance end of the car this may be facilitated by simply swinging the bar c, over ont-o the bar c4, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby then will be provided the aisle a3, leading from about the eonductorls station a, in the main body of the car to the vestibule or platform a, as shown in Fig. 3, and With the hinged swinging door d, occupying the position as shown particularly in Fi 2,' to enable passengers then to readily alight' from the cailhe hinged slidable doors al and'd, are shifted into respectivel operative as well as the closed position, 1n unison with the step c, by mechanism under the control of the conductor from his station a, not shown, but fanniiar examples whereof, will be found in the Q EFFET VILBLE GOPY 563272@ United States Letters Patent Nos. 824,209, dated June 26th, 1906, to Myron Rounds; 870,051, dated November 5th, 1907, to Harold Rowntree; and No. 935,853, dated October 5th, 1909, to Frederick H. Lincoln. I make no claim to any particular form of door and -step operating mechanism for employment 1n connection with the door-members and steps of the car described, but may use any preferred type best adapted to the purpose in connection With the features defined as constituting my said invention. r

It will be observed when the swinging door al, of the door-members occupies an out- Ward position Figs. 2 and 3, a series of exit- Ways a5 and a, Will be provided in that portion of the car, if the registering or record-- ing device b2, of the turnstile b, is removed and it is intended to be so arranged, when not in uset Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a passen er railway car, hinged slidable door memers, a conductors station located in the main car-body immediately adjacent to a vestibule or platform of the car having uprights and a crossbar about saidstation and which cross-bar by a niovement thereof establishes an cxitway and a turnstile in the vestibule or platform and -Serving as a barrier to the entrance of passengers from the vestibule or platform to Said main car-body.

2. In a passenger railway car, hinged slidable door-members, a conductors station having thereat shiftable bars, said station 3. In a passenger railway car, hinged slidable door-members, a conductors station locatedwithin the main car-body, a turnstile operative only in one direction and located in the vestibule or platform and said con- .ductors station having thereat shiftable bars to provide in one instance an exit'way from said niaincar-body to the platformof said car.

4. In a passenger railway car, a turnstile operative in one direction only, a conductors station located adjacent thereto and having thereat shiftable bars in which one is arranged to establish an exitway and door4 inenlbersl in which one is adapted to be shifted outward. l

5. In a passenger railway car, a turnstile operative in one direction only, a conductors station located adjacent thereto and having thercat shiftable bars which one n'iovenient establish an exitway and door-members arranged to be shifted in the longitudinal plane of the car and with one arranged to be yopened outward.

ln witness whereof, l have hereunto set nly signature in the presence of two .suh-

scribing witnesses.

L LEWIS l0. PADICN. Witnesses Tnoafas M. SMITH, ELisAnnrn A. SnnLnawnI-z.

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