US966657A - Registering-turnstile passenger railway-car. - Google Patents

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G. W. GRANMER. REGISTERING TUBNSTILE PASSENGER RAILWAY GAR.

A PPLIOATIOI FILED 001'. 80, 1909.

Patented Aug. 9, 1910,

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0.. W. GRANMER. REGISTERING TURNSTILE PASSENGER RAILWAY on.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 30, 1909.

Patnted Au LQ, 1910."

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iwQ/ B Y ATTOR'NE Y1 UNITED STATES ATENT ormon cns'nnncn w. CRANME orrnrnnnnnrma, PENNSYLVARIA.

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To all whom it may concern: Q 4 Beit know' that I, CLARnNcE. W. Casi:-

a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the countv of Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvainia, have-invented certain new'jand useful Improvements in -Registering-Turnstile Passenger Railway-Cars, of which the followfortemploymentri -passenger railway cars of yestibules .andflrnown as pay-as-you-enter cars. orthe type of carsvhaving a clos'able atform tar-vestibule and jfoldable steps; and

as pay-within cars; and in conjunc onivith controlling the entrance and exit passengers to and from the main car-body through the turnstile it is designed so that .hy ;mechan ism and devices employed and operatingsirmiltaneously therewith to automiiticflly register fares of entering -passen gers, but not-their exit from'thecar and thereby to minimize, as far as "possibleab stracting by conductors of cpllected fares from a rs, ioras arranged each fraco acoinplete turn of said turnstile will not onl of a pas nger being admitted Into the main car-billy butwill register the fare of that passenger in passingtheonductors station and ,be accounted for by the conductor in charge OfSllQ car according to the registrations of must therefore said'turnstile. r A v p invention consists of'a registering turnstilopassenger railway car constructively-arranged in substantially the'manner hereinafter flillydescribed and claimed.

, In": the drawings, Figure 1, is an internal plan wiew'of a passenger railway car providedwith a registering tur'nstile therein,

embodying particular features of my preseht' invention. Fig. 2, is a vertlcal transverse sectional view through a car with-a ta rnstile and conductors booth or station on theline'w, :v, of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, is an enlargedelevational view of the turnstile reeoved from the car, showing partly 1n .oroken section, disclosing the step-by-step operating mechanism thereofand the register connected therewith and actuatedby the said'mechanism, for automatically w th the manual 'ing,,-e a'ch areiofa passe er npass n from the platform into. the mam of 1 e :,ca r,'

Referring; to the; drawings-g isjiti pwwl m'gflsa specification. v y invention hasrelation to a turnstile operation of the turnstile register-g Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 9, 1910. v 'Lpplication filed cct ber'so, isoe.

SerialNo. 525,414.

ger railway car having end'platforms or vestibulcs a and-a main body a and at either orboth end portions provided with a turns stile I); each turnstile as shown, having four members or wings 1;, extending from a hollow post 6 This post is set into a baseplate 6 to revolve and carries a ratchetdlsk b. This disk engages a pawl 6 constructed as a part of a horizontal rod b,

which extends .into a conductors booth or station a located on one. side of the turnstile b, of the car a, as fully shownin Figs.

1 and 2. Extending through the holldw postb, is'a rod 0,-iastened to the car floor and in a space between the'platforni or vestibule and maincar-body a and to the upcarried by'the rod 0, a fare register (I. This register on its under side is provided with a that as arranged each turn of a member or w ng Z), of the turnstile b, by a passenger'in dial of the fare register, to be ex osed through the window (1, thereof, as c early illustrated in Fig. 1. The conductors booth .ori'station a as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; is

located on onesideof the car a. The front of the booth is extended interiorlysc as to form with a member or wing 11, of the turn- .stile b, an actual barrier to passengers entering the main car-body a until the foot of the conductor in the boothhas been re-' leased from a tre'adleor -other device a, for operating the rod 6, provided with the pawl 5 to disengage the latter from the ratchet b, when-by a manual push ofoa member or wing b the pawl 0 is actuated in engagement with a tooth of the ratchet disk, re-

volved with the post 31 to shlft a member of the fare register (Land to expose the same through the window (2 thereof,

c and e, are guard-railings arranged to protect passengers entering the platform and also in the main car-body a against the revolving members or Wings 6, of a turnstile striking them ordisfiguring their clothing as will be understood from Fig. 1.

- Such a car as above described may be arranged with but a single turnstile b, for eX-' ample, such as shown to'theleft in Fig. 1,

- soas to'admi't and dischargepassengers onto the. platform orjvestibu le, hut n most cases i t;jwil 1 .be found to greatljsa facilitate han-- per end and in juxtaposition to the members I :01 Wings of the revolving hollow post-.6 is

pawl 0 to engage a tooth of the rotary disk 'Of the post '6 as clearly shown in Fig. 3, so

entering the car, will cause a number on the as short seats with si 2 ceases! dling of passengers to admit them singly from the rear end and discharge them singly from the front/end ofthe car, In aturnstile type of car, theseats may be arranged either len thwise along both sides of the main car-' bofy a ,'as shown; or they maybe arranged aisles, as now very' commonly arranged for conveying passenger s from point'to point. I

Having thus described-the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

IIn combination, a car provided with a registering turnstile and a booth, a treadle-lever located-in the booth and pivoted to the un-. dei-side of the platform of said car, said treadle lever having a terminal projection, a vertical operating rod connected with the register of said tnrnstile and a disk or plate carried. on the lower'bnd thereof and having 20 cams, a spring 'to"ho1d said treadle lever under a defined tension and to maintain normal-1y said terminal projection in contact with a cam of said late or disk soas to prevent actuation of t e register of said turnstile, nntll' said treadle-l'ever is depressed and said register operative only in {one direction'in the normaL position of said treadle-lever in engagement with a'cam of J. TAP-TEX Doocmss, THOMAS M. SMITH.

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