USD13712S - Design for a railway-car - Google Patents

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D12-195. 0R D 139712 EX DESIGN.

N. WHEELER.

RAILWAY CAB..

No. 13.712. Patented Mar. 6,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DESIGN FOR A RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 13,712, dated March 6, 1883.

Application tiled November 27, 1F82.

Term of patent 14 years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NA'rr-IANIEL WHEELER, a citizen of the United States, .residing at Bridgeport,i n theconntyol'Fairfield and State of Connecticut," have invented and produced a new and original Design i'or Railway-Gars, 0f which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part thereof.

The drawing represents in perspective an interior view of a section or a sutiicient portion of a car to illustrate my novel design.

Commentingr with the wainscoting A, which has a top piece, a., extending in a straightline from end to end of the car, I have erected a series of piiasters, B, that extend to the ceiling C, which, instead of being concaved, as nsnal, and terminating at about the level of the top of the door of the car, is nearly horizontal or but slightlyinclined, thus affording an additional space above the windows E for decorative purposes. Between the heads b of the adjacent pilasters I nave placed a molding, b2, and between the sides of adjacent pilasters, below the molding t, I have made panels d, and below the panels I have placed a molding, d, which projects out beyond the pilasters. Below the molding d2, I have mitered together pieces of molding to form a receding space or transom, e, in which I have placed a sash, e2, having a stained, decorated, or colored glass window, e3. Below the transom-window is a. straight stationary rail,f, which forms a dividing-line between the decorated transom-windows and the curtains g below it, which latter cover more or less of the row of windows E. The curtain has an ornamental transverse stripe, h. At the side of the ceiling farthest from the pilasters and side wall of the car is a portion, H, inclined upward at an angle of about forty-tive degrees from the ceiling C, and provided at bottom and top with lines of molding h2. Above the inclined portion H rises the short pilasters I, having between them the ornamental stained-glass windows m, and above the window-caps and pilasters I is the ceiling n of the roof or deck of the car. The pilasters B are crossed by pieces f2, of wood, of the same width as the railf, so as to form a continuous rail or bar, and at the junction of pieces fs and the rail f are ornaments f3.

In designing the interior of the car I have studied to presenta series of longitudinal lines of decoration, the mostnoticeable and elfective of which are the rows of moldings d2, projecting from between the pila-sters, the rows of decora-ted windows e and m, the xed straight rail f between windows e2 and E, the row ot panels d between the ceiling C and the windows e, and the row of curtains g below the transom-windows and rail f, and the transverse ornamental stripes h ot' the curtains.

A car such as herein shown presents a very pleasing and striking appearance.

The ceiling G, inclined portion H, and ceiling n are subdivided transversely by strips 2 3 4 of molding, thus forming the ceiling 0, portion H,and ceiling n into small and large panels as shown. The windows E, curtains, ornamented transom-windows, panels d, and windows m are in the same vertical line.

The leading features of my design are the parallel horizontal rows of windows e E and rows ot' windows separated by the vertical pilasters, and the row of curtains g, starting from below the rail f, and between the transom-windows and large windows E and the straight rail j'.

The transom-windows e't are never covered by the curtains g, but are always exposed.

The shape of the molding employed and the particular iigures represented upon the stainedglass windows may be varied without departing from my. invention.

I claim- 1. The design for the interior of a railwaycar, consisting of the row of windows E, the row of curtains g, the row ot' transom-windows e2 above the curtains, and the rail f between the curtains and the transom-windows, and the vertical pilasters separating adjacent windows E e and curtains, as herein shown.

2. The design for interior of a. railway-car, as herein shown, consisting of the row ofI windows E, the line of rail f, the row of ornamented transom-windows e above the rail, the moldings d, and the row of panels Labove the said molding.

3. The design for the interior of a railwaycar, it consisting of the row of windows E, the row of ornamented windows e, the row of ourtains starting from between the windows E IOO and e. the ceiling C, the row of ornamented windows Land the pilastere B I.ind Ldividing adjacent. windows of the rows of windows, as herein shown.

4. The design for the interior of a railwaycar,itcoi1sisiing ofthe wainscoting A, the row of windows E, the row of curtains having or namented stripes Ii, the milf, the row of erna-- mented windows e, and the row of panels d, np penring in the order` mentioned :it the side oi' the car and below the ceiling, as herein shown.

5. The design for interior ol n railway-car, il; consisting of the row of windows E, the row of ornnmeuted windows e2 above the row of curtains starting from between the windows E and e, the moldings d? above windows e2, the pilasters B, und thecroes-piecesf2 and rail fin the seme line, its herein shown.

6. The design for the interior oi' a railwaycai, it. consisting of the row ofwindows E, cnrtains g, rail f, ornainented windows e2, [inne-ls d,tl1c projecting molding di between the windows e sind panels d, the vertical pilasters B, the molding b2 between the panels d and ceiling, the ceiling C, and inclined portion H, the cross-pieces 2 3 to divide the ceiling and portion H into panels, the rowof windows m,and the pilnsters I, dividing them, all as herein shown.

7. The design for interiorof a railway-car es herein shown,consistingof tlieadjacentrowsof windows E c2, one above the other, pilasters to separate the windows of adjacent rows, and the striinht lineoi` tnilf, tixed to the cnr-body and separating the windows l) and c2, es shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subseribingr witnesses.

NATHANIEL WHEELER.

Witnesses:

F. HURD, LOUIS H. BAKER.

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