USRE10342E - flach - Google Patents

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A. B. FLASH. SAFETY GATE.

No. 10,342. Reissued June 19, 1883.

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ATTORNEY f tions; and the invention consists of the comcloth, properly framed and extended along the entire length of the platform. At each post a llUNiTRD STATES.'

SAFETY- To all whom it 1v1/ay concern.:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. FLACH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety-gates for the platforms of railway-sta tions, so as to prevent passengers from entering into railway-trains while in motion, or from prematurely leaving the same, the gate being specially applicable to elevated-railway stabination, with the platform of a railway-station, of a safety-gate arranged to move vertically along the edge of the platform, means whereby the gate is raised or lowered above or below the platform, and means whereby the ,same is retained in either raised or lowered position, as will more fully appear hereinafter, and finally be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 represent front views of m'y improved safety-gate for the platforms of railway-stations, sliowing it respectively in lowered and raised position. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail vertical transverse sections of the same, showing a portion of the platform and track and the safety-gate, respectively, in lowered or raised position. y

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent a number of upright posts, which are arranged at suitable distances apart along the edge of the platform C, and extended to a proper height and depth above and below the platform.

The posts A are secured to the platform and. to the cross-ties of theY track, and provided with pulleys a at their upper ends and pulleys a at their lower ends. The posts A may be made of flat iron bars with cast-iron caps, or in any other approved manner, they serving' as guides for the vertically-movable safetyf gate B. The gate Bis preferably made of wirerope or chain, c, is attached to the upper part of the gate, and then passed first over the upper, then over to the lower, pulley of the post,

the cross-ties of the track.

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ARTHUR R. FLAcH, or New YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued. Letters Patent No. 10,342, dated June 19, 1883.

' Original No. 263,037, dated August 22, 1882- Application for reissue filed January 29, 1893.

the ends of the chains being fastened to a rod, d, which extends along the entire length of the platform and is guided in suitablemanner on The rod d is eX- tended beyond the platform at that end at which the locomotive is expected to stop. A lever, j', is at this/point mounted upon a stand, c, in such a manner thatV it may be oscillated on its fulcrum-pin e. The lower end of the lcver f is connected to the outer end of the rod d, and the upper end provided with a handle and connected by a slot, la, to the pin i of a horizontal hand-bar, g, which is supported in guide-openings of vertical standards m n, so as to slide freely therein. A i

By moving the hand-bar g toward the platform the lever f is moved around its fulcrum, its lower end pulling the rod d forward, which by the intermediate chains raises the gate B vertically along the edge of the platform until f the same is lifted above the platform, as shown in Fig.v 2. When the hand-bar g is moved in an opposite direction, the rod el is pushed back and the gate descends along the edge of the platform by its own weight. The gate is held in raised or lowered position either by balanceweights or by catches, which latter have to be released by the engineer before the gate can be raised or lowered. l

rIhe safety-gate of the station-platform is intended to be operated by the engineer of the passing train. When all the passengers are taken into the train and the gates of the carplatforms are closed, the engineer pulls the hand-bar g and raises thereby the gate above the platform. On arriving at the neXt station at which the gatevis raisedthe engineer pulls the hand-bar g in reverse direction, so as to lower the gate after the train has come to a stop. When the gate is in lowered position, it fills the space between the platform and the cars, the upper end of the gate being flush with the iloor of the platform.

As the gate is always in raised positionex cept when a train is at the platform and ready to receive passengers, numerous accidents that occur by the carelessness and inadvertence of the passengers and employs can be avoided.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In asafety-gate for elevated railways, the

combinationof the vertical lever f and the supporting-frame to which the lever is centrally pivoted, the sliding hand-bar to which the slotted end o f said vertical lever is con- 5 nected, and the horizontal reciprocating rod that moves along the foot of the platform and engages the gatechains, substantiallyas described. g

2; As `an improvement in safety-gates for Io railways, `a platform at'an elevation sufficiently high to' permit non-expansible gates to be raised and lowered between the platform and the rail-ties, in combination with open vertical posts, the chains and gates which are 15 guided in the open spaces, the 'pulleys at the tops and bottoms of the posts, the horizontal sliding rod to which the lever ends ofthe chains are fastened, and a lever mechanism for operating said rod, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the platform of a 2o railway-station having vertical guide-posts A A, of a gate, B, chains c, pulleys c a, rod d, fulcruined lever f, and horizontally-guided hand-bar g, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 25 presence of two witnesses. Y

ARTHUR B. FLACH.`

VitnessQs:

PAUL GoEPEL, SIDNEYy MANN;

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