USRE13003E - Street-car - Google Patents

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G. B. PRICE' STREET CAR.

APPLIATIOI FILED JUNE 18. 1908.

Reissued Aug'. 3, 1909.

atomq l i C. B. PRICE.

` STREET CAR. A1 PLIOATION FILED JUNB 18, 1909.

Reissued Aug. 3, '1909. 1 3,003

2 SHEETB-SHEET 24 CHARLES B. PRIUE, OFPITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

citizen of the United States, residing at 3 State of Pennsylvania, have invented eer- 'Fif 1;

` 'usufll or` suitable construction and dock C und an upper deck,D, communistation arranged to 'be oocupied by the conthey enter the :body of the car; A register- `provements in'the construction and arrange- No. 13,003. Speciflcation of Reiss PATENT OFFICE.

' STREET-CAR.

ed Letters Patent. v 'Beisaued Aug. 3, 1909.

Oziniil No. 770,107, dated September 13, 1904, Serial No. 187,186. Application for reissue filed June 18, 1909. i

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To' all mmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. PRICE, a

Pittsburg, in the County of Allegheny and tuin new and useful Im )ro\"ements in Street- Qars, of which the following is a specificatlon.

1\'ly present invention cmprises a street car In which the ordinarv platforms are dispensed with and 'a receiving compartment provided, which referably consists of a corridor extending along one side of the car'and leading from an entrance door to a ductor, who can thus receive, or supervise the reception of, the fares of ,passengers as ingturnstile is Preferably used at the con- (luctor`s station to register the number of passcngers entering the car as a check upon the receipts-turned in by the conductor, but in some instances this turnstile may be diS-. pensed with. as it is ,not essential to the operation of other features of my inventlon. l preferably arrange the outlet or station at which he collects the fares 'of entering passengers.

The inventlon. also includes other imment of street cars which will be referred to hereinafter.

In the accommnying drawings -Figure l is a lan view ota street car illustrating one' em liment of m invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectioual elevatlon thereof looking m the direction of the arrow as shown; on

The body. A of the car 'may of any ropo t.. are

tions, 'is provided with" seats suite v ower ranged, and referably has both a euting through .the mediumof a-stairway E, shown us aspiral stairway 'leading 'upward from the interior of the' ,d'y of the car-- that is, so that access can only ,be had 'thereto lifter the passenger-'dies entered the car and paid his fare and has'been registered.

To secure 'the certain or automat c re IS- try of each passenger, the car iS rovi ed with a 'registering-turnstile F, which' must handle 2 b the conductor.

be passed and Operated before a assenger can obtain access to the body o the car. T his'turnSt-ile should turn only in one direction-that is to say, inward. As a number of passen rs often board a Car at the same point :in it Would not be advisable, or in many cases permissible, tolet the car remain stationary while the passengers are payingtheir fnres and passing the turnstile I arrange the turnstile in a passage-layer compartmcnt B at one side of' the cnr and into Which the pussengers may enter freelyas, for instance, through the door G. As showmthis eompartment B is in the form of a corridor :Irranged within and extending a suitable distance along one side of the car'and is of such capacity es to admit a number of persons at one time, So that all desi'iug passage can enter .the receiving compartment without material delay, permitting' the car to be started onward after they have thus entered the corridor or compartment and to continue its movement while -t'he passengers are successively pass- 'i'ng the turnstile and are being registered thereby. It will thus be Seen that the' registerin of each fare is insured .without delaying the entrance of passengersor the progressofthecary.

The conductor might of course collect the fares by making the customary rounds after the passengers huve entered and registered; but referably there .is 'provided a conductor`s box or station -H 'adjacent to the turnstile l", with :l window opening into the .corridor or .com mrtment, through which the fare can becol ected, a d -`a -dete nt I serves as a means-'of preventing the rotation of' the ,turnstile until released .by the of a.

.The out et J is show arra to the condu'ctor's stationand is controlled by the conductol'. As showi the outlet is provided ,with la. slidingdoor K, wh ich` the eonductor can open byd'rawin' lt lnward. li u sWing-,doonbe used,it"shol ll swing only t utward, "that pas sei ers" ,could l not by t' 'ante-ring' the carut'this pomt evade the turnstile F.. Byv this arran 'ement the exit of each "passenger ta kesace 'directly under the couductoNs' eye and control 'and the .danger of a prenmture Starting-Si nal,`wit-h resulting injury to passengers, IS o viated..

.An additional door M may beprovided in the side of the carcloseto the turnstile and conductor s box for use in permittin g the exit of passengers who after entering the corridor discover that they have boarded the \vrong car or in any other unusual circum- Stance or emergency.

- lt will be seen that by the above arrangement every passenger entering the body of the car is registered without possibility 'of Inistake or deception on the part of the conductor, who is in a position to control both the admission and exitof the passengers, and that the capacity of'the car is practically doubled by providing 'an upper deck without possibility of access thereto until fare has first been paid and registered.

It isobvious that under such an arrangement as 'is herein shown and described, whereby. fares are paid upon entering the car, the use of a twstory or double-deckcr Car on a' busy line becomes at once practi- 'a ble, iuasnulch as the conductor is thus rclievcLf of the neccssity of lnounting a Stairway in order to collect fares on 'the upper (leek and jwhile' thus engaged of being pre'- vented from attending to his duties below, including proper slgnaling to the motorman or driver.

. AS best shown in F ig. 1, the body of the car is divided by partitions having Sliding:

doors, so that one compartlnent may be for niet-class fares and tlle other for secondclass fares or suokers.

lt will be seen that I dispense entirely with the 'usual platforlns and provide the car with, seating space extending to its extreme ends. For any given length of car the seating space is thus very largely increased over the types of cars heretofore used. It will' also be' noted that the corridor B does not matcrially reduce the seat capacity of the' car, although it mayprovi e room for more J than the average number of passengers entering it at any one time. Notwithstanding the increased capacity of a car of given size embodying my invention, the cost of construction is lar ely reduced by reason of dis-- pensin'g with t e platforms, which are more expensive 'to construct than equal 'portlons of the car bodies. p

While the registerin 'turnstile is useful as a check upon the con uctor, it will be evident .that'the corridor arrangement may be employed without the turnstile, as the concompartment extending &long one-side thereof, an entrance thereto, .a registermg turn- Stil'e between said'oompa rtment and the body 3 of the-car' and W t therefrom, Substan- .65

tially as set forth.'

Street car providedwith a receiving senger entrance to sai 1. A street car provided with a receiving' c'ompartment extendihg along one side there- Of, an entrance 'door thereto, a registering 'turl lstile'between the compartlnent and the body of the Car, and a conductor s box or station adjacent t-o the turnstile, substantially as set forth. 4

-3.` A Street car provided With an entrance door, a receiving' compartment extending aloug one side of the car andconmunicating with the door, 'and a passage from the Coln- -partnIent-to the body of the car provided with a registering turnstile, substantially as Set forth.

4. A street car provided with an entrance door,` a receiving compartment, a passage from the compartment provided with a I'eg-` istering turnst-ile, aconductor`s station adjacent to the .Sa-id passage, and an outlet having a door controlled by the couductor, substantially as set forth.

5. A Street car provided with an' entrance door, a receiving compartlnent communicating therewith and extending along one side of the car, apassage from the com artment p ovided with a re istering turnsti e, a conductor's station "a jacent tosaid passage, and a detent whereby the conductor can secure and release the turnstile, substantially as Set forth. 4

. 6. A street' car provided with an entrauce door, a l'eceiving coiupartlnent communicating therewith, a passage from the colnpartment providedsgpth a registering turnstile, a detent whereby the conductor can secure and release the turnstile, and anoutlet from 100 the body of the car having a door controlled by the conducwr, substantially asset forth.

' 7. A street car provided with an entrance door, a receiving compartment communicab ing therewith .and exten'din along one side of the car, a assage from te compartment providedwit a-registering turnstlle, a de-, tent whereby the conductor`can secure and release the turnstile, and an outlet .from the `body of the car having a door controlled by 110 the conductor, substantall as set`f0rth. v

8. A street car having ower and-u per decks, a staircasebetween the same lea lng from the interior of the car, anentrance door, a side receiving com artment com- 115 muulcating therewith and with the interior of. the car, anda passage between said compartment and the interiorpfthe car providedlwith a registerng turnstlle, substantially asset fort v `9. A street car having a side corridor separated fromthe bod `'of the car, a pascorridor near one .end thereof, an .exit passage from' the other end of'the corridor into the body of the cr, 125 anda Station fora conductor at the latter' end of the 'oorridor ior the purpose set .fortlL 10. A treet carhavin 'a side corridor extending from one end o' the car towardthe l the corridor .communicating with the body o'f the car. p

12. A Street Car having seating space eX- tending to the ends thereof,` a corridor extending al'ong one side of the Car^at one end thereof, an entranee for passegers at One 'end of Said corridor, a Station for: a conductor at the other' end thereo f, and anoening from the corridor to the body of t e car adjacent the Said conductofs tation.

13. A 'street car having a side corridor separated from the body of the car, an entrance for passengers at One end of the corridor, a Station for a, conduct or at the other end of the corridor, an opening between the corridor and the body of the car adjacent "from .Said corridor to the l the condu ctoi s stati-on' and an ext from the body of the car alsoarranged near the conductofs station.

14. A street carh aving at One side a. station for a Conductor, a eorridor &long the L same side of the car, an entrance to the corridor" for entering passe ers, a passage arranged adjacent to the conduetofsetation, and exit openings from the bod yofthe car and the eorrdor, Said' Open'ing being adjacent the conduetofs S tati0n,` fonthe purpose Set forth.

15. A Street car 'having its body divided into a. plurality ofcompartments and having a side eorridor separated from said C(311- partments, an entrance at Oeend of Said corridor, a 'passageway 01' opening from the COI`I`id0r`t0 the body of the car, and a con- V ductofs Station arr anged adjacent to Said passage 01' opening.

In testimony whereof I fiix my Signature in the presene'e .of two witnesses.

t CHARLES B. PRICE. Wtnesses WM. M. DUFF,

A. E. PATTERSON.

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