US914751A - Passenger-car. - Google Patents

Description

BLT. ROBINSON. PASSENGER GAR.

APPLICATION FILED rm. 21, 1908.

914,751. Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

To aZZ whom it may concern;-

UNITED STATES; Parana onnron.

EDWARD T. ROBINSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 'lO ST. LOUIS CAR ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

COMPANY, OF

' PASSENGER-GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented. March 9, 1909.

Application filed February 21, 1908. 3 Serial No. 417,001.

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. RoBINsoN a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missourhhave invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Passenger Cars, of which tlie following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference .being had to the accompany'ng drawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a railway passenger car, more especially intended for use upon city railways, the invention having for its object the construction of a car of the kind deslgnated pay-as-you-enter cars, and in.

which the incoming and outgoing passengers are separated from each other as they enter and leave the car.

One of the main characteristic features in a car constructed under my present invention is that of the provision of means whereby a free and entirely separate exit may be fun nished from one compartment of the car irrespective of an entrance-way into another compartment, and also whereby the motorman may be entirely housed to exclude the passengers from close contact with him while e is performing his duties.

Figure Iis a longitudinal horizontal sec-- tion taken" through one end of my car with the movable barriers in one of its compartments shown in the positions assumed when provision is made for the ingress and egress of passengers to and from the compartments of the car. Fig. II is a longitudinal horizontal section taken through-one of the com partments of the car with the movable barriers therein shown in the positions assumed when said compartment is utilized as an egress compartment,. only, and the motorman is housed.

In the accompanying drawings: A designates one com artment of my car, which may be that within the main body of the car, and B is a second compartment that may be that above the platform or within the vestibule of the car.

these barriers being preferably doors, and being preferably hinged to a post 3 that is 10- 5 1s a movable barrier preferably a door by which the side opening E maybe closed. A

step 6 is preferably located at this side opening and where such step is used it is preferably of the disappearing or folding type.

7 and 8 are movable barriers, preferably doors of folding type, andwhich' are hinged to a post or support 9 located near-the transverse center of the coin artment B.

, l0 designates a movab e barrier, preferably a door, that is adapted to, in part, control the opening O that furnishes communication between the compartments A and B.

11 designates the end wall of the compart ment B, which as shown, constitutes the end wall of the car.

In thepractical use of my. car under conditions providing for the ingress and egress of disposed to occupy a position between its support 9 and the opening O between the If two compartments of the car, thereby subdividing the compartment B in an approximately longitudinal direction and the barrier '8 extends from its support 9 to a point intermediate of the ends of the side opening D to.

sub-divide the compartment B in an approximately transverse direction. Y which the barrier? extends is, for instance, that occupied by the post 3. The movable barriers 1 and 2 by which the side'opening D may be controlled, are at this time in open positions and preferably lie against the barrier 8. When the barriers 1, 2, 7 and 8 are arranged as has 'just been described, the

barrier 5 that controls the side opening E is in closed position, thereby preventing either ingress or egress through said opening.

The passengers in entering the car pass through the side opening D between the end wall 11 of the compartment B and the barrier l and from said com artment gain access to the compartment A t ough the door-way of the opening C that is controlled by the door 10. The door just mentioned is preferably so hung as to swing inwardly into the com: partment A and consequently the entering The point to passengers -may readily move, through the door-way to gain ingress into the compartment A, but the passengers who have entered said compartment A may not as readily'move in the opposite direction, or in other words, from the compartment A to the compartk ment B. The passengers in leaving the compartment A to depart from the car pass through the openingC Into the space partially inclosed by, the barriers 7 and 8 and find exit from the compartment B through the side opening D, between the end of the compa'rtment A and the barrier 8. The conductor or fare-taker preferably occupies a position in the compartment B in the space partly inclosed by the movable barriers 7 and 8 through which the dep arting passengers find exit from the can-and in order that he may v collect the fares from passengers enteringthe car through the remaining .port'ion' of the compartment B, I provide one of the movable barriers, for instance that 7, with an opening, as seen at 7 through which the conductor or fare-taker may extend his hand.

- .The described arrangement of the movable barriers in the compartment B is that 7 provided when the compartment Bis one at ment B is, however, located at the other end of the car and when either compartment B the rear end of the car. ,A similar compare is foremost in the car, the movable barriers 1, 2, 7. and 8 are arrangedas illustrated in.

' trolling said remainder of the compartment B is unobstructed to be used by the passengers, The barrier 5 that controls the side opening E of the foremost compartment B maybe at this time, open or free to be opened and the step 6 may be in position for use, and the passengers may find egress throu 'h the side opening E, it not'being intended t at they enter the car through'said opening.

I claim: I A carhaving twocompartments in communication with each other and one of which is provided with a side opening'ybarrier means extending from ,a point inter? mediate of the ends of the opemngs providing communiqation between said compartments to a-polnt intermediate of the. ends of I the side opening, and barrier means for conside opening, substant ally as EDWARD -T. ROBINSON'. In the presence of:

EDWARD H. GoRsE, CHARLES PIGKLEsL set forth.

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