US722068A - Station-indicator. - Google Patents

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No. 722,068. PATENTED MAR. 3 1903. P. J. WILSON.

STATION INDICATOR.

APPLICATION- IILED 00130, 1902.

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PETER J. IVILSON, OF BEN LOMOND, CALIFORNIA.

STATION-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,068, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed October 30, 1902. Serial N0. 129,465. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER J. WILSON, a citizen oftheUnited States, residing at Ben Lomond, in the county of Santa Cruz and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Station-Indicators; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention is an improved station-indicator for railway-cars, adapted to give notice to the occupants of a car oftheir approach to a station a sufficient length of time before the train reaches it to enable them to prepare to leave the car when the train stops, and thus avoid the trouble experienced by travelersin ascertaining the station at which they wish to leave the train from the indistinct calls of the brakeman or conductor.

The object of myinvention is to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device of this character.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a station-indicator embodying my improvements, showing the same disposed in operative position in one end of a car. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the frame, the indicatingtablets being omitted; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of my improved station-indicator.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a supporting-frame 1, which is adapted to be suspended at one end of the car and is provided at a suitable distance from its lower side near its center with a pair of eyes 2, to which the station-indicating tablets 3 are attached, the said tablets being provided near their upper corners with eyes or openings through which the eyes 2 extend. The diameter of the eyes 2 is such that the stationindicating tablets may be readily turned successively from the front to the rear side of the pack or series of tablets as the various stations are passed.

The frame 1 is formed from a single piece of wire. The same is bent at suitable distances from its ends to form eyes 4 to facilitate the hanging or suspension of the frame frame.

at either end of the car, either by means of pegs Ct, as shown in Fig. 1, or suitable straps, which may depend from the roof of the car. From the eyes 4 the end portions of the wire depend to form the ends 5 of the tablet-sup porting frame, and the extreme end portions of the wire are bent inwardly from the sides 5, as at 6, and then upwardly, as at 7, parallel with the sides 5. The eyes 2 are formed at the extreme upper ends of the vertical portion 7, which is parallel with and somewhat spaced from the sides 5 of the frame. The eyes 2 may be of anysuitable form. Preferably their lower sides are somewhat flattened, as at 2, and their upper sides are semicircularin form, as at 2*. The size of the said eyes'will be dependent upon the number of the station-indicating tablets and the thickness of said tablets. The tablets may be made of cardboard, wood, tin, or any other suitable material, and I do not limit myself in this particular. The tablets when the train starts from one terminal of the road will be all superposed and will lie on the front sides of the portion 7 of the After each station is passed the corresponding tablet will be by the conductor or other trainman turned to the rear side of the pack or collection of tablets and disposed to lie against the rear sides of the portions 7 of the frame 1. When the end of the roadis reached, the station-indicator will be shifted to the other end of the car and its position reversed to expose the inscribed sides of the station-indicating tablets, as will be understood.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of my invention will be readily apparent, it is thought, without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A station-indicator, comprising a frame having means at its upper corners whereby it may be suspended and disposed to lie in a vertical position, and provided further with tablet-supportin g elements 7, spaced from and within its sides, and eyes at the upper ends of said tablet-supporting elements, in combination with station indicating tablets disposed to lie on the said supporting elements 7, connected pivotally to the eyes thereof and adapted to be turned thereon to the rear sides of said supporting elements 7, substantially as described.

2. In a station-indicator, a tablet-supporting frame formed of a single piece of wire, provided with supporting-eyes 4 at its upper corners, depending side portions 5, spacing portions 6 projecting inwardly from the lower ends of said side portions, upwardly-extending tablet-supporting portions 7, and eyes 2 at the upper ends of said tablet-supporting portions, substantially as described.

3. In a station-indicator, a tablet-supporting frame formed of a single piece of wire, provided with supporting-eyes 4 at its upper corners, depending side portions 5, spacing portions 6 projecting inwardly from the lower ends of said side portions, upwardly-extending tablet-supporting portions 7, and eyes 2 at the upper ends of said tablet-supporting portions, in combination with tablets connected to the said eyes and adapted to be turned thereon to either side of said supporting portions 7 substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER J. WILSON.

Witnesses:

S. F. VAN WINKLE, THOS. HESSEY.

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