Patent GB-191202541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Passenger Vehicles.
Inventor: HUPPERT LOUIS CHARLES
IPC: B61D13/02
Filed: 1912-01-31
Granted: 1913-01-31
Abstract: 2541. Huppert, L. C., and Paul, A. F. Jan. 31. Tramcars ; doors for passenger vehicles ; footboards and steps ; ingress and egress of passengers, controlling.-Relates to "pay-as-youenter" passenger cars in which the conductor from his station dividing the way between the platform and the interior into entrance and exit ways is able to operate the platform doors and steps. In some cases, the conductor stands on the front platform, and the doors may in this case be capable of actuation also from the motorman'a station. Several arrangements of the stairway to the top deck are also described. The bulkhead or partition between the platform and the interior is dispensed with, and the car is therefore adapted to be completely closed in by means of upwardly or downwardly sliding windows 11. According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, a combined exit and entrance doorway 7 closed by a sliding door 14 operated by the conductor at A and an emergency exit 7<1> controlled by the motorman by handle 8<Î> are provided. The door-operating means include a vertically swinging lever engaging a vertical guide on the door. A barrier 22 extends from one stanchion 20 to another supporting a table 23, which serves to carry a fare box and also as a guard for the door-operating handle 8. The stairway ascends from near the exit 7<1>. The arrangement shown in Fig. 4 comprises a combined entrance and exit way 7 on both sides of the platform, and a barrier 22 adapted to swing about the central stanchion so as to extend to the doorway which is in use. In this case the conductor may stand on the front platform, the rear platform being dispensed with, or, if provided, serving to accommodate removable seats 3. The hinged doors may be capable of separate or simultaneous operation both by the conductor and the motorman. As shown, each pair of doors is capable of operation by one hand-lever 8 and one hand-lever 8<1> through connecting-rods 9, 9<1> and cranks 9". The stairway 24 ascends from near the doorway 7 and rises in the interior of the car. According to Figs. 6 and 8, the stairway ascends from the middle of the platform and defines the exit and entrance ways thereon. In the form shown in Fig. 6, the stairway is divided at the lower end, the lower steps 26, 27 serving respectively for the incoming and outgoing passengers. A barrier may or may not extend from one or other of the stanchions 20, 21. Folding doors, one panel of which is caused to fold on the other by a projection 14<1> running in a groove 14<11>, are shown in this case. The doors are capable of operation from both the conductor's and motorman's stations by hand-levers on the shafts 8, 8<a>. A toothed wheel 8" can be engaged with or disengaged from toothed segments on the cranks 8<1> so that either the middle handle 8 can be made to operate simultaneously both the doors 14 on one side of the platform or these doors can be separately operated by the other hand-levers. According to Fig. 8, the bottom of the stairway is at 24, and the folding doors 14 are hinged to the centre of the doorway and so arranged that in the open position they serve to define the exit and entrance ways.