IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING THE LABELS ON RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY THE EXHIBITION AND REMOVAL OF THE SAME FROM VIEW IS FACILITATED."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Elliott, of Leeds, in the County of York, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING THE LABELS
ON RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY THE EXHIBITION AND REMOVAL
OF THE SAME FROM VIEW IS FACILITATED."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Elliott at the Offico
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th April 1880.
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JOHN ELLIOTT, of Leeds, in the County of York. IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR RECEIVING THE LABELS ON RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY THE
EXHIBITION AND REMOVAL OF THE SAME FROM VIEW IS FACILITATED."
The primary object of my Invention is to provide railway carriages with
smoking compartment labels, and such apparatus, whereby these labels can bo
applied or removed from view at pleasure by the officials, for the purpose of
increasing or reducing, as necessity may require it, the number of smoking carriages
in trains; but its use can be further extended for denoting the destination of and
other information connected with railway and other vehicles, and for notifying also
when omnibuses, tramcars, and the like vehicles are full.
My Invention consists of framework which may be fitted or applied to the
frames of railway and other carriage windows, or the window frames themselves
may be utilized. Within this framework are provided grooves, recesses, or their
equivalents, in which a label or labels containing the desired information is or are
fitted so as to slide freely. On the framework also is a recess, case, or enclosure
into which the label or labels may be passed out of sight, and retained there by a
suitable spring catch or its equivalent arrangement, which can only be released by
a key which would be provided for the officials. When the spring catch or its
equivalent is released from the label or labels I prefer that they should drop
into position or view automatically. I also provide another self acting catch
arrangement or its equivalent for preventing the label or labels being removed from
view, this also being released by the aforesaid key.
The labels having the desired information thereon may either be transparent or
opaque; so as to be suitable for night or day work, or both.
When preferred, the label or labels may be mounted in an additional frame,
which is fitted so as to slide freely within the herein before mentioned frame.
The window frames of railway carriages or other vehicles may be employed
for receiving the label in the manner described for the hereinbefore mentioned
frames.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Elliott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th October
1880.
JOHN ELLIOTT, of Leeds, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR RECEIVING THE LABELS ON RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY THE
EXHIBITION AND REMOVAL OF THE SAME FROM VIEW IS FACILITATED."
The primary object of my Invention is to provide railway carriages with
smoking compartment labels, and such apparatus, whereby theso labels can be
applied or removed from view at pleasure by the officials, for the purpose of
increasing or reducing (as necessity may require it) the number of smoking
carriages in trains; but its use can be further extended for denoting the
destination of aud other information connected with railway and other vehicles,
and for notifying also when omnibuses, trainers, and the like vehicles are full.
My Invention consists of framework which may be fitted or applied to the
frames of railway and other carriage windows, or the window frames themselves
may be utilized. Within this framework are provided grooves, recesses, or their
equivalents, in which a label or labels containing the desired information is or are
fitted so as to slide freely.
On the framework also is a recess, casc, or enclosure into which the label or
labels may be passed out of sight, and retained there by suitable spring catch
or its equivalent arrangement, which can only be released by a key which would
be provided for the officials When the spring catch or its equivalent is released
from the label or labels I prefer that they should drop into position or view
automatically. I also provide another self acting catch arrangement or its equi-
valent for preventing the label or labels being removed from view, this also being
released by the aforesaid key.
The labels having the desired information thereon may either be transparent or
opaque, so as to be suitable for night or day work, or both.
When preferred, the label or labels may be mounted in an additional frame,
which is fitted so as to slide freely within the herein before mentioned frame.
The window frames of railway carriages or other vehicles may be employed
for receiving the label in the manner described for the hereinbefore mentioned
frame.
And in order that my Invention may be more completely understood, reference
is given to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings and to the letters and marks
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2, a section through A, B, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a cross
section through C, D, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, an enlarged part front elevation and section
of Fig. 1; Figs. 5 and 6 shew the application of my apparatus to tramcars and
railway carriages.
My Invention consists of framework a which may be fitted or applied to railway
carriage windows, or instead of this frame a, the window frames themselves may be
utilized, as shewn at Fig. 6. Within the framework a are provided grooves or
recesses b, or their equivalents, in which a label or labels c containing the desired
information is or are fitted so as to slide freely. On the framework a also is a
covered recess, case, or enclosure d into which the label or labels c may be passed
out of sight, and retained there by a suitable catch, spring, or its equivalent c. An
arrangement of such catch e is shewn at Fig. 4, in which f is the catch lever
formed with a projecting part slightly recessed at g which passes over the metal
piece on the label frame i. The catch lever fis retained in position by the

page_text: springs and, and operated at 7 by an ordinary carriage key. In Fig. 4 the
'smoking" label, and also in Fig. 1, is shewn in view. When the label c is moved
out of sight within the recess, case, or enclosure d, the catch lever f passes under
the label frame i and retains it in position. The construction of the catch
arrangement may be of course varied.
In Figs. 5 and 6 at m shews the arrangement of apparatus to old vehicles, its
application to new vehicles being shewn at n.
I would here remark that the position of the label and framework may be varied,
as for instance, the apparatus may be applied at the bottom of the window or at
the sides without departing from the nature of my Invention, the direction of
movement of the label of course varying in accordance with such position of
apparatus.
Having now described my Invention and the means which I employ for carrying
the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise forin of the parts described and shewn, as the same may be varied without
departing from the nature of my Invention, but what I do claim is,-
The arrangement, construction, and application of apparatus (and any mere
modifications of the same) for receiving railway and other carriage labels, whereby
the exhibition and removal from view is facilitated, substantially as herein set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Elliott, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.