Improvements in Station and Stopping Place Indicators for Cars, Including the Utilization of same as Advertising Media.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by HIRAM COLLINS MAPES, of Gorham, in the
County of Ontario and State of New York, U.S.A., Inventor.]
Improvements in Station and Stopping Place Indicators for Cars,
Including the Utilization of same as Advertising Media.
I, REGINALD WALTER BARKER, of Monument Chambers, King William
Street, London, Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN CAR-REGISTERS, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to registers and indicators for cars and public conveyances,
and aims to provide a device for registering the cross-streets en route. the stations
at which transfers are made, the time at which the car or other conveyance is due
at such stations, besides acting in the capacity of an advertising medium to expose
a new advertisement at each operation of the street-indicator.
The case of the device is of suitable construction, and its front or door is provided
with appropriate openings through which the indicating strips and the time-
indicator can be seen. The advertising strip which is nearly the width of the case,
passes over suitable guide rollers and is adapted to be wound on other rollers, and
is provided with the names of the streets on the left-hand side, which names are read
through an opening, and with the advertising matter on the right-hand side, which
is read through another opening. The strip provided with the names of the
stations, passes over guide-rollers and is adapted to be wound on other rollers.
These rollers have gear-wheels, which are in mesh with a third or idle wheel, the
latter being keyed to a stem which extends outside of the case and is provided with
a thumb-button.
The time-indicator is composed of the dial, hands, and hands-gearing of an
ordinary clock, excepting that the hands-staff is provided with a mitre gear-wheel,
which meshes with a corresponding mitre gear-wheel on the shaft, which protrudes
through the side of the case and is provided with a thumb-button. In order to
designate whether the time is ante or post meridian, the dial is provided with
an opening, through which the characters "P.M." and "A.M." are exposed, said
characters being provided on a lever, which extends beyond the side of the case, to
be grasped and operated by hand.
The advertising strip guide-rollers are provided with two gear-wheels, which
mesh with a third wheel from which extends a shaft through the side of the case,
and which is provided with a crank and pinion, the latter meshing with a ratchet-
wheel. Thus it will be seen that the strip can be operated in either direction by
turning the crank in the required direction. However, it is not always expedient
to operate the crank. Hence other means are provided for turning the shaft and
operating the street and advertising strip, which in the present case consist of a
lever, which is mounted on a shaft, with reversible pawl, and a retracting-spring,
which is connected to the arm of the lever and is fastened at its other end to frame-
work. A pull-cord is connected with the lever and extends within convenient
reach. A pawl-reversing cord is connected with the reversible pawl and, like the
pull-cord extends within convenient reach. The pawl is double-ended, either end
being adapted to be brought in engagement with the ratchet-wheel, and its pivot
extends through the lever and is provided with a bearing-block, on which the free
end of a spring presses and holds the pawl in engagement with the said ratchet-
wheel, the opposite end of the spring being connected with the lever.
The gong-bell sounded by a tapper which comprises a pivoted arm and hammer.
A tappet-wheel is mounted on the projecting end of one of the advertising striv

page_text: rollers, and its arms curve outwardly and terminate in short cross-bars, which curve
in their circumferential length. When the advertising strip is moved, the tappet-
wheel also turns and sounds the gong, thereby attracting the attention of the
passengers.
One of the guide-rollers of the advertising strip has its journals projected through
slots in the frame-work and provided with brackets, to which the free ends of
springs are connected. These springs pull down on the brackets carrying the guide-
roller with them, thereby preserving a tension on the strip.
Dated this 27th day of January 1891.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Station and Stopping Place Indicators for Cars,
Including the Utilization of same as Advertising Media.
I, REGINALD WALTER BARKER, of Monument Chambers, King William
Street, London, Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
This invention relates to registers and indicators for cars and public conveyances,
and aims to provide a device for registering the cross-streets en route, the stations
at which transfers are made, the time at which the car or other conveyance is due
at such stations, besides acting in the capacity of an advertising medium to expose
a new advertisement at each operation of the strect-indicator.
The improvement consists of the novel features which will be hereinafter more
fully described and claimed, and which are shown in the annexed drawings, in
which-
Fig. 1 is a front view of the device.
Fig. 2 is a similar view, parts being broken away and the cover or door of the
case being removed.
Fig. 3 is an end view, the obverse end of the case being removed to show the
operating mechanism.
Fig. 4 is a section on the line X X of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the
arrow.
Fig. 5 is a detail section on the line Y Y of Fig. 2, showing the mechanism for
operating the station-indicating strip.
Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing the tappet-wheel and the gong-tapper.
Fig. 7 is a detail view of the operating-lever, showing the pawl the reverse of
Fig. 3.
The case A is of suitable construction, and its front or door is provided with
appropriate openings a, a', a², and a³, through which the strips B and C and the
time-indicator D can be seen. The strip B, which is nearly the width of the case,
passes over the rollers and ', and is adapted to be wound on the rollers 2 and 63,
and is provided with the names of the streets on the left-hand side, which names
are read through the opening a, and with the advertising matter on the right-hand
side, which is read through the opening a. The strip C, provided with the names
of the stations, passes over guide-rollers C¹ C³, and is adapted to be wound on the
rollers C³ and C. These rollers have gear-wheels D, which are in mesh with the
third or idle wheel D₁, the latter being keyed to stem d, which extends outside of
the case and is provided with the thumb-button d'.
e,
The time-indicator is composed of the dial, hands, and hands-gearing of an
ordinary clock, excepting that the hands-staff E is provided with a mitre gear-
wheel which meshes with a corresponding mitre gear-wheel e¹ on the shaft E
which protrudes through the side of the case and is provided with the thumb-
button ². In order to designate whether the time is ante or post meridian, the
dial is provided with an opening, through which the characters "P.M." and "A.M."

page_text: are exposed, said characters being provided on a lever E², which extends beyond
the side of the case, to be grasped and operated by hand.
The rollers 2 and 3 are provided with gear-wheels fand ƒ, which mesh with a
third wheel, from which extends the shaft 3 through the side of the case, and
which is provided with the crank and the pinion f, the latter meshing with the
ratchet-wheel F. Thus it will be seen that the strip B can be operated in either
direction by turning the crank f* in the required direction. However, it is not
always expedient to operate the crank. Hence other means are provided for
turning the shaft and operating the street and advertising strip, which in the
present case consist of the lever G, which is mounted on the shaft f, the reversible
pawl H, and the retracting-spring I, which is connected to the army of the lever
and is fastened at its other end to frame-work. The pull-cord J is connected with
the lever G and extends within convenient reach. The pawl-reversing cord K is
connected with the reversible pawl H, and, like cord J, extends within convenient
reach. The pawl H is double-ended, either end being adapted to be brought in
engagement with the ratchet-wheel F, and its pivot extends through lever G and
is provided with the bearing-block h, on which the free end of the spring presses
and holds the pawl in engagement with the said ratchet-wheel F, the opposite end
of the spring being connected with the lever G.
The gong-bell K is sounded by the tapper L, which comprises the pivoted arm /
and the hammer P. The tappet-wheel M is mounted on the projecting end of the
roller 6, and its arms m curve outwardly and terminate in short cross-bars m',
which curve in their circumferential length. When the strip B is moved, the tappet-
wheel M also turns and sounds the gong, thereby attracting the attention of the
passengers.
The guide-roller b has its journals projected through slots in the frame-work and
provided with brackets, to which the free ends of the springs N are connected.
These springs N pull down on the brackets n, carrying the guide-roller with them,
thereby preserving a tension on the strip B.
The pawl H is reversed in the following manner: The lever G being at the limit
of its movement, as shown in Figs. 3 and 7, the connection of the reversing-cord K
with the pawl at is to one side of a perpendicular line passing through the guide k.
Hence a pull on the cord K will reverse the pawl H, as shown by the dotted lines
in Fig. 7. Obviously, when the pawl is in the position shown by full lines in
Fig. 3, the lever G can be operated by pulling on either cord Jor K, as the
points and are not in the same perpendicular line. To reverse the pawl H, the
cord J is pulled upon until the point i is carried to the left of a perpendicular line
let fall from the guide k, and, still holding the cord J, cord K is drawn upon, when
the position on the pawl H will be reversed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination, with the roller b², means for rotating the said roller, and the
gong, of the tappet-wheel having its arms curving outward and provided with short
cross-bars which curve in their circumferential length, the tappet (, and the hammer 1,
substantially as set forth.
Deted his 12th day of Lul 1801
REGINALD W. BARKER.