Improvements in and Apparatus for Simultaneously Communicating the Names of Stations to Passengers in the Various Carriages and Compartments of a Railway Train.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept.,
1889
Improvements in and Apparatus for Simultaneously Communicating
the Names of Stations to Passengers in the Various Carriages
and Compartments of a Railway Train.
I ROBERT HORRIDGE of Eglantine House, Abram near Wigan, Lancaster, Shop
Keeper do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a simple reliable and effective means of commu-
nicating to all the passengers in the various carriages and compartments of a railway
train the names of the stations at which the train has arrived or is arriving, thus
avoiding the necessity of the passengers looking out to find the names of the stations
or to hear the same announced by an official on the platform.
In performing my invention I carry a pair of brass or copper pipes of sufficient
diameter by preference under the roof of each carriage. These pipes are connected
at their extremities by means of flexible pipes and unions to a similar pair of pipes
in the adjoining carriage and thus a communication is formed direct to the guard
at one end and to the engine driver or other official at the other end of the train.
Each compartment is provided with a suitable trumpet mouth arranged upon the
pipes and so that the sound of the voice of the guard or other official speaking into a
mouth piece at the end of the pipe will be communicated to all the compartments
simultaneously and thus he is enabled to announce the name of the station to all the
passengers in a more distinct and effective manner than as at present practised.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1888.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMIIDID DIDIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Simultaneously Communicating
the Names of Stations to Passengers in the Various Carriages
and Compartments of a Railway Train.
I, ROBERT HORRIDGE of Eglantine House, Abram near Wigan, Lancaster, Shop
Keeper do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object a simple reliable and effective means of commu-
picating to all the passengers in the various carriages and compartments of a railway
train the names of the stations at which the train has arrived or is arriving, thus
avoiding the necessity of the passengers looking out to find the names of the stations
or to hear the same announced by an official on the platform.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a side view of a railway train
and Fig. 2 represents an end view of a railway carriage both having my improved
apparatus applied thereto.
In performing my invention I carry a pair of brass or copper pipes or speaking
tubes a of sufficient diameter by preference under the roof of the carriage. These
pipes are connected at their extremities by means of flexible pipes 6 and unions c in
the case of each carriage to a similar pair of pipes in the adjoining carriage and thus
a speaking tube communication is formed throughout the train and direct to the
guard at one end and to the engine driver or other official at the other end of the
train. Each compartment is provided with a suitable trumpet mouth d arranged
upon the pipes and so that the sound of the voice of the guard or other official say in
the guards van speaking into a mouth piece e at the end of the pipe or into the mouth
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page_text: piece on the engine will be communicated.to all the compartments simultaneously
and thus the guard or driver is enabled to announce the names of stations to all the
passengers simultaneously and in a more distinct and effective manner than as at
present practised.
This improved speaking tube: apparatus also enables the engine driver to make any
communication to the guard or vice versa.
Having thus 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 improvements in and apparatus for simultaneously communicating the names
of stations to passengers in the various carriages and compartments of a railway train
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 22nd dow of Aunt 1000
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.