Improvements in and relating to Safety Windows for Railway Carriages and other Vehicles, Ships' Cabins and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Safety Windows for Railway
Carriages and other Vehicles, Ships' Cabins and the like.
I, HENRY REED, of 182, Ivydale Road, Nunhead, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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 improvements in or connected with the windows of
railway carriages and other vehicles, ships' cabins, and the like, and has for its
object to provide means for preventing people meeting with accidents through
leaning out or falling from the open windows of railway carriages, ships' cabins
or the like, my invention providing for safety rails being brought into operation
when the windows are lowered.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is an elevational view of a railway carriage window shewn in its lowered
or open position, with my invention applied thereto, and Fig. 2, is a similar view
partly in section, shewing the window in its raised or closed position.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts wherever occurring in both figures, a represents the upper rail of
the window-sash, to which are fixed a number of vertical bars b. Vertical sockets
or recesses are provided in that part d of the frame of the carriage which is
above the window frame, such sockets or recesses coinciding in number and
position with the vertical bars baforesaid. The lower ends of the sockets or
recesses e, are open, and are in the under side of the top of the window-frame e, so
as to allow of the said vertical bars b entering and sliding upward in same, when the
window is raised.
The said vertical bars b may be of round, square, or other convenient form in
cross-section, and should be of such diameter as to allow them to easily work up
and down within the sockets or recesses c.
Where the sockets or recesses are of an approximately equal length with that
of the bars b, the upper extremities of these sockets or recesses may be provided
with India-rubber buffers or their equivalent, (not shewn) to deaden the noise and
lessen the shock of the impact when the upper ends of the bars b strike against
them.
It will be readily understood from the foregoing, that when a window provided
with my safety device is let down, i.e. opened, the bars 6 will come into operation,
and form an effective safe-guard against accidents of the herein before-mentioned
description, whilst, when the window is raised, i.e. closed, such bars will slide
upward into their sockets, and so, out of sight.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The improvements in, or connected with, the windows of railway carriages and
other vehicles, ships' cabins, and the like, consisting in a number of vertical bars b,
fixed to the top rail of the window, and adapted to come into operation when the
window is lowered, and to slide within vertical sockets or recesses c, provided above
the window frame when the window is raised, said sockets or recesses coinciding in
number and position with the vertical bars, substantially as described, and as
illustrated by the drawings.
171
1000
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.