improvements in Apparatus for Forming Temporary Screens for the Roofs of Tram Cars and other Vehicles.
Year: 1885

page_text: improvements in Apparatus for Forming Temporary Screens for
the Roofs of Tram Cars and other Vehicles.
I, GEORGE REEVES SMITH, the younger, Holte Hotel, Aston Lower Grounds,
Aston-juxta-Birmingham, Licensed Victualler do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FORMING TEMPORARY SCREENS
FOR THE ROOFS OF TRAM CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES to be as follows:-
To the top of the ordinary open sided roof of a tram car or other vehicle
I attach adjustable guards or screens in the following manner running the whole
length of the roof I place a rod suitably supported so that it may readily turn
through any desired angle to this rod I attach rectangular or other shaped screens
made as to the framing of metal or other rigid material and this framing is filled
with either metal, wood, waterproofing or other desired material the rods and
screens thus fixed along each side of the car are simultaneously actuated by a
lever, screw or any other well known contrivence, which is placed under the..
immediate controul of the conductor of the car.
Under ordinary circumstances the screens will lie along the roof of the car but
when desired the conductor can cause them to swing over simultaneously and
make any desired angle with the side of the car or other vehicle and thus protect
the passengers from exposure to the weather.'
Date : 10LL
11 OOR

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Forming Temporary so
the Roofs of Tram Cars and other Vehicles.
I, GEORGE REEVES SMITH the younger of the Holte Hotel, Aston-juxta-
Birmingham licensed victualler do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FORMING TEMPORARY SCREENS FOR THE
ROOFS OF TRAM CARS & OTHER VEHICLES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
My invention relates to Improvements in apparatus for forming screens for the
roofs of tram cars & other vehicles.
The object of my invention & the manner in which it is carried out I will
describe more particularly as applied to the top of a tram car-to the top of an
ordinary open sided roof of a tram car, drag, or other vehicle I attach adjustable
guards or screens A in the following manner running the whole length of the roof
I place a rod B suitably supported so that it may readily turn through any desired
angle to this rod I attach rectangular or other shaped screens made as to the
framing of metal or other rigid material & this framing is filled in with either
metal wood, waterproofing or other desired material, the rods & screens thus fixed
along each side of the car are simultaneously actuated by a lever, screw or any
other well known contrivance C which is placed under the immediate control of
the conductor of the car.
Under ordinary circumstances the screens will, lie along the roof of the car, as
at D, but when desired the conductor can cause them to swing over simultaneously
& make any desired angle with the side of the car or other vehicle & thus protect
the passengers from exposure to the weather as at E.
What I claim is
Improvements in apparatus for forming temporary automatically acting screens