An Improved Device for Indicating the Names of Railway Stations.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1896--Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Indicating the Names of Railway
Stations.
I, AMOS TODD Catterick Yorkshire Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to an improved device for indicating the names of railway
stations in carriages when the train is pulled up at the station and the same is
carried out as follows:
When stopping at a station the carriges of a train tend to approach one another
and this motion is utilised to operate indicating mechanism such as a dial upon
which the station names are carried and exposed through a suitable aperture said
indicating dial being operated through the medium of a chain or chains actuated
by cog wheels said cog wheels being operated by a rod which enters a tube; the
tube & rod being attached to separate carriages.
The mechanism is operated when the carraiges approach one another, which
takes place when the train is being "breaked "as it enters the station and thus
giving an impulse to the indicating mechanism.
Dated this 27th day of February 1896.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
An Improved Device for Indicating the Names of Railway
Stations.
I, AMOS TODD Catterick Yorkshire, Joiner, 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 an improved device for indicating the names of railway
stations in carriages when the train is pulled up at the station and the same is
carried out as follows:-
When stopping at a station the carriages of a train tend to approach one
another and this motion is utilised to operate indicating mechanism such as a dial
upon which the station names are carried and exposed through a suitable aperture
said indicating dial being operated through the medium of a chain or chains
actuated by cog wheels said cog wheels being operated by a rod which enters a
tube the tube & rod being attached to separate carriages.
The mechanism is operated when the carriages approach one another which
takes place when the train is being "breaked "as it enters the station and thus
giving an impulse to the indicating mechanism.

page_text: In order that my invention may bo fully understood I will now refer to the
annexed drawings in which
Figure 1. is a sectional side elevation of a carriage fitted with my invention.
Figure 2. sectional end elevation of same.
Figure 3. sectional aide elevation to enlarged scale of rack and wheel.
a is a rod attached to carriage & which enters tho tube e; this rod a has a rack d
upon same which engages with the toothed wheel e supported in suitable bearings
attached to the carriage f g is an endless chain or band which is driven by the
wheel e and passes round the wheel & which causes the drum or disc i carrying the
names of the stations to be rotated by means of a pawl and ratchet when
the carriages approach one another owing to the netion of applying the brakes
when stopping at a station. Owing to the pawl and ratchet arrangement when the
carriages separate the dise or drun is not netunted. The actunting rods & tubes
may be when desired carried upon the top of the carriages.
Ench carringe is provided when required with any convenient handle or inenns
for operating the indicator mechanism independently of the racked rod a.
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 :-
1. In station indicators the combined construction and arrangements of the
various parts substantially as described and illustrated herein.
2. In means for operating station indicators rods attached to carriages which
operate the indicator when the carriages approach one another under the applica-
tion of the brakes when stopping at a station.
Dated this 27th day of November 1896
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.