Improvements in and connected with Station or Stopping-place Indicators.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1897-Accepted, 22nd Jan.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Station or Stopping-place
Indicators.
We, KARL MOSTARD, of 8, Stralauer Strasse, and WILHELM BEERENSSON, of
98 Kloster Strasse, both of the City of Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire, Manufacturers, 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 refers to a station-indicator for railway-cars, tramway-cars and
other vehicles, and our improvements relate to certain new and useful arrangements
of parts as are fully described hereinafter.
In order to make our invention more clear we refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the different views, and in
which;
Figure is a front-view of our improved indicator,
Figure 2 shows the interior of the left-hand part of the indicator in front-view
and partly in section,
Figure 3 is a section in line 9-10 of Figure 2,
Figure 4 is a section in line 11-12 of Figure 1,
Figure 5 is a separate view of the mechanisms shown in the lefthand part of
Figure 2,
Figure 6 is a plan of the parts shown in Figure 5,
Figure 7 shows the pawl m² and the ratchet-wheel m¹ of Figure 3 in another
position, and
Figure 8 shows another position of the roller w¹ of Figure 7.
Referring to Figures 1 & 2 a is a casing which contains in its lefthand part a
rectangular frame a¹ (Figure 2) and in its righthand part a similar but longer frame a².
The latter has two horizontal axles e e¹ (Figures 2 & 4), each of which holds a roller e².
These rollers are connected by a broad band e³ which may be wound off one of these
rollers and upon the other roller, either in an upward or in a downward direction,
The band e³ is
just as made requisite by the direction of movement of the train.
imprinted with the names of the stations and all those other statements that are of
importance for the travellers to know, such as the distances of the respective station
from the terminus left, or to the next main-station, number of inhabitants of the
respective stations, hotels and the like of the same and similar valuable informations.
The band is moved intermittently, that is to say, one or the other of the
rollers is turned after the train leaves a station, and the rollers are turned for such
a way that the name etc. of the next station appears at the respective opening or
openings of the casing a. In Figure 1 the casing a is provided with the three openings
as at a, but, of course, there may be one opening only, or more than three, just as
desired or just as made requisite by the number or kinds of informations given.
There is in the casing a besides the openings as a' as an opening a behind which
may be placed a plate showing all stations where the respective train is to stop. The
same names are imprinted upon a number of plates a' (Figure 1) which are located
below the openings a³-a, and below each of these plates at the front-wall of the
casing a is provided with a horizontal slot a (Figures 1, 3, 4, 7 & 8) the purpose of
which will be described hereinafter.

page_text: The frame a¹ supports the wheel-work for driving the rollers e², or the axles e e¹
respectively. The motive power is formed by a spring enclosed within the casing. The
latter is integrally connected with a cog-wheel 21 that meshes with a pinion 22
forming part of a sleeve 13. This sleeve is supported at its left-hand end by the
frame but at its righthand end it is supported by a shaft m the righthand end of
which is supported by the adjacent parts of the frames a¹ a². The shaft m extends
throughout the whole length of the sleeve and carries a ratchet-wheel m'
(Figures 2, 3 & 7) which co-operates with the pawl m². The pawl m² extends upwards
from a horizontal axle m³ which connects said pawl with a vertical plate m² that
extends in a horizontal direction behind the slots as afore mentioned. The purpose
of this arrangement will be described hereinafter.
To turn either the lower roller (2) by means of the upper one, or to turn the
upper roller by means of the lower one, or to rotate either the axle e or the axle e'
from the cog-wheel and the pinion the latter is integrally connected with a
comparatively large cog-wheel o that may be thrown into gear with a pinion o¹
located at the right side of said cog-wheel o, or with a pinion o² located at the left
side of the same. The pinion o ineshes with a cog-wheel o³ secured to the axle e,
and the pinion o meshes with a cog-wheel o secured to the axle e². In Fig. 2 a part
of this axle is broken away in order to more clearly show some parts located behind
said axle.
The cog-wheel o meshes further (constantly) with a long pinion r the purpose of
which will also be described hereinafter as it co-operates in a sense with the
parts m¹ m² m³ m* already referred to.
The sleeve ³ is provided with a disk is located righthand from a pendulum-like
plates, and with two wheel-like disks located lefthand from said plates and
forming each a circular or annular groove 7. Between these wheel-like disks 25 16
the sleeve is provided with two slits 28 arranged one diametrically opposite to the
other and connecting each the annular grooves of the hollow disks 2
(Figs. 2, 5 and 6).
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The shaft in has a pin u that takes into one or the other of the slits 8 of the
sleeve i³. If the pin u is located within one of these slits the sleeve ³ and the
shaft m may be rotated together, provided, the ratchet-wheel m' be freed from
the pawl m² (as is the case in Fig. 7). The sleeve ³ cannot rotate upon or around
the shaft m as long as the pin u is located in one of the slits 8, but as soon as the
sleeve is displaced either to the right or to the left the sleeve is freed from the
checking action of the pin u, and the cog-wheel o may thus be rotated from
the cog-wheel i¹ by means of the pinion 2².
The displacement of the sleeve 12 in one or the other direction is éffected by means
of the pendulum-like disk or plate s afore mentioned. This plate is fulcrumed at 81
and is connected to a vertically movable rod 82 by means of a chain and a bar 8.
The latter takes into one end of a horizontal slot 85 of the plate 8, and may be coupled
to one or the other end of this slot, as indicated by full lines and dotted lines in Fig. 2.
If the bar 8 is in the position shown in full lines, and if then the rod 82 is pulled
upwards, the plate or disk s is turned to the left (the position shown in dotted lines
in Fig. 5) so as to act upon or against the hollow disk of the sleeve, and the sleeve
is thus displaced in such a direction that the cog-wheel o gets to mesh with the
-pinion o². Therefore, the cog-wheel o*, the axle e and the lower roller e² are turned,
and the band e³ is unwound from the upper roller and wound upon the lower one for
a certain way.
The sleeve is commences to turn instantly after the pin u of the shaft m has
arrived within the annular groove 7. This occurs in the same moment in which the
rod 82 (which may be operated either from the cab of the engine-driver by any
suitable connecting means, or from the cab of a brakes-man, or from the place of a
guard) has arrived in its highest position. Instantly thereafter the rod 82 may be
let loose when the plate or disk & will rest upon and press against the disk 4 of the
sleeve, and the left hand wall of the hollow disc 15 (i.e. the wall which has the radial
slots connecting the annular groove 27 with the two slits is of the sleeve) rotates so

page_text: long at the side of the (stationary) pin u until the said disk has turned for 180°.
In this moment the weight of the plate s may exert its displacing effect upon the
sleeves (by means of the disk it), in that the sleeve is not any more retained by the
pin u because this latter may then enter the other of the slits i, so that the shaft m
and the sleeve 23 are again coupled with each other.
If not the lower roller but the upper one shall be turned from the large cog-wheel o
(by aid of the pinion o' and the cog-wheel 03) then the lower end of the bar is
placed into the righthand end of the slot 85 of the pendulum-like plate 8, and by now
pulling the rod 82 upward the plate 8 acts against the disk of the sleeve, and owing
to the displacement of this latter the pin u is made to enter the annular inner groove
or the hollow disk ', when this disk (together with the whole sleeve) is allowed to
turn upon the shaft m. The mode of operation is exactly the same as has been
described with regard to the hollow disk 15.
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Concerning the parts m² m² m³ m³ afore mentioned and the horizontal slits as o,
the box or casing a we are now going to explain the purpose of these parts, but
prior thereto we repeat that the plates a located above the slits as are imprinted
with the same naines, .e. naines of the stations that appear on the plate visible
behind the opening as of the box or casing.
As already described in one of the preceding paragraphs the slits as are normally
closed by the plate m' which is supported at one end by the axle m³ of the pawl m²
and at the other end by a pivot or pin not shown. Behind the plate m* is arranged
a roller w (Figs. 2-4, 7 and 8) which is furnished with a number of rubber-types w¹.
These types are capable of imprinting the name of the respective station upon a
ticket (Figs. 7 and 8), if the ticket to be thus imprinted is put into the respective
slit as. In normal position the rubber-types w¹ are located upon the upper half of
the roller w but when a ticket is introduced into a slit a8 (see Fig. 7), the plate m¹ is
moved by said ticket, and the ratchet wheel m¹ of the shaft m is freed from the
checking action of the pawl m² so that consequently said shaft may rotate. The shaft
is rotated from the cog-wheel 2 by means of the pinion 22, the sleeve is and the
pin u, the latter remaining in the respective slit 8 between the hollow disks 5 of
the sleeve. In this case the pinions o¹ and 02 (which drive the rollers e³, as afore
described) are not operated by the cog-wheel o because the latter is not in gear with
any of these pinions, but the long pinion r also already referred to in one of the
preceding paragraphs is rotated, and the rotary movement of the same is trans-
initted to the roller w by means of a pinion w² and a cog-wheel u³, the latter being
secured to the axle of the roller w.
After the roller w with its rubber-types w¹ has performed one rotation (during
which time the name of the respective station has been imprinted upon the ticket,
and the latter has been withdrawn from the respective slot a³) the further movement
of all the rotary parts just mentioned is checked by the pawl m² taking again into
the ratchet wheel m¹ when the apparatus remains stopped, until it is operated the
next time.
The object purpose or use in connection with my improved station or stopping
place indicator of the attachment or device for printing with rubber type a different
inatter upon the before mentioned tickets is a somewhat comprehensive one.
Amongst such intended uses to which such printing attachment can be put I would
mention the following as examples:
If a passenger has taken a through- or a return-ticket to a more distant station
and subsequently wishes or decides to alight or stop at an intermediate station he is
enabled by inserting his ticket into the ticket-opening of my improved stopping
place indicator to have printed or impressed upon the ticket for official or other
purposes the name of the station at which he has alighted.
Similarly in the case of tramways or other road cars where a change of cars is
necessary, the printing device of my improved indicator could be employed to
indicate the station reached or the distance traversed before the change of cars took
place. In the same manner I might suggest many other uses, f.i. any official check
or other control of tickets could be arranged on the printing device of such stopping

page_text: place indicator as may be required in accordance with the position in which the
apparatus is placed and the class or kind of tickets employed.
In conclusion it should be stated that in connection with my improved station
indicator by means of the printing device attached to same the name of any stopping
place or station can be printed by the passenger at any time, the printing
mechanism being adapted to be operated whenever a suitable ticket is inserted; the
matter which may be arranged to be printed thereon being already previously des-
cribed in a pieceding paragraph.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a station-indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other; a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-names
and other information; axles carrying said rollers; and cog-wheels secured to said
axles, & being arranged in different planes, of a displaceable cog-wheel located between
said other two, and adapted to be thrown into gear with one or the other of the same,
and means for turning and displacing said third cog-wheel, for the purpose as
described.
2. In a station indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other and a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be.wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-
names and other informations; of a shaft, a sleeve arranged upon said shaft, a pinion
and a cog-wheel secured to said sleeve, and means for coupling said sleeve with and
uncoupling it from said shaft and for displacing it upon the same; said cog-wheel
being arranged to transinit motion to one or the other of said rollers, and means for
driving said pinion, for the purpose as described.
3. In a station-indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other and a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-
names and other informations; of a shaft, a sleeve arranged upon said shaft, a pinion.
and a cog-wheel secured to said sleeve, and means for driving said pinion, hollow
disks forming parts of the sleeve, slits 28 provided in the sleeve and connecting
the annular spaces of said hollow disks; a pin u secured to the shaft, and adapted
to take into said slits and said annular spaces, and means for displacing the sleeve
upon the said shaft; said cog-wheel being arranged to transmit motion to one or the
other of said rollers according to the direction of displacement of the sleeve, for
the purpose as described.
4. In a station-indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other and a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-
names and other informations, of a shaft, a sleeve arranged upon said shaft, a pinion
and a cog-wheel secured to said sleeve, and means for driving said pinion; hollow
disks forming parts of the sleeve, slits is provided in the sleeve and connecting
the annular spaces of said hollow disks; a pin u secured to the shaft, and adapted to
take into said slits and said annular spaces; a disk i also fixed to the sleeve, a
pendulum-like plate 8 arranged between this disk and the hollow disk, a rod
arranged above said plate and means for connecting said rod with one or the other
side of the plate s, substantially as described.
5. In a station-indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other and a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-
names and other informations, of a shaft, a sleeve arranged upon said shaft, a pinion
and a cog-wheel secured to said sleeve, and means for rotating said pinion and cog-
wheel and displacing them upon said shaft ; a ratchet-wheel secured to the latter,
a pawl adapted to co-operate with said ratchet-wheel, a movable vertical plate
.connected with said pawl, a roller with types arranged behind said plate, slots arranged

page_text: in front of said plate in the casing of the indicator, and means for turning said roller
with types, for the purpose as described.
6. In a station-indicator, the combination with two rollers arranged one above the
other and a band wound upon one of said rollers and adapted to be wound from the
respective roller to and upon the other one, and being provided with the station-
names and other informations, of a shaft, a sleeve arranged upon said shaft, a long
pinion and a cog-wheel secured to said sleeve, and means for rotating the latter and
displacing it upon said shaft ; another long pinion arranged so as to be in constant
gear with said cog-wheel, a roller with types, and wheels connecting this roller to
said other long pinion; a movable plate arranged in front of said roller with types,
a pawl secured to said plate, a ratchet-wheel adapted to co-operate with said pawl, and
secured to the said shaft, for the purpose as described.
KARL MOSTARD,
WILHELM BEERENSSON,
By Geo. H. Rayner,
Agent of the Applicants.