US269672A - Station-indicator - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

H. A. HOLLOMAN.

STATION INDICATOR.

Patented Dec. 26, 1882.

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HARVEY A. HOLLOMAN, 0F KINGSTON, TEXAS.

STATION-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,672, dated December .26, 1882,

Application filed April 12, 1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEYA.HOLLOMAN, of Kingston, Kent county, Texas, have invented a new and Improved Station-Indicator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in a box provided with an opening in its front, at points near the lower and upper edges of which opening are arranged pairs of rolls, said box having drums journaled in the top and bottom, to which drumsa band is attached bearing the names of the stations and stretched between said rolls, which band extends across the opening of the box. The drums are provided with crank-handles for turning them, one of which crank-handles is connected with a bell hung on a bracket of the box, whereby the bell will be sounded when the crank-handles are turned to shift the band, thus calling the attention of the passengers to the station indicated.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved station-indicator, and Fig. 2 is a crosssectional elevation of the same.

The box A, of any suitable size or construction, is provided in its front side with an opening, B, preferably closed by a pane of glass. Rollers or drums C and D are journaled in the top and bottom of the box, and to these rollers a band or belt, E, of cloth, leather, paper, or other suitable material, is attached, which band E also passes between guide-rollers F, above and below the opening B on the inside of the box, so that the band E will be held across the opening. The names of the stations of a railroad are printed or painted on this band transversely in their proper order.

In place of the. band E, end bands can be used, to which transverse strips bearing the names of the stations are attached.

The shaft of the drum G is provided with a crank, G, and a crank-handle, H, on the outside of the box, and the shaft of the drum D is also provided with a crank-handle, J,on the outside of the box A. An arm 'or bracket, K, projects from the top of the box A, and on the I end of this arm a bell, L, is hung, which is turns the upper crank-handle, H, at the station, thereby winding part of the band E on the upper roller, 0, so that the name of the next station appears in the opening B At the same time the rod or wire M operates the bell L, which is sounded and calls the atten- 6 tion of the passengers to the station indicated. It the train is running in the opposite direction, the lower crank-handle, J, is turned, so that the band E will be wound on the roller 1),

the names of stations appearing in the inverse order in the opening B. The band is wound from the roller or drum 0 and rotates the same, whereby the bell L will be sounded every time a part of the band is wound on. the drum D.

The device can be used to indicate thestations as soon as the train arrives, instead of indicating them in advance.

The above-described instrument can also be used on boats, 85c.

Having-thusdescribed my inventiornlclaim as new and desire to secure by LettersPaten t- In a station-indicator, the combination, with the box A, having a viewingppening, B, of the'rollers U D,journaled in the lower and upper portions of the box, the band E, attached to said rollers and beari ng the names of the stations, rolls F, disposed one pair at a point near the lower edge of said opening and one pair near the upper edge of said opening, between and by means of which the band E is stretched 99 in line with the viewing-opening of the box, and the crank G, formed upon one of the bandroller axes, and connected by a rod to a bell, L, as shown and described, and for the purpose set 'forth.

HARVEY A. HOLLOMAN.

Witnesses J. J. Moons, J. S. CRISP.

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