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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ROBERT A. HATHHORNE, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
STATION-INDICATOR.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug. 9, 1910.
Application filed May 11, 1908. Serial No. 432,209.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ROBERT A. HATH-
HORNE, citizen of the United States, residing
at Houston, in the county of Harris and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Station-Indi-
cators, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
My invention relates to new and useful
10 improvements in station indicators.
The object of the invention is to provideI
an indicating device comprising a web and
means for moving the same across an open-
ing to exhibit. intermittently the names of
15 stations or streets, and more particularly to
provide means whereby the web is manually
operated in one direction and mechanically
operated in the opposite direction.
With the above and other objects in view,
20 my invention has relation. to certain novel
features of construction and operation an
example of which is described in the follow-
ing specification and illustrated in the ac-
companying drawings, wherein:
25 Figure 1 is an elevation of one side of
the station indicator, a portion of the casing
being broken away to show the mechanism.
Fig. 2 is a. partial top view of the mechanism
the portion shown being that seen in Fig. 1.
30 Fig. 2" is an end view of that portion of the
indicator mechanism, illustrated by Figs. 1
and 2. These three views serve mainly to
make clear the spring operated mechanism
whereby the indicator is driven on the return
35 trip of the car in which it is installed. Fig.
3 is an elevation of the opposite side of the
indicator to that shown in Fig. 1. The side
wall of the auxiliary casing, which contains
the mechanism for manually operating the
40 indicator on the out trip of the car, is omit-
ted to show said mechanism and a portion of
the main casing is broken away, showing one
of the spools and the frame. Fig. 4 is a
horizontal sectional view of the parts seen in
45 Fig. 3 the mechanism in the auxiliary casing,
and a portion of that in the main casing
being shown. Fig. 5 is a detail side view
of a pawl and ratchet mechanism positioned
in the auxiliary casing, and serving to trans-
50 form a manually produced lever movement
to a rotary motion of one of the spool spin-
dles. Figs. 6 and 7 are side and top viewsrespectively of the same mechanism. Fig. 8
is a front view of the indicator inclosed in a
casing showing the window through which 55
the street names upon the web may be read.
In the drawings the numeral 1 designates
a supporting board which is-suitably secured
to the ceiling or other suitable part of the
car or'vehicle. Along a portion of its side 60
it is. provided with grooved hangers 2 slid-
ably receiving a casing 3, which abuts a
smaller casing 4 permanently secured to the
supporting board. At its forward end the
casing 3 is provided with a glass covered 65
exhibiting opening 5 through which the
names of the streets or stations are exhibited.
In the casing 3, a base board 6 is secured
to the bottom thereof and securely supports
side frame bars 7 between which spools 8 and 70
9 are mounted to revolve. The forward
ends of the frame bars support horizontal
rollers 10 and 11, one above and the other
below the opening 5. A web 12 on which
the names of the streets or stations are 75
transversely placed has one end secured to
the rearward spool 8. The web is passed
forward above the spool 9, over the roller 10,
down and under the roller 11 to the spool 9
to which it is attached. In this way the 80
web is caused to travel vertically across the
opening 5. This web is first wound about
the spool 9 and wound upon the spool 8 as
it is intermittently moved to display or ex-
hibit the names. 85
In order to wind the web upon the spool
8 the same is provided with a laterally ex-
tending shaft 13 projecting into the casing
4 and carrying on its outer end, a clutch gear
14. This clutch gear is adapted to be en- 90
gaged by a clutch gear 15 slidably mounted
on, and adapted to turn with a shaft 16
supported in a standard 17 mounted on a
base board 18 secured in the casing 4. This
shaft carries on its outer end, a ratchet 95
wheel 19 and a pawl. lever 20 carrying a
suitable spring pressed pawl 20a engaging
the said ratchet wheel, the outer end of the
lever having connection with the lower end
of a coiled spring 22 secured to the top of 100
the casing. The pawl lever swings in a
guard frame 23 secured to the standard 17,
and serving to limit the upward motion of
I the lever produced by the spring 22. A966,914.
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Hathhorne, Robert A. Station-Indicator, patent, August 9, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509447/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.