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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
ALEXANDER HUNTER ROGERS, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
STATION-INDICATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,415, dated September 6, 1898.
Application filed August 28, 1897, Serial No. 649,860. (No model.).To all whom it may Concerni:
Be it known that I, ALEXANDER HUNTER
ROGERS, of Galveston, in the county of Gal-
veston and State of Texas, have invented
5 certain new and useful Improvements in Sta-
tion-Indicators; and I do hereby declare the
following to be a full, clear, and exact de-
scription of the invention, such as will enable
others skilled in the art to which it appertains
io to make and use the same.
This invention relates to automatic street
and station indicators for advertising.
The invention is intended to be used on
board passenger-cars to automatically indi-
15 cate or visually disclose the names of streets
or stations as they are reached and simulta-
neously exhibit signs, cards, and other adver-
tising devices.
The invention consists of the combination
7o of a suitable casing adjusted within view of
the interior of a car, an endless apron suitably
mounted upon driving and guide rollers with-
in the casing, a prime mover consisting of the
axle of one of the trucks of a car, and a train of
25 reducing-gearing connecting the car-axle and
the driving roller or spool for driving the
endless apron.
The invention further consists in the details
of construction and certain other combina-
30 tions hereinafter described, and particularly
pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings forming part of this speci-
fication, Figure 1 is a cross-section through a
car, showing my indicator arranged in one end
35 of the car, a truck being shown in elevation
beneath the car. Fig. 2 is a cross-section
through the casing, showing grip and guide
rollers in elevation above the floor of the car
and showing the gearing between the axle of
40 the car and the driving-roller of the apron.
Fig. 3 is a section at right angles with that
shown in Fig. 2, showing the driving and
guide rollers in section and the gearing be-
tween the axle and driving-roller in elevation.
45 Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the casing, the
bottom of the car and one of the shaft-sup-
porting brackets being taken in section. Fig.
5 is a top or plan view of the gearing between
the axle and drive-roller. Fig. G is a section
5o in segment of the endless apron and a tilting
device operated by said apron. Fig. 7 is a
sectional detail showing means for clampingand holding an adjustable tension-roller in
adjusted position. Fig. 8 is an enlarged sec-
tional detail showing the clamping-nut or 55
means for securing the take-up roll in posi-
tion.
1 is a casing or cabinet arranged, as shown,
in the forward left-hand corner of the pas-
senger-car, having glazed openings 2 and 3, 6o
the opening 2 being for disclosing the street
or station signal and will ordinarily be about
one-third of the width of the casing, leaving
two-thirds of the width of the casing to be
utilized for advertising purposes. The open- 65
ing 3 is considerably larger than the indicator-
opening 2 and represents a space constantly
in view and behind which is suspended or
carried advertising matter Within this cas-
ing is mounted an endless apron 4. The 70
length of this apron will depend upon the
length of the route over which the car is de-
signed to travel and the amount of reduction
obtained through the reducing-gearing. One
part of this endless apron will be in a sense 75
an epitome of the route over which the car
travels-that is to say, there will be at inter-
vals printed or stenciled or otherwise fixed
upon the apron the name of a street or public
building or other object of interest to which 8o
the attention of passengers is to be drawn--
and these indicating-signs will be at their
proper distances apart, the distances being
proportioned to the actual distance over which
the car must pass in order to reach the points 85
indicated. Parallel with these indicating
signs, on one or both sides of such signs, will
be arranged advertising matter, which will be
brought into view in regular order and succes-
sion as the car moves over the route. The end- 90
less apron carrying the indicating-signs and
the advertising matter is supported within the
casing and led over a driving-roller, around
any desired and necessary number of guide-
rollers, and back to the driving-roller. In the 95
way I have illustrated this arrangement the
apron extends over driving-roller 8, around
one of a pair of gripping-rollers 9, an adjust-
able or take-up roller 10, and thence back to
the point of beginning around any required 100
number of guide-rollers. Next to the driv-
ing-roller and arranged to grip or bite the
apron to cause it to travel is a pressure or
gripping roller 11, and adjacent to the first
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Rogers, Alexander Hunter. Station-Indicator., patent, September 6, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514321/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.