US56113A - Improved car-spittoon - Google Patents

Description

IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLISON G. SMITH, OF CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRovED CAR-SPITTOON.

Speoicationforming part of Letters Patent No. 56d l3, (lated J111yV37 1866- To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLisoN G. SMITH, of

Carlisle, in the county ot' Cumberland, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Spittoon for Railroad-Gars and Public Places, for the use oi' passengers and guests and visitors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I form the spittoon by inserting a section of a cylindric or conical ring or the sides of a square box having a ange on the top in and through the iiloor of the car or public place, the Hange beinglevel with the floor of the car, an d providing it with an adj ustablelid and bottom. In general Imake the spittoon square and provide it with metal lids Working` in grooved parallel guides above and below the door of the car or room. This lid and bottom are coupled together by a bolt of iron passing through each of them in such manner that their planes, though parallel, are not opposite each other, but have passed eachother longitudinally the length ofthe side of the top and bottom of the cylinder, so that when the lid is open the bottom is closed, so that nothing may fall through and cold air be prevented from coming through the spittoon, and, reversing the movement, the bottom is opened and the top closed, and anything in the spittoon is deposited on the railroad-track, or in a trough beneath the floor, which may be supplied With a stream of running Water, thus forming a spittoon which is self-cleaning.

The said spittoon, by leaving the lid and bottom partly open, may be made the means of speedily carrying off the water in scrubbing and the dust in sweeping the door.

I insert the spittoon F through the tloor A, and, fixing the guides VD properly above and below the spittoon, insert the lid B and the bottom C, which are then in contact with the top and bottom ofthe spittoon- F, and may be moved on and oit of the spittoon. I then couple them by the bolt E, which serves as a knob to move the top and bottom by with one operation, this bolt-head having the corners rounded off, so as not to catch anything passing over it.

Having my spittoon closed, Fig. l, the bottom C being beneath the tloor A, and Wishing to use it, I place the sole ot' my shoe behind the head of the bolt`E and shove the lid B through the guides I) until the bolt E fits in a recess prepared for it in the side Iof F. The spittoon is then open. Wishing to close it, I reverse the motion, and the lid C scrapes itself clean on the side of F.

\/V hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters .Pa-tent, is-

In combination with the sidesot an inserted box, ot' any shape, even with the iioor of the car, the adjustable lid and bottom connected by the bolt and sliding in the guides, as described.

WILLISON Gr. SMITH.

. Witnesses:

J. W. HENDERSON, A. L. SPoNsLER.

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