Pullman Incorporated

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Jack E Gutridge

Walter J Marulic

Ronald W Marsh

Roy W Miller

Keith J Hallam

James J Schuller

Ernest J Nagy

Eugene I Varda

Grant M Newbury

Patricia A Raidt

The interior wall construction of a passenger railway car is provided with carpeted decorative panels which are fabricated before assembly with the interior wall construction. The attachment of the panels to the wall is provided by extrusions of rigid and resilient shape which permit the panels to be installed by snap-fit interengagement.

Railway passenger car interior paneling and finish assembly

An upper berth is hingedly supported on the partition wall of a sleeping compartment. One end of the berth is provided with a vertical hanger member having an upper hook shape end which is adapted to engage a bracket mounted on the outer wall of the sleeping compartment. The hook and bracket arrangement provides a supple support for the berth in the use position and may easily be moved to a stowed position. The shelf arrangement supported by the bracket is positioned immediately adjacent the sleeping berth.

Upper berth support arrangement

A door seal for an inside compartment of a railway passenger vehicle. A door that moves on rollers laterally into and from a door opening to a stored position in a hollow portion of an adjacent wall. The lower portion of the door is located adjacent a threshold having a movable, flexible seal that moves between a flat position covering a roller track portion of the threshold to a substantially upright position against the bottom of the door when the door is located in a closed position. The seal is constructed of a resilient material and bends to be urged against the lower portion of the door in such a fashion as to seal out noise, debris, light and the like. When the door is open the seal returns to a flat, horizontal position to prevent an accumulation of debris or dirt in the door track which would interfere with movement of the door.

Movable threshold door seal

A rail vehicle is disclosed for use on an elevated electric rail system having a lower rail below the vehicle and an upper rail above the vehicle. The vehicle includes a pair of lower wheels having independently rotatable flanges rollably carrying a vehicle cab along the lower rail and an upper wheel having independently rotatable flanges rollably engaging the upper rail. Electric motors, energized through contacts carried on the vehicle by an electric circuit associated with the upper rail, are drivingly connected through drive belts to the respective lower wheel to propel the vehicle along the rail system. The vehicle also includes a clamping rail brake carried by a vehicle which is engagable on the lower rail, and a vertically and laterally extendable servo system secured to the vehicle and carrying the upper wheel.

Monorail car stabilizing system

A sliding door and door guide arrangement for the door opening of a railway passenger compartment including a spring biased door guide mechanism for retarding abrupt movement of the door due to car impacts during rail operations and including a threshold plate having a guide channel cooperative with a guide plate depending from the door slidingly engaged therein to align the door and downwardly biased thereagainst to retard abrupt movements of the door.

Sliding door and door guide arrangement for a railway passenger car

A railway passenger car compartment includes an upper berth and a convertible seat. The compartment is provided with a fixture adjacent to the seat which serves as a storage unit, as a ladder to provide access to the upper berth, as an arm rest for the seat, and as an instrument panel for various electrical components.

Fixture for passenger railway car compartment

A door lifter mechanism for a railway car door is operable by a handle which acts on two fulcrum bars. A fulcrum bar lifter roller is carried by the handle and supports the ends of the fulcrum bars, which are joined by a pivot spool received in slots in the fulcrum bars.

Door lifter construction

A sleeping berth movable between stored and use positions includes an elongated pan having a central substantially deep portion and at opposite ends substantially narrower portions which contain a suitably shaped mattress. The shallow portions in the use position of the bed increase the head room for passengers seated on the compartment seats. The pan or shell of the berth also includes at one side thereof a tubular beam construction which houses a linkage mechanism for releasably locking the berth in use and non-use positions.

Sleeping compartment upper berth

A sliding door for a railway passenger car compartment includes structural panel support members of extruded material facilitating the assembly and replacement of parts and providing a construction which will support accessory portions of the door without the need of special fastening devices.

Sliding door for railway passenger car compartment

A front gun sight for use in combination with a conventional rear sight, including a front extended tapered sighting surface, having a center portion of a contrasting color to the side portions, allowing a quick and accurate aiming of the gun even under poor light conditions. The tapered sighting surface is secured to a tapered mount which itself may be attached on a gun barrel over an existing sight. The extended tapered sighting surface forms a linear sighting line allowing the rear sigt to be lined up with the top front of the tapered sighting surface to align the projectile path with the target.

Gun sight

A railway passenger car includes a bedroom compartment having a commode enclosure comprising a pair of enclosure sections which during non-use are moved together into a confined and compact manner providing greater compartment space and during use can be moved apart to provide an enlarged commode area.

Passageway between adjacent railway passenger car compartments

A table arrangement for a railway passenger car compartment includes a first table which can be folded from a use to a stored position in a side of the compartment. The first table can be used alone or it can be joined for use with a larger knock-down table which includes latching provisions for interlocking the two table tops of the arrangement.

Table arrangement for railway passenger car compartments

A convertible passenger seat headrest for a railway sleeping compartment having a convertible seat and bed arrangement. The headrest is pivotally supported from the compartment wall at its lower end and includes a stowable ladder folded within it when the headrest is in the raised position. When it is desired to make up the upper berth of the sleeping compartment, the headrest can be pivoted outwardly from the wall and the ladder unfolded to form a ladder and step which a passenger can use to climb into the upper berth.

Headrest ladder

A railway passenger compartment includes a seating arrangement which is convertible to elongated berths by moving oppositely disposed seats toward each other, the same being hingedly connected to seat backs which are also moved into longitudinal alignment forming berths. Stationary seat supports are provided with tracks which slidingly support cantilevered arms connected to the seats and provide basic supports for the seats when in the berth position.

Combination seat and berth

A sleeping car compartment which includes a convertible seat arrangement also usable as a bed includes a headrest positioned on a wall of the sleeping compartment above the back of the seat. The headrest includes a shaped pillow which is releasably held in the headrest position and may be removed therefrom for use on the bed when the seat arrangement is converted.

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Dyer, IN, United States of America

Jack E Gutridge