Railway rolling stock – Special car bodies – Sleeping
Patent
1976-08-23
1977-09-06
Spar, Robert J.
Railway rolling stock
Special car bodies
Sleeping
5 9B, 182 97, 297395, B61D 108, B61D 3100
Patent
active
040460819
ABSTRACT:
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.
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Gutridge Jack E.
Hallam Keith J.
Marsh Ronald W.
Myers Richard J.
Pullman Incorporated
Rowold Carl
Spar Robert J.
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