Railway passenger car interior paneling and finish assembly
AssigneePullman Incorporated
InventorsJack E. Gutridge, Ernest J. Nagy
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Abstract
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.
Claims6
In a passenger railway car having a body including a plurality of support members, outer wall construction including outer sheathing connected to outer portions of said support members, and interior wall construction spanned between and connected to inner portions of the support member, the interior wall construction consisting of at least one interior panel including a section of interior sheathing, the improvement being means for connecting each interior panel to the support members comprising the combination of:
- first extrusion means being removably secured relative to the interior portions of the support members,
- said first extrusion means having a recess receiving an edge portion of the interior panel,
- second extrusion means having a portion being overlapped in part by another edge of the interior panel, and being provided with a recess opening away from the outer wall construction, and
- third extrusion means being releasably interlocked with said second extrusion means and thereupon also in part overlapping the other edge of the interior panel to hold the same against said underlying second extrusion,
- said third extrusion means comprising a rigid locking portion adapted to be snap fitted within the recess of the second extrusion means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.