US 6,416,116 B1Granted

Interior structure of a mass transit vehicle

AssigneeNew Flyer Industries Limited

InventorsWilliam H. Stanton, Glenn Campbell, William Holowaty

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Abstract

A public transit vehicle has a vehicle body having a roof defining an interior ceiling surface, two side walls each extending longitudinally of the vehicle including an upper side wall portion connecting to the roof and a row of windows underneath the upper portion, a central aisle and two rows of seats each on a respective side of the aisle and along the side wall at the windows. Stanchions for supporting passengers while standing are shaped so that they curve upwardly and outwardly of the aisle to a wider spacing at the ceiling than at the seats. Between two stanchion mounting rails is provided a central ceiling panel dropped from the roof to define an air supply duct longitudinally along the aisle above the passengers. This is supplied with ventilation air by a roof mounted system and communicates by individual sub-ducts with a series of fans in the side walls. A flap valve at the fan can be operated to cause heated air when required to be supplied through the main side wall posts to bottom discharge openings at the bottom interior panels or to cause cooled air to be supplied to a duct along the top of the windows.

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Dependent claims

A public transit bus comprising:

a bus body having:
a roof,
two side walls each extending longitudinally of the bus including an upper side wall portion connecting to the roof and a row of windows underneath the upper portion,
a bus floor connected to the side walls and spanning therebetween;
two rows of seats for seated passengers each along a respective one of the side walls at the windows and defining a central aisle therebetween for standing and moving passengers;
and an air supply system for supplying air to the passengers comprising:
an air supply assembly including a main drive fan mounted at the roof;
an air transfer ducting arrangement connected to the air supply assembly and receiving air therefrom, the ducting arrangement being located underneath the roof at the roof, centrally of the roof and longitudinally of the bus body;
a first plurality of individual feeder ducts each extending from the ducting arrangement across the roof to one side wall, the feeder ducts being spaced longitudinally along the bus body so as to communicate with respective ones of a plurality of different sections of said one side wall;
a second plurality of feeder ducts extending from the ducting arrangement across the roof to the other side wall, the feeder ducts being spaced longitudinally along the bus body so as to communicate with respective ones of a plurality of different sections of said other side wall;
each section of each of the side walls including air distribution elements mounted in the side wall for distributing the air to passengers at the section.

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