Flagmen's Outfit for Protecting Trains (Patent No: 246267)

Inventor: Cope, Evan L.

Location: Medicine Hat

Comments: N/A

Description: WHAT WE CLAIM AS OUR INVENTION IS:

1. A flagman's outfit comprising a casing formed with a base and hinged lid, and provided with a plurality of compartments designed to receive fuses, the base being provided with openings to receive the fuses spikes, a match container formed integral with the casing and provided with a hinged lid, a lantern, means carried by the casing for securing the same as the lanterns and loops on the casing shaped to carry a flag.
2. A flagman's outfit of the character described comprising a casing formed with a perforated base and hinged lid, and provided with a plurality of vertically extending fuses carrying compartments, the fuses spikes adapted to protrude though said perforation, a lantern, means on the top and bottom of the casing adapted to detachably engage the lantern, loop flag carrying ?????? on the casing and a container on the casing, having a sloped hinged lid, adapted to contain matches.
3. The device as claimed in claim 2 is which the hinged lid of the casing is formed slantwise to throw off the rain.
4. The device as claimed in claim 2 in which a flag carrying base is formed on the side of the casing integral with the casing base.