Passageway between adjacent railway passenger car compartments

Claim 1

In a railway passenger car having a pair of compartments disposed in side by side relation and including an outer wall and a wall structure defining the inner side of the compartments and having door openings providing access from each compartment to an aisle in said car, the improvement comprising: a telescoping divider wall separating said compartments and extending between said outer wall and said wall structure and having a portion slidable toward and away from said outer wall to respectively close off the compartments from each other and to provide a passageway between said compartments, a sanitary closet including an enclosure in each compartment disposed at opposite sides of said divider wall intermediate the ends thereof, each enclosure comprising a fixed section and a U-shaped extension section, said fixed section having a first wall extending transversely from the divider wall into the respective compartment and having a second wall extending from the edge of the first wall remote from the divider wall in laterally spaced relation and generally parallel therewith, said U-shaped extension section including inner and outer wall members and an interconnecting end wall member, and each said extension section being separately telescopable into the respective fixed section from said passageway between said compartments and said interconnecting end wall members being transversely alignable with respect to each other and with respect to the end of the divider wall when it is in its retracted position to provide a wide aisle therebetween attendant to said slidable portion of the divider wall being telescoped to provide said passageway.