US1010719A - Buffer and fender for electric-railway cars. - Google Patents

Description

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1911.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

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INVENTORS A TTORNE Y COLUMBIA PLA'NQG J. 11. E. BRANSON,'W. H. QUICK & T. FFMAGKELL' BUFFER AND FENDER FOR ELECTRIC RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED. MAY 4, 19'11. 1,01 0,71 9.

Patnted Dec. 5,1911

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. E. BRANSON, WILLIAM H. QUICK, AND THOMAS F. MALCKELL, 0F PHILADEL- PHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. i

, BUFFER AND FENDER FOR ELEGTRIC RAILWAY CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. May 4, 1911. Serial No. 625,023.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES H. E. BRAN- SON, \VILLIAM H. QUICK, and THOMAS F. MAOKELL, citizens of the United States, and all residing at the city of Philadel hia, in the county of Philadelphia and fate of Pennsylvania, have ointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buffers and Fenders for Electric-Railway Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has relation to a buffer and fender arranged in independent relationship but with the latter adapted to be automatically shifted and locked in a lowered inclined position by the shifting of the buffer from a normally vertical to an inclined position; and in such connection our invention relates to means in pivotal connection with the buffer adapted by a manual operation thereof or upon being struck to change the normal vertical position of the fender to a locked inclined position and to permit of the return of the buffer by manually manipulating the same.

The nature and scope of our present invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1, is a top or plan view of the buffer and fender in their normal positions and embodying in this view main features of our said invention; and Figs. 2 and 3, are central sectional views of Fig. 1 showing the buffer and fender, in respectively, vertical and raised and shifted and dropped inclined positions.

Referring to the drawings a and a are longitudinal beams on both sides of the car framework.

6 and 5 are U-snaped perforated hangers removably attached to the beams a and a a, is a skeleton type of buffer or guard pivoted to the hanger b.

d and al in Fig. 1, are brackets secured tothe beams and to which are pivoted bellcranks e and 6 One end of each of these bell-cranks is pivoted to connecting rods f and J, the opposite ends of said rods being pivoted to the upper portion of the buffer or guard c. The other ends of the bellcranks e and 6 are provided with rollers g, mounted on journals 9 and 9 extending laterally therefrom, as clearly shown in Fig.

1, for a purpose to be presently'more fully explained.

h is a fender having a suitable base and back. The fender h is fulcrumed to the hanger b and to the fender are also attached one of the ends of'coiled springs VM and if, the opposite ends of which springs are attached to brackets k secured to and inwardly extending from the beams a and a, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

i is a cross-shaft journaled in the sidebeams 64 and a. Mounted on the shaft 71 are cranks j arfd j having stud-pins 3' and 7' 70 and is? are rods mounted on said studpins and at their opposite ends connected with the upper portions of the fender h, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The rods 70 and 7% are recessed at 74 to lockingly engage the cross-shaft 2', when the buffer 0 is manually shifted. During the moment of time it takes for the buffer to assume the position as indicated in dotted outline in Fi 3, the rollers g and 9 contact with the rods 70 and 76 of the fender h, to cause the same to be lifted and the fender under the tension of the coiled springs 7L and if, to change from the position as indicated in Fig. 2, to the position as shown in Fig. 3. While the rods 70 and 76 are describing substantially a half-circle so that the recessed portion [.2 of said rods 70 and 70 can engage the cross-shaft 2', to lockingly hold the rods 70 and 76 on said cross-shaft i, the fender h is shifted into its lowered inclined position as indicated in Fig. 3, in which position it is maintained until the rods 75 and 10 by manual means have been restored to the position as shown in Fig. 2.

, It will be observed that as the buffer 0 and fender h are arranged for use when an object is brought into contact with the bulfer, the described means between the buffer and the fender is actuated to automatically shift the fender into the lowered inclined position shown in Fig. 3. Not only is it shifted into such a position but lockingly held in such shifted position, irrespective of what subsequent shiftings may occur of the buffer 0. It will also be observed that the buffer and fender are unconnected with each other until an object is brought into contact with the buffer to enable it to be shifted to cause the bell-cranks e and e to be actuated and the rods 70 and 70 thus to Patented Dec. 5, 1911. l

lockingly engage the cross-shaft 2' as shown in Fig. 3.

Having thus described the nature and objects of our invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a railway car, a buffer, a car-frame supporting bell-cranks on both sides of the car, a connection with said butter and one arm of each of said bell-cranks, the other arm of which is provided with a laterally extending device, a tender, springs connected with said fender and car-frame, a cross-shaft having cranks mounted thereon, rods connected with said fender and crossshaft cranks, said rods being recessed to engage said cross-shaft and the laterally extending device of said bell-cranks being arranged to contact with said rods and lift the same.

In Witness whereof, We have hereunto set our signatures, in the presence of tWo subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. E. BRANSON. WILLIAM H. QUICK. THOMAS F. MACKELL.

Vitnesses:

J. R. VILLIAMS,

FRANK B. ELLIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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