US1012392A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

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W. H. MARTIN.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.1B, 1910.

Patented Dec. 19,1911.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1910.

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WILLIAM H. MARTIN, OF GEYSERVILLE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-FIFTHS TO A. H. BONNIEFIELD AND T. W. BONNIEFIELD, BOTH 0F GEYSERVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 18, 1910.

Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

Serial No. 593,103.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM l-I. MARTIN, residing at Geyserville, in the county of Sonoma and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Car-Fender, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention, which generally relates to street car fenders, more particularly has in view an improved type of fender in which the pick-up devices, normally held elevated, are caused to drop into an operative position to take care of and protect the object struck by the car and in such manner that danger of the object getting under the car or being bruised or mangled while being pushed forwardly is reduced to the minimum.

My invention primarily has for its object to provide a car fender construction of the general character stated and of a comparatively simple compact and inexpensive nature, in which the several parts are cooperatively connected and so designed that they can be quickly set to their normal or elevated position and positively and automatically dropped to the pick up position the instant a body is struck.

lVith other objects in view that will hereinafter appear my present invention embodies an improved arrangement of a pickup canvas or apron, that drops in advance of the object struck, and an automatically adjustable means for unwinding the said canvas over the trackway in position for receiving the body as it is being pushed forwardly, whereby to form a drag for pulling the body smoothly along the roadway.

My invention in its more complete nature includes certain improved means for holding the main or apron holder and a supplemental canvas guard normally elevated and moved to their lowered or operative position by spring power as soon as a body is struck by the car.

My invention consists in certain details of construction and novel arrangement of parts all of which will be hereinafter fully described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1., is a perspective view of my im proved car fender attached to the front of a car and shown at normal or elevated position. Fig. 2, is a front view thereof. Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the end of a car with my improved fender, the same being in the lowered position. Fig. 4, is a top plan view of the fender devices arranged as in Fig. 3, part of the car platform being omitted to show the position of the supplemental wheel guard. Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6, is a side elevation, the parts being in the position shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7, is a detail enlarged perspective view of the clamping device. Fig. 8, is a detail WICW showing the means of attaching the canvas to the rope.

Fig. 9, is a detail section of the coil spring device.

Tn the practical application of my inveir tion. the operating parts are arranged and combined as is best shown in Figs. 1 and 3, in which 1 designates a shaft that is rcckably mounted in brackets 20, secured on the outside of the car dash 2. Shaft 1 is normally held under the tension of a pair of coiled springs 3 to rock forwardly and the said springs 3 are wound around and secured at one end to the shaft and held within the housings 21, the other end of the springs being made fast to the ear dash 2, as is clearly shown.

4 designates a pair of side arms fixedly secured to the opposite ends of the shaft 1 and 5 is a roller (see Figs. 2, 3 and 4) journaled in the outer ends of the said side arms 4 upon which is wound a canvas apron 50, the free end of which carries a roller 51.

52 designates a ball shaped member that is pendently secured to the roller 51 on the end of the apron 50, and it forms a weight for assisting in unwinding the apron as the side arms 4 drop down to the horizontal position,.it also acting as a detent for engaging a locking device at the upper edge of the car dash which has for its purpose to hold the apron roller 51 in its elevated position (see Fig. 5). The locking device referred to, which is best shown in Fig. 7, consists of two pincer-like clamping members 60 that are pivotally mounted on a bracket that projects outwardly from the upper edge of the car dash. The front or claw-like ends of the member 60 are normally closed against each other by a spring that is interposed between the long or rear ends of the said members, as is clearly shown in Fig. 7. The pincer-like clamping jaws, through the means hereinafter explained, open to receive the shank of the ball 52, when the arm 4, with the rollers 5, are swung up to the normal position, through the medium of the spring rock shaft 2 and close over the said shank to hold it and the ball 52, after the said shank passes therebetween, said clamping of the ball shank serving to assist in holding the roller 5 from being accidentally jolted forwardly in ordinary use.

Upon each end of the roller 5 is mounted a pulley 7 of a larger diameter than the diameter of the roller 5 when the canvas apron is wound thereon, and over the said pulleys 7 take endless cords or cables 8 which also take over ground engaging pulleys 90 that are journaled on the ends of side arms 9 that hang pendent from the shaft 53 of the roller 5 and just inside of the side arms or bars 4, such correlation of the several parts being provided that the pulleys 90 set in alinement with the pulleys 7 for reasons presently explained.

10 designates a combined bumper and tripping frame of rectangular shape and it consists of side and end gas pipe sections suitably joined atthe ends and a netting ll of yieldable material for receiving the body or object that may be struck by the moving car. The frame 10 includes a cross bar 10 that is rockably secured to the car dash by means of the outer or free ends of bowed spring hangers 12, as is clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by reference to which it is apparent that when the lower part of the frame '10 strikes an object the upper part of the said frame swings outwardly.

13 designates a weight slidably mounted on the front of the car dash, whose lower end norm-ally rests on the car platform and the said weight has vertical rods lt fastened thereto that are guided on the brackets 15 in the car dash and whose upper ends are extended a short distance above the top of the dash, as shown. Cords 15 are attached to the upper ends of the rods 1 and pass through guides 16 on the car dash and connect with the spring clip members 60.

16 are cords or flexible members secured at one end to the weight 13 and pass over guide pulleys 17 on the car dash and have their other ends secured to the upper CIOSs rail of the frame 10.

The operation of the parts described and shown is best explained as follows: When the said parts are adjusted as shown in -Figs. 1 and 2, should an object be struck the frame 10 is rocked so its upper end swings outwardly and in thus moving it pulls on the cords 16 and thereby lifts the weight 13, which in rising lifts the rods 14: that pull onthe cords 15*, which spread the spring closed members 60, and thereby releases the side arms 4 and the said arms 4 and the arms 9 being thus released drop to the position shown in Fig. 2, the apron roller 5 being now free to unwind as it falls. The length of the side arms is sufficient to permit the said apron roller 5 to fall over and in advance of the object struck. hen the parts referred to drop to the position stated, the pulleys 7 on the roller 5, and the pulleys 90 on the arms 9 ride on the roadway and in so doing the canvas apron is unwound and since the object struck drops onto the said apron the latter is drawn toward the car dash, such operation being also effected by reason of the roller 57 being joined with the endless cables 88 (see Fig. 8) it being clear, by reference to the drawings, that when the roller 57 is pulled inwardly toward the car far enough to engage the ground pulleys 90, further rotation of the pulleys 7 and 90 is retarded and the catcher apron and the members that hold it are dragged along with the object thereon.

25 designates a supplemental wheel fender that consists of the downwardly and forwardly curved side arms 26 pendently hung from the car body, and an apron 27 that eX- tends across and is secured to the said side arms. A roller 28 mounted in the lower end of the said side arms that forms the front edge of the end fender 25 and a bearing roller 29 in the lower end of each of the side arms back of the roller 28, cause the said lower end of the fender 25 to travel freely over the trackway when the fender is lowered, as is shown in Figs. 3 and 6.

29 designates rope hangers, the lower ends of which connect with the arms 26 and the upper ends of which wind on drums 35, on the spring rocked shaft 1, the connection of the said ropes with the shaft 1 is such that when the side arms 4 are swung up the hangers 25 wind upon the drums 35 and thereby lift the front end of the fender 25 from the ground, see Fig. 5.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim is: I

1. In a car fender of the character described, the combination'of a pick-up carrier-apron, mounted on the car dash, automatic means for swinging it down over the trackway, a detent for holding it elevated, a tripping means for engaging the object struck for releasing the detent, mechanism for positively drawing the carrier-apron out over the trackway as it moves over the ground, said mechanism including endless cables and pulleys therefor and connections that join the carrier-apron with the endless cables, substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

2. In a car fender, a frame hinged to the dash-board to swing forwardly and downwardly therefrom, when released, means for holding the said frame in an upright position, a tripper frame on the dash-board adapted to engage the object struck and to release the swinging frame, a roller transversely journaled on the outer end of the swinging frame, an apron wound on the roller, and means carried by the swinging frame for unwinding the apron when the said swinging frame drops down, said means including ground engaging pulleys and endless cables, the latter bein secured to the free end of the apron.

3. In a car fender of the character de scribed, the combination with the car dash of a rock shaft mounted thereon and held under spring tension to rock outwardly, side arms fixedly mounted on the shaft, a carrier apron, a roller on which said apron winds journaled in the outer ends of the arms, a detent for holding the arms with the apron-holding roller in the elevated position, a buffer frame hingedly mounted on the car dash connections between the aforesaid detent and the buffer frame for releasing the detent when the buffer frame is struck to permit the shaft to rock under its spring tension, automatically operative means for unwinding the apron from the roller when the said roller is on the ground and a wheel guard that cooperates with the apron-carrying and adjusting means.

4. The combination with the car dash of a rock shaft journaled on the car dash and spring rocked in one direction, side arms on the shaft, a carrier apron, a roller therefor mounted on the outer ends of the arms, other arms pendent from the shaft of the apron roller, pulleys on the pendent ends of the arms and on the shaft of the aforesaid winding roller, endless cables that take over said pulleys, connections that join the free ends of the apron with the said endless cables, a detent for holding the apron roller in its elevated position, a buffer frame hinged to the car dash and connections between the said buffer frame and the detent for releasing the said detent when the buffer frame engages an object.

5. In a car fender of the character described the combination with the car dash of a spring turned rock shaft mounted on the front end thereof, a pair of side arms fixed to the shaft, a winding drum on each end of the shaft, a wheel fender hingedly supported from the car body, flexible connections that join with the free end of the wheel fender and with the winding drums for lifting the front end of the wheel fender to clear the ground when the shaft is rocked against the tension of the springs thereon, an apron roller mounted on the free ends of the side arms, a weighted catch on the free end of the apron, a detent for gripping the catch to hold the arms to their elevated position, a butler frame, eonnections that cooperate therewith and the detent for tripping the detent to release the apron holding frame when the buffer frame engages an object, and means supported by the swinging carrier holding frame for unwinding the apron roller when it drops to the ground, said means including pulleys for engaging and rolling over the track surface, endless cables that take over the pulleys and means for joining the free end of said apron to the cables as set forth.

6. A car fender comprising in combination with the car dash; a rock shaft mounted thereon and held under spring tension, and a buffer frame hingedly supported on the front dash to tilt in the vertical plane thereof; of side arms on the shaft to rock therewith, an apron holding roller mounted in the outer ends of the said side arms, a detent for holding the free end of the said roller and the side arms in the elevated position, a means on the dash actuated by the tilting of the buffer frame when struck, for releasing the apron roller and the side arms whereby to permit the spring rocked shaftto swing the arms and the said apron roller onto the car track in advance of the object struck, an automatically operating means on the side arms that feeds the apron out from the roller when down on the trackway, said means including ground engaging pulleys and endless cables mounted thereon connected to the apron.

7. A car fender that includes a main frame swingably mounted on the front of the car dash, a wheel fender pendently hung under the car platform, a rock shaft on the car dash to which the swingable frame is connected and which forms the fulcrum for the frame, winding drums on the shaft, flexible hangers that support the front end of the wheel fender and windable on the drums when the swinging frame is raised, a pick-up apron, and a winding roller therefor, the latter being journaled in the outer end of the swingable frame, means for holding the frame in its raised position, other means actuated by a body struck by the car for releasing the said holding means and mechanism carried by the frame and connected to the free end of the apron and arranged for pulling on the apron as the frame is moved over in engagement with the track surface.

8. A car fender that comprises a frame hinged to the car dash to swing outwardly operable by contact with the ground as the and downwardly therefrom, a pick up desame is moved forwardly thereon.

vice carried by the frame said device including an apron, a winding roller there- WVILLIAM MARTIN for, means for unwinding the apron from lVitnesses:

the roller and pulling it under the object H. E. BLACK,

struck, said winding means being rendered E. S. WVIsoAInN.

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