US283058A - Gable used in propelling cabs - Google Patents

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w h s a e h s 2 M I B H N R A M a d 0 M o m SUPPORTING CABLE USED IN BROPELLING ems. No. 283,058f

Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

(No Model 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 M. ARNHEIM. SUPPORTING CABLE USED IN. PROPELLING GARS.

N0. Z83,058. Y Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARKS ABNHEIM, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

SUPPORTlNG- CABLE USED. IN PROPELLlNG CARS.

SPEGIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 283,058, dated August 14, 1883. 7 Q 7 Application filed April 23,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARKS ARNHEIM, of I panying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

View. Fig. 3 is a back view. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line so as, Fig. 3.

My invention consists in the application or attachment of a magnetized barof appropriate shape and form, or of an electro-magnet, to the vise or grappler of the car, or in making the grappler itself, or some portion thereof, in such form and of proper materials as to be itself a permanent magnet of suflicient and proper strength, or to be capable of being electro-magnetized in a sufficient and proper manner, so as to support by its attractive power the running cable in its proper place, and in connection with the vise or grappler, and so as to prevent the cable from slipping off and dropping away from the grappler of the car. I v

To enableothers skilled in the art to make and. use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct my vise or grappler in any of the known forms and apply thereto any or all of the appendages of such grapplers; but in order to obviatethe danger that may result from the cables slipping off-and dropping away from the grappler, and thereby causing delay and the necessity of pushing the car to the next station, where access may be .had to capable of being electromagnetized to a proper and sufficient extent to support by its or their attractive power the running cable in its proper place with reference to the vise or grappler,

. T and to prevent the cable from slipping off and Figure 1 is a front View. Fig. 2 is a side,

dropping away from the grappler; and, furthermore, for the purpose of lessening the friction and wear of the cable against or upon any part of the grappler, or from contact with the magnet just described, resulting either from the weight of the cable orfrom the attraction of the magnet, I use in the construc= tion of the grappler some soft material--such as lead, brass, or copper-or wheels and pulleys, either each alone or in conjunction with each other, for that portion of the grappler which comes in contact with the running cable, as shown by letter B in the accompanying drawings. When the car stops, the cable moves against this soft material, or upon the wheels and pulleys, or both, and thereby is worn away less rapidly and moves with less friction.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A gripper for a traveling cable, a part whereof is rendered magnetic to retain the cable in its proper place, substantially as described.

. MARKS ARNHEIM.

Witnesses:

JNo. II. HAMILTON, D. MOLEAN. SHAW.

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