US524503A

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Publication number: US524503A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-08-14
Anticipated expiration: 1911-08-14

Description

(No Model.)

J P. MODONOUGH.

GAR FENDER.

No. 524,503. Patented Aug. 14, 1894.

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the forward end of the apron.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FRANOIS MCDONOUGH, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,503, dated August 14, 1894.

Application filed May 28, 1894. Sericl No. 512, 84- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FRANCIS Mc- DONOUGH, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in car-fenders which are adapted to be removably secured to the ends of cars.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eftectivecar-fender adapted to be removably secured to the end of a car.

Another object is to provide a car-fender with a novel pivoted apron adapted to be folded up against the fender proper when not in use.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the car-fender and its novel combination with the car.

The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combina tion of parts as may hereinafterbe more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the improved fender secured to the forward end of a car. Fig. 2 represents a front view of the same. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detail view of one of the wheels for supporting Fig. at represents a detail view of one of the devices by the use of a member of which the fender is removably secured to the end of the car.

Similar numbers and letters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In carrying my invention into practice I construct a fender having the curved sidebars 5-5 connected at the upper and lower ends by the cross-bars 6 and 7, these crossbars are in turn connected with the vertical members 8-8 by the upwardly-inclined arms 9-9 at the lower end portions and at the upper ends by means of the arms 10-10, while the side arms are also braced to the vertical members by the braces 11-11 and 12, and extending from the inclined arms 9-9 are the frames 13--13 in which the wheels 14 are journaled, these wheels being mounted on the rails and serving to partially support the forward end of the fender proper. To the sidebars 5-5 and to the upper and lower cross-bars 6 and 7 is secured a netting 15 being sufficiently loose in the center to form a pocket which will tend to hold a body falling therein and prevent its being thrown out from the sides.

To the end of the car A are secured

vertical sockets

16, 17 and 18 in which engage the depending-

bolts

19, 20 and 21 extending from the vertical members 88 at the points of juncture with the arms 9-9 and 10-10 and the braces 12.

The folding-apron is formed by side-bars 22-22, pivoted to the ends of the lower crossbar 7, and a cross-shaft 23 on which are journaled the wheels 2424, which, when L11 apron is in operation, travel on the rails and support the forward end thereof. Between the wheels 24: extends the butter 25 having cushioned-hoods 26-26 extending over the wheels 24 and preventing contact therewith when this end strikes an object on the track,- between the sides 22-22 and the bufier 25 is tightly stretched the netting 27 to receive a person or body which is struck by the bufier 25. The apron being supported at its forward end very slightly above the track will readily receive a person or object struck by the buffer 25, the slight inclination of this apron presenting but slight obstruction to the passage of the person or article toward the pocket formed by the netting 15 which will receive and retain the person or object until the car can be stopped. By the pivoting of the apron it can be folded up against the main portion of the fender so that the roadway need not unnecessarily be obstructed, while, when desired, the whole fender may be lifted out of connection with the car by removing the

bolts

19, 20 and 21 from their sockets.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. In a car-fender, the combination with the vertical members 8-8 provided with means for securing the fender to a car, the

arms 9 and 10 and the braces 11-11 and 12 n for connecting the side-bars 55 and the vertical members, the netting 15 secured to the side and cross-bars, the frames 13 depending from the arms 9', the. wheels 14; journaled in said frames, the side-bars 22-22 pivoted to the bar 6, the shaft 23 at the'outer ends of these arms, the wheels 2&24 journaled on the shaft, the buffer 25 having the hoods 26 carried by said shaft, and the netting 27 secured to the side-arms 22 and to thebufifer, as and for the purpose described.

h In witness whereof I have hereunto set my and.

JOSEPH FRANCIS MGDONOUGH.

Witnesses:

HENRY J. MILLER, M. F. BLIGH.