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FENDER y No.` 531,155. Patented Deo.f18, 18'94.

UNITED 'v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MCK. CABLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW. YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MICHAEL SPALL, OF SAME PLACE.

FENDER. e

4isLEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,155, dated December 18, 1894.

Application filed April 5,1894. Serial No. 506,390.Y (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES McK. CABLE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to -an improvement in fenders for use in connection with .cars impelled by horse, cable or electric power along surface roads; the object being to provide a fender which will receive and carry along with it, without serious injury, the body of `a person struck by the car until the car can be-stopped and to further provide a fender,

which maybe utilized for either end of the car and capable of *being shifted with facility from one end of the car to the other, according to the direction in which the car is to travel.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view of a carin side elevation, showing the fender in position for use at one end of the car and the fender support at the opposite end of the car inits withdrawn adjustment. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the fender, and portion of the platform to which it is attached. Fig. 3 is a .front view of the fender and platform. Fig. 4 is aview in detail, showing the catch which holds the fender in removable adjustment to the platform; and Fig. 5 is a View in detail, showing means for advancing and returning the fender support by a crank.

The platforms at the opposite ends of the car are provided with fender supports quite similar in all respects and the explanation of one will be therefore sufiicient to a clear under standing of both. The car platform is denoted by A. It is provided on its underside with a pair of sockets B, B for the reception of a pair of longitudinally sliding bars C. The bars C are conveniently provided with removable stops c at their inner ends, for the purpose of limiting their outward movement and have notches c', c2 formed in their upper sides for the reception of a spring actuated bolt or locking pin D, fastened to the front of the car and adapted to hold the supports either in their outwardly adjusted or inwardly I adjusted positions, as required.

The outer ends of the bars O are provided with downwardly curved portions ci', for the reception of trunnions e projecting laterally from brackets c on the rear sides of the ends of the guard or fender E. The trunnions c are located near the lower edge of the guard, so that there is atendency on the part ofthe guard, when struck, to tilt over toward a horizontal position. The guard E is provided along its lower edge and preferably up its sides with a pneumatic cushion c2 for preventing the bruising of any object which it might strike and it is held normally in an. oblique position at an angle of forty-five degress, more or less, with the surface of the track by means of a pair of coil springs F, F which surround guide rods f, f attached to the upper rear portion of the guard E. The lower or rear ends of the guide rods f, f are provided with enlarged heads f? which are received through enlarged portions f3 of openings in brackets G, xed to the fr ont of the platform A.

The guide rods f, f are locked to the brackets Gr by` sliding catches g, carriedV by the brackets G, and adapted to slide down into position to partially cover the enlarged portion f3 of the openings which receive the heads f2 of the guide rods and thereby prevent the said guide rods from escaping from the brackets so long as the catches g are advancedf The guide rods f, f are also provided with disks or collars f 4 a short distance from their heads f2 free to slide on the guide rods.

The springs F F are adj usted between the disks f4 and the rear of the guard so that while the springs are sufficient to hold the guard normally in 'its inclined position, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, they will readily yield and permitthe guard to assume` @Position more nearly horizontal when any considerable weight is received upon the guard. Y The catch g, when it is advanced, rests between the lface of the bracket Gr and the disk f4, as shown in Fig. 4.

In operation, it is intended that the lower edge of the guard shall move along in proximity to the rails and when the guard is struck by an object, the weight of that object will tilt the guard over into a position so nearly horizontal as to carry the body along untilthe car is stopped.

When it is desired to run the car the opposite end foremost, the guard may be removed from the end of the car where it has been in use by simply withdrawing the catches g and lifting the guide rodsf, f out of the brackets G and the trunnions e of the guard out of the slots c4 and then adjusting the guard to the opposite end of the car 'in reverse order. rllhe supports C at the end Where the car has been in use may be then slid back under the platform by lifting the catch bolts D.

In case it is found desirable to advance and return the supporting bars C simultaneously, it may be done by providing the bars with rack teeth, as shown in connection with the bar C', Fig. 5, and locating a shaft H transversely underneath the platform and providing it with a pair of spur wheels h to engage the rack teeth on the bars C', the shaft H itself being provided with a crank h for turning the wheels h in the one direction or the other teniet and thereby advancing or returning the supportihg bars.

l. The combination with supports mounted to move outwardly and inwardly at a car platform and means for locking the supports in their advanced and withdrawn adjustments, of a removable fender hinged below its center to the supports and having a rearwardly tilting movement toward a horizontal position, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the tilting fender and a suitable support for it, of a guide rod extending rearwardly and downwardly from its upper portion and provided with an enlarged head, a bracket secured to the platform and provided with an opening to receive the head of the guide rod and acatch secured to the bracket for locking the guide rod to the bracket, substantially as set forth.

JAMES MCK. CABLE.

witnesses;

FREDK. HAYNES, IRENE B. DECKER.

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