US537295A

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Publication number: US537295A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-04-09
Anticipated expiration: 1912-04-09

Description

' N-JITEI) STATES PATENT Current I FREDERIO, J. .KRANICH, on PROVIDENCE, 'RHODE ISLAND.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Iietters Patent No. 537,295, dated April 9, 1895.

Application filed J'nn e 23, 1894. Serial No. 515,506. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- ,Beit known that I, FREDERIQ' J. KRANICH, 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 thefollowing is a'full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificaion.

This invention hasreference to improvements in devices carried by cars for preventing objects or persons being thrown beneath the wheels. r

The object of the invention is to so construct a ear-fender that the space before the front wheels of the car may be almost wholly closed to the passage of an object toward the wheels. Another object of the invention is to so construct a car-fender that when in use it will obstruct the movement of the car. a

Still another object of the invention is to so construct a car-fender that when operated it will tend to arrest the motion of the car and to elevate the front end thereof.

The invention consists in the peculiar guard-rail pivoted to the front end of a car 3o"action by the operation of the guard-rail.

The invention also consists in the construction of the fender.

The invention still further consists in the peculiar construction of the fender and in the mechanism for supporting the same. The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combination of parts as may hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a portion of a car-body with the improved fender at- Fig. 2 represents a bottom removed. Fig. 3 represents a vertical sectional view of a portion of the car, thefender, and the operating mechanism to more clearly show the construction; Fig. 4 represents a cross-sectional view of a portion of the carbody showing a front view of the fender and its elevating mechanism. Fig. 5 represents a vertical section of the car-platform with the guard device pivoted thereto and the spring for the same.

Similar numbers and letters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In the drawings 8 indicatesthe body of a car having the platform 9 and provided with the usualwheels 10-10 adapted to travel on the rails'A-A. To the under side of the car are secured the brackets 11-11 having hearings in which the transverse shaft 12 is journaled. One or both ends of this shaft are squared to allow of its engagement by the socket of a crank.

On this shaft are mounted the chain-pulleys 13-13 and midway between these pulleys, on

the shaft, is secured the. cam-plate 14: having the tooth 15.

Secured in the grooves of the pulleys 13 are chains 16-16 the lower ends of which are fastened to the-side-p'lates 17-17. These plates are of substantial construction having the forwardly curving and inclined edges 18-18 and the rearWa rdly-curving surfaces 19-19. The lower edges or surfaces of these plates are shaped to fit on to the upper surfaces of the rails A-A and are furnished with inner flanges 20-20 adapted to fit against the inner side of the rail, when the device is de pressed, and preventing the lateral movement of the same. The two side frames are suitably braced together and to the curving front surfaces 18-18 is secured a screen 21 of any usual construction which will prevent the passage of a p'erson. To the outer surfaces or sides of these plates 17-17 are rotatably secured the guides 22-22 and through these guides extend the guide-bars 23-23 the upper ends of which are journaled on the shaft 12 so that these bars may swing-thereon. Surrounding the guide-bars are coiled-springs 24-24 which bear against the guides 22 and tend to force the same downward.

To the bottom of the car and of the platform are secured the

bearings

25 and 26 in which the bolt 27 is reciprocally mounted. The rear end of this bolt is flattened as at 28 to engage the tooth 15 of the cam-plate 14, the front end of the bolt having the hook 29 with the inclined head, While between the bearing 25 and the collar 30 on the bolt is the coiledspring 31 which tends to throw the bolt backward.

Below the forward end of the platform 9 are secured the brackets 3232 and the springplates 3333. In these brackets are journaled the ends of the shaft 31 and to this shaft are secured the side-bars 3535 of the pilot-me1nber36 having the guard-rail 37 and closed by bars or by a suitable screen. The ends 3S3S of the side bars are beveled and bear against the spring-plates 33-33 which tend to hold these ends in position when the beveled surfaces thereof will be parallel to the spring plates. On the shaft 34 is the latch 39 which, when the pilot member is in the forward position, rests against the hook 29, and, when the lower portion of the pilot member is thrown backward, acts on the hook to draw the bolt forward and to disengage its rear end from the cam-tooth 15.

By the rotation of the shaft 12 the chains 16-16 are wound on to the pulleys 13-13 and the barrier, or fender, formed by the screen 21 supported on the side-plates 17-17, is elevated to the position shown in full. As the shaft 12 rotates the cam-plate 14E forces the bolt 27 forward against the action of the spring 31 until the end of the rod passes beyond the cam-tooth 15. The spring 31 now tends to reciprocate the bolt backward thus engaging the end of the bolt with the camtooth and locking the shaft against reverse rotation. The pilot member is now brought to the position shown in full in Fig. 1, by swinging its lower end forward.

lVhen a person or obstacle is struck by the guard-rail 37 of the pilot member the member swings backward underthe car. The latch 39 is thus thrown forward and draws the bolt 27 in that direction, disengaging the end 28 from the cam-tooth 15 and allowing the fender proper to fall, this being assisted by the action of the springs 21. The lower edges of the sides 17 will now rest on the rails, the flanges 2O preventing lateral motion. The friction of the side plates on the track will now tend to prevent their forward movement with the car, which, passing along the front wheels, will ride up the inclined surfaces 19 of the side plates for a short distance when the momentum of the car will be overcome, the front end of the same being somewhat elevated and allowing of the removal of a person from beneath the same. Should the side plates slip along the tracks, the person on the track will be prevented, by the screen 21,from passing under the wheels. Owing to the tapering of the front surfaces or edges 18 of the side plates and the shape of the screen it is impossible for a person to pass beneath the lower edge of the same, as, when the side plates are resting on the rails, this edge of the screen is on a line with the tops of the rails and is raised but a trifle above the roadway between the tracks.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a car-fender, the combination with a oar-body, a transverse shaft rotatably mounted in bearings beneath the car-body, a laterallyextending projection on the shaft, guidebars pivoted on the shaft, a fender comprising side-plates having depending flanges and inclined ways on which the car-wheels may run and a barrier connecting the side-plates, guides pivoted to the side-plates and embracing the guide-bars, and chains-connecting the side-plates with the shaft, of a pilot member pivotally supported at the forward end of the car, and a bolt reciprocatingly mounted in bearings beneath the car and engaged by the pilot member, its rear end being located to engage the lateral projection on the shaft to prevent the rotation of the shaft and to release said projection when drawn forward.

2. In a car-fender, the combination with a car-body, bearings secured beneath the same, the shaft 12 journaled in the bearings, the chain-pulleys 13-13 mounted on the shaft, and the guide-bars 2323 pivotally mounted on the shaft, of a fender furnished with guides movable on the guide-bars, chains secured to the fender and to the chain pulleys, and means for preventing the rotation of the shaft when the fender is elevated.

3. The combination with a car-body, bearings secured thereto, the shaft 12 provided with the pulleys 13-13,and the cam 1 1 journaled in the bearings, the guide-bars 23 pivoted on the shaft, a fender having the sideplates 17-17 and the screen 20, the guides 22-22 pivoted to the side plates and engaging the guide-bars, and the chains 16-l6 secured to the fender and to the pulleys 13-13, of a locking bolt reciprocally mounted in bearings and adapted to engage the cam 1 1, and a pilot member pivoted to the forward end of the car and connected with the locking-bolt whereby the backward swinging of the pilot member serves to disengage the bolt from the cam 14, as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDERIC J. KRANICII. \Vitnesses:

HENRY J. MILLER, J OSEPH A. MILLER, Jr.