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E.' J. MGLAUGHLIN.

GAR FENDER.

No. 546,962. Patentd Sept. 24, 1895.

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EBEN J. MCLAUGHLIN, OF ESSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB. OF ONE- HALF TO IRWIN W. DUNCAN, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,962, dated September 24, 1895.

Serial No. 533,925. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concerm Be it known that I, EBEN J. McLAUeHLtN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Essington, in the county of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Fenders, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specication and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a car-fender formed Io of a body which may be connected with a car so as to occupy a position beneath the platform or in front of the same, said body being elastic in its nature, so as to yield when subjected to blows, pressure, or weight and lower I5 closer to the rails or road-bed, thus serving to lift the person or object struck in safety from the track. Provision is also made for firmly sustaining the elastic body in position and permittingthe readyT removal and application zo of the same, all as will be hereinafter set forth. Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of car-fenders embodying my invention. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view thereof. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of another porz 5 tion thereof on an enlarged scale. Figs. 5 and 6 represent perspective views of detached parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the body of a fender, the same being formed of the curved arms B and the cross-slats O connected therewith, producing together somewhat of a scoop or cradle. The upper ends of the arms B are connected with the beam D, which is attached to the ears E, the latter being secured either to the truck F or the portion of the body below the platform G, so that the fender may be below the platform or 4o project in front of the saine, as shown in Figs.

l and 2, respectively.

II designates brackets, which are connected with either the pedestals .I or to the sill K below the platform G and depend from said 4 5 parts, the lower ends of the brackets having secured to them the cross-bars L, between which the adjacent portions of the arms B are freely passed. Secured to the said cross-bars L, aside of the arms B, are pins or bolts M, 5o which serve to prevent lateral displacement of said arms, while the arms B are freely sustained and braced between their ends on the said bars L, it being noticed that the arms are elastic in their nature, being preferably formed of bars or strips of suitable metal having their upper ends coiled where they are attached to the beam D.

At the front end of the body of the fender is the cushion or buffer N, which is adapted to ease the blow when a party is struck bythe 6o fender.

The arms B have on their front ends as continnities thereof the shoes P,which depend from said ends and project rearward therefrom, so as not, to injuriously engage with obstacles on the road-bed, the same being adapted to ride on the rails or said road-bed when weghtis superimposed upon the fender.

In order to firmly connect the body of the fender with the beam D, I form on the upper 7o end of the brackets H the flanges Q Q, the same embracing the beam and being secured thereto. The upper ends of the arms B are bolted or screwed to said beam, and the adjacent portions are bent rearwardly and upwardly and then passed through openings R in the said brackets and bent over the tops of the brackets and the beam, as shown in Fig. 4, it being seen that both the fender and brackets are connected with said beam as one. 8o On the ends of the beam are gudgeons S, which are adapted to enter the ears E and to be retained therein.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show the ears E adapted to receive the gudgeons S and permit the fender to be removed from one end of a car and applied to the other end thereof. In order to prevent displacement of the gudgeons,

I employ the pins T, which are passed through the walls of the openings E2 of the ears, it be- 9o ing noticed that the openings E2 in the ear, Fig. 6, extend to the front of the ear for convenience of removing the journal which occupies said opening and reapplication of the same.

It will be seen that should a person be struck by the fender the latter will yield, so as to break the force of the blow, and the person will be lifted and landed in the fender, and thus be prevented from reaching the wheels roo of the car, it being also evident that when the forward end of the fender receives the impact ofthe person struck said end lowers, owing to the elastic nature of the fender, and so prevents the person from being carried under the fender, while, o'n the contrary, causing the person to fall rearward into the body of the fender as a place of comparative safety.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

l. In a car fender a support with ears, a beam journaled in said ears, spring arms secured to said beam and having their upper ends passing over the same, and their lower ends bent under the same forming shoes, slats connected with said arms, and brackets having cross bars between which the said arms pass, said brackets being secured to a suitable support, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A car fender formed of a body having depending arms, and cross slats connected therewith, and a support and brace between the ends of said arms consisting of cross bars, and bolts attached thereto, said arms freely occupying the spaces between said bars and bolts, substantially as described.

3. In a car fender, a support and brace for the body thereof, consisting ot' the cross bars L, and bolts M, within which said arms are freely passed, and the sustaining brackets H which are connected With said bars L, substantially as described.

4. A car fender having a body formed of arms and slats, and a brace and support therefor consisting of the cross bars L and the brackets I-I,tl1e upper ends of said arms passing through said brackets, said arms and brackets being adapted to be secured to a beam on the car, substantially as described.

5. A car fender in combination with a beam to which the body of the same is attached, and ears in which said beam is removably held, and pins on said ears for retaining the beam in position, substantially as described.

EBEN J. MOLAUGHLIN. lVitnesses:

M. T. LENHART, FRANCIS MILLER.

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