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No. 555,753. Patented Mar. 3. 1896.

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CLARA M. BEEBE', OF ELMIRA, NEWV YORK.

AUTOMATIC LIFE-GUARD FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,753, dated March 3, 1896.

Application iiled August 6 1895.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARA M. BEEBE, of Elmira, in the county of Ohemung and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Automatic Life- Guard for Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved life-guard for street-cars, and one in which a shelf will be normally located under the basket and the forward part of the car, and which will be capable of projection forwardly when a person is thrown down by a passing vehicle in front of the ear, or has been from any cause other than contact with the car thrown down, or to prevent an arm or limb of the person from being dragged bencath the buffer.

This invention has relation to that described in my pending application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed October 6, 1894, Serial No. 525,122.

To this end the invention consists, generally stated, in a basket supported at the front of the car and co-operating with a shelf which is provided with springs having a tendency to project it forwardly, and also with retaining devices whereby this tendency of the springs is overcome and the retaining devices are capable of operation to release the shelf when it is desired.

The invention will be fully described hereinafter, andwfinally embodied in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 3 3 of the same figure. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the invention, showing the catcher drawn rearwardly; and Fig. 5 is a similar view with the catcher extended.

My invention comprises two longitudinal and parallel buffer arms 10, supported at their rear ends in hangers 17, in turn suspended from a swivel-plate 18, secured to the bottom of a car 19, while the front ends of the arms 10 are provided with a transverse vcontact with the edges.

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buer 11 and supporting-wheels 12, which latter are designed to travel on the tracks which support the car.

Supported on the arms 10 is a basket 20, and this support is effected by means of the springs 2l at the front of the basket and by the springs 22 at the rear, the said. latter springs being connected to posts or standards 23 rising from the respective arms 10.` The basket 2O has rubber at its edges, serving as pads for protecting persons from violent Depending from the arms 10, and two for each of the same, are the brackets 2S, each of which has journaled therein the antifriction-rollers 27, and these rollers are two for each bracket and arranged in vertical alignment, so that the plates 26 may have sliding movement between them. By this construction it will be seen that each of the plates 26 is held to slide in guideways formed between two upper and two lower rollers 27, and it will also be seen that said plates 26 are held against lateral movement by engagement with the brackets 28, which form the outer vertical portions of the guides wherein said plates move.

The plates 26 are two in number and are arranged respectively beneath the arms 10, they being rigidly connected to each other by means of cross-bars 30 and 34 and by the shelf 25, which latter is rigidly bolted to the front extremities of the plates 26.

Connected to the axle of the wheels 12 are two retractile springs 29, which are extended parallel over the plates 26 and which are connected to the cross-bar 30 thereof, so that the plates 26 will be given a tendency to extend forward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 5.

Fixed to the arms 10 at a point directly for ward of the platform of the car A19 and extending transversely from one bar to the other is a rod 3,5, on which the lever 32 is fulcrumed, and the said lever is pressed by a spring 36 which embraces the rod 35 and which is connected thereto and to the lever. The forward end of the lever 32 is provided with a hook 33 which is adapted to engage the bar 34, and by said engagement to hold the plates 26 against the tension of the springs 29. The rear end of the lever 32 is extended upwardly and pro- IOC vided with a transverse plate 37, upon which bears the vertically-movable trip-pin 3S of the platform of the car. This trip is springpressed, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Vertically movable in passages formed in the respective arms l() is a bar 39, the arms 40 of which project below the arms lO and are normally supported by engagement with the respective plates 20, upon which they are gravity-pressed. Vhen, however, the plates are projected forward, as will be hereinafter explained,their rear extremities will be moved forward of the bar 39, and the arms 4L() thereof will drop below the plates 26 and operate to prevent their return, thereby positivel5T sustaining the catcher or shelf. To return the catcher or shelf the bar 39 should be lifted manually to disengage it from the catcher or shelf.

In the operation of my invention, when the car has run upon a person or other obstruction, and when parts of the obstruction or the arms or limbs of the person become wedged under the fender, the attendant on the platform of the car should press the trip-pin 38 downward, which will release the lever 32 and permit the springs 29 to project the shelf 25 forward of the buffer ll, thereby forcing the wedged part out and preventing the dragging of the same.

The device constructed as above described is extremely simple and inexpensive and is adapted to prevent persons from being jammed under and injured by the fender, since the fender itself, being secured at its rear part to the car and supported on wheels at its forward end, effectually holds the sliding shelf above the track in position for use and out of engagement with the rails and pavement.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a car-fender, the combination of two buffer-arms, brackets depending from the buffer-arms, rollers carried by the brackets7 two Aplates movable longitudinally and supported by the rollers, a shelf carried by the front extremities of the plates, a retractile spring connected with the plates, a hook retaining the plates, a trip-pin movable to operate the hook, and a U -shaped bar vertically movable in the buffer-arms and supported by the plates when moved to the limit of their inward movement, substantially as described.

2. In a car-fender7 the combination with a frame, of a shelf movable longitudinally in the frame, means for actuating the shelf, and a U-shaped bar movable vertically in the frame and supported by the shelf when thc shelf is moved to the limit of its inward movement, substantially as described.

3. In a car-fender, the combination of two plates mounted to slide longitudinally under the car, a shelf carried by the front extremities of the plates, a spring connected to the plates and arranged to move said shelf forward when released, means for holding said shelf in place in a rearward position, and a verticallysmovable bar having its arms bent downward and adapted to rest at their lower ends upon the upper sides of the plates, said ends of the bar being adapted when the plates are moved forward to drop behind the rear ends of the plates and hold the shelf and plates in a forward position, substantially as set forth.

CLARA M. BEEBE.

Titnesses R. L. GUroN, HARRY Lnwrs.

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