US568906A - Car-fender - Google Patents

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GAR FENDER.

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ATTOIiNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\YILLIAM R. HOW'E, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,906, dated October 6, 1896.

Application filed November 29,1896. Serial No. 570,492. (No model.)

To (oZZ whom. it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM R. HOWE, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Attachments for Street-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to safety attachments for street-cars to be applied to the front of the car to prevent injury in the event of the car striking any one while in motion; and it consists of a certain novel construction and arrangement of car-fender and wheelguard, to be hereinafter more particularly pointed out and claimed, whereby the car-fender will be automatically thrown out at the moment of striking an object by a releasing device positively actuated by the blow of the car.

The invention further consists of a wheelguard to cooperate with the car-fender should for any reason the fender fail to pick up the person struck, which wheel-guard can at a moments notice be changed into a snow-plow whenever by reason of an unusual fall of snow the car-fender cannot be operated.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of part of a street-car, showing the attachments in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wheel-guard in one adjustment. Fig. 3 is a similar view of samein the other adjustment thereof. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are detail views of the eyes and nuts for fastening and attaching the wheel-guard. Fig. 10 is a View of the brace-rod for the wheel-guard when adapted for use as a snow-plow. Fig. 11 is a bottom plan View of the car-fender. Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section in detail of one of the inner corners of the car-fender frame. Fig. 13 is a detail View showing one of the carfender rollers. Fig. 14 is an inside elevation of the car-fender attached to the body of the car. Fig. 15 is a side view of the wheelguard. Fig. 16 is a front View of same. Fig. 17 is a top plan view of the dog for holding back the fender when not in use. Fig. 18 is an end view of one of the guides for the fender-frame. Fig. 19 is a longitudinal section of same.

A is the body of the street-car, to the under surface of which at each side are bolted the guide-frames B B. These guide-frames carry at their inner ends the antifriction guide-rollers a a. The car-fender is a frame of the usual shape, preferably made of tubing 0, to be light and strong, the forward part of V the frame being covered with wire-netting D.

The frame 0 extends back on each side underneath the car through the guide-frames B B and resting on the rollers a and is joined together at the back by the cross-piece E.

The frame also carries antifriction-rollers b,

end f, although, of course, a spring can beused instead of a weight. The tooth of this dog carries a roller g, behind which the crosspiece E of the car-fender is caught when at rest. Mounted on the rods h h, which pass out through the frame 0, -is the bar H, preferably made of tubing and, if desired, covered with rubber or some elastic covering. The rods h hunite'at the back to form a plunger 1', guided in the sleeve M, which, when the car-fender is at rest, normally is about in contact with the outer end of the dog G. The bar H is normally held a short distance from the outer edge of the fender by the coiled springs k k, the adjustable collars Z, Z, and m on the rods fixing the distance in advance of the fender.

Then the car-fender is pushed back so as to be caught by the dog G, it extends out in front of the cara short distance, say eighteen inches, the amount of extension being asmay be desired. The instant a person or object is struck by the bar H, however, the bar is pushed back and, the end of the plunger 7; striking the dog G, the frame 0 is released and the same is thrown forward by the action of the coiled springs L L, attached to the cross-piece E and the car-frame.

At the front of the fender, underneath, is attached a roller N, so that the front of the fender can be adjusted close to the surface of the street, and as the fender is thrown out the roller will often glide along the surface of sheets of sheet metal P and R, curved as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 15. These sheets overlap and are held together by bolts 7?. n. The wheel-guard is secured to the front crosspiece p of the car-truck by eyebolts 8, through which the rods it on the wheel-guard pass, while a coiled spring a bears against the back of the guard.

Often in heavy snow-storms it will be impossible to use the car-fender, and the carfender can be removed by taking out the screw e (shown in Fig. 12) at each end of the frame and thus separating the frame 0 from the cross-bar E and unhooking the coiled springs L L. WVhen the car-fenderis removed, the wheel-guard may be quickly adjusted to serve also as a snow-plow. The bolts at-nn are loosened, the eyebolts s are lowered so that they will turn, and the two sheets R and P are swung outward into the position shown in Fig. 2. A nut such as is shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9 is then used to clamptogetherthe lower outer edge of the twoplates. W'hen the two sheets are in the position to be used as a snow-plow, the upper connection for the two plates will be in advance of its former position, and it is then secured by the bolt w at the center of the cross-piece p of the car-truck. the guard, the brace-rod T is used, the same being hooked into the eye-nuts y, as shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

1. In a safety appliance for street-cars, the combination, with the car, of a movable fender, guide-frames therefor, springs to throw out said fender, a dog pivoted on the car-body to swing vertically, rear cross-bar of said fender held by said dog, and trip-bar extending In order to brace the two parts of across the front of said fender, with rods for sustaining same, supported by and sliding on said fender-frame, the rear end of said rods being in position to contact directly with said dog to release the fender and allow it to be thrown outin advance of the car, andaweight for returning said dog to its normal position, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a safety appliance for street-cars, the combination, with the car, of a sliding frame covered with wire-netting at its forward end, guide-frames at each side of the car carrying antifriction-rollers over which the sliding frame is propelled, with springs to throw forward said frame, dog pivoted to the car to swing vertically and to hold back said frame against the spring action, rear cross-bar of said fender held by said dog, trip-bar extending across the front of said frame, rods for sustaining same with guides on said frame in which said rod slides, said rods uniting at the back to form a plunger and rear end of said plunger contactingdirect ly with said dog to release the frame and allowit to be thrown out in advance of the car, with weight to return said dog to its normal position, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a safety appliance for street-cars, a'

wheel-guard constructed of two pieces of sheet metal curved substantially as described overlapping each other and fastened together, rods secured to the upper surface thereof, with eyebolts secured to the car-truck upon which said rods are hung, substantially as shown and described.

4:. In a safety appliance for street-cars, a wheel-guard,constructed of two pieces of sheet metal suitably curved overlapping each other and fastened together, rods secured to the upper surface thereof, with eyebolts secured to the car-truck upon which said rods are hung, said eyebolts arranged to turn to allow said sheet-metal pieces to be swung forward at the middle, with bolt for holding same in advance of said eyebolts, and bracerod to connect the upper and lower edges thereof, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM R. HOWE. Witnesses:

W. S. MCCONNAUGHEY, ALFRED M. ALLEN.

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