US570571A

US570571A - Car-fender

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Publication number: US570571A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-11-03
Anticipated expiration: 1913-11-03

Description

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' J. M. STALEY.

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Patented Nov. 3,1896.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J AMES M. STALEY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,571, dated November 3, 1896.

Application filed March 17 1896.

To (LZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. STALEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Fenders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to make a car-fender which will project laterally over the track, so as to pick up anything as large as a broom-handle and pass it off to one side of the track, which will preserve its position over the track on all curves and adjust itself to different elevations of the rails, and which will throw intruders on the track back upon an open mesh of wire, to which they can cling until the car stops.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view showing my invention applied; Fig. 2, a detail view of the metallic frame which carries the open-work wire, and Fig. 3 a detail view of the running-gear.

In the drawings, A represents the running gear, which consists of the flat metallic reach a, with the hole a near its end, so as to be pivoted to center of truck-frame at the front end of car. This allows the fender to follow the track when the car turns into a street at' right angles to the one on which it has been traveling, thus enabling it always to cover the space between the tracks and on the tracks. Integral with the reach CL and at right angles thereto are the upwardly curved springarms a a which are held by the clips a to the axle B. This axle is fixed, while its wheels 0 0 turn freely upon its ends between a col- Serial No. 583,607. (No model.)

lar b and a nut b. The upper ends of the spring-arms a a are fastened to the sides of the metallic frame D, which is thus supported between the track, while the sides e erun just above the rails. The wheels are shaped so as to run on the tracks like a ear-wheel and follow all of its turns independently of the car.

G is a standard rising up vertically from the reach and on its upper edge to form a hook g, which engages the front side of the metallic frame 0, at the middle thereof, and prevents the front of the fender from being carried down too far byaweight thrown upon it.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-- In a car-fender, a reach pivoted to the center of front truck-frame and having springarms secured to axle at the lower ends, a frame D attached to the upper ends of said springs I and supported elastically, awire frame E, the