US583639A

US583639A - Morris weisel

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Publication number: US583639A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-06-01
Anticipated expiration: 1914-06-01

Description

(No Model.)

4 M. WEISEL. CABLE CARPENDER.

Patented June 1, 1897.

INVENTORI WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS WEISEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CABLE-CAR FENDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpartof Letters Patent No. 583,639, dated June 1, 1897.

Application filed July 1, 1896. Serial No. 597,669. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it 77Mty concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS l/VEISEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Oar Fenders and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements applicable to cable and other cars which run on tracks or roads employing a slotted conduit,

the object being in part to provide a simple and effective-fender or pilot for the car and in part to provide means for preventing the car from being lifted up by the body of a person who may have fallen on the track in front of it and-running over him.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one end of acable-car provided with my improvements,the platform being in mid-section. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the mechanism, the plane of the section being indicated by the line Q32 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear view or elevation of the mechanism under the car-platform, the plane of the section being indicated by line m in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of mechanism for operating the devices from the platform.

A represents the platform of a cable-car; B, the dashboard of the same; 0, the wheels, and D the slot in the crown of the conduit in which the cable is housed.

Under the front end of the car-platform is the fender or pilot 1 in the form of a simple sheet of metal, by preference suspended vertically. This fender is provided at each end with an upright sleeve-bearing 2, whereby the fender is guided on upright guide-rods 3,

fixed to the car, so that the fender may have a limited up-and-down movement on said rods.

Carried by the car is a locking T-piece, comprising a stem 4, which depends into and plays along the slot D in the conduit, and two laterally-proj ectin g roller-studs M, which take under the crown of the conduit at the respective margins of said slot.

On the platform is an upright shaft 5, provided with a crank 6, whereby the gripman may simultaneously force the fender 1 down upon the track and draw the studs 4 of the T-piece up against the crown of the cableconduit. This operation maybe effected by any suitable mechanism, but that which 'I prefer to employ will now be described. The shaft 5 extends down through the platform A and has a collared bearing therein. extends through and rotates in a cam 7, fixed on the rear face of the fender 1. The cam 7 is in the nature of a block, with its upper surface in the form of a volute cam, a laterallyprojecting stud 8 on the shaft 5 being adapted to play over said volute cam when the shaft is rotated in the proper direction, thus depressing the fender. A spiral spring 9 on the shaft 5 beneath the cam 7 holds the fender elevated normally, so as to be clear of the track, and serves to raise it when the force employed to depress the fender is relieved.

Simultaneously with the depression of the fender the locking T-piece in the slotted conduit is drawn up. A bar 10 is guidedat one end on the shaft 5 and at the other end on a guide 11, fixed to the under side of the platform. The spring 9 bears at its lower end on this bar 10, and at this point the bar carries a cam 12, similar to the cam 7 except that the volute cam-face thereon is below. A laterally-projecting stud 13 on the shaft 5 plays over this cam when said shaft is rotated and thus raises the bar 10.

To the bar 10, at a point substantially in the longitudinal axis of the car, is pivoted a horizontally-swinging arm 14, which extends rearwardly and carries at its free end the looking T-piece before referred to, the stem 4 of said piece being mounted to rotate or rock in said arm. Preferably the lower edge of the fender will be furnished with a binding or lip 15, of rubber fabric or other yielding material.

The operation is as follows: When the car is in motion and the gripman sees a person on the track, if a collision is unavoidable he instantly rotates the shaft 5, thus depressing the fender until the lip on its lower edge is in contact with the track. The T-piece is at the same time drawn up forcibly, which has the effect to draw or hold the car-body down firmly, so that it will not'be possible for the clothes or body of the person on the track to get under the fender, and thus lift the moving car so that it can ride over the person. The object in constructing the locking T- It also piece so that it may swing laterally is to permit the stem 4: to follow the slot in going about curves in the track, and the object in constructing said T-piece so that it can be drawn up is to enable the car-body under normal conditions to Vibrate Vertically without bringing the studs on the T-piece into forcible contact with the conduit.

The spring 16 on the shaft 5 above the cam 7 is designed to steady the fender and prevent it from springing up when the car is in motion.

In Fig. 2 I have represented the car as on a curve in order to illustrate the purpose of the laterally-swingin g arm 14:-

Fig. at illustrates a construction of the device wherein a push-pin 21 on the platform may be used in lieu of the operating-shaft 5 of the principal views. In this construction a lever is fulcrumed on the underside of the platform, one arm 18 thereof taking. under the said push-pin and the other arm 17 thereof being coupled to the arm 14, which carries thelocking T-piece. The arm 18 loosely engages a recessed lug 19 on the fender, whereby downward pressure on the push-pin 21 depresses the fender. A spring 20, which couples the arm 18 with the car-platform, serves to support the fender normally.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination with a car, of a fender or pilot carried by the car, a pendent locking-piece carried by the car and taking under a stationary part of the road-bed to lock the car against upward movement, and m cans for drawing up said locking-piece into firm contact with the part of the road-bed engaged thereby, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a car, of a fender or pilot carried by the car, and a pendent locking-piece carried by the car and taking under a stationary part of the road-bed, said locking-piece being mounted to swing laterally whereby it adapts itself to curves in the track, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a car, of a fender or pilot carried by said car and adapted to be depressed into contact with the track, a pendent locking-piece carried by the car and adapted to engage the slot in a conduit in the road-bed, said locking-piece adapted to be drawn up as described, and means substantially as set forth for simultaneously depressing the fender and drawing up saidlockingpi'ece.

4. The combination with a car, of a fender or pilot carried by said car, a pendent locking-piece carried by the car and adapted to engage the slot in a conduit on the track, and mechanism under control of-the gripman for depressing the fender and drawing up the locking-piece, the latter being mounted to swing laterally whereby it adapts itself to curves in the track, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MORRIS IVEISEL.

Witnesses:

PETER A. Boss. HENRY CoNNE'rT.