US603728A - Car-fender - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. M. JOHNSON. GAR FENDER.

No. 603,728. Q Patented May 10,1898.

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ELISA MAGDALENE JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.603,728, dated May 10, 1898.

Application filed September 9, 189 7. Serial No. 651,040. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, ELISA MAGDALENE JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders; and I do hereby 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.

This invention has reference to a novel construction in a car-fender, the object being to provide a device of this character that will effectually prevent a person being run over by electric or other motor cars.

The invention consists in the features of construction hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front end portion of a car provided with this fender. Fig. 2.is a vertical section through one side of the fender. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the fender detached.

Referring now to the drawings in detail my novel fender consists of a V-shaped frame havin g vertically-arranged sides and hooks 2 2 2 2 at the rear side thereof for suspending it from the dashboard or front end of a car, said frame being preferably about five or six feet in height and of such a length as to give the desired angular structure to throw a person or animal to one side of the track. This frame is constructed, preferably, of a single piece of metal, as shown in the drawings.

The lower or base portion of this frame (indi-' cated in general on the drawings by the numeral 3) is constructed as follows: The upper edge is turned inward and downward, so as to constitute a flange 6, having an angular relation to the outer or face portion 7. The lower edges of these two faces or flanges 6 and 7 are then turned, respectively, outward and inward, so as to constitute a rigid base at 8 and to leave between them a groove adapted to support a strip of rubber 5, having an enlarged upper portion 9 for holding it in place. This strengthened base 3, as thus described, runs entirely around the lower portion of the fender, while the upper portion of the fender consists of a single rail, as shown, joined at its front or V-shaped end to the lower base by two vertical standards 1 1.

At the rear and bottom of the V-shaped fender are constructed two braces 11 11, formed by turning an extended portion of the metal from which the frame is constructed inward, as shown, so that their inner ends rest, respectively, against the rear ends of the downwardly-turnedflanges 6 6;

The numeral 4 represents a lacing of strong cord or of such elastic or yielding material as will not materially injure a person or animal when struck, said lacing being secured in place between the top and bottom rails, the rear portion of the frame, and the vertical standards 1 1.

The operation of this novel fender will be obvious, it being apparent that when secured to the dashboard of a car in the manner indicated it will act, by reason of its yielding vertically-arranged side walls, to throw a person sidewise from the track and therefore avoid the danger of falling beneath the wheels thereof and also any danger of a damaging shock.

I am aware that heretofore a car-fender has been devised of horseshoe or oblong shape in which the walls were so arranged as to lift a person or animal bodily from the track after the manner of the cow-catcher of a locomotive, as disclosed in United States patents to Bean, No. 509,646, dated November 28, 1893, and McKinnon, No. 511,640, dated December 26, 1893, and also that it is old to provide a yielding network or lacing for car-fenders, as described and shown in the before-mentioned patent to McKinnon, and I make no claim hereinafter broad enough to include such structures, my most generic claim being to a V- shaped car-fender with yielding vertically-arranged walls, whereby a person or animal is thrown laterally from the road-bed without damaging shock and out of the way of the car.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A car-fender of V shapehaving a rigid base of two flanges 6 and 7 which support a strip of rubber or other yielding material 5 beneath them, in combination with vertically arspecification in the presence of two subserib ranged walls of lacing material, together with ing witnesses.

hooks for attachin the fender to a car and v T braces 11, 11 located in the rear of and. near ELISA MAGDALENE JOHBSON' 5 the base of the fender, substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. KATHERINE JOHNSON,

In testimony whereof I have signed this SAMUEL J. MCKENZIE.

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