US628145A - Street-car fender. - Google Patents

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No. 628,|45. Patented July 4, |899.

' G. H. HOLLINGSWORTH.

STBEET'CAR FENDER.

(Application led Apr. 27, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES v APA-*IrnNT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. HOLLINGSWORTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE CONSOLIDATED OAR FENDER COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

STREET-CAR FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 828,145, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed April 27, 1899. Serial No. 714,703. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. HOLLINGS- WORTH, of the borough of Manhattan, city and county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Car Fenders; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to the class of cal'- fenders which are attached to a street-car and are normally held above the track and are arranged to be dropped upon the track by the motorman when there is danger that the car will pass over or collide with a person or obstruction on the track; and the invention relates more especially to the mechanism for holding the fender above the track and dropping it upon the track.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and inexpensive mechanism for supporting and dropping the fender,which embodies few disconnected parts and which may be readily and conveniently applied to any car; and to these ends the invention consists in the features and combinations hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing a car equipped with -a fender which is provided with the present improvements. Fig. 2 isa front-elevation showing the means for supporting and dropping the fender. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the devices for operating the latches and the supporting-plate therefor.

The improvements are shown in connection with afront guard, such as is shown in the Patent No. 574,833, granted to A. J. Thornley January 5, 1897, although it will be understood that the invention may be used in connection with other forms of guards or fenders. In the fender shown in said patent the latches for supportingthe guard are operated by means of arms secured to a rock-shaft extending transversely of the car and rocked by a pin which rests on a third arm secured to said shaft. With the presen-t' improveings which are engaged by trunnions projecting from the side plates 6 of the guard 13, as more clearly shown in said patent. To the inner face of each of the plates 6 is pivoted a rearwardly-extending arm 7, underlying which is a lug 8, adjustably secured to said plate. The arms 7 extend through slots 9 in brackets 10, which are secured to the under side of the car-platform. A lever 11 is pivoted at 12 in the bracket 10, and its lower end is arranged to lie across the slot 9 and form a catch for engaging the arm 7. When the arms 7 are below the ends of thelevers 11, the lugs 8 rest against the vunder side of said arms, and the parts are so adjusted that the end of the guard Yis then above the track. When the levers 11 are rocked on their pivots, the lower ends of said levers are drawn to one side of the slots 9 and arms 7 are released and the guard drops ontothe track. Each lever V11 has a laterally-projecting arm 14, which is engaged by a spring-pressed pin 15, mounted in the bracket 10, which spring-pressed pin serves to hold the lever 11 in its normal position across the slot 9 and to return said lever to this position as soon as the arm 7 returns to its normal position.

The present invention .relates-more especially to the devices for operating the levers or catchesll to release the guard and allow it to drop. These devices in the form shown are as follows: The lever 7 at the side of the car shown is connected, by means ,of a link 16, with one arm 17 of a bell-crank lever, the

-other arm 18 of which is engaged by alever 19, the pivot of which is at right angles to the pivot of the lever 17 18. The lever 17 18 is pivoted between lugs 20, formed on a' plate or bracket 2l, and the lever 19 is pivoted between lugs 22, formed on the same plate or roo bracket. The lever 19 is engaged by a pin 23, which projects up through the car-platform into position to be operated by the motorman. When the motorman forces the pin 23 down, lever 19 is rocked and in turn rocks the lever 17 18, forcing the arm 17 outward. This movement of arm 17, acting through the link 16, draws the lower end of the lever 11 from above the arm 7 and releases said arm. The lever 11 on the side of the car (not-shown) is connected by a link 16 to the arrn 17' of a second bell-crank lever, the other arm 18 of which is engaged by the lever 19 and is operated in the same manner and at the same time as the lever 17 18. The arms 18 and 18 preferably overlap each other, the arm 18 bcing bifurcated to receive the arm 18, and said arms are preferably connected by a pin 24, passing t-hrough slots in said arms. The lever 17' 18 is pivoted between lugs 20', formed on plate 2l. Vhen the arms 18 and 18' are depressed, the bell-crank levers rock in opposite directions, thus simultaneously operating the catches at each side of the car. The position of the bell-crank levers may be adjusted by tightening nuts 25 engaging right and left hand threads on the adjacent ends of the rods composing the links 1b' and 16.

The above construction forms a simple and efficient mechanism forsupporting the guard, and by pivoting the bell-crank lever and the operating-lever to the same plate or bracket the devices for operating the latches may be readily and conveniently secured to the car.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car-fender, the combination with a guard, of a catch at each side of the car for supporting said guard, two bell-crank levers, links connecting said catches with said levers, and means operated from the car-platform for simultaneously rocking said levers, substantially as described.

2. In a car-fender, the combination of a guard, a catch at each side of the car for supporting said guard, two bell-crank levers having overlapping arms, links connecting the other arms of said levers with said catches, a lever resting on said overlappin g arms, and means for operating said lever from the carplatform, substantially as described.

3. In a car-fender, thel combination with a guard having a rearwardly-projecting arm, of a lever 11 for engaging said arm, a bellcrank lever 17, 18, a link 16 connecting said levers, and means for rocking said bell-crank lever from the car-platform, substantially as described.

4. In a car-fender, the combination with a guard having rearwardly-projecting arms at each side of the car, of levers 11 for engaging said arms, bell-crank levers 17, 18 and 17', 18', links 16 and 1G connecting levers 17, 18, and 17', 18 with said levers 11, and means for simultaneously rocking said bell-crank levers, substantially as described.

5. In a car-fender, a bracket or plate, two bell-crank levers pivoted thereto, a lever for operating said bell-crank levers also pivoted to said plate, latches forsupporting the guard, and connections between said bell-crank levers and said latches, substantially as described.

G. In a car-fender, the bracket or plate 2l, lugs 2O and 20' on said plate, bell-crank lever 17, 18 pivoted to lugs 20, bell-crank lever 17', 18' pivoted to lugs 20', lugs 22 on said plate and lever 1:) pivoted to said lugs and arranged to engage the arms 1S and 18 of said bellcrank levers, substantially as described.

GEORGE H. HOLLINGSWORTH.

Witnesses:

GEO. G. BOWMAN, A. C. CHRIsTIANsEN.

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