US631933A

US631933A - Car-fender.

Info

Publication number: US631933A
Application number: US71231899A
Authority: US
Inventors: Reginald Forwood
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-04-08
Filing date: 1899-04-08
Publication date: 1899-08-29
Anticipated expiration: 1916-08-29

Description

No. 63!,933. Patented Aug. 29, I899. R. FORWOOD.

C A R F E N D E R (Application filed Apr. 8, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REGINALD FORWOOD, OF PARIS, TEXAS.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,933, dated August 29, 1899.

Application filed April 8,1899. fierial No. 712,318. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REGINALD FORW'OOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paris, in the county of Lamar and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of devices known as car-fenders; and it has for its object to provide a fender which may be manufactured at a comparatively small expense and may be readily attached to and removed from a car without altering the construction of the car in any manner Whatever.

The invention also contemplates a construction which will not seriously bruise or injure a person struck thereby and will absolutely prevent such person from falling beneath the car, the construction being such that any one coming in the path of the fender will be gently moved to one side of the car and outside of the track-rails, so as not to be struck by the passing car.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when Taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a part of a car, showing my improvements applied with one of the rollers in vertical section and the belt or band broken. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, there being no parts in section; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the supporting-frame with the rollers removed.

Referring by letter to said drawings, Aindicates a part of a car which is shown for the purpose of illustrating my improvements applied, and B indicates my improved fender. This fender comprises three vertically-disposed rollers which are sustained in a frame attached to the platform end timber of a car or other suitable part thereof. The frame which I prefer to employ for this purpose is of a skeleton form and comprises a lower horizontal section a and an upper similar section I), both of which are of substantially triangular form in outline, having journal-apertures c at the angles, which are designed to receive the journal ends of the rollers D and E. These sections of the frame, which are disposed horizontally, bringing the journal-apertures vertically, are also disposed parallel and are connected by means of vertical cross-bars F. These cross-bars are here shown as comprising integral parts of the lower section of the frame; but it is obvious that they may becomposed of separate pieces and secured to said section in any suitable manner, as by bolts and nuts. I have also shown these vertical cross-bars as having a bend or shoulder 01 at a suitable elevation for the purpose of resting upon the platform end timber G of the car, and these shoulder portions have holes a to receive bolts, as f, which also take 6 through holesin the timber G to fix the frame, and consequently the parts carried thereby,

to the front of the car. The upper ends of the bars F may be turned at an angle, as shown, and provided with holes to receive securing-bolts taking through corresponding holes in the inner ends of the upper framesection. This frame may be constructed from steel or other suitable material and the manner of attaching the same to a car may be varied according to the fancy of the manufacturer. The rollers which I prefer to employ should be constructed of some light material and their surfaces covered with a cushion H, of rubber or the like, so that a person coming in contact therewith may not be seriously injured or badly bruised, and such rollers areprovided with journals 9 at each end to takeinto the apertures c in the frame B.

' It will be seen that I have a roller adjacent to the car and disposed vertically above each track-rail, and a third roller E is arranged in advance of the first-named rollers and above one rail only, so that said rollers when viewed in plan form atriangle, and these rollers are connected by an endless band I, which is also vertically disposed and covers the peripheries of the rollers. This band maybe composed of canvas or other strong material having sufiicient elasticity to give to the impact and yet 5 when striking an object will impart a rotative movement to the rollers, over which it is drawn. By this means it will be seen that should an object be in the path of the car or between the rails of the track when struck by the fender motion will be imparted to the belt or band, which will cast off the object and move the same out of the plane of movement of the car without injury. V

In the present illustration 1 have shown the fender as extending to nearly the height of the dash of the car; but in practice the height may be varied as may be found most desirable. The lower ends of the rollers and the belt or band taking over the same should extend sufiicientlyclose to the road-bed or rails as to prevent an object from getting beneath.

One great advantage claimed for this fender and which accounts for its one-sided appearance is that it will throw a person to one side of the road or street, and in case of double tracks the advantage is more clear, as there would be very little chance of a person getting between the tracks. The majority of accidents arise from people attempting to cross the track in front of an approaching car, and the fender is designed to throw a person away from either track.

- Having thus described my invention, what I claim is I 1. The combination of a car arranged to travel on a track, and a fender comprising a frame connected with the car, upright rollers mounted in said frame at the opposite sides of the track; one of said rollers being arranged in advance of the other, and an end- 1 less band of flexible material passed around the rollers and having its forward stretch dis- 1 posed diagonally to and extending the full width of the track, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a car arranged to travel on a track, and a fender comprising a frame connected with the car, an upright roller mounted in said frame at one side of the track, upright rollers mounted in the frame and arranged one in advance of the other at the oposite side of the track; the foremost of the latter rollers being also arranged in advance of the first-named roller, and an endless baud of flexible material passed around the rollers and having its forward stretch disposed diagonally to and extending the full width of the track, substantially as specified.

3. The frame comprising the upper and lower sections having alined apertures which in plan are disposed in a triangle; in combination with the rollers having their ends journaled in said apertures and cov'ered with a cushion, and a belt or band connecting the rollers so as to impart a rotative movement thereto, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

REGINALD FORVVOOD.

Witnesses:

NEVILLE ,BnooKs, E. G. GIBBONS.