US726390A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED APR. 28, 1903.

W. E. ZACHRY.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 27, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

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NliTlEli) Srnrns PATENT FFlClEQ WILLIAM EVE ZACHRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND /VALTEB; E. COONEY, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

CAR FENDER.

EL ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 726,390, dated April 28, 1903.

Application filed October 27, 1902. Serial No. 128,865. (No model.)

To [all whont it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM EVE ZACHRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car-fenders of the class where there is a forward guard and a rear catching appliance, the object being to provide a device of this character of simple and inexpensive construction which will serve as an effective guard against accident.

The invention comprises a fender consisting of two cooperating members, one being permanently attached below the car and the other detachably supported in front of the car-platform and so connected to the rear member as to cause the latter to be thrown downward in contact with the ground when the front member strikes an obstruction.

The construction of the improved fender will be fullydescribed hereinafterin connection with the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and its novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one end of a car with'my improved fender applied thereto, the normal position of the fender being shown in full. lines and its position when an obstruction is met being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the improved fenderin its normal position.

Corresponding parts in both figures are de noted by the same reference characters.

The reference-numeral 1- designates the front platform of the car.

said brackets being formed with bearings for a shaft 3.

4E designates the rear member of the fender, comprising a frame, the forward portion 5 of which is projected forward and is netted with wire orother suitable yieldingmaterial. At each side of the frame 4, near the upper end thereof, is a lug 6, said lugs projecting forward and formed with openings through which the shaft 3 extends. The frame 4: is

Beneath each side of the floor of the car depends a bracket 2,"

also provided at one side, adjacent to the lug at that side, with aratchet-whe'el 7, adapted to be engaged by a spring-pawl 8, depending from the under surface of the car-floor. The upper portion of the frame 4 is connected at each side to the car-body by helical springs 9, which urge the fender-frame 1 in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1. Attached to each side of and projecting forwardly of the rear fender 4: is an arm 10, loosely connected at its front end to a rearwardly-extend ing rod 11 bya shackle 12,depending from the end'of the arm 10. A shoulder 13 on the rod 11 engages the forward face of the shackle 12. At the forward end of each of the arms 10 is a loop or eye 14, which is pivoted to lugs 15, extending from and near the lower ends of the side bars of the front member 16 of the NVhen the front member 16 contacts an obstruction-as,' for example, a human bodythe said member is forced rearwardly, and by means of the rods 11 and 10 the rear member 4713 throwndown to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. land will be retained in such position'by the spring-pawl 8, thus effectnallypreventing the body or other obstruction from passing under the car-wheels. When the pawl is released from the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 3, the front and rear mem- 9o bers will be returned to their ordinary posi* tions by means of the springs 9.

It will be apparent that the front member 16 may be readily removed from the supporting-hooks 17 and either disconnected at the point 15 from the rods 11 or these rods themselves may be withdrawn from the shackles 12 and the guard member 16 thus permitted to be transferred to connection with a corresponding rear member 4 at the opposite end to:

of the car when the latter returns upon a line with the reverse end foremost or when it is out of commission.

I would have it understood that the inven- 5 tion is not restricted to all of the details shown no claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent A car-fender composed, essentially, of the following instrumentalities in combination, Viz: a front member constituting a guard con- I5 sisting of a netted frame having its side bars suspended and detachable from the front of the car-platform, rods pivoted near the lower i ends of said side bars and extending rearwardly, a rear member constituting a catching appliance made up of a netted frame having downwardly and forwardly curved side arms, and forwardly-projecting rods loosely shackled to the rearwardly-extending rods of the front member, a spring acting upon the rear member and operating to keep it in its normal position clear of the ground, and to also maintain the front guard in its normal relation to the car, a ratchet carried by the rear member, and a spring-pawl normally out of operative engagement therewith, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

WM. EVE ZAOHRY. Witnesses:

CHAS. H. DAVIDS, J. O. BYBAs.

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