US768176A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

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No. 768,176. PATENTED maze, 1904. s. s. HAWLEY.

CAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1904.

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CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,176, dated August 23, 1904,

Application filed May 21, 1904:.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVESTER S. HAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Odin, in the, county of Marion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-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.

My invention relates to a life-saving attachment for railway-cars, commonly designated a street-car fender; and it consists of certain novel features of combination and construction of parts, the preferred form whereof will be hereinafter clearly. set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

The prime object of my invention, among others, is to provide a fender for a car or other vehicle which will prove reliably efficient in preventing a person, whether large or small, from being crushed beneath the car, inasmuch as my safety appliance will pick up the person without injury and will safely carry him until the car has stopped.

A further object is to provide a safety appliance of the character specified which willconsist of but a comparatively few simple cooperating parts which may be cheaply manufactured and expeditiously assembled each in its respective operative position.

A further object is to provide a safety appliance of the character set forth which may be folded into a very small space when not required for use and which may againbe quickly disposed in its lowered or operative position. Other objects and advantages will be herein'after made clearly apparent, reference be-- section as taken on dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4: is a detail view in perspective showing a portion of my invention disposed 1n 1ts operative or unfolded condition. Fig. 5 is the serial No. 208,996. (No model.)

trip mechanism designed to disengage the supporting-arms of my safety attachment or carsfender. Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view showing a portionof the framework of the car and means to support part of my fender thereon.

In order to conveniently refer to the various details of my invention and cooperating accessories, numerals will be employed, the same .numeral applying to a similar part throughout the several views.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates the platform of the car of the usual or any preferred construction, while 2 designates the cross-beam usually employed to carry the bumper or coupling drawhead, and 3 designates the usual posts for supporting the end of the car-roof 4, all of said parts being of the usual or any preferred variety of construction.

My improved safety appliance or fender comprises the end sections or members 5, which are pivotally secured, as to the ears or brackets 6, bolted to the ends of the crossbeam 2.- Near the outer ends of the sections 51 connect a cross-bar 7, extending entirely across from side to side, while located in advance of the cross-bars 7 is the safety-roller 8, having apertures in each end to receive the inwardly-directed terminals or branches 9 of the side sections 5.

It will be understood that the inwardly-directed extensions 9 may extend entirely through the roller-section 8, and thus enable the side sections 5 and said extensions9 to beformed of one continuous rod properly bent or shaped to subserve the requirements placed thereon. I also provide for each side of my safety appliance or car-fender the side runners 10, which are curved upward at their forward ends similar to the construction of a sled-runner, wherebyv they will readily pass over any uneven surfaces incident to the use thereof. The rear ends of said runners 10 are provided with the hook-like terminal 11, designed to be disposed in engagement with the staple-like brackets 12, carried by each end of the cross-head 2, it being observed that the inner ends of the runner-sections 10 are connected together, as by the cross-bar 13, whereby they will be held properly separated and may also be easily raised by means of the controlling-lever 14, pivoted in the brackets 15 and having the outwardly-direeted arm or extension 16, said arm being united, by means of the link member 17 with said cross-bar 13. It therefore follows that by moving the lever 14 inward the hook-like members 11 may be simultaneously raised out of engagement with the staple-like brackets 12, as will be hereinafter more particularly set forth. I also provide upon each side of my safety appliance or car-fender the supporting-bars 18, having apertures at their lower ends to receive the inward extensions 9, the upper ends of the bars being provided with notches or recesses 19, designed to engage the lugs 20, whereby said bars will be sustained against downward movement, and thereby insure that any weight placed upon the fender will be easily carried.

By reference to Figs. 2 and 4 it will be observed that I have also provided a plurality of auxiliary braces consisting of the chains 21, any preferred number of said chains being employed to extend from suitable lugs 22, carried by each side of the car downward into engagement with the side sections or rods 5. I have also provided a cross-bar 23, which is supported in a suitable bracket 24, also carried by the cross-beam 2 or other part of the ear. The rods or bars 7 and 23 are designed to support a plurality of cross-bars or rodseetions 25, any preferred number of said bars being employed, each being properly covered with someyielding cushion-like substance, as rubber or other preferred material, the said covered portion of the bars 25 being designated by the numeral 25, and all of said bars are reinforced and held against spreading by the cross rods or Wires 27, extending from side to side and as more clearly shown in Fig. 1. It will thus be observed that the location of the controlling-lever 14 will not interfere in any wise with the brake 28 or electric controller 29 commonly employed upon street-cars. By a proper location of the recess or recesses 19 it is obvious that my improved safety appliance may be readily adjusted to any desired height from the surface of the street or track and by disengaging the recess from the lugs or fingers 20 and drawing upon the handle 30, connected with the rope 31, my entire fender may be readily disposed in a substantially vertical or folded position, as indicated in Fig. 3, it being understood that the lever 14 will be first thrust inward, whereby the link-section 17 will cause the elevation of the inner ends of the runners 10, thereby disposing them out of engagement with the supporting-brackets 12.

In order to enable the operator to disengage end of the extension 33 being bent outward,

so as to engage the under side of the bars 18, whereby a downward pull by the attendant upon the cross-bar 32 will simultaneously raise the bars 18, and thereby permit the fender to be drawn upward by the rope or chain 2,1 into a folded position, substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be understood that I. have provided a reliably efficient appliance of the character set forth which may be placed under the full control of the operator in the shortest period of time and may be easily adjusted to any d esired height, whereby even a small child may be safeguarded and prevented from falling beneath the car.

When my fender is disposed in the position substantially as shown in Fig. 2, the roller 8, which may be padded, if deemed desirable, will move along near the surface of the street or trackway, so as to insure that any person upon the track will be directed upon the fender proper, comprising the padded bars 25, and will be carried thereon until the car is stopped, the side chains 21 serving to hold a person from casually passing out at the side.

Believing that the construction and manner of using my improved safety appliance have thus been made clearly apparent, further description is deemed unnecessary. \Vhile l have described the preferred combination and construction of parts deemed necessary in carrying out my invention, 1 wish to comprehend in this application all substantial erpiivalents and substitutes that may be regarded as falling fairly within the scope and purview of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described safety attachmentfor street-cars or the like consisting of a folding fender for one or both ends of the car, said fender comprising the side members 5 pivotally connected to a suitable supporting-britcket carried by the car and having their forward ends united to extend through a safety-roller 8; side runners 10 having a hook-like extension upon their rear ends to engage the supporting-bracket 12 and pivoted at their forward ends to inward extensions upon the side sections 5; side bars 18 also pivotally conneoted to said inward extensions and having recesses upon their upper ends designed to engage the lugs or fingers 20 upon a contiguous part of the ear; suitable means to simultaneously disengage both of said arms 18 from cooperation with their respective lugs or lingers as desired and a lever designed to simulto this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. SYLVESTER S. HAWLEY.

-Witnesses: FRED ALEXANDER, S. O. ALEXANDER.

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