US771545A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

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PATENTED 00T. 4, 1904.

J. HAPPEL. CAR FENDER.

` APPLICATION FILED DBO. 13, 19o2.

` N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OEEICE.

JACOB HAPPEL, OF MIDDLETOWN, KENTUCKY.

CAR-FENDER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 771,545, dated October 4, 1904.

Application filed December 13, 1902. Serial No. 135,127. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB HAPPEL, a resident of Middletown, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, 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 inventio`n, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved fender for cars, the object of the invention being to provide improvements of this character which will most eifectnally pick up persons on the track and deposit them in a basket or receptacle without injury, and, further, to provide a continuously-revolving roller at the extreme end of the fender to serve as a pick-up.

I/Vith these objects in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as willbe more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a plan view illustrating my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a side View partially broken away.

1 represents a portion of a car-truck supported by the ordinary carwheels 2 and to which my improvements are connected, as will now be described.

To the truck 1, at each side, two dependingbars 3 are pivotally secured and are pivotally secured at their lower ends to forwardly-projecting bars 4, connected by cross-bars 5 and forming the fender-frame. rI he bars 4 have secured thereto about midway their ends uprights 6, in which a shaft 7 is mounted, and has secured thereon at both ends sprocketwheels 8 and 9, respectively.

At the forward end of truck 1` in uprights 10n on bars 4 a shaft 10 is mounted and carries friction -Wheels 11, engaging the carwheels to receive motion therefrom. This shaft l() has its bearings l2n supported in slots in the uprights 10, and set-screws 12 are provided to adjust the bearings in the slots to take up wear on the friction-wheels. On this shaft 10 sprocket-wheels 13 are secured and are connected -by endless sprocket-chains 14 with sprocket-wheels 8, and sprocket-wheels 9 are connected by endless sprocket-chains 15 with sprocket-wheels 16 on the outer ends of a shaft 17 at the forward end of the bars 4. A pick-up roller 18 is secured upon this shaft 17 between bars 4 and is preferably made with bristles or other frictional surface to grasp the persons or objects and lift them onto a wirenetting 19 or other platform, which I term the basket, of my improved fender, and teeth 5 are provided on bar 5, preventing a downward pull of the roller 18.

A spring-wall 2O is attached at one end to the fender-frame at 19 near the rear end of the netting 18 and extends upwardly, so as to terminate in front of the car-platform to prevent persons from being thrown with violence against the dashboard and for relieving the shock to them when they are picked up.

The drawings do not illustrate the connections of the chain with means on the platform forraising and lowering it, as any desired devices may be used for this purpose.

The operation of my improvements is as follows: The friction-wheels 11 receive their motion from the car-wheels and revolve the shaft 10 and turn sprocket-wheels 13 to move chains 14 and 15 and revolve roller 18 in the proper direction to pick up a person or object on the track and deposit them or it into the basket, thus precluding any possibility of thc fender passing over them.

A great many changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing frorn my invention, and hence I do not confine myself to the precise construction set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

- Having fully described my invention, what end of Said frame, and means for transmitting' motion from the friction-roller to Said forward roller, substantially as set forth.

2. In a fender, the combination with u pivotally-supported fender-frame, of a frictionwheel mounted on seid frame and adapted to engage a ear-wheel, a roller mounted at the forward end of the fender-frame and provided with bristles, a shaft journaled on an intermediate portion of the fender frame and sprocket-gearing connecting seid shaft with the friction-wheel and bristled roller.

3. In a fender, the combination with a pivotally-supported fender-frame, and :L bristled roller journeled at the forward end thereof, of

witnesses.

JACOB HAPPEL. I/Vitnesses:

W. ALLEN KINNEY, OSCAR O. BADER.

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