US798593A - Fender. - Google Patents

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No. 798,593. 1 PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905.

W. J. BIRGHELL.

FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, 1905.

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WVILLIAM JAMES BIRCHFLL, OF PHGQNIX, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed March 6, 1905. Serial No. 248,661.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J AMES BIRCH- ELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Phoenix, in the county of Maricopa and Territory of Arizona, have invented a new and useful Fender, of which the following is a specitication.

This invention relates to improvements in car fenders or pilots; and the principal object is to provide a simple structure of a novel nature which will prohibit an object passing beneath a car and will have an unobstructed outer rolling surface to direct the object struck thereby to the sides of the car.

An embodiment of the invention that is at present considered preferable is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and is described in the following specification; Theinvention, however, is not limited to the exact structure shown.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front portion of a modern interurban electrically-propelled car, showing the improved fender or pilot mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pilot. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the same on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a portion of one of the sections of the lower journal-bar. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the other section. Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view showing a slightlymodified form of construction. Fig. 8 is a detail plan of another form of leverbar. Fig.9 is a detail section therethrough.

Similar reference-numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the embodiment illustrated a support is employed in the form of a frame comprising an upper substantially V-shaped journalbar 7 and a lower V -shaped journal bar somewhat larger than the upper bar and comprising sections 8 and 9. While V-shaped bars are perhaps preferable, this shape is not considered necessary and may be changed in a number of unessential ways. These bars are connected by tie-rods 10 and cross-braces 11, thus forming a rigid frame which can be secured in any desirable manner to a car or locomotive, preferably when applied to a car being mounted beneath the front platform 12, as shown in Fig. 1.

The frame constitutes asu pport for a plurality of fender-rollers 13, having gudgeons 14 at their upper ends, which are journaled in the upper bar. The lower portions of the rollers above their upper ends, however, are provided with reduced portions, forming gudgeons 15, which are journaled in the lower frame-bar. To this end said frame bar is provided with sockets 16, located partially in each section,

which sockets receive the gudgeons 15, as shown. The sections surrounding these sockets are preferably thickened, as shown at 17, in order to form journal-boxes, and the two sections have portions overlapping and rivet ed together, as shown at 18. The rollers thus extend above and below the lower journal-bar and also have their front faces in advance of the same, so that rolling-surfaces are provided which are entirely unobstructed by any stationary part of the frame. This is an important feature. The lower ends of the rollers, located below the lower bar, are preferably disposed in substantially a horizontal plane and are preferably, though not necessarily, enlarged, as shown at 19. The surfaces of the rollers may be covered, as shown at 20, with suitable cushioning material that will yield sutliciently to avoid material injury to the object struck thereby.

The fender or pilot can be supported in any desirable position upon the front of a car, with its lower end spaced a sufficient distance from the track or roadway to avoid interference therewith and yet prohibit the passage of an object beneath the same. It. is believed to be preferable to mount said fender beneath the platform, as illustrated, in order to avoid detracting from the appearance of the car. An object struck by said fender will be directed to either side of the car, and as there are no projecting stationary portions of the supporting-frame the entire exposed surface of the fender is movable, so that there is little danger of the object becoming caught and held. Moreover, in case of a person being struck the clothing of such person, though it may pass slightly beneath the fender, can be readily disengaged therefrom because of the rolling lower ends and the enlarged knobs.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. Thus while it has been tion 8".

shown upon a car it will bereadily seen that it may be advantageously employed on a locomotive. As an example of how the structure may be changed attention is invited to Fig. 7, wherein is shown a lower frame-bar 7 2 having a journal-opening 8 therethrough. In this opening is located a reduced stem 9, carried by the lower end of a roller-body 10*, said stem being threaded. An enlarged terminal foot 11 is threaded upon the lower end of the stem 9 below the bar 7 Thus a roller is provided having all the advantageous characteristics of those first described. In Figs. 8 and 9 another form of lever framebar is illustrated, comprising sections 7 and 8 the latter being adjustable on the former and being ordinarily held against movement by suitable fasteners-as, for instance, bolts 9 -which pass through slots 10 in the sec- The section 8 furthermore, has forwardly-projecting ears 11 having journalopenings 12 for the lower portions of the rollers. It is also to be noted that while the rollers are shown as at an inclination neither this disposition of parts nor the triangular slope of the fender is essential, and the same may be changed in a variety of ways.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender, the combination with aframe comprising upper and lower spaced bars, of crossed braces connecting the bars, and rollers located between and journaled in the bars.

2. In afender, the combination with aframe comprising upper and lower spaced and substantially V-shaped bars, of braces and tierods connecting the bars, and rollers located between and journaled in the bars, the front portions of said rollers projecting in advance of the frame.

3. In a fender, the combination with a support, of a plurality of fender-rollers journaled in the support and extending above and below the same.

4:. In a fender, the combination with a support, of a plurality of upstanding fender-rollers journaled on thesupport and extending above and below the same, the lower ends of the rollers projectingin advance of the support.

5. In a fender, the combination with a support, of a plurality of fender-rollers journaled in the support and having enlarged lower ends located below said support and below their lowermost journals.

6. In a fender, the combination with a supporting-frame, of a plurality of upstanding rollers journaled in the frame, said rollers projecting below the frame and their lowermost journals, and having their front portions located in advance of said frame.

7. In a fender, the combination with a supporting-frame comprising upper and lower bars, of rollers journaled at their upper ends in the upper bar and having their lower portions journaled in the lower bar, said rollers projecting below the lower bar and in advance of the same.

8. In a fender, the combination with a support including a frame-bar comprising sections securedtogether, said bar having sockets located partially in each section, of rollers journaled in the support and having gudgeons journaled in said sockets.

9. In a fender, the combination with a substantially V-shaped frame comprising upper and lower substantially V- shaped bars and tie-rods connecting the bars, the lower bar consisting of sections and having sockets located partially in each section, of rollers having gudgeons at their upper ends that are journaled in the upper bar, said rollers projecting below the lower bar and having gudgeons in their lower portions that are journaled in the sockets.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J AMES BIROHELL.

WVitnesses:

S. N. LUKIN, LEE N. STEELE.

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