US829821A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTBD AUG. 2a, 1906.

F. WITSGH.

,GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18,1906.

. provide a street-car fender which will be excasing is provided with a vertical side wall 2, and these side walls are UNITED s'rATns'PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ WITSCH, OF ALLESGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

l 0. 829,821. .Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Align 28, 1.9.0.6.

Application led May 18, 1906. Serial No. 317.606.

novel form of fender which can be readily attached to a street-car to save the lives of persons run down by the car.

Another object ofmy invention is to provide a car-fender which will be automatic and positive inits action and free from all danger of being injured when striking a person or object.

A further objectof thisinvention is to provide afender which will be normally elevated, but which will be automatically lowered when a person or object is about to be struck by a car.

A 'still further object of this invention is to tremely simple in construction, strong and durablefcomparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and highly efficient for the purposes for which it is used.

With the above and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and, referring to the drawings accompanying this application, l' te numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of acar equipped with my improved fender. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the fender detached from a car. Fig. 3 is a longi tudinal sectional view of one of the casings of the fender. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the fender, and Fig. 5 is a plan of a plate forming part of the fender.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved fender of two casings 1 1, `which form the sides of the fender. Each connected together plate 3. The rear by an inclined transverse nl Improvements j 1 1 1 are provided with rear ends of said slots .being inclined, as at14" 14. Between ,the casings 1 iplate 15, having .a beveled ends of the casings are further braced by a ltransverse bar 4, which is connected to the casings 1 1 by springs 5 5. The bar 4 is provided with a vertically-disposed yoke, the object of which will be hereinafter described.

The fender construction just described is secured to a car 7 by fastening the transverse `plate 3 to the dashboard 8 of the car, while the side walls 2 2 of (the fender have their rear edges out away, asat 9, .to engage and l rest upon the bumper or platform 10 of the car.

The confronting side walls of the casings slots 11 and 12, the

upper face 16. two outwardlyextend into the `The plate is provided with extending arms 17, which l slots 12 12 of the casings 1 1 and are connected to springs 18 18, mounted within said casings. The plate 15 is also provided with outwardly-extending pins 19 19, which protrude into the slots 11 11 of the casings 1 1, the object of which will presently appear. The rear edge of the plate 15 is provided with a transverse strip 20, carrying lugs 21 21. Between the lugs 21 21 is pivotally mounted a latch 22, said latch being adapted to engage a cleat 23,V carried by the body of the car. 7

The transversey bar 4 is provided with forwardly-extending rods 24 24, which extend through the casings 1 1 and have their forward ends connected with a transverse rod 25, said rod extending crosswis'e of the car 1 is mounted a' from the forward end of one casing to the other.

In practice the plate wardly until the latch 22 verse cleat 23 of the car. The latch is normally held in engagement with the cleat by the vertically-disposed yoke 6 of the transverse bar 4. When the plate is in its rearward position, said plate will be elevated by the inclined ends 14 14 of the slots 11 and 12 of the casings 1, the forward end of the plate 15 being elevated in the slot 11 through theA medium of the pins 19 19, while the rearward end of the plate will beelevated in the slots 12 by the arms 17 17 of said plate. Should a person or object strike the transverse rod 25, the latch 22 will be released through the medium of the rearward movement of the transverse bar 4, which is moved by the rods 24 24. The rearward movement of the transverse bar 4 permits of the, latch dropping by IOO IIO

gravity, and as the springs 18 18 have been extended within the casings 1 1 by the rearward movement of the plate 15 the release of plate 15 is moved inwardly, also the rod 25,

said rod being held until the latch 22 is ele-V vated to engage the cleat 23, at which time the rod 25 is released, permitting the bari 4 and the yoke 6 to return to their normal position and temporarily support said latch.

My improved fender is preferably constructed of light and durable metal, and the plate 15 of said fender may be provided with a cushion to break the fall of persons or objects upon the same.

Such changes in the construction and operation of my improved fender as are permissible by the scope of the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim, and d esire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender, the combination with a car, a cleat carried by said car, of casings secured to said car, a plate mounted between said Q i s'aaezi casings, a latch carried by said plate and adapted to engage said cleat, means to hold said latch in engagement with said cleat, means actuated in front of said plate to re- 35 lease said latch, means to elevate said plate, substantially as described. l

2. The combination with a car, a cleat carried by said car, of a fender consisting of two casings, a plate mounted between said cas- 4o ings, means to lock said plate in engagement with said cleat, means to release said plate, from said cleat, substantially as described.

3. In a fender, the combination with a car, of two casings, a plate slidabl mounted be- 45 tween said casings, means to liiold said plate at the rear ends of said casings, means to elevate said plate, and means actuated in front of said plate to release'said plate, substantially as described. 5o 4. In a fender, the combination with a car, of two casings, a spring-held plate slidably mounted between said casings, means to hold said plate in an elevated position, Vand means to release the first-named means, sub- 5 5 stantially as described. y In testimony whereof I afx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANZ WITSCH.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SnoLoviTZ, E. E. POTTER.

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