US511432A - Life-guard or fender for cars - Google Patents

Description

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J. INGRAHAM. LIFE GUARD 0R FENDER FOR CARS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511 ,432, dated December 26, 1893.

Application filed October 29, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMEs F. INGRAHAM, of West Peabody, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Life-Guards or Fenders for Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to life-guards for railway cars, and is particularly adapted for use on electric and other street cars oper-- ated by power. d

It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements in life-guards or fenders as will with certainty prevent a person or object met with upon the track from passing underthe wheels or truck-frame of the car.

The invention consists in providing the truck-frame with a scoop-guard hinged thereto in front of the wheelsand which may be normally supported at a safe distance above the road-bed, combined with a swinging-guard so connected with the scoop-guard as that when the swinging-guard encounters an object on the track it will release the scoopguard and allow the forward end thereof to drop down on the track, and, as it were, scoop.

up such object and with certainty prevent the same from passing under the truck frame or wheels of the car, all as is hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings and to the letters marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Figure 1, is a perspective view of the invention, showing it attached to the truck frame of the car, together with the forward wheels and axle of the latter. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal sectional view, showing the scoop-guard in raised or normal position. Fig. 3, is a similar sectional view, showing the scoop-guard as released and lowered, and the swinging-guard as moved by contact with the feet of a per son on the track.

In the drawings,'a a represent the wheels, I) b the rails upon which the wheels travel, and c the truck-frame.

cl designates a' frame with which the various parts of my improvement are connected, the said frame being connected with the truckframe and extending in front of the wheels.

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its rear end upon the truck-frame or upon the frame d, the said scoop-guard consisting of abroad sheet of metal or other suitable material sufficient in extent tosupport and carry upon it the body of a man. The supporting part f of the scoop-guard extends horizontally, and its front edge is preferably, though not necessarily scalloped or otherwise formed so as that the said edge may not be straight, in order the better to adapt it to scoop or catch'up an object encountered by it. The back part g of the scoop-guard extends vertically at substantially a right angle to the supporting part, and is hinged, as at h, to the frame.

' 2' is a bar connected with the upper edge of the back part of the scoop-guard, and j designates springs connected with the said bar and the frame d, and operating with a tendency to draw the upper edge of the back part of the scoop-guard forward, rocking the latter on its pivot or hinge and lowering the scalloped lower end thereof upon the track.

it is a swinging-guard pivoted upon 'the forward end of the frame 01, the said swingingguard consisting of a frame in which are arranged independent vertically movable bolts or rods, so that the said bolts or rods may be having connected therewith one end of a pitman or bar 19 the other end being connected With this description supposing the parts to be arranged as shown in Figs. land 2, the device will be in its normal position. In case an unusual object is encountered on the track, the bolts of the swingingguard will strike said object, move the swinging-guard upon its pivots, raise the forward ends of the bars Z, lowering their rear ends so as that they may pass under the bar '2' and allowing the springs j to act upon the scoop-guard so as to lower its forward end upon the track or road-bed, as shown in Fig. 3, thus putting the scoop-guard in position to catch or scoop up upon its holding part theobject encountered, all as will be readily understood without further description.

To restore the scoop-guard to normal position the operator may but take hold of the outer end of the lever 0, move the same backward, pushing the back part g of the scoopguard in the same direction through the medium of the pitrnan 23 until the rear ends of the bars Z snap up against the forward face of the bar 1.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is declared that what is claimed is 1. A life-guard for railway cars comprising in its construction a swinging-guard consisting of a frame provided with independent vertically movable bolts or rods, a pivoted or hinged scoop-guard, and connections between the swinging-guard and scoop-guard,whereby when the former encounters an obstruction, it may nnhinge or release the latter, as set forth.

2. A swinging-guard for railway cars consistin g of a frame provided with independent vertically movable bolts or rods, as set forth.

3. In a carguard the combination of a pivoted or hinged scoop-guard, springs arranged to normally depress said scoop-guard, pivoted locking levers Z Z arranged to engage said scoop-guard, and support the same in a raised position against the pressure of said springs, and a swinging-guard engaged with the forward ends of said locking levers, and adapted when displaced, to displace said locking levers and thereby release the scoop-guard, as set forth.

at. In a car guard the combination of a pivoted or hinged scoop-guard, springs arranged to normally depress the same, locking devices adapted to engage said scoop and lock it in a raised position, means for displacing said locking devices to release the scoop and permit its depression by the springs,and an operatin g lever whereby the scoop may be raised and re-engaged with the locking devices, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of October, A. D. 1892.

JAMES F. INGRAHAM.

\Vitnesses':

ARTHUR W. ORossLEY, HORACE BROWN.

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