US862828A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

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PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

P. J. LEAHY. GAR FENDER. APPLIOATION FILED 1330.14, 1906.

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PETER JOSEPH LEAHY, OF TURGOT, QUEBEC, CANADA.

CAB-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed December 14,1906. Serial No. 347,832.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER Josnrn LEAHY, a subject of the King of England, residing at TLHCOlJ, in the county of Hochelaga, Province of Quebec, and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in car-fendersand consists in certain new and useful features of construction and operation, all as hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a fender of wedge-shape which may be depressed into close proximity to, or in actual contact with, a track rail in case of accidental contact with a foreign body on the track.

Referring to the drawings: Figure l is a front elevational view of a 'car equipped with my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view, the section being taken on line 22*of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing details of operation not brought out clearly in the other views.

Referring to the parts 2 is an ordinary commercially rolled angle which forms the base member of the wedge-shaped fender or guard, and it will be noted that said base member is bent into the required form to comprise not only the base portion of the fender, but is continuous and forms as well the vertical rear portions at the edges of said fender, and is thence bent upwardly and in to form the top flange thereof as well, so that said fender frame is formed of practically a single angle member bent into proper form for the purpose.

Connecting the side portions 2, at the rearwardly portion, and passing through the vertical flanges of said angle member, are tie-rods, or crossrods 45 which rest in planes below the top portion 6- of the angle member referred to.

Connecting these rods -45 with the depending brackets 78 are links 910 which are pivoted at one end-the loweron said rods 45 and at their upper ends are pivoted on the rods 11-12 which are rockable in the bearings of the brackets 78 before referred to, so that said fender is rockable on its supporting rods, and will be deflected downwardly and rearwardly as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3 when released, as hereinafter described.

Cooperating with the links, in supporting the fender,

, are the hook-shaped members 13 which are provided with the approximately horizontal portions 14 and with the hooked ends 15, the horizontal portions serving as supports, normally, for the rod 5 and thereby supporting the fender in an elevated position as shown in full lines in Fig. 3.

Rising to a plane higher than the fender is a bufferplate 16 which is, in the drawings, shown rising vertically above the said fender, but which may be at any suitable angle which may be required and which is sustained at some distance forwardly of the body of a car by means of the buffer springs 1'7 in a suitable sheath, as -l7 Extending rearwardly from the buffer-plate is a link -18 which is pivotally connected with the link 19 which latter is in turn mounted on the rod -20 mounted in the brackets -21 depending from the body of a car. This link 19 is connected by a short chain or other suitable means with the hook shaped members 13 so that when the buffer 16 is impinged by an obstacle the buffer will be retracted; the links 18l9 will be forced rearwardly, and the said chain will draw the hooked memberor membersr-earwardly so as to withdraw the horizontal portion from beneath the rod -5-, whereupon the weight of the fender will carry it downwardly, in which course it will be carried rearwardly by means of the guiding links 9l0 before referred to.

It will be evident that the parts shown in Fig. 3, except the cross-rods, will be duplicated at each side of the center line of the fender as shown in Fig. 2.

There is a great advantage in having the fender move rearwardly in its descent owing to the fact that it will thereby clear itself away from an obstruction which may be on the track, which may otherwise serve to guide the fender upwardly and cause it to be forced under said fender while the car is in motion.

Having described the invention, what I claim as new is:

said buffer.

0. In a wedge shaped fender, a continuous angle member forming the base and rear edge portions thereof, crossrods connecting the vertical flanges of said angle member, hook-shaped supporting means engaging one of said crossrods, a retractile buffer and means for releasing said supporting means, actuated from the buller to drop said supporting cross-rod into the hooked portion of said supporting means.

4. In a wedge-shaped fender, a continuous angle member forming the base, side edge and upper edge portions thereof, crossr0ds connecting opposite portions of said angle member, hook-shaped supporting means having an approximately horizontal portion intermediate their ends and serving as supporting means for one of said cross-rods, a retractile buffer, means for holding it normally in a for wardly position, and means connected with said buffer for Withdrawing said horizontal portion of the supporting means from said cross-rod when said buffer is retracted.

5. In a car fender, the combination comprising supportingbrackets, a rockable shaft carried by said brackets, a butter-plate, links between said plate and said shaft, a wedge-shaped fender, means for supporting the said fender in a normally elevated position, and means connected with said buffer-plate and said links for withdrawing said supporting means when said bufi'er is retracted, thereby permitting downward and rearward movement of said fender. 6. In a device of the character described, a downwardly and rearwardly movable fender, suspended means for supporting said fender, a movable buflfer' plate carried in a plane relatively above said fender and means connecting said buffer plate with the fender supporting means.

7, The combination comprising a wedge shaped fender having the major portion of its frame formed of a commercially rolled angle member which is substantially continuous at the base and rear edges thereof, tie rods therefor, a hooked supporting means provided with a substantially horizontal portion on which one of said tie rods may rest, a retractile member in juxtaposition to said fender and means for rocking said hooked member from said retractile means.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

PETER JOSEPH LEAHY.

Witnesses:

F. H. GIBBS, M. BRANT.

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