The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-02-27
Railroad Wrecks.
To be Reduced to Minimum
That is What is Claimed
for Invention of Two Ports
mouth Men.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Two Portsmouth inventors, Messrs.
David Brpslauer of the firm OF Bres-
lauer and Anthony. and Samuel W.
Clark, q craftsman, have secured
q patent from the United States Gov
eminent on their invention, the
"Breslauer and Clark Railway Safety
Appliance" which bids fair to cur
tail railroad accidents to a minimum.
The invention of these two Ports
mountains is a safety appliance in
avery sense of the word. 1t was
created by them after careful consid-
Grafton of the work they had in hand,
for the prime purpose of preventing
drawbridge calamities, and the crash
es on the rails which inevitably follow
the open-sWitch carelessness Of some
railway employe.
In perfecting this invention, a de-
scription OF which is given below,
Messrs. Breslauer and Clark have
created a dead-stop appliance which
will bring a rapidly moving train to
a standstill, they maintain, without
any serious shock to the rolling stock
or passengers. Furthermore, they
assert that their appliance will pro-
duce a cushion effect for taking up
the impact ola moving train brought
suddenly to a stop by the invention,
and further than this, for opposing
all resistance to the moving wheels
of q locomotive, even if the throttle
be open.
Railroad trainmen will be particu-
larry interested in the description OF
Messrs. Bresleuer and Clark's iuven-
ton which follows:
Many fatal accidents have occurred
from open draw bridges and switches.
This device provides for a pit SO con-
structed that a locomotive will slight
" drop into it after a portion of the
rail is also dropped, as to permit
the driving effort of the engine to be
exerted in rolling against a resistance.
A portion of the rail is hinged to one
side Of the pit, and to the end of the
rail is placed rollers on which the
truck wheels of the locomotive rests,
| leaving the locomotive free of the
hinged rail when it is dropped by the
engine rolling upon wedge which
allows the rail to fall so that the dri-
wing wheels are clear and have no at
| tractive force.
When the drawbridge or switch is
open, the hinged rail disen9aging gear
is set SO as to be operative by the en-
CINE The rear wheel of the locOmo-
tive rests upon the rail, but the main
driving wheels are over the pit with
the truck wheels On the rollers
| Though the engine wheels are re-
vOlving, the motion is absorbed by
cylinders containing oil or other Wis
cous fluid surrounding paddle or vane
which can rotate slowly but offer a
high resistance when the paddles are
rotated rapidly.
The force of the impact of the train
is absorbed by a lever. the upper por-
ton of which engages the front truck
is connected to a hydraulic com
preston cylinder capable of resist
ing a powerful blow, and is adopted
to bring the train to q dead stop
when running at high rate ofspeed.
Should the draw or switch be open,
or even sunk so as TO be out of line
with the track, the invention auto
matically sets signals and though the
engineer should fail to regard the
signals at the approach of an open
switch or draw the apparatus will
stop the train in time.
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