New and Useful Improvements in Safety Apparatus for Tramway or Railway Carriages or Cars and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1898
New and Useful Improvements in Safety Apparatus for Tramway or
Railway Carriages or Cars and the like.
OSKAR FREIHERR VON BUSECK, Lieutenant, at Leipzig, Schlenssig, Koenneritz
Strasse 110, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention relates to safety apparatus (for) and the object of my invention
is to provide means for preventing accidents arising from being knocked down
by running against a train. The safety apparatus consists substantially of a net
secured to the front of the locomotive, motor waggon or the like, and capable of
catching up the person meeting with the locomotive or the like. A further object
of my invention is to provide simple and efficient mechanism for folding up the net,
when not in use.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side view of the front portion of a car
or waggon constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 shows the
plan of Fig. 1. The net A is fixed to the rods a and b pivoted to the front of the
carriage or car B at c and d. The pivots c and d are connected to the double
armed lever k by means of arms f and g and the links h and i. The double armed
lever is actuated by the crank e fixed to the same and journaled in the front of
the carriage or car B. A pawl m pivotally secured to the bottom of the carriage
or car B and provided with a tooth n serves to hold the rods a and b and the net A
in the given position. For this purpose a quadrant provided with two notches o
is attached to the crank e in such a manner, that after turning the latter in the
one or other direction the tooth n of the pawl m actuated by the foot of the atten-
dant of the carriage or car B catches in the notches o of the quadrant 7. When
the crank e is moved in the direction of the arrow (see Fig. 2) the net A is
folded up.
It is evident that changes in, and modifications of the construction
herein before described, may be made without departing from the spirit of my
invention, or sacrificing its advantages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A safety apparatus comprising a net pivotally secured to the front of a
carriage or car, and means for folding up the said net, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
2. In combination with a carriage or car, rods pivotally secured to the front
of the said carriage or car, a net fixed to the said rods, and means for turning the
said rods, substantially as and for the purpose stated.
3. In combination with a carriage or car, rods pivotally secured to the front of
the said carriage or car, a net fixed to the said rods, means for turning the said
rods and means for holding the said rods in the given position, substantially as
and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 4. In combination with a carriage or car, rods secured to the front of the said
carriage or car, a net fixed to the said rods, pivots fitted to the said carriage or car
and the said rods, a crank journaled in the front of the said carriage or car, a
double armed lever attached to the said crank and connected to the said pivots, and
means for holding the said rods and said net in the given position, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
5. In combination with a carriage or car, rods secured to the front of the said
carriage or car, a net fixed to the said rods, pivots fitted to the said carriage or car
and the said rods, a crank journaled in the front of the said carriage or car, a
double armed lever attached to the said crank, arms secured to the said pivots and
connected to the said double armed lever and connected by links, and means for
holding the said rods and said net in the given position, substantially as and for
the purpose stated.
6. In combination with carriage or car, rods secured to the front of the said
carriage or car, a net fixed to the said rods, pivots fitted to the said carriage or car
and the said rods, a crank journaled in the front of the said carriage or car, a
double armed lever attached to the said crank, armes secured to the said pivots
and connected to the said double armed lever by links, a plate fixed to the said
crank and provided with notches, and a pawl secured to the bottom of the said
carriage or car and adapted to catch in the notches of the said plate, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Leipzig, the Twenty-first day of March 1898.
EDUARD LOEPER,
Agent, 3, Grimmaische Strasse 3.