Patent ID: 7448651

Claim:
An apparatus for lifting a brake hose including a glad hand secured to one end thereof, such brake hose to be lifted into a predetermined position being attached to a coupler installed at an end of a railway car, said apparatus further maintaining such brake hose in such predetermined elevated position during in track service, said apparatus comprising: (a) a first member having a first portion thereof directly secured to such coupler of such railway car, an elongated second portion disposed on and extending outwardly from said first portion, and a flange secured to a free end of said elongated second portion and defining a bottom end of said first member; (b) a second member having a bottom end, a top end and a pair of sides connecting said bottom and top end and forming a first aperture of said second member; (c) a second aperture formed in said top end of said second member for movably receiving said elongated second portion of said first member, wherein said bottom end of said first member is disposed within said first aperture and intermediate said sides of said second member; and (d) a coiled spring caged between said top end of said second member and said bottom end of said first member for lifting and maintaining such brake hose in such predetermined elevated position.