Patent ID: 7384072

Claim:
In combination with a railway car and a brake hose for said railway car, said brake hose including a glad hand secured to one end thereof, an apparatus for lifting said brake hose into a predetermined elevated position being attached to an end of said railway car, said apparatus further maintaining said brake hose in said predetermined elevated position during in track service, said apparatus comprising: (a) a first member engageable with a predetermined portion of said railway car; (b) a second member engageable with one of said glad hand and said brake hose; (c) an air muscle engaged at a first end thereof to said first member and engaged at a second end thereof to said second member; and (d) a fluid communication means connected for fluid communication between a source of a fluid pressure and said air muscle for causing said air muscle to contract in a longitudinal direction upon supply of said fluid pressure and thereby elevate said brake hose to such predetermined elevated position.