Patent ID: 7467812

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 elevated position being attached to 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 elongated member positioned in a vertical direction and having a first end thereof connected to a predetermined portion of such railway car; (b) a second elongated member positioned in a vertical direction and having a first end thereof connected to one of such glad hand and such brake hose; (c) at least one fluid pressure actuated expansion member disposed between said first elongated member and said second elongated member; (d) an attachment means for attaching said at least one fluid pressure actuated expansion member to an opposed second end of each of said first elongated member and said second elongated member; and (e) a fluid communication means in fluid communication with said at least one fluid pressure actuated expansion member and a source of a fluid pressure for expanding said expansion member in a vertical direction upon supply of said fluid pressure thereby raising such brake hoses to such predetermined elevated position.