Untitled record

E. TOLLES.

Car-Track Clearer.

Patented Feb. 20, 1844.

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AM. PHOTO-LITHO. CO. N.Y. (OSBORNE'S PROCESS.)

UNITED STATES· PATENT OFFICE,

ELISHA TOLLES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RAILROAD-CAR TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS FROM WHAT ARE CALLED “ RNAKF-HE ADR.’'

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,450, dated February 20, 1844. ,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Elisha Tolles, of the city and State of New York, have invented a new mode of constructing Railroad-Cars 5 to Prevent Accidents from What are Termed “ Snake-Heads ” and for other Purposes, on Railroads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention consists of the 10 following described apparatus which I term concave safety fenders. Between the wheels of the car and directly over each track: and in a line with the .same I place bars of wrought or cast iron or any suitable mala terial of proper width and thickness^ say three eights of. an inch more or less, and of a width, greater: than the thickness of the wheels by say two inches more or less, as shown at A, in the accompanying drawing. 20 Said bars I attach: firmly to: the bottom of the car B.: After making them concave on the under surface as seen at I), for the purpose of keeping the “snake head” E, in its proper place, viz., in a line with the 25 track F, while being forced down by the bar to its plape on the track of the road. The bars I make fast to the bottom, of the cars by bolts, marked from 1 to 6 on each side, : or by any method that may be preferred. The space between the ends of the car and 30 the wheels is furnished in the same manner with this exception that the bars: are placed in an angle G, governed by the distance from a point near the periphery of the wheel and within the distance from the rail to the bot- 35 tom of the end of the car. The space between the central .bars and the bottom .of the cars I fill with wood or cast iron open work of strength sufficient to sustain the cars.