. Electric railway gazette . , Philadelphia. Pa. Filed March8. 1894. Spring plates are secured to the conduit andextend beneath the slot thereof and a trolley depressesthe plates. There is a longitudinal supcort in the con-duit, a conductor insulated from the support, andsprings in contact with the conductor, having upwardlycurved and oppositely-extending arms with which thespring plates engage. 532,339. Life-Saving Apparatus for Street-CarPlatforms; William H. Rogers, Brooklyn, N. Aug. 6,1891. T he life-saving apparatus is composedof plates adjnstably attached to the sides of a car,ra
. Electric railway gazette . , Philadelphia. Pa. Filed March8. 1894. Spring plates are secured to the conduit andextend beneath the slot thereof and a trolley depressesthe plates. There is a longitudinal supcort in the con-duit, a conductor insulated from the support, andsprings in contact with the conductor, having upwardlycurved and oppositely-extending arms with which thespring plates engage. 532,339. Life-Saving Apparatus for Street-CarPlatforms; William H. Rogers, Brooklyn, N. Aug. 6,1891. T he life-saving apparatus is composedof plates adjnstably attached to the sides of a car,ratch-wheels, having pawls, pivoted upon the plates,supporting arms pivoted upon the same axles as saidratchet wheels, counterbalancing springs attached tothe plates and to the supporting arms, carrying-wheelspivoted upon the supporling arms, a safety roller alsopivoted upon the supporting arms and arranged to bebrought in contact with the peripheries of the carrying-wheels, and a cradle attached to the supporting arms. Eferf3. No. 532,200. 532,360. Safety Attachment for Cars; RobertBustin, Boston, Mass., Assignor of two-thirds to JohnR. McConnell and James A. Van Wart, St. Marys,Fredericton, Canada. Filed June 4, 1894. The hangingbrackets have forked lower ends, and stretcher-bars arepivoted in the forks and extend rearward beneath lugsprojecting from the rearward sides of the bracketsnetting is connected to the sustaining bars, at the for-ward ends of the stretcher-bars, and on the end-guard. 532,385. Fender and Brake, for RailwayCars ; John T. Matthews, Baltimore, Md., Assignor oftwo-thirds to William H. Whiting and Mark Wells,same place. Filed March 7,1894. The guard or fender ispivotally supported from a truck axle and adapted to I be depressed by the weight of a person or object in col-lision. Brakes carried with and adapted to be auto-matically actuated from Ihe fender, and mechanism isconnected with the fender for automatically cutting offthe power and applying the brakes
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