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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ELIJAH C. DODSON, OF DE LEON, TEXAS.
SAFETY CAR STEP OR RUNNING-BOARD.
952,728. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 22, 1910.
Application filed December 7, 1909. Serial No. 531,873.
To all whom it may concern: with and beneath the end of the car A, and
Be it known that I, ELIJAH C. DODSON, a is bolted to, and supported by, the lower 30
citizen of the United States, residing at I angular ends 11 of hangers 12. These hang-
De Leon, in the county of Comanche and ers 12 are secured at their upper ends to the
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new end of the car A, by buffers 13 having cen-
and useful Improvements in Safety Car tral bolts 14, and said buffers extend a suffi-
Steps or Running-Boards, of which the fol- cient distance out from the car end to pre- 3s
lowing is a specification. vent cars from coming together when they
My present invention relates to steps or fail to couple, and thus prevent injury to
10 running boards for the ends of freight cars the person upon the running board 10. The
to provide for the safety of brakemen when relative size of these several parts will, of
coupling cars together, and my object is to course, depend upon the construction of the 40
provide a. simple and inexpensive device se- car to which they are applied.
cured to a car by means which prevent two I claim:
15 cars from coming together to such an extent The combination with a freight car, of an
as to injure a brakeman standing upon the end running-board or step, hangers depend-
step or running board. ing from the car-end and supporting said 45
To this end my invention resides in the running-board or step, and buffers securing
construction hereinafter specified with rela- the upper ends of said hangers to the car
20 tion to the accompanying drawing, forming end, and outstanding therefrom for the pur-
a part of this specification, and in which, pose specified.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the adjacent In testimony whereof I affix my signature 5s
ends of two cars, illustrating the practical in presence of two witnesses.
advantage of my invention, and, Fig. 2 is an ELIJAH C. DODSON.
205 end elevation of a car to which my invention
is applied. Witnesses:
Referring now to these figures, I provide ALLOS M. PATE,
a step or running board 10, which is parallel EDwIN DABNJEY.
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Dodson, Elijah C. Safety Car Step or Running-Board, patent, March 22, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514134/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.