Safety reflector for freight cars

Claim 1

In combination, a railway freight car, a safety light-reflecting device attached to a side of said freight car and comprising a sign having a shape of an "X" in a horizontal position resembling a standard railway crossing warning sign, said sign comprising two elongate rectangular bars which cross each other at their centers, said bars having front, spaced, raised parallel tracks, reflecting material located in and filling the space between said front tracks, said reflecting material extending from a short distance away from the ends of the bars to the center of the intersection thereof, additional reflecting means between the front tracks at the outer ends of said bars beyond said reflecting material, and abutting the ends of the reflecting material, single rivet means at the intersecting ends of said reflecting material and affixing all four of the ends to said bars, hollow rivet means near the outer ends of each said bars and extending through said bars and affixing outer end portions of said reflecting material to said bars, said hollow rivet means having bores extending completely therethrough from one end to the other for receiving fastener means extending therethrough for affixing said sign to the side of the freight car.