US1074960A - Wagon-seat. - Google Patents

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L. A. LARSON.

WAGONSBAT.

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L. A. LARSON.

WAGON SEAT.

' APPLICATION FILED APR.12, 1913. 1,074,960. Patented 0013.7,1913.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFTQE.

LOUIS A. LARSON, OF OSAKIS, MINNESOTA.

WAGON-SEAT.

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Application filed April 12, 1913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS A. LARSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Osakis, in the county of Douglas and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Seats; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

My invention relates to improvements in wagon seats and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like chracters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of my improved wagon seat suspended within a wagon box from the wagon top box, said wagon boxes being shown in section; 'Fig. 2 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, with the exception that the wagon seat is supported in a difierent position from the top box, some parts being broken away and other parts being removed; Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the wagon seat, as shown in Fig. 1, with the exception that certain parts are shown in different positions, by means of dotted lines; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the wagon seat, as shown in Fig. 3, with the exception that the back is shown in a folded position and certain other parts are indicated by dotted lines.

The numeral 1 indicates an ordinary wagon box having detachably supported on the upper edge thereof, in the customary manner, a top box 2.

The numeral 3 indicates the seat plank and the numeral 4 the folding back of the wagon seat. This back 4 is secured to the seat plank 3 by a pair of arms 5, rigidly secured, at one of their ends, to the back 4 and pivotally secured, at their other ends, to the hinge lugs 6, attached to the rear longitudinal edge of the seat plank 3. The arms 5 are of a length sufficient to support the back 4, when turned upward, quite a distance above the seat plank 3, and they are so arranged as to permit said back to be folded into fiat engagement with the top of the seat plank 3. Stop projections 7, integral with the hinge lugs 6, engage the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 7,1913.

Serial No. 760,638.

arms 5, when the back 4 is turned up, and limit thebackward movement thereof.

For detachably supporting the wagon seat 3 from the wagon box 1, or for detachably supporting the same from the top box 2 in different vertical adjustments, two different sets of hanger arms 8 and 9 are provlded.

Each of these sets comprises two pairs of arms, one pair of each set being located at each end of 'the seat plank 3. The hanger arms 8 and 9 comprising each pair are rigidly connected, near their free or outer ends, by tie bars 10 and 11, respectively, and their inner ends are pivotally secured to the bottom of the seat plank 3, by hinge lugs 12 and 13, respectively. The four hinge lugs .12 are secured to the four corners of the seat plank 3, thus permitting the hanger arms 8 to be placed in inoperative.positions under the seat plank 3, as shown in Fig. 2,

or in operative vertical positions at the ends of the'seat plank 3, as shown in Fig. 1.

The tie bars 11 are somewhat shorter than the tie bars 10 and hold the arms 8 close enough together to permit the same to pass between the arms 9. To fold the hanger arms 8 from operative to inoperative positions and vice versa, it is necessary to first turn the hanger arms 9 into operative 0r outwardly projecting positions, to permit the tie bar 10 to clear the same during the movement of the hanger arms 8. The hinge lugs 13 are secured to the under side of the seat plank 3, at a suflicient distance from the outer edge thereof to permit only the free end portions of the hanger arms 9 to project beyond the ends of the seat plank 3. The free ends of the arms 8 terminate in hooks 14, adapted to embrace the upper edge portions of the top box 2, and support the wagon seat within the top box 2, with the seat plank 3 in substantially the same horizontal plane with the upper edge of the wagon box 1. The arms 9 are provided with pairs of laterally spaced lugs 15, adapted to engage the opposite sides of the wagon box 1 or the top box 2, and thereby hold the arms 9 against endwise sliding movement on said boxes. For holding either set of hanger arms 8 and 9 in inoperative positions under the seat plank 3, a pair of turn buttons 16 is mounted, for horizontal swinging movement, on a pair of depending studs 17, secured to the under side of the seat plank 3.

Obviously, by means of the hanger arms 9, the seat plank 3 vmay be supported from the upper edge of the Wagon box 1 in a position to permit a person sitting-thereon to rest his feet on the bottom of said box; or, in case the wagon box 1 is provided Witha top box,as shown in Fig, 1 of the drawings, the Wagon seat-may be supported in sub stantially this same position,.:by suspending; the same from the top box 2 by means of the] hanger arms 8. In case the Wagon boxes 1 and: 2 arefilled: Witlil a loath-thee Wagon seat may be supported above the load on the. upper edge otthe top box2, by the hanger arms -9. After theload. is emptied, the seat may be lowered to a. posit tion within. the Wagon: boxes, thus affording, greater comfort for the driven.

What I claim is 1 The. combination With: a Wagon box, of a seat, and two sets of. hanger arms. secured. to said seat't'or supportinginthe same from: said Wagon box. inv different vertical adjusts ments, one set of said hanger arms being: hinged to the bottom: of said. seat, inward of the ends. thereof, for movement to and. from: a horizontal operative position. and the other set. of said. hanger: arms; being, hinged to the endsioffsaid seat, for movement-to and from. a vertical operative posi.-. tion, substantially as "described.

2. The combination witlrwagon box, of a seat, two sets of. hanger. arms. secured to. said. seat for. supportinggthe same. from. said.

Wagon box in different vertical adjustments, one set of said hanger arms being hinged to the-bottom. of'said seat, inward of the ends thereof, for movement to and from a horizontal operative position and the other set' of said hanger arms being hinged to the ends of said seat, for movement toand from a. vertical. operative position, and means for locking either set of said arms ;in an inoperative position, substantially as described;

v 3.. The combinationewitha Wagon box, of Fa sea-t two sets ofhanger arms secured to isaid. seat for supporting, thexsame from said @Wagon box indifferent vertical adjustments,

one set. ot'saidhanger, arms beingv hinged to g the bottom. of said seat, inward of. the ends gthereofi. for movement 't'o and from a hor1-- jzontal operative position andthe ot-herset' iofs'aid hanger arms being hinged to the gendsof said seat,- for movement to and from a vertical. operative position, said hanger iarms: being; adapted to be turned into inoperativepositions under said seatfand means ifor locking either setof saidarms in an inoperative position, substantially as de- Eseribed.

In: testimony whereof I "aflix tin presence of two Witnesses:

LOUIS A; Witnesses CLYDE LONG, J. CURTIs;

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