US1184960A - Wagon end-gate. - Google Patents

Description

R. T. JENNEY.

WAGON END GATE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 25. 1915.

I Patented May 30,1916

TINTTED STATES TATEN T @FFT@E.

ROBERT T. JENNEY, OF MONTICELLO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR T0 HALL MANUFACTURING- COMPANY, OF MONTIOELLO, IOWA, A. CORPORATION OF IOWA.

WAGON END-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 25, 1915. Serial No. 52,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT T. JENNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Monticello, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Wagon End-Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to end-gates for wagons of the class in which grain and other small articles and things are hauled and from which it is frequently desirable to discharge the load by tilting the wagon or the wagon body and permitting the load to antomatically dump itself by gravity.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means for holding the gate open at different degrees.

A further object is to provide novel means for locking the gate in its normally elevated position.

A. still further object is to so construct the device that, without the addition of any element, it may be locked in abnormal position.

Still another object is to generally improve the construction and increase the utility and efficiency of devices of this character.

The invention consists, substantially, in the improvements hereinafter described.

The exact construction of the preferred form of the improvements will be described in full in this specification and is shown in the accompanying drawings, but I do not intend, by such specific disclosures, to be understood as limiting myself in any way thereto, the scope of the invention being pointed out in the appended claims.

In said drawings: Figure l is a perspective, showing the gate board in its normally raised and locked position; Fig. 2, a similar view, showing the gate board raised and supported in a lower position; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional view; and Fig. 1, a fragmental end View of the device, showing the gateboard in abnormally raised and locked position.

Considering the drawings in detail, and designating the elements and, where necessary, the parts thereof each by a distinguishing reference character, 2 indicates the upper or stationary member of the device and 3 designates the gate board or gate proper, their adjacent edges beveled, as shown at 4, in such manner that the lower edge of the former overlaps the upper edge of the latter, whereby small grains, such as wheat, oats, barley, etc., will not spill as the wagon traverses rough roads.

5, 5 designate cleat-engaging side-boards at the edges of the board 3.

6, 6 indicate vertically arranged frame plates connected with both the board 2 and the boards 5 by bolts or rivets 7, their inner edges overlying the inner edges of the latter boards and providing stops for the board 3 in its rearward movement.

9 indicates a bail which comprises a bowed central lever portion 10, and crank- arms 11, 12, 13, the arms or terminals 13 projected through eyes in the outstanding arms of elongated angle-iron gate-guides 14 secured to the elements 2 and 5 by the bolts 7 15, 15 designate hinge straps bent to form eyes 21 which hinge on the crank arms 11, their body portions bolted to the gate 3 and preventlng it from warping.

Secured by the bolts 7 to the lower portron of each board 5 is a rearwardly inclined pocket 16 provided with steps 17.

18 indicates the locking-lever.

19, 19 represent locking-dogs, each pivoted to One of the arms of one of the guides 14 and its free end adapted to pass through an eye 20 in the other arm thereof.

Assume the parts to be in the fully closed positions shown in Fig. 3, and further assume the lever 18 to have been turned down over the operating bail 10. To open the gate-board 3 to the position shown in Fig. 2 the operator will turn said lever from off the bail (to release it) and will then swing the latter on its fulcrums 13. The crank-arms 11 will draw rearwardly' and upwardly on the eyes of the straps 15 and thus swing the board 3 to the desired position, and the pressure of the grain will force it rearwardly against the rear faces of the pockets 16, the lower edges of the hinge straps resting on oppositely disposed steps 17, and as both the hinge-straps and the pockets are metal, there will be no wear on the door 3. If it be desired to still further raise the board 3 the operator will again bear upward on the bail to free the board from the pockets 16. Instantly upon this occurring, the arms 11 will force the upper edge of the board forward. The arms 12 will be brought up into contact with the board 2, whereupon a dog 19 is manually operated to throw its free end through the adjacent eye and in front of the arm 12 to lock the bail and the board 3 in the normal dumping position shown in Fig. 1. During both the operations just described the edges of'the board 3 will be guided by the angle irons 14: with which they are nearly or quite in contact.

In some instances it is desirable to hold the board 3 abnormally open. The board is then to beswung on its hinges 21 to the fully open position shown in Fig. 4, (in which the operator has close and free access to the wagon-bed for shoveling therefrom or thereinto, or for any other purpose) and the lever 18 turned in rear of the bail.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new the following, to-wit:

1. In an end-gate, a stationary board, a bail, guides to which the bail is connected, a gate-board hingedly connected with said bail, and gate-board pockets at the lower ends of the guides, each of said pockets having a step intermediate its ends, on which steps the gate-board may rest.

2. In an end-gate, a stationary board, a bail, guides to which the bail is connected, a gate-board hingedly connected with said bail, stepped gate-board pockets at the lower ends of the guides, means for locking the gate-board in closed position, and means for locking it in normally open position.

3. In an end-gate, a stationary board, side-boards connected thereto, a stepped retaining pocket on each side-board, a gateboard, strapped-hinges on the gate, their lower ends adapted to rest on selective steps of said pockets, a bail engaged by said hinges, and means for pivoting the bail.

In testimony whereof I hereto aifix my signature, at Monticello, Iowa, this 3rd day of Sept, 1915.

ROBERT T. JENNEY.

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