US131933A - Improvement in wagon-tongue brackets - Google Patents

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UNITED J STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FREDRICK BREMERMAN, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-TONGUE BR'ACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13.l,933, dated October 8, 1872.

To all whom it may concern; I

y Be it known that: I, FREDEICK BEEMERMAN,

of the city of `Indiana-polis, county of Marion and State of. Indiana, have invented certa-in Improvements in Brackets for the Support of Wagon-Tongues, of which the following is a specification i p My improvement consists of a bracket so arranged and bolted to the front axle and bed plate as to form a very secure and permanent support for the end of a wagon-tongue.

Figure 1 represents a plan of the hounds of a Wagon, showing a top view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a 'ront'elevation of the bracket. Fig. 3 is a section through the line A B, showing an edge view oi' the bracket, and its connectionwith the axle, bed plate, and ton gue.

B B represent the hounds. A is the bedplate. A is theaxle. C is the tongue. D is the bolt that secures the tongue to the hounds. E is the back plate of the bracket. G G are two braces cast on the bed of the bracket. J J are two lugs or sides cast on the lower part of the' bed of the bracket, and` the space H between these two lugs is to receive the-end of the tongue G. K K are two side braces cast or bolted onto the bed of the bracket and extending down and backward, and Vare secured to the axle A. When the tongue .C is secured to the hounds by the bolt D the end of the tongue enters the space H between the two lugs J J of the bracket, and can be held iirmly there by a bolt, as at F, Fig. l, or left loose, as may be required.

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