US1325583A

US1325583A - Vehicle.

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Publication number: US1325583A
Application number: US29505519A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry G Runne
Original assignee: CHARLES L TOWNSEND
Current assignee: CHARLES L TOWNSEND
Priority date: 1919-05-06
Filing date: 1919-05-06
Publication date: 1919-12-23
Anticipated expiration: 1936-12-23

Description

H. G. RUNNE.

VEHICLE.

APvLlcATloN man MAYG.1919.

n. Patented Bee. 23, M9.

`UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

HENRY G. RUE'NE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, SSIGNOR OF ONE-'HALF T0 CHARLES L.

, TOWNSEND, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

VEHICLE.

specification o f Letters Patent. l Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application filed May 6, 1919. Serial No. 285,055.

To all 'whom t may concern:

lie lit known that I, HENRY G. RUNNE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the referencenumerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to vehicles and more particularly the steering mechanism thereof and it has for its obj eetto provide an improved adjustable steering post of such simplicity and cheapness as to make it available for use in connection with ltoy vehicles such as velocipedesand the like that are inexpensively built and assembled andl adjusted by unskilled persons. The improvements are directed toward the means provided for elevating or lowering the vehicle body upon the steering post and to these and other ends the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side view of a toy vehicle constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged bottom View of a fragment of the body taken in horizontal section through the steering' post; I

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section taken sub, stantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4t is an enlarged perspective view of a bracket bearing for the steering post.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the saine parts.

In the present instance, the vehicle consists of a body or seat board 1 which is.

straddled by the child who pushes against theground with his feet to obtain locomotion. At the rear end of the body there is4 pivoted at 2 an axle board 3 carrying the axle 4 supported by rear wheels 5'. A radius vrod 6 adjustable as to length in a manner not here involved7 connected to the axle i and to the under side of the body controls the angie ci' the axle beard 3 and hence the height lat which the rear* end ci: the body is supported. ilmse changes neeessita a correl spending change in elevation of the front end of the body which is supported upon a steering post 7" having a handle 8 atthe top and a fork 9 at the bottoni provided with an axle 10 for the single front wheel 11 and it 6.0 -1s these changes in the adjustment ofthe steering post or in the adjustment of the. body thereon with which my present invention has to do.

The said steering post 7 extends vertically 65 or at a slight inclination through the body and is provided in this region with a number of circumferential grooves 12 forming annular seats or shoulders. It also extends through the otl'set portion 18 of a bracket 70 plate 1l that is secured to the under side of the body 1 and the said oi'set portion 13 is apertured at 14 to receive it, as shown in Fig. 4, the aperture being defined by an upstanding collar 15 that constitutes a bear- 75 ing for the post in addition to the bearing provided by the body itself, as shown in Fig. Il. The radius rod 6' may also be pivoted u 16 at its front end to the plate 14 which; in the present instance, is pro- 80 vided with/an ear 17 for this purpose. In the form shown, the bracket plate is secured to the body board firmly'by screws 1S. The offset portion 13 of the bracket is preferably annular and at one side there is pivoted to and beneath the same as at 19. a semi-annular locking member 20. This member 20 is preferably of substantially the contour of the member 18 and is adapted to be swung Jfrom the inoperative position of Fig. 4. to the operative position ofthe other' figures, whereupon an aperture 21 in its opposite or free end comes into register with an aperture 22 in the oli'set portion 1 3 to receive a cotter pin or other device 2.3 and be secured in locked position. TheI manipulations of the locking member are conducted v by meanso.' an ear 24 that constitutes a. handle and wf h. because of thcofi'set formation of the plato 14, is at all times readily accessible. W ien movedto locking position, the locking inen'iber 20 'coi'iperates selectively, with any desired one of the plurality of annular seats of shoulders 12 on the post 7 so that the body is supported at the front 106 through the medium of the locking member at the desired height to conform to the height of the rear end that has previously been adjusted according to the reach of the childs legs The semieircalar portion or on the post and '10 be readily adjusted by unskilled persons who, in order to etl'ect a change of adjustment, are required to merely remove the cotter pin 23 and replace it after swinging out the mem'ber 2() and seating it in the desired groove.

l claim as my invention:

l. The con'ibination With a vehicle body 'and a rotatable steering post extending Athrough the body and vertically adjustable relatively thereto, of a member pivoted to.

the body and adapted to be swung into and out of locking engagement with the steering post, to rotatively support thc body thereon. 2. The combination with a vehicle body and a rotatable steering post vertically adjustable relatively thereto and provided' with a plurality' ot' annular seats, of a member pivoted to the body and adapted to be swung into and out of locking engagement with said seats, selectively, to rotatably support the body at diiicrent heights on the steering post.

3. The combination with a vehicle body and a rotatable steering post vertically adjustable relatively thereto and provided With a plurality of annular seats, of a semi-annu lar member pivoted to the body and adapted to be swung into and out of locking engagement With'said seats, selectively, to rotatably support the body at different heights on the steering post. p

t. The combination with a Vehicle body having an otl'set bracket thereon and a rotatable steering post extending through the body and bracket to be vertically adjustable relatively thereto and provided-With a plurality of annular seats, of a member pivoted to the bracket and adapted to be swung into and out of locking engagement With said seats, selectively, to rotatively support the body at different heights on the steering. post.

5. The combination with avvehicle body and a steering post vertically adjustable relatively thereto and provided with a plurality ot annular seats, of a bracket secured to the body and embodying an olfset apertured portion provided with a collar forming a bearing for the steering post, anda curved member pivoted to such oi'set portion and adapted to b'e swung into and out of .locking engagement with said'seats on the steering post, selectively, to rotatably nsupport the body at different heights on` the steering post.

HENRY G. RUNNE.