US138807A

US138807A - Improvement in wagon-standards

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Publication number: US138807A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1890-05-13

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Wagan Standards.

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alNrTEn STATES PATENT GEEIcE.

JAMES H. KNISLEY AND JOSEPH O. FERGUSON, OF RAINSBOBOUGH, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGiN-STANDARDS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 138.807, dated May 13, 1873; application led March 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES H. KNISLEY and JOSEPH O. FERGUSON, of Itainsborough, Highland county, Ohio, have invented an Improved W'agon-Standard, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the standard erect, and Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the standard turned down.

This invention has for its object to provide a device by which the standards that are attached to the bolsters of draft-wagons can be readily turned out of the Way when it is desired eitheir to remove a load .or wagon-body or to put on a load or wagon-body, and as readily turned into an upright position again when required. To this end the invention consists in the part-s and combinations of parts, which we will now proceed to describe.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents an ordinary wooden wagon-bolster. B is a iiat iron plate placed on the upper side of the bolster, said platehaving hinges C O extending from one edge down the adjacent side of the bolster, and jointed to apivot, D, secured to the lower corner ot' the bolster by means of arms E, having boxes in their outer ends, in which the pivot is supported, and extending transversely beneath the bottom of the bolster and bolted thereto. along the upper side of the plate B at one edge thereof, and is fastened thereto. The hinge C is bolted to the plate B at fr, and passes thence in an inclined direction to a point on the side ot the standard, F, at which point the hinge is bolted to the standard. rlhe standard is fastened to the plate Bin any suitable manner, as by an iron strap, G, secured to the bottom of the plate B by the bolt that helps to fasten the standard to said plate, said strap being bent around the ad- The hinge O runs jacent edge of the plate B, and passing up the side of the standard, over its top, down its other side to a point, y, and thence curved outward and joining the plate B at b, where it is bolted, forming a brace for the standard. H is a third brace, on the side ofthe standard opposite C. I is a hasp pivoted to the side of the bolster, and extending thence up over the plate B, to which it is fastened by a removable pin, J, passing through ahole in the plate B, and thence into an orifice in the bolster.

From this it will be perceived that when it Y is desired to put the standards in such a position that they Will not be in the way of placing a load or a wagon-body upon or removing it from the bolsters, what is necessary to do is to take out the pin J and turn the plate B and standard F down to one side, as shown. This operation having been completed, the standard should be turned up again and refastened by means of the pin J.

Where the standards are rigidly secured to the bolsters, as they usually are, they either must remain so in loading and unloading, to the great inconvenience of the workman, or they must be removed from the holsters and replaced in them by knockingr out and driving in again the keys or other fastenings which hold them in place, an operation of much greater inconvenience than the turning down and turning up of our jointed standards.

We claim as our invention- The combination of the bolster A, hinged plate B, standard F, and hasp I, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES H. KNISLEY. JOSEPH C. FERGUSON. Witnesses:

GEORGE STEVENS, J. C. NORTON.