US140286A

US140286A - Improvement in fruit-ladders

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Publication number: US140286A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 1890-06-24

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT DEEIGE.

ALVA LONGCOB AND JAMES B. LON GOOE, OF PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-LADDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,2Q6, dated June 24, 1873; application filed April 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ALVA LONGCOR and JAMES B. LONGGOR, of Paw Paw, in the county of Van Buren and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements and use the same, we will now proceedto describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which is a perspectir e View of our double ladder arranged on the bench or bed.

The bench or bed-piece for our ladder is constructed of two parallel side bars, A A, connected by suitable cross-bars, and having at each end a platform,O. This bench is supported at each end by two legs, B B, which are so arranged as to be spread apart or contracted at will to suit the inequalities of the ground. D and E represent two ladders constructed, in the usual manner, each of two side bars connected by a series of rounds. These two lad ders are connected at their upper ends by a top round which is common for the two,- and which passes through the side bars of both, the ladder D being so much wider than the ladder E that the latter will pass within the former, as shown. The lower end of the ladder D straddles the bench, and the bottom round of the same slips under hooks a an attached to the side bars A A, while the lower end of the ladder E rests in notches b b at the other end of the side bars A, and is held by hooks d 01. There are two or more sets of hooks, a, notches b, and hooks d, so that the double ladder D E may be contracted or expanded at will, and, in any position, two persons can pick the fruit, each having a basket standing on the platforms 0. When desired to use a long single ladder, the ladder E is turned on the top round till it comes on a line with the ladder D, when the two ladders are hooked together by hooks e e. The upper ends of both ladders D and E are notched, as shown at a; w, to fit over the next to the top rounds. If a still longer ladder is desired, an additional single ladder may be attached in the ordinary manner.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bench A B 0 provided with books a a and d d and "notches b b, and used in combination with the double ladder D E, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ALVA LONGGOR. JAMES B. LONGGOE. Witnesses:

E. A CRANE, GEAnLEs E. GALLIGAN.