US1432490A

US1432490A - Starting-crank holder

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Publication number: US1432490A
Application number: US377783A
Authority: US
Inventors: James O Peters
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-04-30
Filing date: 1920-04-30
Publication date: 1922-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1939-10-17

Description

- I. 0. PETERS.

STARTING CRANK HOLDER.

AP PLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1920.

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Patented @ct. 17, 1922.

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JAMES 0. PETERS, OF DAWSON, IOV/Ur.

$TABTING-CBANK HOLDER.

Application filed April 30, 1920. Serial No. 377,?83.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES O. PETERS, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Dawson, Dallas County, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Starting-Crank Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved attachment for Fordson tractors adapted to be employed at times to hold the starting crank in upright position to prevent contact thereof with cornstalks, brush or the like, and also to prevent rearward movement of the crank into engagement with the motor shaft.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for mounting a starting crank holder on a vehicle.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a side elevation illustrating my improved device in position for practical use, the inoperative position of the holding arm being indicated by dotted lines. Figure 2 is a plan of the same, the starting crank being shown in section. Figure 3 is a vertical section on the line 83 of Figure 1.

In the drawings a starting crank is shown, such as is commonly used to start the motors of motor vehicles, the one here showing being that employed on the Fordson tractor. The starting crank comprises a portion 10 which is in alinement with the shaft of the motor (not shown) and is journaled for rotation in the bearing member 11; the remaining members of said crank being a hanger portion 12 substantially at right angles to the body portion 10 and a handle portion 13 at right angles to said hanger portion and on the opposite end thereof from said body; portion. The nus meral 14: designates a spring coiled on the body portion 10 of the crank and contacting at one end the outer end of the bearing '1 l and at its opposite end a pin 15 passing through said member 10; it being the function of said spring normally to hold the starting crank forwardly out of engagement with a motor shaft. My attachment comprises a clamping member 16 of sub 5 stantially cylindrical form. but open at, its

lower side and formed with depending spaced parallel flanges 17, 18. The normal space between the flanges 17, 18 is sufficiently great to permit the clamping member 16 to be placed over the crank member 10 and spring 14-, thereon, after which the clamping. member may be moved rearwardly to embracing position relative to the bearing 11. A bolt 19 is then mounted through the flanges 17 18, which are formed with registering apertures, and a nut 20 is mounted on the threaded end portion of said bolt and drawn tight to cause a clamping engagement of the member 16 with the hub 11. At its forward end the clamping member 16 is formed with an upwardly and forwardly projecting fork 21, formed with transverse registering apertures. A holding arm 22 is reduced at its rear end and enters the fork 21 of the clamping member, within which it is pivoted on a rivet or bolt 23. The holding arm 22 preferably is slightly curved upwardly between its ends and terminates in a yoke or fork 2 1 fitted to and adapted to engage the hanger portion 12 of the startmg crank.

At times, particularly when the tractor is traveling over ground encumbered with corn-stalks or brush, it is desirable that the starting crank be held in its upright position, as shown in Figure l, in order to prevent contact thereof with the brush or cornstalks; and at other times such position is desirable to keep the crank out of mud or snow. At such times, after the motor has been started, the holding arm 22 is turned forwardly on its pivot to the position shown, and the yoke 2 1 engages the hanger portion 12 of the starting crank, which has been turned to its upright position as shown in Figure 1, and such engagement prevents lateral. movement of the crank and holds it in such elevated position. This engagement also prevents rearward movement of the starting crank, which is sometimes caused by contact with foreign objects, with the undesirable result of causing the ratchet of the crank to engage the motor shaft. When it is not desired to employ the device in this manner the holding arm 22 is turned rearwardly through an arc to' the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1, a shoulder 25 at the forward end of the reduced portion of said arm engaging the outer end. of the fork 21 and holding said arm in the position indicated.

in, of a holding device comprising a sub-.

stantially tubular clamping member open at one side and adapted to be mounted over sa d hearing by GI'lClWlSQ movement, said clamping member being formed with spaced apertured flanges, a clamping bolt eXtending through the apertures of said flanges and adapted toclamp said member on said bearing, said clamping member being formed at its forward end: with an inclined fork, and a holding arm pivoted at one end in said fork, curved slightly between its ends and formed at'itsopposite end with a yoke adapted to engage said starting crank and hold it in upright position and also prevent rearward movement thereof.

2. The combination with a bearing and a starting crank mounted for rotation therein,

of a holding device comprising a clamping member adapted to engage and be clamped to said bearing, said clamping member being formed with an upwardly projecting fork at its forward end, and a holding arm pivoted at one end within said fork and formed at its opposite end with a, yoke adapted to engage and hold said starting crank, said holding arm being formed with a shoulder near. its rear end adapted" to engage said fork to" limitrearward movement of said holding arm.

Signed at Dawson, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, this 19th day of April, 1920;

' JAMES O. PETERS;