US1572260A - Hide-carrying horse and truck - Google Patents

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Feb. 9 1926. 1,572,260

w. c. WREGHT ET AL HIDE CARRYING HORSE AND' TRUCK Filed April 16, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Feb. 9

1,572,260 W. C. WRIGHT ET AL HIDE CARRYING HORSE AND TRUCK Filed April 16, "1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 w/ 177 veiii'arv' QM 1 aw I by W I w wr qa Patented Feb. 9, 192% UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcs.

WALLACE G. WRIGHT, OF BROOKFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND DANA E. HARDING,

OF ARLINGTON, LEASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO HARDING ENGINEERING COM- IPANY, OF EAST BOSTON, MAS$AOHUSETTS,'A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS HIDE-CARRYING HORSE AND TRUCK.

Application filed. April 16, 1924. Serial No. 706,838.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALLACE C. \VRIGHT and DANA E. I'IARDING, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Brookfield, in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire, and Arlington, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachuetts, have invented an Improvement in Hide-Canying Horses and Trucks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings representing like parts.

Our present invention relates to leather handling devices, and more particularly to a portable hide carrying horse or truck suitable for holding and conveying skins and leather and to cooperate with hide feeding machines to StYG manual handling of the hides.

In the process of tanning, viz, manufacturing leather from hides, each hide passes through a plurality of operations, necessitating the continual carrying or transporting of eachhide from place. to place throughout the tannery. The hides are advantageously placed in piles or bundles and usually are hung upon rough wooden horses adapted to support and carry a mass of hides, hung over the horse and on top of each other. The horse is then dragged about the tannery to the succeeding places of operating, the hides are taken one at a time by hand from the pile and treated or put through a machine. As the process of manufacture nears completion and the hide is converted into leather, it becomes more and more difficult to handle the same, particularly in piled relation and frequently the entire pile or portions thereof slip from the horse, necessitating considerable unnecessary handling. Also, the horses then1- selves, as heretofore employed, are of such shape and size that the horses, together with the pile of hides thereon, are top heavy and such horses are prone to overturn with their load, The shape of present type of horses is such that it is absolutely necessary to remove the hides or skins therefrom in or: der that the same may be fed to a machine and this item itself is a source of great labor and expense in tann-eries. As the tanning industry is at present conducted, it has been necessary to remove hides or skins from horses and pile them in operative position on the work support or table of each hide feeding machine, the operation of piling being also a laborious hand operation.

Our present invention obviates the necessity of taking hides or shins from a pile on a horse by hand labor and placing the same on a table associated with, or forming part of the hide feeding machine. In carrying out our present invention we constructa portable and combined horse, truck, and work support or table; thus skins or hides may be piled directly onto our improved horse, or may be fed from a machine into piled relation onto the table or horse; thence transporting the horse or table as a platform to which the succeeding iachine, such as a hide feeding machine, may feed the hides directly from the horse or table and through said succeeding machine.

In the preferred form of this invention, we have devised a wheeled frame provided with a foldabletopconstructed with a fixed center portion having hinged flaps on either side thereof, such hinged flaps, when brought into the horizontal position, constituting a. practically horizontal sup port or table, adapted to cooperate directly with the feedingmachine itself, thus eliminating handling by hand. These flaps can be folded down for saving space, permit drawing of the hides, and'to facilitate transportation or trucking through narrow spaces and passageways.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of our invention,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation;

2 is an end elevation;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged end elevation of a portion of either Fig. 1 or 2 withthe wings or traps in extended position;

Fig. l is an enlarged sectional detail on the line 4- 1 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail plan view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates side members spaced apart and tied together at their ends by cross members 11, braces 12 being employed to stiffen the frame composed of the members 10 and 11. Secured to the side members 10 and extending upwardly and inwardly therefrom are standards 13 of any suitable size and number,

members 15 brace the entire structure thus far described. At various points along the under face of the platform 16 are secured by screws 19 hinges 20, the number of such hinges being any that may be desired. Secured to the hinges 20 and on each side of the platform 16' are leaves or wings composed of a brace 21 of a length equal to the' length of the platform 16 of any suitable or desired width. The leaves or wings 21 are reenforced by cross members 22 screwed to the under face thereof by screws 23 and in our preferred construction we make the number of cross braces equal to the number of hinges 20 employed. The leaves or wings 21 are secured to the strap hinges 20 by rivets 24. Adjacent each end of each of the leaves 21 and adjacent the outside edge thereof are pivotally attached one end of a strap 25, the other end of this strap being pivotally attached to one end ofa strap 26. The end of the strap 25 adjacent to the strap 26 is provided with a portion 27 which engages with one edge of the strap 26 to prevent a too far swinging movement of the straps 25 and 26 about their pivotal connection. The end of the strap 26 remote from the pivotal connection thereof with the strap 25 is provided with a hook 28 which is bored to engage with any one of a plurality of projecting pins 29 on the end of the members 13. In normal or loading position, the

leaves or wings 21 are in the position shown to the right of Fig. 2 and with the straps 25 and 26 folded within the area defined by the members 13. When in this position, a plurality of hides or skins 30'may be loaded onto the platform 16 and the sides of the hides or skins 30 will hang downwardly. lVhen it is desired to utilizethe horse as a table, the leaves or wings 21 are swung upwardly into the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 with the straps 25 and 26 in the-position shown to the left of Fig. 2 and the height of the outer ends of the leaves or wings 21 is determined by the particular pin 29 that the hook 28 on the strap 26 is in engagement with.

Secured tothe under side of the longitu dinal members 10 and extending transverse- 1y of the horse is anaxle 31 on the outer ends of which are .rotatably mounted the flat faced wheels 32. Secured to the under face of the cross members lland substantially centrally with regard to the length thereof are swivel castors 33, and by reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the horse, when the members 10 and platform 16 are in horizontal position, rests entirely on the wheels 32 with the swivel castors 33 out of engagement with the floor or ground. Due to overbalancing of the structure or to the load thereon the horse will, of course, not rest in this balanced position and either one or the other of the swivel castors 33 will engage with the floor or ground but, because of the fact that the castors 33 are swivelled, the entire horse is easily turned or steered, thus obviating the disadvantage of prior structures where all the wheels supporting the horse were fixed with respect to the frame and turning thereof was extremely diflicult. .On the under face of the platform 16 and at each end thereof are secured handholds 34 and by means of which the horse may be grasped and either pulled or pushed along the floor or ground.

From the above'description it will be obvious that our improved horse and table is rigid in construction,,and perfectly dirigi ble, that material such as skins or hides 30 may be piled thereon when the leaves or wings 21 are in the position shown in Fig. 2 or in Fig. 3 and that, when in Fig. 1, the horse may be moved to any part of the works with the material thereon and the wings 21 moved into the position shown in Fig. 3 when the horsebecomes practically a worktable and may be associated with a machine. Further, the horse, when oper" ated as a table, may be utilized as a receiving table and the work, when fed through a machine, may be received on the horse with the leaves or wings in the position shown in Fig. 3 and after a considerable number have been placed thereon, the wings or leaves 21 may be moved into the position shown in Fig. 1 and the horse moved to any portion of the works. Our improved horse, therefore, is adapted as a horse or as a worktable from which work may be fed or as a table on which work maybe received.

lVhile we have necessarily shown and described the preferred embodiment of our invention somewhat in detail, it is to be understood that we may vary the size, shape, and arrangement of parts within wide limits without departing from the spirit of the invention. 7

Our invention is further described and defined-in the form of claim as follows:

In a combined portable horse and worktable, the combination with a rectangular frame, an axle secured to the under side thereof, centrally located with respect thereto, and extending transversely of the frame, wheels rotatably mounted on said axle, swivel castors centrally mounted on said frame and secured to the end thereof and normally out of engagement with the floor or ground when the frame is in horizontal position, upwardly extending supports secured to the top of said frame, a horizontal table secured to the upper ends of said supports and extending longitudinally of said frame, leaves less in thickness than the table hingedly secured to the sides of said table and With the top surfaces thereof lying below the top surface of the table, When the same are in horizontal position, and means for adjustably holding the leaves in any de- 10 sired angular position relative to the table.

In testimonywhereof, We have signed our names to this specification.

WALLACE o. WRIGHT. DANA E. HARDING.

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