US209248A

US209248A - Improvement in vehicle-axle skeins

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Publication number: US209248A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1878-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 1895-10-22

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c. G'BSTRING a; J. sruLLmToN. Vehicle-Axle Skeins.

No. 209,248. A Patented Oct. 22, 1878.

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UNITED STAT-ns PATENT Or'rron.

CASPER GESTRING AND JAMES S. FULLERTON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-AXLE SKEINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No, 209,248, dated October 22, 1878; application filed May 14, 1878.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, CASPER GESTRING and JAMES S. FULLERTON, both of the city of lthem a rectangular recess, in which its the T-headed `stay-bar. The inner end of this bar may be attached to the axle by a bolt that vpasses, through the axle and hound, or the bar may extend across from skein to skein.

The cross-bar at the outer end engages under the hooked ends of the lugs and forms the bridle-piece of the clip passing around the skeins. In the case of the hind axle one end of the cross-bar is extended forward to form the brace-connection to the hounds and reach, and in the front axle the bar connects with the tongue-hounds. l

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an under View of the front axle. Fig. 2 is an under perspective view of one end of the rear axle.

A is the hind axle, and A the front axle; B, the bolster or sand-board. (l is the reach, and D the hounds. E E are the thimbleskeins, that may be made ot' usual pattern. I show them with a post or block, F, supporting the end of the sand-board. This post diii'ers from that shown in the Wheeler patents for thimble-skeins, numbered, respectively, 123,135 and 162,729, as'it Vis not attached in any inanner directly to the sandboard; it merely forms a prop or support for the end of the board.V

G G are two lugs cast upon the bottom of the thimble-skein. The inner faces are parallel, and between them is a rectangular channel, 'cn which iits the stay-bar H. The staybar has a cross-head, h, which engages the hooked ends g g of the lugs G, and. rests against a flat part, E', of the thirnble-skein.

The inner end of the bar His shown connected to the axle by a bolt, I, which passes vertically through the axle and the hound;-

but the two bars H may be made in one piece extending from skein to skein.

The cross-head h has holes for the passage of the screw threaded ends of the clip J, which extends around the top of the skein, and is secured by nuts under the crosshead h.

K K represent brace-rods, which in the case 4of the hind axle are made in one piece with the cross-head and extended forward to the front ends of the hounds, where they are attached to the reach. In the case of the front axle the brace-rods are connected to the tongue- Y hounds.

The described connect-ion of the thimbleskein and the stay-bar H is .such' that the skein is firmly braced by the bar against vertical and horizontal strain, as the bar tits tightly between the lugs, and also in hooks g. We have shown the st-ay-bar H and rod K as of separate construction, and secured to-v They may, however, be

gether by bolts. welded or otherwise made in 011e piece.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination, with the thimble-skeins, of the two hooked lugs G and the T-headed stay-bar H, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the skein E with hooked lugs G and the T-formed stay-bar H of the clip J, secured to said bar and surrounding the thimble-skein.

The combination, with the T-formed staybar H, ot' the brace-rod K, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of axle A, thiinbleskeins E E, with hooked lugs G G, T-ended stay bar or bars H, and clips J substantially as set forth.

CASPER GESTRING. JAMES S. FULLERTON. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, JN0. GEsTRING.