US223732A - Tongue-supporter for vehicles - Google Patents

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0. H EBERT. Tongue-Supporter for Vehicles.

Patented Jan.- 20, I880.

ATTORNEY- JLFETERS, PHUTO-UTMOGRAPHER WASHINGTON, D c,

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER HEBERT, OF OSWEGO, ILLINOIS.

TONGUE-SUPPORTER FOR VEHICLES:

V SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,732, dated January 20, 1880.

' Application filed July 2, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, OLIVER HEBERT, of Oswego, in the county of Kendall and' State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Wagon-Tongue Supporters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga partof this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings isarepresentation of a longitudinal vertical section of a tongue, showing my supporter. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details.

This invention has for its object the improvement of wagon-tongue supporters; and the nature of the invention consists in the combination, with a vehicle-tongue having vertical play with reference to the hounds, of a sliding supporting-bar suspended by an elastic bearing at or near its middle portion from the pivot-bolt of the tongue, extending at its rear end under the axle and straddling the king-bolt, and removably attached to the tongue at its front end, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the front axle; B, the bolster; a, the king-bolt extending through the same; 0, the Wagon-hounds; D, the tongue, and D the ton goo-hounds fitting between the wagonhounds and pivoted thereto by means of the usual bolt 0. E indicates the supporting-bar, usually of wood, and having a straight upper edge, a, and an angular lower edge, I), to secure greater rigidity. The supporting-bar has at its rear end a forked metallic plate, d, that straddles the king-bolt, and is provided directlyunder the pivot-bolt with a loose collar, cl, having at its upper edge the laterally-projectingleyes t.

e 6 indicate metallic rods depending from the pivot-bolt c, and extending through the eyes i. These hangers e are usually hooked over bolt 0, and are screw-threaded at their lower parts to receive a nut, 1", between which and the eyes t is a coil-spring, s, the resilience of which may be regulated by setting up the said nut. Upon the under side of the tongue is secured a metallic catch-plate, g, having formed in it in the length of the said tongue at dovetailed groove, j, open at its front end andclosed in rear. porting-bar at its front endis a sliding bearin g-plate, 1), usually made in two sections, and having an interposed rubber disk. These parts are-clamped together by a through-bolt, n, and the upper section has a dovetail tenon, j, that is received in 'the groove j, and confined thereto by a vibrating latch, 0, pivoted to plate 9. By throwing this latch aside the supporting-bar may be drawn endwise to the front, and when its forked end is released from the axle the tongue lowered, with its free end on the ground.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sliding supporting-bar for a wagontongue, having the forked rear end, (1, to engage the kingbolt, and sliding front bearing, 12, to engage a catch-plate, g, on the tongue, in combination with the loose collar d, sus- On the upper side of the sup pended from the pivot-bolt of the tongue by hangers e and springs s, substantially as specified. l

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER HEBERT.

Witnesses A. S. DWYRE, D. M. HAIGHT.

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