US226636A - Henby timken - Google Patents

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11. TIMKEN.- Fifth-Wheel.

No. 226,636. Patented April 20, I880.

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HENRY TIMKEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FIFTH-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,636, dated April 20, 1880.

Application filed February 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY TIMKEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the countyof St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriages, of which the followin g is a specification.

My invention consists in so arranging the fifth-wheel of a carriage, buggy, or vehicle that it is provided with a stay passing under the fore axle and connecting with the coupling, and also with a spring, to prevent the fifthwheel from clattering. It is also cut olf back of the fore axle, so as to allow the body to be setlower than in ordinary carriages or buggies.

Figure I shows a top view of my invention connected to the running-gear and body. Fig. II shows a side view of the fifth-wheel, running gear, and body combined. Fig. III shows a front "iew of bolster, front axle, spring, fifth-wheel, stay, andpart of coupling. Fig. IV shows a detached front view of the end of the stay, the spring, and upper and lower part of the fifth-wheel. Fig. V shows a detached top view of the fifth-wheel, bolster, stay, and king-bolt. Fig. VI shows a side sectional view of the bolster, fifth-wheel, stay, front axle, and part of coupling.

A represents the fifth-wheel of a carriage, which is made in the ordinary way, except that it is cut away in that part of its periphery back of the front axle, so as to allow the body 0 to pass below that. point without interfering with it. It is also stayed by an iron or steel bar fastened to the front and upper portion of the fifth-wheel and passing down and under the front axle, and is connected with the coupling D in a permanent manner. E is the bolster, to which the upper part of claim is laid to it, for other lowered couplings have been in use for some time.

J is the bolt that passes down through the bolster E, axle, and stay B, as shown in Fig. I, and is fastened underneath with a nut or other appropriate means. This is also old; so is the body 0 and the manner of coupling the body to the gearing.

F represents a half of the ordinary elliptical spring, with its center fastened to the under part of the end of the stay B by an adjustable bolt, 1, as seen in Fig. IV, and with its ends bearing upon the lower part of the lower half of the fifth-wheel. By the spring F thus pressing upon the lower part of the lower half of the fifth-wheel it is prevented from clattering or making a noise.

As the spring F wears or becomes weak by use it may be tightened by the common adjust-able bolt J.

Now, what I claim, and for which I ask Letters Patent of the United States to be granted me, is

1. The spring F, as above described, in combination with the fifthwvheel A of a buggy, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the parts A, F, and B, substantially as above described, and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY TIMKEN.

Witnesses:

WM. M. EocLEs, H. O. HOFFMEIS'IER.

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