US228483A

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Publication number: US228483A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1897-06-08

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(ModeL') G. E. SPARE. Carriage-Seat Iron for Shifting-Rail.

No. 228,483. Patented June 8,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE...

GEORGE E. SPARE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO M. SEWARD & SON, OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE-SEAT IRON FOR SHIFTING-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,483, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed March 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. E. SPARE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improve ment in Carriage Seat Irons for Shifting-Rails; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1., perspective view of the iron complete for market 5 Fig. 2,.perspective view on a reduced scale, showing its application.

This invention relates to the part of carriages commonly called the shifting-rail.- that is, the device which is attached to the seat to secure the top to the seat, but yet so that the top may be readily removed when occasion requires. The rail is an iron bar or guard around the upper edge of the seat. From this bar branches extend inward and downward upon the inside of the seat back and ends as a means for securing the rail to the seat. To these branches the top is secured, as before mentioned.

Heretofore the lazy-back has been attached to the top and necessarily removed with it.

The object of this invention is to make the lazy-back a permanent part of the seat-rail, and to construct the seat-iron as an article of manufacture provided with partly-formed seat rails, and also a part of the lazy-back supports, whereby the most difficult part of the seatforgings are furnished completely and perfectly shaped; and it consists in the seat-ironof the shape as hereinafter described.

A is the body of the seat-iron, which is secured upon the inside of the seat back or end, as the case may be, its upper end bent outward to form the arm B, and so as to lie in a horizontal plane when secured to the seat, the angle being determined by the pitch or flare of (ModeL) the back or ends. At the outer end of the arm B a projection, C, is made to the right or left, or both, at right angles to and in same horizontal plane with the arm B, and shaped to correspond to the required seat-rail-generally round, as shown.

Vertically through the arm B is a hole, D, through which the belt or stud on the top is passed, and so that the top will rest on the arm B, secured by a nut on the stud or bolt below in the usual manner.

E is a vertical post attached to or made a part of the arm B, and which is to be extended to complete the lazy-back irons, as seen in Fig. 2.

The carriage smith receiving these irons has only to weld a rod corresponding to the projection C to said projections, and so as to connect one seat-iron with the next, as indicated in Fig. 2, and also to weld extensions -for the support of the lazy-back, as seen in Fig. 2.

The hole D may be made in the arm by the manufacturer of the iron, or may be made by the carriage-smith who uses it.

In some cases one of the projections C may be omitted, as where the rail is not to be continued around the back .of the seat. In that case the irons are made one right-hand, another left-hand, in the same set; but in all cases the vertical post E is a part of the article.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the herein-described carriage-seat iron, consisting of the body A, bent to form the arm B, and with a projection or projections, C, to form part of the seat-rail, and with the lazy-back post E, substantially as described.

GEO. E. SPARE.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, JOHN E. EARLE.