US241543A

US241543A - Henry b

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Publication number: US241543A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-17

Description

(Remodel.)

H. B. HUNTINGTON.

Sleigh or Sled Runner. Ne. 241,543. Patented May'n, 1881.

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HENRY B. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SLEIGH OR SLED RUNNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,543, dated May 17, 1881.

Application iiled March 14, 1881. (No model.)

[0 all whom it may concer-n:

Beit known that I, HENRY B. HUNTINGTON, of the city, county, and State of VNew York. but now temporarily residing at Belfast, of the county of Waldo and State ot' Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sleighs or Sleds or the Runners thereof; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following' specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side View, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of a sleigh-runner provided with my invention, the main purpose of which is to afford to the runner a greater bearing-surface on the snow than it would have Without such invention, such increase of bearing being to prevent the runner from sinking deeply into the snow, and thereby materially increasing` the resistance to be overcome by the draft animal or animals applied to the sleigh or sled of which the runner may be a part.

It is well known that owing to the little travel in winter on most country roads the snow thereon is often easily penetrated bythe runners of sleighs or sleds, which, sinking Within it, correspondingly or materially increase the labor required ot' the horse or draft-animals in advancing the sleigh or sled. It is usual to re-enforce the wooden runner of a sleigh with a bar of iron or steel applied toits tread, such being not only7 to strengthen the runner and prevent it from wear, but to render it easier to be moved on the snow or frozen sur face; but such a re-enforce is seldom or never materially wider than the tread of the runner.

In carrying out my invention l make use of an auxiliary metallic shoe of greater `or about double the width of the tread or main or permanent shoe of the runner, and I arrange such auxiliary shoe beneath the tread or main shoe, and provide it (the said auxiliary shoe) with means, as hereinafter described,fortixing it to the runner and its permanent shoe. By extending underneath `the permanent shoe or tread of the runner, the auxiliary shoe not only serves to `prevent the sleigh or sled from sinking too far into the snow, but it preserves the main shoe or tread from Wear, and is in such case a much better protection than it would be were it arranged somewhat above the tread and fastened on the inner face of the runner. With the auxiliary shoe arranged and provided with fastenings, as described, one or more other advantages result, as hereinafter mentioned.

In the drawings, A denotes a sleigh-runner, B its usual permanently-fixed metallic re-enforce or shoe, and O the removable or auxiliary re-enforce or shoe, whose width is about double that of the shoe B. The shoe O, arranged on the runner in manner as represented, is provided with several pairs of standards, b, to project up from it on opposite sides of the tread-bar a of the runner and against the edges ofthe shoe B. Each of these standards has a screw, c, in its upper part, and goes through one of a set o t' clips or cross-bars, d, extending transversely over the upper edge of the bar a. Nuts e are screwed upon the screws, and with the clips and standards serve to confine the broader or auxiliary shoe in place on the runner.

It will be observed that the screw-standards, by resting against the edges of the main shoe, are prevented by it from marring the sides of the runner, especially when such are painted.

The auxiliary shoe, besides answering the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, serves to strengthen the runner and to prevent wear of the main shoe.

The removable shoe may be applied to a runner unprovided with a fixed or permanent shoe.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

ln combination-with a sleigh or sled runner and a metallic shoe of like width adapted and permanently fixed thereto, an auxiliary metallic shoe having a Width greater than that of the main shoe, and arranged beneath and against its tread, provided with means, as described, for fixing to the runner and its permanent shoe, all being substantially as set forth.

HENRY B. HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses J AMES D. TUCKER, JACOB D. TUCKER.