US26421A

US26421A - Stone-loading wagon

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Publication number: US26421A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1859-12-13
Anticipated expiration: 1876-12-13

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,421, dated December 13, 1859. l

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, DAVID S. FANoHER, 0f Logansport, in the county of Cass and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Machine for Raising, Loading, and Unloading Boulders or Heavy Stone Upon and From a Wagon; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, references being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a horizontal plan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation. Fig. 3 is a receiving table. Fig. 4: is the clamps or grappling irons.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The frame or bed A, is fixed upon the gearing of a common log or other wagon. The front end of said bed is raised some twelve or fourteen inches above the front axle and secured to the same by a small hook that passes down beside the king-bolt. The rear end rests firmly upon the hind axle, making the bed to incline some eight or ten degrees. The drop B, B, is secured to the rear end of the bed by the hinged joints K, K, and is made to rise or lower to suit the occasion and can be secured to any desired position above or below the frame of the bed by the hooks G, G, which catch into the staples P, P. The bed and drop are filled with friction rollers 0, c, placed about ten inches apart. The center timbers B, is provided with pinholes Z, 2'. Upon the front end of the bed is a strong Windlass or roller provided with three spools 0;, b, b, the middle spool a, being some three or more times the diameter of the small spools b, bl The rope m, winds upon the spool a, and the ropes a, a, wind upon the spools Z), Z). The locks i F, F, are dropped to the ground to hold the wagon stationary while loading, as shown by dotted lines Fig. 2. The rails O, are designed to be taken off for the convenience of unloading over the sides, if required.

The receiving-table A, Fig. 3, is made of two inch plank, with a flange or cleats around the outer edge, to give strength and retain the stone. The strong hooks 71 h, are firmly fixed in the lower edge, and holes or staples 3 in the upper edge for the ropes 11-, to pass through.

The levers E, and the slotted cross barsD, are made with pinholes through the bars. The levers are provided with strong loops Z, Z, for catching upon thehooks h, h, Fig. 3. There are to be three receiving-tables and X one set of clamps for each wagon. r I

S, Fig. 2, represents the seat which is designed to cover and preserve the ropes.

r, r, Fig. 1, are small rollers placed some H two inches below the plane ofthe rollers e, e. 1 I11 using my stoneloading wagon. the earth is removed from the stone or boulder to a sufficient depth to get below the bilge of the stone. The wagon isthen backed to I within eight or ten inches of the stoneand the droplet down to or a little below the i surface. The receiving-table is placed between the stone and dropped, as in A, Fig. I 2. The levers are then placed under each side of the boulder and the loops Z, Z, fas tened to the hooks h,h, and the cross-bar D slid upon the levers E, E, andthus clampe and secured under the bilge of the boulder The ropes n, n, arethen assed back ove all the rollers and throng the holes y, y and fastened to the slotted bar D. The horses are then hitched to the rope m, which winds up the ropes a, 'n, andturns the table f A, down upon the rollers, drawing it up to I the required position, as at I, Fig. 2, where it is secured by pin 0 The irons are then taken off and the ropes in, n,passed under I the three first rollers and broughtnp over. the smallrollers r, r, for the second load, and so on for the third. In unloading,the pin are taken out and the receiving-table, :wit 1 its load, allowed to slide down the incline plane. f j What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is p y 1. The inclined frame or bedA, and the hinged drop B, in combination with the friction rollers c, 0, and the windlass a, b, b,

DAVID SJFANCHER.

Witnesses:

THOS. GUTHRIE, CHARLES B. Lassnnnn.