US290445A - John m - Google Patents

Description

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J. M. MAYER.

BUGKBOARD WAGON.

Patented Dec. "18, 1883.

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BUCKBOARD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,445, dated December 18, 1883,

Application filed October 13, 1883. (No model.)

clear, and exact description of the same, ref-- erence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the wagon-body with thewheels and the ends of the axles cut off, and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan or underneath view of the same.

My invention relates to what are known as buckboard Wagons; and it consists, principally, in the combination of the buckboard or springing bottom with the axles and peculiar intermediate springs and braces, whereby the vehicle is made easy-riding, strong, free from rattling noise, and lateral or forward and backward movement, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, A represents the buckboard or springing bottom, made of ash,cedar, or other suitable material, and having mounted near its middle the seat B, in the rear of which is a guard-rail, O, and in front of which-is the dash-board D, and between which seat and dash-board is a detachable rail, 0, corresponding in finish to C, but made of malleable iron as a single casting.

E is the rear axle, which is connected to the bottom of the buckboard by a U-shaped spring, F, whose two branches extend up toward the middle of the buckboard longitudinally to the same, and are securely bolted thereto, and whose bowed or rounded portion is bent downwardly, and is firmly bolted or clipped to the middle of the rear axle. This spring-may have any number of leaves or sections, according to the load the wagon is built to carry.

To the outer ends of the rear axle there are fastened by a clip upon each side the stiff straight brace-rods G, which run up to near the middle of the buckboard at about the same inclination as the branches of the spring, and at their front ends are jointed to plates at a, which are securely bolted to the buckboard.

At the front end of the wagon the bolster,

] resting above the fifth-wheel or turn-plate of the front axle, is connected to the bottom of the buckboard by a U-shapedspring, F, corresponding to the rear one, while a single brace, G, extends from the vertical bolt of the front axle to the buckboard, and is attached to the latter through a jointed plate, a. 7

Now, in defining my invention more clearly I would state that I am aware that the bottom of a wagon-body has been connected to the axle by springs, and has also been connected to the wagon-body by spring-braces, as shown in the Patent No. 122,820.

My invention is distinguished by the following features-that is to say, the peculiar form and relation of the U-shaped springs in connection with the jointed brace-rods. The springs render the connection of the buckboard to the axle elastic, while the braces stiffen the body against forward or backward pitching, and while these results are attained the stiff brace-rods and the U shapedsprihgs have a peculiar coactive relation, in that in the springing movement of the body to the axle the radial movement of the braces describes at the axle an are that corresponds to the arc of themovement of the springs at this point, whichsecures the following advantages: first, that it prevents rattling noise at the joint of the braces; and, secondly, that it prevents twisting strains on the axle due to the up-anddown motion of the buckboard.

Instead of a single U-shaped spring in front and rear, there may be two straight springs in front and rear, arranged lengthwise the body and connected independently to the axles, instead of being continued above the axle in the form of a U-shaped bend, the essential feature being that the ends of the spring or springs which connect with the buckboard shall be on the same side of the axle as the braces and at some distance from the axle.

To strengthen the front and rear ends of the buckboard, awooden strip, S and S, is glued and bolted transversely to the under side of each of the ends of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination,with a buckboard and the axle, of one or more braces fastened to the axle and jointed to the buckboard, and one or more springs connected to the axle and fast ened to the backboard at some distance from the axles E E, the U-shaped springs F F, and the axle and upon the same side of the axle as the braces G G, substantially as and for the the braces, as set forth. purpose described. I 2. The co1nbination,with the buckboard A 4. The combination, with the bottom of a 5 and the axle, of the U-shaped spring having wagon-body, the seat, and the dasher, of a castits ends fastened to the backboard and its metal detachable railing, 0, arranged between round part to the axle, and one or more braces the seat and dasher, as and for the purpose deconnccted to the axle and jointed t0 the buckscribed.

board upon the same side of the axle with the J OH M. MAYER. 1o U-shaped spring, substantially as and for the XVitnesses:

purpose described. EDMUND S. V0013,

3. The combination, with the buckboard, of Louis 1. AHLHEIM.

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