US291488A - bbeed - Google Patents

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ROAD CART.

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ROAD-CART.

SBEGIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,488, dated January 8,1884.

Application filed January 12, 1SF3. (So model.)

foall whom/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JUnsoNW. BREED, of I the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Road-Carts,

of which the IOlIOWiIlg is a specification. I

The object of my invention is to provide a two-wheeled vehicle the body of which shall be supported by side bars, which latter are so suspended and supported that the body shall be relieved from jar of the axle. By my invention I am enabled to employ, in a twowheeled vehicle, a body similar to those employed for four-wheeled vehicles, and this body is so suspended from side bars as to receive butvery little of the jar of the axle. Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of the vehicle. Fig. 2 is. a top plan ofthe same. Fig. 3 is arear elevation of the same, showing one method of connecting the side and end bars and the body. Fig. at is abottoni plan View, showing the same construction and arrangement as are shown in thepreceding figures. Figs. 5 and 6 show the preferred kinds of mechanism for supporting the ends of the side bars either above or belowthe end bars. Fig. 7 is a rear elevation, representing the preferred method of establishing a springconnection between the end bars and the platform or frame. Figs. 8 and 9 represent methods of establishing a spring-connection between the side bars and the end bars.

In the present instance I have, for the purpose of illustration, shown the body of the vehicle as being connected to the side bars by springs known as the Edward Storm. spring; but it will be obvious that various formsof springs other than this may be employed, or in the construction shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9 rigid body-loops may be employed.

In the drawings, A represents the axle,which is supported by the two wheels A, and to this axle, near each wheel, is secured a bracket, (4, the connection being made by appropriate clips. The rear ends of the thills B are secured to the top of these brackets, extending backward a short distance beyond thebrackets, the extreme rear ends of the thills being connected by an end bar, b, another bar, b, connecting the thills in front of the axle. The ends of the bars b b may be rigidly connected to the rear portions of the thills B; or, if desired, a spring may be interposed, as shown in' Fig. 7, which figure will be more fully herein 5 5 after described. The rear portions of the thills B, when supported on the brackets a, form a platform or frame, which I will designate by the letter O, to which the spring mechanism is directly or indirectly connected.

'To the end bars, I) b, are connected the front and rear ends of the side bars, D, which lie parallel to the length of the platform 0. These side bars may, as before stated, be rigidly connected to the end bars, or they may be con- 6 nected by an interposed spring, as shown in' Figs. 8 and 9. Vhen rigidly connected, the ends of the side bars may be secured directly to the end bars, as shown in Fig. 3; or, if it is desired to hang the body higher or lower, as" 0 the case may be, the side bars are secured to the end bars by means of brackets (Z, or equivalent connections raised above the end bar, as in Fig. 5, or suspended below it, as in Fig. 6, the side bars being connected to these brackets 7 5 by clips d. The body E is suspended to the side bars, D, by means of the springs or body-loops e. By the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3,.and 4,- the body must receive the greater portion of 80 its spring from thespring-connection ebetween it and the side bars, D; but a great amount of the concussion of the vehicle traveling over the ground is deadened, for the reason that the side bars have no direct connection to the axle, 8 5 but are connected thereto through the interposition of the end bars and the platform 0. These side bars, being connected at their ends to the end bars, admit of a slight amount of spring motion. If, however, it is desired that 0 the body E be rendered capable of receiving a greater amount of springmotion, the construction and arrangement shown in Figs. 7, 8, or Qmay be employed.

In Fig. 7 the end bars, b b, are not con- 9 5 nected directly to the platform 0, resting instead upon semi-elliptical springs F, the ends of which are connected to the platform 0, or,

in other words, to the rear portions of the thills B. In this figure the ends of the side bars are connected directly to the end bars, and the latter, resting upon the springs F, are free to vibrate up and down.

In the construction shown in Fig. 8 the ends of the 'end bars, I) b, are secured rigidly to the platform 0 by means of stirrups f, to enable these bars to be dropped below the platform 0.. To the upper side of these end bars are secured the semi-elliptical springs G, the connection being made at the center of the springs, their ends being raised slightly above the bars, and upon" these ends rest and are secured the ends of the side bars, D.

Instead of the spring G, bolsters may be employed in the same situation, the bolsters being connected at their centers to the end bars, their ends being slightly raised, as in an ordinary bolster. The end bars are in this case immovable, but the side bars are free to vibrate up or down.

Instead of connecting the springs G to the upper side of the end bars, they may be connected to the lower sides, as shown in Fig. 9, the end bars being raised and supported above the platform 0 instead of being depressed belowit, as in Fig. 8, the principle of construction and operation of the devices in both of these figures being identical.

, It will be observed from the foregoing description that the side bars are supported at each end, thus giving a firm support to the body, preventing any rocking or tilting, and

yet allowing a free vibrating motion, preventing anyjar from beingimparted to the body from the axle.

, It will also be observed that the thrills B have no connection with the body, which relieves the body from any jerking motion caused by the movements of the horse.

The usual single-tree,g, is pivoted to the front bar, b, and a suitable stop, H, is connected to the platform 0 at the front end of the body to facilitate ingress to and egress from the vehicle.

Having thus described my invention, what I. claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

, 1. In a two-wheeled vehicle, thebodyE, connected to the side bars, D, the latter being con- 2. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the body E, con- 5 5 nected to the side bars, D, thelatter being connected at their ends to the end bars, I) b, said end bars being supported by the platform 0,

connected to the axle, substantially as and for the purposes specified. 6o

In a two-wheeled vehicle, the platform 0, connected to the axle by means of brackets a, and having the thills B, connected to the front end of said platform, in combination with the body E and side bars, D, the latter being connected at their ends to the platform 0, and the body being conneetedto the side bars by spring connections a, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

, 4. In a two-wheeled "ehicle, the axleA and 0 platform or frame 0, formed by the rear ends of the thills, and secured to the axle by brackets a, in combination with the side bars, D, and end bars, I) b, the latter being connected to the platform 0, and the side bars being eonnccted to the end bars, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the axle A and platform 0, the latter secured to the axle by brackets a, in combination with the end bars, 80 b b, secured rigidly to the platform, and the side bars, D, rigidly secured at their ends to the end bars, and the body E, suspended from the side bars by suitable springs, e, substantially as and for the purposes specified. S 5

6. The combination of the end bars, bb, and the side bars, D, secured to said end bars by ineans of the brackets or stirrups d, raised above or depressed below the end bars, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

7 The combination of the end bars, bb, connected to the platform 0, and the side bars, D, connected to the end bars by means of the brackets d and clips d, the brackets being raised above or depressed below the end bars, 5 and the body E, connected to the side bars by spring-connections e, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

JUDSON \V. BREED.

\Vi t ness es:

.T. A. IVIACKEY, J. War. STREHLI.

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