US304198A - Vehicle-spring - Google Patents

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VEHICLE SPRING.

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ALBERT LEONARD HOPFINGER, OF PORT CLINTON, OHIO.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,198, dated August 26, 1884.

Application-filed A an 19, 1884. (No model.)

f0 all whom it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. HOPFINGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Port Clinton, in the county of Ottawa and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figurel is a perspective View of my improved vehicle-springs, showing the same attached in operative position to the frame of a side-barbuggy of ordinary construction. Fig. 2 is a perspective bottom view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View of Fig. 1.

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

My invention consists in the improvedconstruction and combination of parts of vehiclesprings which are more particularly adapted for use on side-bar buggies, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the rear axle, B the front bolster, and O O the side bars, of the buggy-frame, the above mentioned parts being old in construction and forming no portion of my present invention.

D indicates the rectangular frame or bodysills of the buggy.

E E represent the two cross-springs at the front end of the frame D, the spring E, which is nearest the front axle, being secured by one of its extremities, by means of a hinge or coupling, e, to the right-hand side bar, 0, near its forward end, the other end of the said spring being rigidly boltedto the opposite or left hand side of the frame D. The second front cross-spring, E, is secured at one extremity in a similar manner to the left-hand side bar, 0, and at its other end to the opposite orright' hand side of the frame D. Upon either side of the frame D, near its front end, are secured the spiral springs F F, the lower ends of which I are rigidly secured to the upper sides of the springs E E near their ends, which are connected to the side bars of the frame, as will drawings.

The rear cross-springs, G G, and spiral springs H H are exactly similar in construe tion, and are applied in precisely the same manner as the front springs, E E and F- F.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

springs will readily be understood without requiring further explanation. It will be seen United States The combination, with the side bars, G G, and frame D of a vehicle of ordinary constructheir opposite ends rigidly bolted to the op posite sides of the frame D, and coiled or spiral springs F F and H H, secured between the under side of the frame D and the crossthe latter are connected to the sidebars, G 0, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose shown and described.

presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT LEONARD IIOIFINGER. Yv'itnesses:

JOHN DETLEFS, H. B. MAGRUDER.

that when the mainsprings E E and G G are flattened or forced down by the weight of the Having thus described my invention. I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the tion, of the cross-springs E E and G G, hinged at one end to the side bars, 0 O, and having springs E E and G G, near the point Where In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in readily be understood by reference to the '60 the construction of my improved vehicle-

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