US306535A

US306535A - Thomas scott

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Publication number: US306535A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-10-14
Anticipated expiration: 1901-10-14

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T. SCOTT.

` SLBIGH. No. 306,535. Patented Oct. 14, 1884.

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THOMAS SCOTT, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO MAGGIE L. SCOTT, OF SAME PLAGE.

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SPECIFICATGN :forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,535, dated October la, 1884.

Application iled January 21, 1884.

To @ZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, THOMAs SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Paul,

Vin the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleighs, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being also had to the ac companying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of one of the pairs of runners. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the axle detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the couplingsleeve detached. Fig. 4 is a perspective'view of one of the swivel-collars detached. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the axle as formed when the couplingsleeve is not used.

This invention is intended to be used more particularly to replace the wheels of ordinary wagons, carriages, Src., when sleighs are required, but may be used as permanent parts of ordinary sleighs. Two sets of the runners will be used on each vehicle; but for the pur pose of illustration I have shown only one set, A A2 representing the runners, and B B2 the raves connected by their ends to the ends of the runners, as shown.

C G2 C3 C'L are curved and bent braces con necting the runners A A2 and raves B B2, and riveted, bolted', or otherwise fastened to the raves and runners.

Upon top of each of the raves B B2, above `the braces, are chocks c a2, having semicircular hollows in their upper parts, in which rounded sections Z1 b2 (see Figs. 2`and 5) of a square axle, D, are held by caps a3 a4, the axle thus being free to revolve upon the chocks or bearings thus formed. At suitable points between the ends of the axle two other sections or journals, b3 b4, are rounded and shouldered, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, and fitting into these rounded portions are collars E E2. The axle is free to revolve Within these collars, and each collar is provided with two eyes, e' e2, by which they are connected to the forward upper ends of the runners A A2 by braces F F2, and to the nearest meeting-points of the braces C C2 C3 C4 by braces G G2, as shown in Fig. 1. By this arrangement each (No model.)

runner and its attached raves and braces are free to oscillate upon the axle independently of the other one, so that if one runner runs over an obstruction or into a hollow it will turn upon the axle, and not affect either the body of the vehicle or the other runners.

By means of the braces G G2 each runner and its attached raves and braces are rigidly held in an upright position at or nearly at right angles to the axle, but at the same time,

by being attached at one end to the loose collars E E2,the braces do not interfere with the free oscillation of the runners upon the axle. The braces F F2 also serve an important function in holding the runners parallel with each other, and at right angles to the axle horizontally, while at the same time not interfering with the free oscillation of the runners around the axle.

Extra steel shoes may be attached to the runners, if desired. These runners may be made as light or heavy as required, to adapt them for use under the heaviest freight-wagons or the lightest buggies or gigs. The axle will sometimes be made in two parts, D D2, as shown in Figs. l and 2, with its inner ends secured in a hollow sleeve, H, by set-screws g g2, so that the runners may be adjusted nearer to or farther away from each other, to adapt them to any width of vehicle. This adjustment will not always be required, however, as most vehicles are nearly the same width, but it will be found very convenient under some circumstances.

In Fig. 5 the axle is shown in one solid piece, as it will be formed when the sleeve H is not used.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim isl. The combination of an axle, D, affixed to the body of a vehicle, and provided with journals b b2 near its ends, and with shouldered rounded sections or journals b3 b4 on its middle part, raves B B2, provided with bearings a. a2,receiving the end axle-journals, collars E E2, turning on the middle axle-journals, runners A A2, having thereon oppositelycurved braces C C2 and G3 C4, as described, braces F F2, extending from the collars E E2 e l v V206,535

to the forward ends of the runners, and braces runners with said collars, substantially as and G G2, extending from the said collars to the for the purpose specied.

braces C C2 and C3 C?, substantially as and for In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the purpose herein specied. my hand in presence of two subscribing Wit- 5 2. The combination of an axle formed' in nesses.

two parts, with its inner ends connected by a sleeve, H, and rigidly attached to the body of a vehicle, runners loosely pivoted to the outer Witnesses:

v ends of said axle, collars E Eloose upon said C. N. WOODWARD,

Io axle, and braces F F2 G G2, connecting said LoUIs FEEsER, Sr.

THOM AS l SCOTT.