US314903A - Carriage-top - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

1-]. E. WITHAM.

CARRIAGE TOP.

Patented Mar 31, 1885.

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N. PETERS, Phomumu m hur. Washington, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN EB-ASTUS VVITHAM, ()F STARK, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CARRIAGE-TOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,903, dated March 31,1885.

Application filed August 5, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it 1am concern:

' Be it known that I, EDWIN ERASTUS WITH- AM. of Stark, in the countyofOoos, ofthe State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement inWlieeled Carriages Irovided with Turn-Down Hoods; and Idohereby declare the same to be described in the follow ing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a longi tudinal section. of the body and hood of a buggy as provided with my invention, the na ture of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same.

My said invention is to enable theturn-down hood of a buggy or wheeled carriage to be wholly or partially raised or lowered by a person within the carriagebody by mechanism applied to thelatter. By means of it the hood can also be retained in apartially-raised position. For this purpose I have, as usual, to the hood A, on each side thereof, a prop, B, composed of two toggles or bars, a a, rule-jointed to gether at their inner ends, the upper one beiug pivoted to the front bow of the hood. The two lower bars of the two props are connected by and firully fixed to a shaft. 0, extended from one to the other of them, andjournaled in hearings in the opposite sides of the body, such shaft being beneath the seat. On the said shaft there is fixed within the body and close to one side thereof two ratchet-wheels, c d, having teeth formed as shown. Between these wheels is a lever, D, which is fulcrumed on the shaft, and has fulcrumed to it a furcated lever, E, whose fulcrum is shown at c. A

pawl or catch lever, F, pivoted to the side of the body and arranged with the ratchet-wheel c, as represented, serves when in engagement with such wheel to hold it from revolving.

A person while sitting upon the seat can either raise or depress the hood without taking hold of it. To efiect the raising of it he will only have to take hold of the lever D and reciprocate it vertically, so as to cause the furcated lever in descending to engage with the ratchet-wheel d, and in rising to slip thereon, the retaining pawl-lever suflicing, with the ratchet-wheel c, to hold the hood from falling backward after each of its movements upward. To depress the hood the person has only to throw the retaining-pawl out of action with the ratchet-wheel c and take hold of both levers and to move them, so as to cause the upper tooth or prong of the furcated one to engage with the ratchet-wheel d in a manner to turn it backward.

Instead of having under the seat the mechanism for revolving the shalt or rod connecting the two props, such shaft or rod may have a beveled gear on it to engage with another such gear on a shaft extending forward toward and under the dasher. dash er, mechanism, substantially as described, may be applied for turning such shaft either way transversely of it.

I claim The combination of a carriage-body.its turndown hood, and the two side props of the latter with a shaft connecting such props at their lower ends, mechanism for imparting to such shaft rotary motion in either direction transversely of it, and mechanism for retaining the hood in a raised or partiallyelevated position, the mechanism hereinbefore described for turning the shaft being the ratchet-wheel d, the lever D, and furcated lever E, and the mechanism for preventing such shaft from being back-turned being the ratchet-wheel c and the retaining-pawl or catch-lever F, all being substantially and to operate as set forth.

EDWIN ERASTUS WI'IHAM.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED R. EVANS, DANIEL LEAOH.

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