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    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01H—STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING OR PREVENTING FOG IN GENERAL CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS
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  • Myinvention relates to machines for making ice logging-roads in the snow, and it consists in the construction and combination of parts,
  • Figure l is a view in perspective of my improved machine for making ice logging-roads in the snow.
  • Fig. 2 is a plan View of one pairof the bobsleds used in this connection.
  • Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one pair of the bob-sleds.
  • Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through one of the runners and its shoe; and
  • Fig. 5 is a detail view of portions of beam, showing slot.
  • A designates an ordinary loggingsled in the main .features of its construction, it comprising a pairof bob-sleds connected by a platform which is supported on expanding beams O G.
  • the beam 0 isslotted through horizontally, and a bolt, h, having a threaded eye, h, is passed through the slotZ in the beam 0, the eye h projecting in front of the beam 0.
  • a threaded rod, Z passes through threaded lugs k on the expanding or extension beam, and passes also through the threaded eye h of the bolt h.
  • the threaded rod Z is provided at one end with a rectangular portion, Z, to which awrenoh may be applied to turn it to cause the runners of the bob-sleds to recede from or to approach each other, as may be de sired, to either widen or narrow the track of the sleds.
  • the runners of the sleds are soled with hollow shoes F, made of metal, and these shoes are connected by steam-pipes b with the steam-boiler A on the platform of the sled.
  • steam passes through a pipe, cZ, having a steam-cock, d.
  • "b b are steam-pipes, through which steam is conveyed from the steam-boiler to the hollow sleigh-shoes F.
  • the steam-pipes b b are connected at their lower ends with the hollow shoes F by flexible rubber tubes 9 g, thereby forming compensating-joints atthese points, which will permit the varying moveheld in place by bolts j.
  • steam from the boiler by means of pipes 12 b and compensating-joints 99, is admitted to the hollow shoes and allowed to circulate through and to issue from the shoes at the points a a through holes drilled in the shoes at these points, and from which holes the steam is forced downwardly into the snow for the purpose of softening the snow over which the sled is to pass, which purpose is further accomplished by allowing the water from tank B to issue in front of the runners through the pipes when the hardness of the snow requires it.
  • the steam heating the hollow shoes-F causes them to melt deep grooves in the snow,and which freezes after the passage of the machine and furnishes a glazed and icy gutter, in which the runners of the following loggingsleds can run without diverging from the road.

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F. B. LOWELL. MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING LOADS OVER ICE AND SNOW ROADS. No. 316,553.
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UNITED STATES ENT OFFICE FRANKLIN B. LOWVELL, OF MARINETTE, WISCONSIN.
MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING LOADS OVER ICE AND SNOW ROADS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,553, dated April 28, 1885. Application filed December 720, 1884. (No model.)
specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.
Myinvention relates to machines for making ice logging-roads in the snow, and it consists in the construction and combination of parts,
as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.
In the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of my improved machine for making ice logging-roads in the snow. Fig. 2 is a plan View of one pairof the bobsleds used in this connection. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one pair of the bob-sleds. Fig. 4 isa transverse vertical section through one of the runners and its shoe; and Fig. 5 is a detail view of portions of beam, showing slot.
Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates an ordinary loggingsled in the main .features of its construction, it comprising a pairof bob-sleds connected by a platform which is supported on expanding beams O G. The beam 0 isslotted through horizontally, and a bolt, h, having a threaded eye, h, is passed through the slotZ in the beam 0, the eye h projecting in front of the beam 0. A threaded rod, Z, passes through threaded lugs k on the expanding or extension beam, and passes also through the threaded eye h of the bolt h. The threaded rod Z is provided at one end with a rectangular portion, Z, to which awrenoh may be applied to turn it to cause the runners of the bob-sleds to recede from or to approach each other, as may be de sired, to either widen or narrow the track of the sleds. The runners of the sleds are soled with hollow shoes F, made of metal, and these shoes are connected by steam-pipes b with the steam-boiler A on the platform of the sled.
B designates a water-tank, in which water is heated by steam from the boiler A. The
steam passes through a pipe, cZ, having a steam-cock, d. "b b are steam-pipes, through which steam is conveyed from the steam-boiler to the hollow sleigh-shoes F. The steam-pipes b b are connected at their lower ends with the hollow shoes F by flexible rubber tubes 9 g, thereby forming compensating-joints atthese points, which will permit the varying moveheld in place by bolts j.
The operation of the device is as follows,
viz: After the runners have been adjusted to the width of the track required by means of the adjusting-screws Z, steam from the boiler, by means of pipes 12 b and compensating-joints 99, is admitted to the hollow shoes and allowed to circulate through and to issue from the shoes at the points a a through holes drilled in the shoes at these points, and from which holes the steam is forced downwardly into the snow for the purpose of softening the snow over which the sled is to pass, which purpose is further accomplished by allowing the water from tank B to issue in front of the runners through the pipes when the hardness of the snow requires it. The steam heating the hollow shoes-F causes them to melt deep grooves in the snow,and which freezes after the passage of the machine and furnishes a glazed and icy gutter, in which the runners of the following loggingsleds can run without diverging from the road.
Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is
1. The combination, with the sled having hollow shoes or runners with steam-discharge openings, ofthe steam-boiler with steam-pipes connected flexibly to the hollow shoes, and the water-tank connected with the steam boiler and provided with the discharge-pipes emptying in front of the rear runners, as set forth.
2. The combination, with the runners and the extension-beam, of the threaded eyebolt and the threaded adj usting-rod, substantially as specified.
In testimony that I my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y
FRANKLIN B. LOWELL.
Witnesses:
J. K. WRIGHT, D. MADAGIN.
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