US319060A

US319060A - Two-wheeled vehicle

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Publication number: US319060A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1902-06-02

Description

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T. H. BROWN.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 319,060. Patented June 2, 1885.

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UNITED TATES Parent @rrrca THOMAS H. BROWN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,060, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed March 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Tnorras H. BROWN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two-IVheeled Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in two-wh eeled vehicles, and pertains to the construction of the rear part of the thills and the device for adjusting the thills to horses of different heights. It is obvious that when the body and thills are permanently fixed to each other the body is necessarily inclined forward or backward, according to the height of the horse, while by my improvement the thills may be inclined either upward or downward to conform to the height of the horse used, and the body still retained in its normal position.

My invention is further explained by ref erence to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view. Fig. 2 is a front view, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, of one of the adjusting irons or brackets.

The body of the vehicle A is supported upon platfornrsprings B, which springs are rigidly fastened to the side bars, 0. The side bars, 0, are permanently attached to the axle D, thus the axle, side bars, springs, and body are all permanently connected together by bolts and clips in the ordinary manner. The thills are respectively formed in two parts, E and F, which parts are rigidly j oined together, as shown in Fig. 1. It is obvious that the weight or down ward pressure brought to bear on the front end of the body is resisted by both parts E and F, and owing to their curved shape such parts are capable of supporting great weight. The thills are attached to the axle by ordinary chill-couplings, G, which permit their front ends to be raised, lowered, and adjusted at any desired angle to the body A. The thills and body are connccted together by the iron brackets H,which are permanently attached to the thills by bolts passing through holes I. The side bars, G O, are connected both front and rear by bars J and K. The ends of the barJ extend through between the sides L L of the bracket H, and are rigidly secured therein at any of the several points of adjustment corresponding with the holes M with an ordinary bolt. the height of the horse with which the vehicle is used is such that the body would be inclined backward, the front end of the body is lowered by adjusting the bar J to one of the lower holes M, and when a low horse is used the front end of the body is raised, and the bar J adjusted to the upper holes in the bracket. Thus it is obvious that the body A may be retained in its normal position without regard to the position of the front ends of the thills or the height of the horse.

0 is a step, which is attached to the lower bar, E, of the thills.

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

l. The thills herein described, the rear ends of which are formed in two parts arranged one above the other, the rear ends of the bars forming the upper parts being curved downward and rigidly attached to the lower bars, and the front ends of the bars forming the lower parts being curved upward and rigidly attached to the upper bars, said bars thus combined being adapted by their curved shape to mutually strengthen and support each other, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of bars F, having downward-curved rear ends, bars E, having upward curved front ends, axle D, and side bars, 0, the curved ends of each of the respective bars being rigidly attached to the others, the rear ends of said lower bar, E, being attached by a flexible coupling to said axle and its front end to said side bars, as set forth.

3. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the combination,with the respective thills, of the brackets H and bar J, said brackets being provided with several holes or places of adj ustment,l\I, whereby the thills may be adjusted to correspond to the height of the horse, as set forth.

4. The combination of thills formed of parts When E and F, brackets H, bar J, coupling G, and In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in axle D, said couplings being adapted to perpresence of two Witnesses. Init said. thiils to be adjusted to the several holes in said braokeis, as and for the purpose THOMAS H. BROWN; 5 setforth.

5. The combination, with the bar E of the Witnesses: thills herein described, formed in two parts, of J AS. B. ERWIN, the step 0, as set forth. W. SINNOTT.