US329346A - Dumping-wagon - Google Patents

Description

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0. M. TITUS.

DUMPING WAGON.

No. 329,346. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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CHARLES M. TITUS, OF ITHAGA, NEW YORK.

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 329,346, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed April 13, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. TITUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improved Dumping-Vagon, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a four-wheeled wagon, and to a box made in two parts, one resting mainly on the fore and the other on the rear wheels; and my invention consists in the adaptation of the dumping-divisions toacommon wagon and to its reach, and to the means of retention in place and of dumping the divisions of the box, as will be apparent as I describe my invention.

Figure 1 is a view from above, or a ground plan of my wagon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a view of the fore box and its position when dumped. Figs. 4 and 5 show an adjustment of divisions of the box and of clamps differing somewhat from the other figures.

In the figures, a is the front division of the box, and c is the rear part of the box, and b is the rear axle, to which the rear division of the box is hinged; and d is a second bolster, to which the anterior division is hinged, and is placed in rear of the usual front bolster, and is attached to it by connecting rods or pieces d. To support this second bolster in its place, I make the wagon reach 6 quite stout, and strengthen it by the metallic truss e, as shown, beneath the reach. It will be noticed that a small section of the fifth-wheel f of the front axle is indicated as resting on this iron truss bracing in Figs. 2 and 3, but as it would obscure the parts shown in Fig. 1, it is omitted in that figure. A scondary iron bar segment of a fifthwheel is used, on which, as is common, the ends of the two bolsters d (1 rest, my modification being so to form it that it shall reach my rear bolster, d. These iron fifth-wheel seg ments are omitted lest they obscure the drawings. Just in rear of this second bolster will be noticed the stout hinges g, on which the front division of my wagon-box rests, and by which it is held. This division has a front end-board, h, but no rear end-board, since, when in use, the front end-board of the rear box division h is all that is needed. The rear box-division c is hinged to the bolster of (No model.)

the rear axle by the hinges g, and this boxdivision and its hinges act as in any twowheeled cart. Next is the provision I make for the use of a reach in my wagon, and it will be noticed that ati is a hinged piece in the bottom of the front box-division, directly over the reach. In Fig. 1 it is closed down in its place, because the boxis shown in the position to receive its load; but in Fig. 3 it is open, because the box is in the position of being dumped, when this hinged part rests on the reach, which thus becomes the self acting means of opening it.

Atj, Fig. 1, there is shown a lever-clamp that fastens the two divisions of the box together. Its shape is not very essential but its point is wedge or cam shaped, so that it closes the boxes together tightly or snugly to each other. This is shown only on the upper side of Fig. 1; but a similar one is used on the lower side of that figure, if needful; or one can be placed to act by one lever on each side of the hinged piece i, in which case it is fast to the middle of the rear box-division front endboard, and its staples are in the bottom of the front division of the box. Itisimportant that the clamps be made strong, and to close the two divisions of the box firmly together; also, it will be noticed that a bolster-shaped crosspiece, m, is attached to and moves with the rear division of the box, and which, when the rear box-division is returned to the loading position, rests on the reach. The front axle bolster acts as a guide for the loading position of the front box-division; 'thus the box-divis ions are self-adjusting to each other on the horizontal level, and for the clamps to act. The reach is made of a stout top wood strip, n, extending from the usual king-bolt of the front axle to and through, in the usual inanner, the usual place between the rear bolster and axle; but I add to it a stout iron truss, n, which begins at or embracing the king-bolt, or close to it, and has astud-block, n, under the additional bolster, near the front axle, and goes backward to a stud-block, a under the bolster cross piece m, and to near or through the aperture in the rear bolster and axle, where it ends. By this means I make a wagon-reach fitted to the demands of the wagon I have described. It is advisable to ICO make the tie-bolt rods that hold the additional bolster d to the front bolster, d, of iron, but they may be made of wood; and in the adaptation of a common wagon to my de-- vices the front bolster, d, is perforated for these bolt-rods, that when the additional orv the fifth-wheel may be taken out and easily put in the place (shown in the figures) it has in my reach.

Thus by my devices shown and described I make a dumping-wagon box, with two divis ions or boxes, adapted tothe transport-ion and the ready unloading of various articles-such as manure, earth, sand, &c.and fonuse in excavating, road repairing, and like uses. The bolster d is bolted to and through the reach and the stud-block n'. The box divisions a and e may be made to fit one within the other, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The box 0 in Fig; 4 is represented to be adjusted to have its sides and endboard h go afew inches into the rear end of the division at. This folding of one division into the other makes a stouter 5 junction of the boxestogether, and also allows a better plan for the clamps of the divisions. The plan is shown to be that staples are attached to the division 0, which pass, when the 7 boxes are put one in the other, through aperthe staples, and thus lock the divisions together. This rod is, by a spring, self-acting when it is desirable thus to make it.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a dumping-wagon, the second or additional front bolster. attached to the front bolster, and to which second bolster the front division or box is hinged, in combination with the reaehn, as set forth.

2. The reach 6, made of the reach proper,

n. in combination with the trussbracing rod 11, and with the stud-blocks n n, and adaptu ed to sustain the additional bolster d and the bolster cross-bar m, as shown and described.

3. A second bolster, d, secured by the rods (1 d to the front bolster, and constituting with the front bolster' a fixed resting support for the division a of the wagon-box.

4. The crossbar m, secured. to the reach n, in coiinbination with the rear axle, to which the reach it extends, the said cross bar and axle constituting the supports of the rear division of the box, as set forth.

5. A two parted or divided wagon-box, each division dumping in a separatecart-like manner, in combination with and adapted to a wagon with a reach, as set forth.

6. A wagon with dumping division-boxes a and 0, suited toa wagon-reach by means of a hinged piece in the bottom'ofthe front division of the box, whereby a pit for the reach is made, as shown and described.

'7. Alever, j, or cross-rod j, provided with hook-shaped or inclined tightening surfaces, whereby when the lever or rod is in the closed position for holding the boxes or divisions together these surfaces act as tightening-wedges,

thus making a firm locking together of the divisions.

CHARLES M. TITUS. WVitnesses:

S. J. PARKER, F. W. PHILLIPS.

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