US335649A - Combined double and single seated sleigh - Google Patents

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W. H. & 0. STEINBREOHER.

COMBINED DOUBLE AND SINGLE SEATBD SLEIGH.

No. 335,649. Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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W. H. 80 G. STEINBREOHER.

COMBINED DOUBLE AND SINGLE SEATED SLEIGH.

No. 335,649. Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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I WILLIAM H. STEINBREOHER AND CHARLES STEINBREGHER, OF DETROIT,

MICHIGAN.

COMBINED DOUBLE AND SINGLE SEATED SLEIGIH.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 335,649, dated February 9, 1886.

Application filed September 28, 1885. Serial No. 178,411. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it mag concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. STEIN- LBREOHER and CHARLES STEINBREOHER, citi- Zens of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of IVayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Single and Double Seated Sleighs; and we do 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 the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention in sleighs relates to the construction of the seat of 21. Portland sleigh so that it may be divided and adjusted to form two seats, or closed up, forming but one seat, so that an ordinary sleigh may be changed from a single to a two seated sleigh, as desired; and our invention consists in the general arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forminga part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective as singleseated. Fig. 2 is a perspective of same as a two-seated sleigh. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2, showing by dotted lines the front seat dropped. Fig. 4 is an enlarged bottom view of front seat and attaching-irons. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail.

B B are the usual sides of the sleigh; f, tilting foot-rail; R, the usual rail or bottom support of body.

The body of the sleigh and its runninggear we form in the usual way, and need not be herein described; but the parts A. A, which form usually asingle seat,we have cut or formed of two parts, so as to be brought together to form a single seat, as shown in Fig. 1, or separated and forced from each other, as shown in Fig. 2, thus forming two seats by moving the part A partially back of the rear end of the sleigh and advancing the part A toward the dash D", as shown in Fig. 2, forming the two seats m and 2, having ample room between them.

To the under face of the rear seat, near each end, we attach, crossing the same, a metal arm,

h, having the rear end bent down, forming a lug, T, which meet the side rails of the sleighbody, preventing end movement of the seat. The forward ends of the arms are rounded and bent outward or. from each other, forming 5 guide-pins a", as shown in Fig. 5. On the inner face, at the top of the sides 13 B, we attach a slotted metal plate, I, (see Fig. 3,) having a longitudinal slot, 0, and vertical openings it, leading into said slot. The pins a a of the arms h h are fitted into and work in the openings (it i as shown in Fig. 3. When the part forming the rear seat is drawn back, as shown in Fig. 3, the pins a a" limit its backward movement, and when the seat is back, as shown 6 in Figs. 2 and 3, the pins enter the rear slots '6, locking the seat in position. To move said seat forward, as shown in Fig. 1, it is slightly tilted forward until the pins are out of the vertical slots, when it is advanced until the 0 pins (1" a strike the front shoulder of the slots 0 of the plates P P, when the pins enter the forward vertical slots t, thus locking the seat forward. As the seat is moved back and for- Ward, the depending lugs r 1', pressing against the side rails of the body, guide the seat.

To the bottom at of the front seat we attach two metal boxes, 9 through which passes loosely the horizontal shaft B. The ends of the shaft are bent toward each other at right an- 8c gles to the shaft, forming the legs at a. Said legs at the lower end are bent forward, and are pivotally attached at e to the bottom rail, R, of the sleigh-body, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Extending from the legs a n to the shaft s 13 are braces b b. The legs, braces, and shaft are formed integral, and upon these parts the front seat is mounted, and is carried backward and forward.

To the rear outer corners of the front seat and 011 the under side of the bottom we anchor the plates (Z (I, each having a depending lug, a, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. Said lugs, when the seat is moved forward, drop into engaging-holes in the upper face of the rail sup- 5 porting the seat, as shown by dots at e of Fig.

2, and when moved back they drop into the holes shown by dots at e of same figure.

D represents the back of the back seat, and C the back of the front seat, which is made detachable, it being se'cured to the end portions forming the front seat by means of a hook or button at 12, (see Fig. 2,) and when the seats are formed together, forming but one,

the back (3 is detached from the position of Fig. 2, and attached to and over the back D at o of Fig. 1, the offset or projection t fitting over the top of the back D, which supports it. The form of the end portions, A A, is such that when joined together they appear to represent the end of an ordinary single seat, as shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus fully set forth our present invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the body ofa sleigh, a seatmounted thereon having a central 1ongit'udinal division, one part adapted to be moved rearward over the back of the box, the other part adapted to be moved forward, forming two seats, said parts also adapted to be inoved toward each other, joining as a single seat, as and for the purposes set forth.

D, and detachable back 0, as and forthe purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. STEINBREOHER. CHARLES STEINBREOHER.

\Vitnesses:

R. B. \VHE LER, EDWARD M. HoLMEs.

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