US343262A - Two-wheeled vehicle - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. W. VORWIGK.

I TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

Patented June 8, 1886 N. PETERS. Phnlo-Lkhngmphur, wahin um D. C.

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ATENT TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,262, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed January 31, 1885.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn W. VonwIoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monmouth, in the county of lVarren and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two-\Vheeled Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and such as will enable others skilled in the art to make and use them.

My invention relates to the class of twowheeled vehicles commonly known as roadcarts, and to certain improvements therein, the object of which is to overcome the horsemotion transmitted to the seat by means of the shafts byhanging the body to the springs in such a manner that there is no connection whatever between the body and shafts, and by hanging the body to the springs by means of oscillating links, to admit of a free longitudinal movement or swing to the bodyindependent of all other parts. I obtain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompa nying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aside vertical view of the cart; Fig. 2, a plan View of one side of the gear, showing the position of the bodyin dotted or broken lines; Fig. 3, an enlarged longitudinal section through 00 at, showing in detailthe device for securing the rear cross-spring and crossbar in an upright position and permitting the same and all the parts thereto at-- tached to have a perfectly free and unobstructed vertical motion 5 and Figs. 4 and 5, enlarged cross-sections through 00 x and m m, respectively, showing in detail the manner of attaching the body to the springs.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A represents the two side and rear end parts of the common platform-spring rigidly secured to the axle B by means of clips in the usual manner, the forward ends of the side spring, A, terminating inthe eye 0, to receive the bolt or rivet c, which secures thereto the oscillating links 0 0, whose lower ends receive Serial No. 154,518. (No model.)

of the body D, the whole being to support and carry the rear end of the body D.

Hinged to the axle B and cross-bar E is the metal steadying-bar F, both ends of which terminate in the eyesff, the forward end of said bar F being hinged to the axle B by means of the clip I) and the loop 12, said loop I) being secured to the bar F by means of a bolt or rivet passing through its two sides and the eye fin said bar F, and the loop I) being rigidly secured to the axle B by means of the clip I), the rear end of said bar F being hinged to the cross-bar E in like manner by means of the plate 6, having on its outer surface suitable projections for the reception of the eye f on the rear end of the bar F, said plate 6 being rigidly secured to the cross-bar E by bolts or other suitable means, the whole being for the purpose of insuring an upright position to the rear spring, A, the cross-bar E, and all the parts thereto attached, and to provide means for so doing without interfering with the free vertical movement of the springs.

In the mode of hanging the forward end of the body D to the forward ends of the side springs, A A, by means of the links 0 c and the bar (I, I do not confine myself to that shown in the drawings, as it maybe found desirable to construct the trunnions d d in some other manner than on the ends of the bar (l as, for instance, forming them with a T head or plate to bolt to the body D, and it is evident that other slight changes in the construction and relative arrangement of the several parts might be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention; hence I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

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what I claim as new, and desire to secure by I clip I) and the loop I), in the manner shown, Letters Patent, is and for the purposes set forth.

The combination, in a two-wheeled vehicle, In testimony whereof I have signed this with the platformspring A, the axle B, the specification in the presence of two subscrib- 5 body D, the rear supporting-bars, d d, the ing witnesses.

cross-bar E, the hanger e, the links 0 c c c,

and the trunnioned bar d, of the steadyingbar F, having its ends terminating in the eyes Witnesses:

f f, and hinged to the cross-bar E by means of JNo. E. ALEXANDER, 10 the plate e, and to the axle B by means of the WM. P. SOHALL.

JOSEPH W. VORVVIGK.

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