US357428A

US357428A - Tongue-support

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Publication number: US357428A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-02-08
Anticipated expiration: 1904-02-08

Description

(No Model.) I Y j G. W-. VAN DE MARK 8: G. MOORE. TONGUE SUPPORT; .No. 357,428. Patented Feb. 8, 1887'.

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TONGUE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,428, dated February 8, 1887,

Application filed November 12, 1886. Serial No. 218,705. A (No model.)

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Be it known that we, OnARLns W. VAN DE MARK and CALVIN MOORE, of Clyde, in the county of Cloud and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tongue-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved tongue-sup port; and it consists in certain features of construction and novel combinations of parts, as will be described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of the spring.

The hounds A A and tongue B may be of the ordinary construction, connected by the common cross-shaft O, as shown. The spring D is formed of the cross-bar E, of spring metal or material, and the arms F E, which latter are also of spring material, are secured at one end to the bar E and extend forward therefrom. At its ends the bar E is secured to the hounds or other support. This is preferably accomplished in the manner shown by fitting staples G over the ends of said cross-bar and securing such staples to the hounds, the ends of the cross-bar E being bent, forming projections e, which prevent the bar from becoming detached from the staples. This form of connection with the hounds permits the necessary movements of bar E forsuch bar to act as a spring.

By threading the arms of the staples G and providing nuts 9 on the arms below the hounds the cross-bar may be held'close to the hounds, or permitted to have more or less play, according to the angle at which it is de sired to support the tongue.

The arms F F extend, in use, over the shaft 0, and then below and bear under the tongue at H. At their forward ends, where they bear under the tongue, the arms are rounded at ff, in order that they may move easily against the tongue and not to any great extent wear the same.

Instead of resting the arms F directly on the shaft, it is preferred to provide an intermediate connection between such parts. This connection in the construction shown is a bolt, I, having a threaded shank, t, secured to the shaft.

.erly turning these nutsthe arm may be secured at any suitable distance above the hounds, as may be desired, in order to vary the height at which the tongue will be supported. The operation will be readily understood from the drawings and foregoing description.

It will be seen that the tongue may be so supported as to relieve the team of itsweight, and thatthe devices for so supporting the tongue are simple, inexpensive, and not likely to get out ofv order. Now, the construction and arrangement of the hounds, tongue, and shaft 0, as shown, are common, and while our invention gives good results with such arrangement, it will be understood that it might be employed in connection with other forms and arrangement of hounds, tongue, and shaft 0, and with a different form of connection between the tongue and vehicle.

The hounds form the support for the spring,

and the shaft 0 a fulcrum therefor, as will be understood from the foregoing description.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- 1. In a tongue-support, and as a new article of manufacture, a spring, D, consisting of a cross-bar, E, and spring-arms F, secured at one end to such bar, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a tonguesupport, of the tongue, a spring-support, a fulcrum, and a spring having a cross-bar secured to the spring-support, and spring-arms secured to such cross-bar extended forward over the fulcrum, and having their forward ends bearing under the tongue, substantially as set forth.

3. The herein-described spring for tonguesupports, cohsisting of the cross-bar E, having projections e at its ends, and the arms F, secured at one end to cross-bar E, and having their opposite or forward ends rounded, sub stantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination, with the tongue, the

"shaft, and a spring-support, of the spring secured on the, spring-support, and having an arm or arms extended forward over the shaft, I over said bar and securing it to the hounds,

and thence under the tongue, and a connecthe arms F, having their forward ends rounded tion, I, having a forked head, J, fitting over atf and bearing under the tongue, and the the shaft 0, a threaded shank, 6, extended connections I between arms F and shaft 0, all 5 through the arm, and nuts K, all arranged substantially as set forth.

and operating substantially as and for the pur- CHARLES \V. VAN DE MARK. poses specified. A CALVIN MOORE.

5. The combination of the hounds A, the XVitnesses: tongue B, the shaft C, the cross-bar E, having H. S. BREED, I3 project-ions c at its ends, the staples G, fitting M. V. 13. VAN DE'MARK.