US360889A

US360889A - Two-wheeled vehicle

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Publication number: US360889A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-04-12
Anticipated expiration: 1904-04-12

Description

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E. W. KEEGAN.

TWO WHEELED VBEIGLB. No. 360,889. Pa tentedAp r. 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOCH WOOD KEEGAN, OF ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,889, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed July 17, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ENOOH WOOD KEEGAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Two- Wheeled Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following. is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of as much of my improved two-wheeled vehicle as is necessary to illustrate its construction. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the frame and the supports for the body, showing the body in dotted lines.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Myinvention has relation to that class of two-wheeled vehicles in which the body is supported by cranks, which allow the body to reoeive a longitudinally-swinging motion, counteracting the horse motion; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a vehicle, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, theletter A indicates the axle, to the upper side of which two V-shaped brackets, B B, are secured near the spindles, the apices of the brackets being clipped .to the axle.

The side pieces of the rectangular frame 0 are secured to the divergingly-bent upper ends, D D, of the brackets, the downwardlycurved inner ends of the thills E E being secured so as to form continuations of the forward ends of the said side pieces, and the upwardly-curved ends F of two double-curved springs, G G, are secured by means of eyed clips Hto the under sides of the end pieces, I I, of the frame, having their middle portions bulging upward.

Two side bars, J J, are clipped with their middles to the upwardly-bulging middle portions of the springs, and the upper sides of these side bars are provided near the ends with transverse bearings K.

The outwardly-bent ends L of two wide Serial Noisoaaio. (No model.)

double cranks, M M, are journaled in these bearings, the body being secured by means of transverse bearings N upon the under side of its bottom to these double cranks, the central portions of the cranks depending. It will thus be seen that the body will be hung down between the side bars by means of the cranks, so that it will have a longitudinal swinging play, which,when the vehicle is in motion,will yield to the horse motion, preventing the latter from being felt.

The side bars will be supported by the springs, which have a slight motion at their ends, so that they will yield to jars from obstructions on the road, and at the same time gitudinal direction, and the frame is supported above the axle by means of the V-shaped brackets, so as to raise the body sufficiently, the body being supported below the side bars by hanging between the said bars from the double cranks and by the springs being supported from the under sides of the side rails of the frame.

The vehicle will have an easy yielding motion on account of being supported from the cranks,and the springs,having a double curve, will be sufficiently yielding to cushion all jars caused by obstructions on the road.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a two-wheeled vehicle, the combination of the axle, two V-shaped brackets or supports secured thereto, the thills secured at their rear ends to said brackets, a cross-piece at the rear ends of said thills and a crosspiece near the ends, a pair of side springs secured at their ends to said cross-pieces, a side bar secured to each of said springs having bearings at each end, two double cranks pivotally secured in said bearings, and abody secured to said cranks between and below said side bars.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

R. G. SMITH, T. L. SrILwELL.

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