US369283A - End-gate - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

D. L. FUNDERBURGH.

END GATE.

Nb. 369383. Pa tented Aug. 30, 1887.

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IDAVID L. FUNDERBURGH, OF SALEM, NEBRASKA.

END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,283, dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed May 17, 1881. Serial No. 238,512.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID L. FUNDER nU'ReH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Salem, in the county of Richardson and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, oleauand exact description of theiuvention, 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 speciiieation, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the rear end of a wagon-box provided with my improved end-gate. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the box, showing the end-gate tilted down. Fig. 8 is a view from the under side of the box, showing the bracket supporting the endgate; and Fig. 4 is a side view of the end of the box.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor responding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of end-gates for wagon-boxes which may be tilted down at the upper edge to form a chute for discharging the contents of the wagon; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such an end-gate, as here iuafter more fully described and claimed.

In theaccompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the bottom of the wagon-box, and the numerals 2 indicate the side-boards of the same, and these parts may be of any desired construction, forming no part of the invention. The end-gate 3 is provided with two flanges, i, at its side edges, the outer ends of the flanges being slightly rounded, as shown at 5, and the inner or lower ends of the flanges are extended to form tongues or lips 6, which rest against the inner sides of the projecting ends 7 of a transverse bar, 8, at the rear end of the bottom upon the under side of the same. A flat metallic bar, 9, is provided upon its under side with triangular flanged boxes or brackets 10, and is secured to the rear edge of the bottom and to the rear face of the crossbar by means of bolts 11,passing through the vertical back plates, 12, of these brackets,and the lower beveled edge, 13, of the end-gate rests upon this plate, tilting outward with its beveled side.

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Two eyes, 11-1, are secured by means of lips 15 to the rear edges of the side-boards near the upper edges of the same, and two rods, 16, are pivoted with their hooked or eyed ends 17 to these eyes, having transverse handles or flat eyes 18 upon their outer ends, and these rods pass through perforations 19 in the endgatc near the side edges of the same, the perforations fitting upon the eyes when the gate is tilted upward, the eyes projecting through the same.

A curved flat spring, 20, is secured with its lower end upon the outer side of the end-gate and has an outwardly-curved upper end and an inwardly-bulged portion, with which it bears against the gate,and the rods are slipped into the space between the outward bulge of this spring when the gate is folded up and the rods folded upon the face of the gate, crossing each other within the spring. In this mannor the gate will be held locked in its closed position, and when it is desired to tilt the gate down,either for the purpose of increasing the capacity of the box or for the purpose of shoveling out the contents of the box, the rods are slipped upward out of the curved spring, and the gate may slide with its perforations upon the rods,tilting down, the transverse handles of the rods serving to stop the tilt of the gate and to support the gate in its down position.

The gate will rest with its lower or inner end upon the bracket plate or bar, rocking with its beveled portion upon the same, and the downwardly-projecting lips or tongues of the flanges of the gate will bear against the upper or inner inner sides of the projecting ends of the cross-bar, holding the gate in its place when it is tilted down or up.

It will be seen that when the gate is tilted down and the wagon is loaded with bags or larger articles, which may rest upon the endgate without sliding off, the capacity of the wagonbox is increased, and when the wagon is loaded with a loose substance such as grain in bulk, sand, dirt, or any other similar substance-the end-gate may form a convenient scoopboard or board for shoveling off the contents with greater case than by shoveling them off the closed box with the gate closing the end, and when the process of shoveling off the contents is commenced there will be no danger of wastingauy of the contents when the gate'is let down, as there would be if the v gate had to be entirely removed.

Having thus described myinvention,I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The combination of a Wagon-box having a cross-bar under the rear edge of its bottom, having projecting ends, a fiat bar or plate formed with triangular boxes or brackets secured to the rear edge of the bottom and to the cross-bar by bolts in the boxes or brackets, an end-gate resting with its beveled lower edge upon the said plate and having flanges upon the side edges fitting with tongues upon the inner or rear ends over the ends of the cross-bar, a curved and bulged spring upon the rear face of the end-gate, eyes secured to the ends of the side-boards and projecting through perforations in the gate, and bars secured with their eyed ends in the said eyes and having transverse handles at the outer end, being held crossing each other by the spring, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

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

DAVID L. FUNDERBURGH.

Witnesses:

G. W. SHEELY, HENRY HEIKES.

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