US378447A

US378447A - Two-wheeled vehicle

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Publication number: US378447A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-02-28
Anticipated expiration: 1905-02-28

Description

(No Model.)

B. J. HEALY.

TWO WHEELBD VEHICLE.

N0. 378,447. Patented Feb; 28, 1888.

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' Parana @rrrca iYR-ON J. HEALY, OF KALAMAZOG, MICHIGAN.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,446), dated February 28, 1888.

Application filed November 10, 1887. Serial No. 254,706. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BYRON J. HEALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalama zoo, county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Twoheelcd Vehicle, of which the following is a fall and exact description, 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, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the ordinary style of two-wheeled vehicles having a body or seathars supported over the axle and fulcru med to the thills or cross-bar at the forward end, and has for its object a peculiar formation of the spring supports and a novel association of them with the body and axle, as below described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation with one wheel removed and the rear part of one thill broken. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the vehicle. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the spring and its supports, also showing the body-supports attached to said spring. Fig. 4c is a detail of the T- shaped supports for the thills at 21-.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, B are the thills.

l) are the seat-bars of the body fulcruined at the forward ends and having spring-supports a, made of iron or wood, pivoted to said bars at a, the rear ends of said supports being shackled to the axle at r. The spring 3, being parallel with and in front of the axle, is shackled to said supports near their rear ends. The body or seat-bars are supported by means of the bar 0, attached to the upper side of the spring, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The dotted lines a in Fig. 2 show how the spring-supports may be carried over to and attached to t-hill-clips, if desired, to use a longer spring and wider seat.

By means of brace-rods c c c c, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I form trusses to the body or seat-bars, thus preventing the said. seatbars from straightening or lengthening when the seat is occupied by two persons, as is generally the case when untrussed seat-bars are used.

In Fig. 2 is shown in dotted lines that a pole may be used by uncoupling the forward part of the thills B and removing the T-shaped plate 1) and the clip 3 and attaching the crossbar 5v to the thill-stubs B B, said crossbars w being attached to the pole F, the rear end of which is attached to the cross-bar A and held in place, the bolt passing through the whiflle trec P. So far as this mode of attaching the pole is concerned it is not new with me; but the attaching and detaching of the forward portion of the thills by means of the T-sha-ped plate b, bolted to the thill B and thill-stud B, and the clip 7, for stiffening and holding in place thejoint a, I claim as new and novel.

In explanation, it will be observed, by referring to Fig. 1, that inasmuch as the springsupports a a are pivoted at their forward ends to the seat-bars, as at o, and thattheirrear ends are shackled to the axle, as at r, they partake of the forward and backward motion as the body swings up or down, thereby preventing lateral displacement of the spring in its bearings.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the body fulcruined at the forward end, the axle with the springsnpports pivoted to said body and shackled to the axle, as described and shown.

2. The combination of the axle, a body or seat-bars fulcrumed at the forward ends, the spring-supports pivoted to said bars at their forward ends and their rear ends shackled to said axle, the spring shackled at its ends to said spring-supports and rigidly attached to described.

3. The combination, in a two-wheeled vehicle, of the seat-supporting bars D, consisting ofa single curved bar each side of the body and held to their shape by a series of braceirons, c c a, running lengthwise of the bars, the connecting ends of which cross and pass by the point of contact with the bar of its adjoining brace before attaching to said bar.

4. The combination of the body fulcrnined at the forward end, the spring-supports pivoted to said body and attached to the axle by the thill-clips.

5. In combination, a Vehicle-spring and the body, all in combination, as shown and spring-supports, said supports fulcrnmed at ing the front portion of the thills, as shown and one end to a vehicle-body, and the other end described. attached to the axle or bolster, and the-springs located between and their ends attached to the BYRON HEALY' 5 supports and to the body. WVitnesses: 6. The combination of the axle, the body, J OHN (1. PERKINS,

the thills, and the T-shaped plates for attaeh- GUY BANNISTER.