US407959A

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Publication number: US407959A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-07-30
Anticipated expiration: 1906-07-30

Description

(No Model) G. V. MONTGOMERY.

CARRIAGE BOW.

No. 407,959. Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE Y. MONTGOMERY, OF AMSTERDAM, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO APPLETON S. BRIDGESS.A

CARRIAG E-BOW.

SPECIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent NO. 407,959, dated. July 30, 1889.

Application filed March l, 1889. Serial No. 301,721. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. MONT- GOMERY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Carriage- Bow, of which the following is a specification.

My invention'relates to carriage-bows; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts herein described and claimed; and my objects are to construct a carriage-bow that will be strong and durable and cheaply made, and one that is susceptible of a very high polish, and which will present an attractive appearance and be very light. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of one of the bows with part in section and showing the metal part extended all the way round the carriage-bow. Fig. 2 isa front elevation of one of the bows with part of the bow in section and showing the metal portion extended part of the length of the bows. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of one of the bows made entirely of compressed paper.

A in the drawings is a carriage-bow made of compressed paper or paper-pulp compressed in the shape of a carriage-bow, and having the exposed or upright parts highly polished. The bow may be made wholly of compressed paper, or it may be re-enforced by a metal ycenter running the wholelength of the bow, as seen in Fig. 1, or it may be made with a me- 'tallic eye embedded in the compressed paperpulp at the ends of the bow. This compressed paper can be vulcanized, if desired; but it is not necessary, as the compressed paper alone will .be sufficiently compact to polish without being vulcanized.

B is a metal piece bent in the shape of a carriage-bow, and is provided at each end with eyes or lugs C, with which to attach the bows to the vehicle or to each other. This eye may be made in the .compressed paper, as seen in Fig. 2, or it may be made of a metallic piece embedded in the end of the compressed paper-bow. Then the center metallic piece B is used, the'paper part is compressed around it, and its object is to strengthen and re-enforce the paper-bow. Thus I have acarriage-bow which is cl1eaply made, is durable and susceptible of a very high polish, and is much lighter and easier to handle than other bows. The exposed or upright parts may be the exposed or upright parts can be highly 6o polished.

As I form the entire bow of paper-pulp and not the slats alone, as has heretofore been done, which are connected to wooden bows to which the cover is nailed, it is essential where nails are used that the upper face of the bow to which the cover is nailed should not be so compactly pressed as those portions which are exposed and to which a high polish is given, as before stated.

I do not claim a carriage-bow slat consisting of a metal core and a tapered covering of compressed paper-pulp or a tapered core in the carriage-bow slat, as shown and claimed in Patent No. 366,511, dated July 12, 1887, as mine is entirely different in construction. The invention is a carriage-bow, and instead of the metallic center or core being tapered to prevent the compressed paper from slipping off and being confined to the slat alone, 8o

the metallic center passes all the way around the bow, and is of the same thickness from end to end, thus enabling me to use an'ordinary rod, instead ofbeing compelled to have it made tapering, above cited. I do not use a Slat-iron at all, nor do I use a shoulder on the core to keep the end of the covering protected, but my metallic center runs all the way round the as shown in the patent bow; and I do not claim a bow-Slat at all, 9o

but an entire carriage-bow, which is much cheaper and more perfect by reason of the uprights, and the bow part being made in one piece instead of in separate pieces.

Now, what I claim, and for which I ask Lctters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture, a carriage-bow composed wholly of compressed paper-pulp, substantially as described.

2. A carriage-bow composed of an outer surface of paper-pulp, having its ends and expsed portions compressed to a high de` gree to receive a polish, and its upper uneXposed surface of a less degree of compactness, for the purpose described.

GEORGE V. MONTGOMERY..

Vitnesses J. V. Brees, CHARLES RoWE.

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