US42288A - Improvement in carriage-shafts - Google Patents

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5 J. HANSEN.

Thill-Gouplihg.

No. 42288. Patented Apr; 12. 1864.

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NITED STATES IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE'SHAFTS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42.285, dated April 1.2, 1864.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HANSEN, of Saugerties, Ulster county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Thills and Poles to Wagons, Carriages, and Sleighs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in fastening and connecting thills and poles to wagons, carriages, and sleighs with the interposition of the jack and screwbolts and nuts commonly in use for such purposes by means of a pin or spindle secured to the ends of the shafts or pole and at right angles thereto, which is inserted into a box or socket, formed in the ends of the cross-bar of the shafts, when reversed or thrown back, and when righted again prevented from being withdrawn from the socket by a stud on the lower side of the spindle working into a groove in the socket or against the inner sides of a staple secured in the cross bar for that purpose; but to describe my invention more particularly I will refer to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, the same letters of reference wherever they occur referring to like parts.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the thills, showin g their mode of attachment to the axle-tree of a wagon, and also one of the thills reversed or thrown back to exhibit the mode of attaching it to the cross-bar. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the spindle, showing the stud on its lower side for lockin g it into the socket. Fig. 3 is an end view of the thill, showing its connection with the cross bar. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal cut section of the end of the thill and cross bar through the line or, Fig.1. Fig. 5 is an end view of the cross-bar through the line a as, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a transverse out section of the spindle and crossbar through the line m .00 Fig. 4.

Letters A are the thills, having secured on their inner ends, by suitable clips,B,and bolts 0, metallic spindles D, of some six to nine inches (more or less) in length by onehalf to one inch in diameter, as may be deemed necessary. On the lower side of the spindle is into the bar just in front of the stud E, so that when the shafts have been righted they cannot be disengaged from the cross-bar unless reversed again, when the stud can be withdrawn through a groove, J, formed in the up per part of the recess for that purpose.

It. will be obvious that where a metal box or socket is used as a receptacle for the spindle they will have longitudinal and annular grooves formed in them for the insertion and operation of the stud. It will be obvious also that packings K, of leather or other suitable materials, are contemplated as essential to the working of the spindle, and therefore I do not limit myself to the use of any particular kind of packing I may desire to use. Letters L are braces for connecting the thills to the axle-tree M.

The operation of my invention is, first, the cross bar is secured to the axle-tree or other suitable part of the vehicle by proper braces of metal for that purpose. The wagon is then cramped, (though this may not always be necessary,) and one of the thills is then re versed, as shown in Fig. 1, with the stud upward. In this position the spindleis inserted into the socket until home, when the thill may be righted, and the coupling of the same with the cross bar is completed.

. Having now described my invention, I will proceed to set forth what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentol' the United States The combination of the spindle D, having a stud, E, thereon, with the socket F and crossbar G, as hereinbefore described, and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES HANSEN.

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