US424479A - Iron for wagon-beds - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

P. HERMAN.

- IRON FOR WAGON BEDS. No. 424,479. Patented Apr. 1, 1890.

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FRED HERMAN, OF FIELDON, ILLINOIS.

IRON FOR WAGON-BEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,479, dated April 1, 1890.

Serial No. 332,726. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED HERMAN, of Fieldon, in the county of Jersey and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in wagon-beds whereby the latter may be made stronger and more durable than heretofore. This improvement I accomplish by means of metallic strengthening-bands secured across the bottom of the wagon-bed and up the sides thereof and adapted to rest upon the bolsters in lieu of the battens usually employed for that purpose. I

The device by which I accomplish my object will be more fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in connection with the central portion of a wagon-bolster, and Fig. 2 is a front end elevat-ional view of the device in connection with the bolster and wagon-bed.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the base of the strengthener, or that part of it upon which the bottom of the wagon-bed rests; B, the bolster; O, the wagon-bed D D, the vertical ends of the strengthener, and a a bifurcations in said ends.

1) b are lugs or ears depending vertically from the strengthener on both sides of the bolster, and (Z (Z are ordinarybolster-standards.

It will be seen by reference to Fig. 2 that the distance between the two sidesD D is such as to just admit the body of the wagon-bed, which is secured thereto by screws, for the reception of which holes 6 are provided, as shown in Fig. 1. The lugs or ears I) b may be riveted to the under side of the strengthener; or, if

so preferred, they may be made integral with the base thereof, as shown. The distance of each pair of ears b from the pair on the opposite side of the strengthener is such as to just admit the bolster between them, as shown in the perspective view. The bifurcation in each vertical end of the strengthener is to admit the standards cl d, as shown in Fig. 2.

The strengthener being secured to the wagon-bed as shown and described, it follows that the sides and bottom of the bed are much more firmly braced and held together than by the ordinary. means, and, further, that the strengthener being provided with the lugs or ears 1) serves to prevent the wagon-bed from slipping endwise upon the bolsters and it will be observed that still further security against slippage upon the bolsters is provided by the bifurcations a, which admit the inner edges of the standards, as shown in Fig. 2.

Iam aware that a metallic strengthening device secured across the bottom of a wagonbed and turned up at the ends is not new, and therefore I do not broadly claim such.

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

The combination,with a wagon-bed-strengthening device comprising a metallic bar A, turned up vertically at each end and having in each of said ends a bifurcation or slot at for the reception of the edge of the bolster-standard, of lugs or ears 17, depending from the part resting upon the bolster and adapted to include the latter loosely, so as to admit of the wagon-bed being readily lifted from the bolster.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of November, 1889.

FRED 2 HERMAN.

mark Witnesses:

ROBERT NEWTON, L. M. CUTTING.

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