US434158A - Seat-standard for wagons - Google Patents

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(No Model.) B. PEA-000K. SEAT STANDARD FOR WAGONS. No. 434,158. Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

BENJAMIN PEACOCK, OF BIG BEND, WISCONSIN.

SEAT-STAN DARD FOR WAGON S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,158, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed June 9, 1890- Serial No. 354,827. '(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN PEACOCK, of Big Bend, in the county of \Vaukesha and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Devices forSuppoi-ting WVagon-Seats, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device that is especially adapted for use in connection with farm-wagons or such as have a box having vertical sides, to which my device is adjustably secured.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved device as seen at one side of the wagon, which shows the end of the seat supported thereon. Fig. 2 is a view from the rear of one part of my. device, the side of the box to which the device is adj ustably secured being shown in cross-section and other parts of the device being broken away to show in terior construction. Fig. 3 is a detail of the plate that is affi'xed to the side of the wagonbox, and which serves as a guide and support for the vertically-moving leg of the device.

In the drawings, A is the side of a box for the wagon, being such as is in common use on farm-wagons. It must be understood that with every wagon-box there are two such sides, and that my device includes two vertically movable and adjustable legsone secured adj ustably to the outside of each sideboard A of the wagon-boxwhich two legs together support the seat, one being under each end of the seat, though only one of the legs is shown in the drawings. The verticallymovable leg B is provided with a cross-head C, on which are fixed elliptical springs D, and thereon is placed the seat E.

The leg B is constructed with rabbeted or grooved inner corners, and a metal plate F is aflixed to the inner side of the leg throughout its length, which has about the same lat eral width as the width of the principal part of the leg, thus forming channels or grooves G G, one in each edge of the leg throughout its entire length.

A metal plate H is secured permanently to the side A of the box,which is provided with plate H, and engage the plate, thereby supporting the leg and its load. The latch K is provided with a lever-handle N, audits free end is held yieldingly outwardly to its work by a spring 0, inserted in the leg behind the latch and bearing against it.

It will be understood that the leg may be raised in the plate H, and that the latch K v by reason of the inclined form of its upper outer edge will be forced away from the plate H, so as to pass upwardly against it, and will downwardly engage the plate in the slots M M automatically, but that when the leg is to be lowered the latch must be swung away from the plate by and through force applied to the handle N, by which means it may be held away from the plate H while the leg is lowered to such distance as is desired. It will also be understood that this mechanism is duplicated on the other side of the wagon beneath the other end of the wagon-seat, and that the two legs of the device should be raised or lowered correspondingly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a wagon-box and plates thereto aifixed on the outside, which plates are provided with guides for controlling the vertical movements of legs attached to the seat and with recesses for receiving and engaginglatches,of seat-legs movable vertically and arranged to travel in and be guided by the plates on the sides of the wagon-box, 4

and swinging latches pivoted in the legs and adapted to engage the plates, substantially as described.

2. In an adjustable Wagon-seat, the combination of a supporting-leg having longitudinal grooves in its lateral edges, of a plate aflixed to the wagon-box having lugs arranged to enter the grooves in the leg, and slots or recesses in its inner face, and aswinging latch pivoted in the leg and adapted to I the leg travels, which latch is provided with engage the recesses in the plate, which latch is provided with a handle and a spring to hold it yieldingly to its work, substantially as described.

3. Ina wagon-seat having a leg movable vertically in a plate aflixed to the side of a Wagon-box, a latch pivoted in the leg, the free end of which latch projects beyond the inner face of the leg and is adapted to engage a recess in the plate on the wagon-box in which a handle projecting laterally at one side of the leg, and a spring inserted in the leg behind the latch and adapted to hold it yieldingly to its work, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN PEACOCK. \Vitnesscs:

S. B. SMITH, KATE SMITH.

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