US443251A

US443251A - Anti-rattler for thill-couplings

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Publication number: US443251A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-23
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-23

Description

(No Model.)

0. A. OARMAN. ANTI-RATTLER FOR THILL COUPLINGS.

No. 443,251. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

WITNESSES: VENTOR BY I FW/Q a.

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT CLARENCE A. CARMAN, OF PATERSON, NEIV JERSEY.

ANTl-RATTLER FOR THlLL-COUPLINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1%. 443,251, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed October 23, 18901 Serial No, 869,119 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE A. CARMAN, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Anti-Rattler, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My present invention relates to anti-rat tling attachments for thill-couplings, the obj ect of the invention being to improve upon the construction illustrated and described in my prior patent, No. 431,507, which said patent was issued to me on the 1st day of July, A. D. 1890, the present invention consisting of a frame, a spring-wire coiled thereon and formed with upwardly-extending arms, and a means for adjusting said arms, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference figures and letters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved antirattler, the same being represented as it appears when in a position for use in connection with a thill-coupling. Fig. 2 is a face view of the anti-rattling attachment, the thill-coupling being shown in section. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 10 represents an axle-clip, and 11 a thill-iron of ordinary form.

12 is a frame consisting, preferably, of a plate 2, having depending and forwardly-extending arms 3, that are connected by acrossbar or pin 4. In practice I prefer to make the frame 10, with the exception of the crossbar 4, of malleable iron; but it will of course be understood that the frame could be made of any other proper material. The cross-bar 4 would usually be made from wire, and said wire being cut in lengths, and these lengths passed through apertures formed in the arms 3 and retained in position by riveting the ends of the wire, as will be readily understood.

The frame above described is substantially the same as the one illustrated in my former application; but instead of using, as in the application just referred to, a spring supporting-block, I form the spring from a single length of wire that is coiled upon the cross-bar 4 at the points a a, between which points the body of the wire extends to the rear in the form of a loop I), the ends of the wire being carried backward and upward to form spring=arms c c.

In order that the arms 0 0' may be thrown forward or backward and their pressure upon the thill-iron thus increased or diminished, I provide an adjuster 13, which engages the loop I), and passes upward through an aperture formed in the plate 2, there to be engaged by a nut 14, the upper end of the adjuster being threaded, as represented in the drawings. Although the adjuster could be made in any proper way, I greatly prefer to make it from malleable iron, making the lower end in the form of an open hook, as 6, which hook may be readily brought into engagement with the projection b, and then the end of the hook may be forced down to the position in which thus be thrown forward and will act with greater effect upon the thill-iron.

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

1. In an anti-rattling attachment, the combination, with a frame, of a spring-wire coiled thereon and formed with upwardly-extending arms that are arranged to bear against the thill-iron eyes, and a means for adjusting the arms, substantially as described.

2. In an anti-rattling attachment, the combination, with a frame, of a spring-wire coiled thereon and formed with a rearwardly-extending projection and with upwardly-extending arms that are arranged to bear against the thill-iron eyes, and an adjuster connected roarwardly-extendingproj ection of the spring- 10 wire, and with an upwardly-extend111g stein that passes through the upper portion of the frame, substantially as described.

CLARENCE A. CARMAN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD KENT, J12, ARTHUR L. KENT.