US453868A - Metal body for road-wagons - Google Patents

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C. A. RUSSELL. METAL BODY FOR ROAD WAGONS.

No. 453,868. Patented June 9,1891.

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CHARLES A. RUSSELL, OF OTSEGO, MICHIGAN.

METAL BODY FOR ROAD-WAGONS.

SPECIFICLATIN forming part of Letters Patent N o. 453,868, dated June 9, 1891.

Application filed September 15,1890. Serial No. 364,971. (No model.)

To all whom. t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Otsego, county of Allegan, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Metal Body for Road-Vagons, of which the following is a specication.

This invention consists in the construction of a vehicle-body in which are employed a base-frame and a Seatsupport which are constructed frorn angle metal.

Another object is to construct a body coniposed of said parts and an upper riin or boundary of the upper edge ot the body made from the `same material and provided with metal spindles between and supporting the saine above each other.

Another object consists in a basket made from woven wire to be placed in said body to prevent articles from falling out between the spindles.

A further object consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts as deiined and claimed below.

In the drawings forming a part of this specication, Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line C 6 in Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows enlarged broken details from Fig. 2, with parts in section on line 7 7 in Fig. l. Fig. 4: is a section on line 3 3 in Fig. 2 enlarged, looking from a point at the left; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged section of a lettered detail on line 4 el. in Fig. 2, looking from a point at the left.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, at B is shown the base bar or sill extending along each side and across the rear end, as in Fig. l, and inade of angle metal, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the bottom board A may be supported upon said flange, as in Figs. 2 and 3. The seat-support is made out of angle metal, a bar of the saine being on each side and extending upward and thence horizontally rearward, as shown at D. Between the horizontal part of the seatsupport and the base B is a horizontal bar O, extending along both sides and across the rear of 'the body, as in Figs. l and 2, the saine being niade of angle rnetal, as in Fig 4, and the front ends of said bar being attached to the upwardly extending portions of the seat-support D.

This constitutes the upper edge or boundary of the body proper. The angle of the bar C is iilled with a wooden strip "1f, which cornes on the inside, and hence is covered on the outside by the downward iiange of said bar. The horizontal parts of the seat-support are provided in their angles with a strip of wood l", the wooden strips in the angles of both of these bars being shown in Fig. 3 and by dotted lines in Fig. 4.

Parallel and above the flange of the base B is a nieta] strip z, which rests upon the edges of the bottom A.

The horizontal portions of the bars B O are held at a proper distance one above the other by posts a, the ends of said posts passing through the wood, the strip t, and ianges ot' the bars B O, and are riveted over at the upper end and provided with a nut at the lower end, as shown in Fig. 3. As many of these posts may be employed as desirable to bind the parts together and hold` them in proper relation with each other. As here shown, they have counter-sunk heads fr at their upper end and nuts on their lower end. rlhe angle-bars D and O are held and bound in like manner by posts c', Figs. 2. and 3.

Between the horizontal parts of the bars B and O are separated metal spindles e, said spindles having tenoned ends fitting into holes made in the wooden strips fi at the upper end, and through the base-strip t, and into the iioor A. at the lower end, as clearly shown in 3. In the longitudinal space between the anglebar C and the horizontal part of the seat-supporting bar D are separated spindles e', of like construction as those j ust described and shown at c, with the exception that the wooden strip 'i takes the place of the iioor A in relation to the lower ends of the spindles. Such a construction is light, strong, very orna` mental, and less liable to shrink and getout of order than vehicle-bodies employing rails and other parts which are made of wood.

In Fig. 2 it will be observed that a inetal basket made from woven wire is placed in the body and within the spindles, the sides of the same extending a short distance upward from the bottom. One side of said basket is shown at N. In use, of course, there will be at least two sides and a rear end to said basket, sub- IOC l I elailn as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is-

1. A vehicle-body composed of the sills of angle metal, a bottoni board having its edges resting on the iiange thereof, a metal strip upon said edges above the sill, the angleinetal bar at the upper edge of the body and the angle-metal bar extending upward and rearward, forming a seat-support, and the binding-posts and spindles between said bars, substantially as set forth.

2. A vehicle-body composed of the sills of angle niet-al, a bottom board having its edges resting on the iiange thereof, a metal strip upon said edges above the sill, the angleinetal bar at the upper edge of the body and the angle-metal bar extending upward and rearward, forming a seat-support, the angle of the horizontal part of said seat-support and the angle of the bar bounding the upper edge of the body being iilled with a strip of wood, and the binding-posts and spindles between said bars, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing, I have hereunto subscribed my naine in preseneeot` two witnesses.

CHARLES A. RUSSELL.

Witnesses;

CHANGES? Al BARNES, WiLL MANsFiELD.

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