US455098A

US455098A - Sleigh-runner

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Publication number: US455098A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-06-30
Anticipated expiration: 1908-06-30

Description

(No Model.)

J. A. GENDRON.

SLEIGH RUNNER.

No. 455,098. Patented June so, 1891.

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lI II I UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. GENDRON, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GENDRON IRON IVHEEL COMPANY, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

SLEIGH-RUNNER.

SPECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,098, dated June 30, 1891.

Application filed October 16, 1890. Serial No. 368,367. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEPH A. GENDRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- ronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certaiii new and useful Improvements in Detachable Sleigh-Runners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in detachable sleigh-runners for wagons, childrens carriages, 850.; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of the runner and the boxes adapted to be engaged upon the journals of the wagon, &c., and in the peculiar means of adjusting them laterally in relation to each other, all as more fully hereinafter described.

My invention is especially intended to be applied to childrens carriages, 'toy Wagons, and other wheeled vehicles of that class.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved runner. Fig. 2 is a similar perspective View showing a modified form of construction. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the runner applied toa childs carriage, the body of the carriage being indicated in dotted lines.

My runner I preferably form by bending a single piece of round bar-iron into the desired shape, forming the shoe or runner portion a, the front vertical extension I), and the rear vertical extension 0. These extensions are suitably shaped to giveagracefulappearance to the device. The rod is also preferably bent to have the connecting portion d parallel with the runner, as shown in Fig. 1, but this may be omitted, as shown in Fig. 2.

e and f are transverse journal boxes or bearings attached at the front and rear, respectively. In Fig. 1 I show these boxes constructed and attached as follows: g is a vertical socket on the box (2, in which the end of the front extension engages, being held thereon by means of a set-screw h, this socket being secured to the box at one side of the middle thereof and soarranged that either side of the journal-box may be presented in or out. The journal-box is also provided with a horizontal socket on its opposite side in which the end of the connecting-bar d engages.

It is evident that this box may be vertically adjusted by means of the set-screw h.

The boxf has formed on one side a socket c', adapted to engage with the connecting-bar d, and secured thereon at any desired point by the set-screw j. The securing-socket t' is secured to the journal-box f at one side of the middle, and may be secured with either the long arm or short arm extending out.

My device thus constructed is intended to be applied to child rens carriages, toy wagons, &c., by removing the wheels and engaging the sockets andf upon the journals of the vehicle. It is evident that in the construction shown in Fig. 1 these boxes may beadjusted to vehicles having ditferent distances betwegn tQ axles, and the frontbox nTEy be vertically adjiisted, thereby correspbndingly raising the rear box by means of the connect- 7o ing-bar d, the front end of which is secured to the box e. This manner of connecting the boxes to the runner enables me to arrange the front and rear boxes in line or out of line, as shown in Fig. 3. This is especially desirable in applying my device to childrens carriages, wherein the front axle is shorter than the rear axle. Thus a single pair of my runners may be used upon a vehicle having front and rear axles of the same or different lengths.

In the construction shown in Fig. 2 I show the front and rear extensions provided with screw-threads and the journal-boxes provided with correspondingly screw-threaded sockets 7c engaging therewith. By rotating the boxes the adjustments vertically and for different lengths of axles may be accomplished. By bending the rods the horizontal adjustment between the boxes may likewise be accorn- 9o plished.

I claim l. In a detachable sleigh-winner, the cornbination, with the runner, of reversible transverse journal-boxes for the front and rear 5 axles, and means for adjusting said boxes laterally in relation to each other, substantially as described.

2. In a detachable sleigh-runner, the combination,with the runner having front and rear vertical extensions, of reversible transverse journal-boxes upon said extensions, said bearversible boxj", having ahorizontal adjustment to or from its companion c, substantially as described.

(5. As a new article of manufacture, a detachable sleigh-runner composed of a single piece of round metal bent to form the runner portion a, extensions Z) c, and reversible transverse boXes cf, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH A. GENDRON.

\iVitnesses:

L. V. DUSSEAU, XV. I. TORRANCE.