US459991A - Frank brown - Google Patents

Description

(N1) Model.)

F. BROWN.

- WAGON SHACKLE.

No. 459,991. Patented Sept. 22, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BROWN, OF NEWw YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DIEDRICH KATT, OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON-SHACKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,991, dated September 22, 1891.

l Application filed March 26, 1891. Serial No. 386.485. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Shackles, of which the followingis a specification. f

This invention has for its object to provide novel means for connecting the transverse spring of a vehicle with the side bars of the body; and to this end the invention consists in the combination, with the transverse end spring and the side bars of a vehicle, of a pair of clips, each embracing a side bar and provided at opposite sides thereof with pendent bolt ends having nuts, upper shackle-sections, each provided with horizontal laterally-projeotingperforated lugs, through which the bolt ends of one of the clips extend to clamp the upper1 shackle-section against the under side 0f a side bar, and lower shacklesections, each having a cross-head arranged in sliding engagement with an upper shacklesection and slidable back and forth between the nuts on the pendent bolt ends, whereby the nuts operate as stops to prevent displacement of the lower shackle-sections, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a side View of a portion of a wagon-body and side bar, showing my new shackle applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a crosssection on the line mm of Fig. l. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the upper and lower parts of my improved shackle detached from' 'the shackle in two parts or sections adapted to slide upon each other, one part A being connected to the end of the spring and the other part B to the side bar. The under side of the part A is made with two flanges C C at its ends, forming a recess D, which receives the end of the wagon-spring E, which is provided with an eye F'to receive the headed bolt G, that passes through holes in the said flanges C and through the eye F and is secured by a nut I'I on its end.

The upper side of part A of the shackle is provided with a T-shaped head I, which is adapted to slide back and forthin a T-shaped receptacle J, made in part B of the shacl'rle. The construction and form of said parts A B of the shackle are clearly shown in Figs. 3

and 4, where the T-shaped head and T-shaped receptacle of the parts A B are seen to be adapted to interlock with each other and to admit of-their sliding upon each other, the post P of the T-shaped head I being adapted to slide to and fro in the opening Q, made in the bottom of the receptacle J. The top of the said part B of the shackle is provided on its front and rear with horizontal laterallyprojecting perforated lugs K K, through whose perforations extend the threaded bolt endsL L of clips M M, which pass over the side bars N N, and which are secured to them and the shackles by means of nuts O O,screwed upon the bolt ends L L of the clips.

The parts A B of the shackle are prevented 'from becoming separated from each other by the bolt ends L L, which, with the nuts O O, act as stops toprevent them from becoming separated or sliding off from each other.

I do not broadly claim a shackle composed of upper and lower sections so connected that the lower section can slide horizontally on the upper section, as such does not of itself constitute my invention.

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

The combination, with the transverse end spring E and the side bars N of a vehicle, of the clips M, each embracing a sido bar and provided at opposite sides thereof with pendent bolt ends L, having a nut O, the upper shackle-sections B, each provided with horizontal laterallyprojecting perforated lugs K, through which the bolt ends of one of the clips extend to clamp the upper shackle-section against the under side of a side bar, and the lower shackle-sections A, pivoted to thc transverse spring, and each having a cross-head I arranged in sliding engagement with the upper shackle-section to slide back and forth between the nuts on the pendent 9 bolt ends, so that the nuts act as stops to prevent displacement of the lower shackle-sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' FRANK BROWN.

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