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J.-PASKE. SPRING GEAR FOR VEHIGLES.

No. 475,304. Patented May 24, 1892 FIEJ.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH FASKE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL HARD- WARE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING-G EAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,304, dated May 24, 1892.

Application filed January 2, 1892. Serial No. 418,905- (N'o model.)

To all whom it may concern: piece, and the bars E E are passed through Be it known that I, JOSEPH FAsKE,acitizen them before they are bent or the shackleof the United States,and a residentofCincineyes are formed. Upon the outer edges of nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of the boxes are formed projectinglugs f, which,

5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful when the boxes are secured to the bars a of Improvements in Spring-Gears for Vehicles, the body, bear lightly against the longitudiof which the following is aspecification. nal arms of the bars E E and prevent side The object of my invention is to provide motion of the body. The center part of the an inexpensive and reliable device for couptransverse portions of the bars E E are IO ling the vehicle-body to the gear, particularly formed square or angular, as seen in Fig. 3, to the rear axle and head-block. to fit a square perforation in the couplings G.

The invention consists in the peculiar COlll- These couplings have each a perforated web bination and arrangement of parts illustrated g for bolts g which secure the couplings rigin the accompanying drawings, in connection idly to the ends of an upwardly-arched steel IS with which it willbe first fully described, and spring H. The spring thus connects the will then be particularly referred to and transverse portions of the bars E E. Now pointed out in the claims. it will be seen that any Weight in the body Referring to the drawings, in which like which depresses it is resisted by the spring parts are indicated by similar reference-let- H, the tendency being to bend the ends of 20 ters wherever they occur throughout the Vathe spring around the inner ends of the couprious views, Figure 1 is a longitudinal cenlings G. The strength of the spring detertral vertical sectional view of a buggy body mines the weight the body will sustain. The and gear, the wheels being omitted, embodybars and spring are compelled to act in uniing my invention. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan son, so that a weight in any part of the body 25 view of the same with the front axle rewill depress it about equallyat all points. All moved. Fig. 3isa detail view,inverticalsecuneven movements or rocking of the body tion, of the spring and its coupling upon an when in use is therefore prevented. enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is an edge and Fig. 5 To prevent lateral movement of the coupis a side elevation of one of the boxes for ling-boxes G upon the barsE E',I cut a trans- 0 coupling the body to the gear. These views verse groove 6 across the top of the square are also upon an enlarged scale. portion and countersink the top of the coup- The body A, side bars B, rear axle C, front ling to tighten the metal over the groove in axle C, and head-block D are all of ordinary the bar. Then by a punch I force a portion construction and substantially the same as of the metal of the coupling into the groove 3 5 now used upon side-bar buggies. in the bar, as seen at g, Fig. 3.

E E are two U-shaped bars or rods, the What I claim, and desire to secure by Letends of which are formed in perforated bosses ters Patent, is to receive bolts of swinging shackles e, to 1. The combination, substantially as herewhich they are yieldingly coupled to the rear inbefore set forth, with the body and gear, of

40 axle and front h'ead-block,respectively. The the U-shaped bars E E, shackled, respecttransverse portions 9 of the rods EEextend ively, to the rear axle and head-block, the entirely across the bottom of the body, the boxes coupling the transverse portions of 9c bends forming the arms being outside of the said bars to the body, the coupling G, rigidly body sides, so that the body may pass down secured upon the bars, and the arched spring 45 between the arms without striking them. H, having its opposite ends secured rigidly The bars E E are journaled in boxes F, which to the couplings. are secured to the side sills a of the body. 2. The combination, with the body and gear, 9 3 These boxes are preferably made in a single of the U-shaped bars shackled to the rear axle and head-block, the boxes F for couplin g the bars to the body and having projections f bear against the arms of said bars and prevent lateralmotion of the body, the couplings 5 G, rigidly secured to the central transverse portions of the coupling-bars, and the arched fiat spring H, secured at its ends to the couplings G, substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH FASKE.

Witn esses:

GEO. J. MURRAY, FRANK S. DAVIS.

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