US482398A - Wagon-body - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

'G. P. THOMPSON.

WAGON BODY.

No. 482,398. Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE F. THOMPSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

WAGON-BODY.`

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,398, dated September 13, 1892.

Application tiled November 7, 1891. Serial No. 411.143. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. THOMPSON, of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in VagOn-Bodies, (Oase No. 1,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wagon-bodies, and especially to improvements in means for strengthening the sides of spring-wagon bod ies or boxes, and whereby much time and eX- pense are saved in their manufacture.

The object of the invention is to provide stron ger and cheaper wagon-bodies, and at the same time greatly improve the finished appearance of the wagon.

To this end I provide a separable metal post to be applied on the inside of the wagon-body and to be secured firmly to the sills and to the side panel; and the invention consists particularly in the special construction and application of this part of the wagon body or boX.

My invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying draw ings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a wagon-body embodying my invention, a portion of the saine being shown in section to more clearly set forth the construction. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line fr @a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of one of my metal posts. Fig. t is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 5 is a side elevation. Fig. 6 is a plan View, and Fig. 7 is an enlarged view in cross-seetion taken from Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, 2 represents the sills of the wagon-body, 3 the bottom thereof, and e the side boards or panels, which are strengthened on the inside by the rib or frame slats 5, fastened thereto by screws or nails passing into the saine from the outside and through the panels. The half-round moldingstrips are preferably arranged to cover the heads of these screws or nails. The sides and also the ends, if desired, are braced and strengthened by metal posts 7,0rdinarily made of malleable iron. In length these posts j ust lit in under the ribs 5 between the to p of the same and the sill 2 and the lower side of the strips 5, which therefore rest on the upper ends 8 of the posts. The thickness or lateral depth of the posts is such that the outer edges 9 strike the inside of the side panel, and the lug 10, formed on the top of the post, engages the inside of the strip 5, being secured thereto bya bolt 1l, the head of which may be concealed beneath the molding-strips 6. Sidelugs 12 extend from the rear edges of the post along the panel. These lugs are provided with the holes 13, through which I insert the short screws into the panels. The panels are thus firmly fastened upon the rigidly-secured posts, and that, too, without disfiguring in the least the outside of the pan els. In this way I do away with all screw-heads on the outside and with all holes to be plugged up, as in the ordinary practice. For the sake of lightness and as a saving in cost the posts are made hollow, as shown, and at the bottom of each is provided the fooit-lug 14, through a countersunk opening in which the screw 15 passes into the sill to prevent the foot of the post from slipping inwardly. All vertical movement of the post independent of the sill is prevented by a bolt lb', eX- tending through the sill and fastened therein by a nut 17. This bolt is of such a length. that its head 18 stands slightly above the sill. The bottom of each post is provided with an internal projection forming the shoulders 19, and also has the open-ended slot 20. The head of the bolt is adapted to tit within the hollow post, which,being stood upright on the bottom ofthe wagon, is pushed out against the side panel in such a way that the projection straddles the shank of the bolt, the head of which is thus made to seat upon the shoulders 19. This is done after the panels are fastened upon the framework, and the nuts 17 being tightly screwed up the posts are rigidly fastened upon the bot-tom sill. The inner face of each post is preferably rounded off, as shown, and the post is flared out slightly at the bottom to give it a larger base.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination, in a wagon-body, of the sill and a panel, with a bolt secured in said sill and having its head standing slightly above the same, the metal post having the slotted base adapted to be forced into engagement with said bolt, said post arranged on the inside of said panel, the inwardlyextending lug or toot of said post, means for securing the IOO same upon the sill, the side lugs of said post, and screws passing through said lugs into the panel to secure the same, substantially as described.

l 2. The combination, in awagon-body, of the sills andsides thereof, with the hollow metal posts, said posts provided with the feet 14, adapted to be screwed to the sills7 and with the internal shoulders and the bolts passing through the sill beneath each post and having their heads engaging the internal shoulders thereof, and side lugs 12 on each post, the same provided with screw-holes and screws passing through the saine into t-he panel, subr 5 stantially as described.

3. The combination, with the sill 2 and the panel 4, of the rib 5, the hollow metal post 7, provided with the shoulder 8 to engage the under side of the rib 5 and with the lug 10 to engage the inner face of said rib 5, a bolt passing through the panel and said rib and secured by a nut engaging the inside face of the lug 10, a shoulder 19, having a slot 20, provided in the base of the post, a bolt 16, extending down through the sill, its upper end engaging said shoulder 19, a nut on the lower end of the bolt for securing the same, and side lugs l2 on the post, through which screws are inserted into the panel to secure said panel, substantially as described. Y

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of October, 1891.

GEORGE F. THOMPSON. In presence of- C. G. HAWLEY, B. BOOTH.

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