US491343A

US491343A - Dumping-wagon

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Publication number: US491343A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 1910-02-07

Description

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' R. PITZ-ROY.

DUMPVING WAGON.

No. 491,343. Patented Peb. 7, 1893.

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Unirse Sterns Parenti @irreal ROBERT FlTZ-ROY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNEOTGU'I".

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPEGIFIOTXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,343, dated February 7, 1893.

Application filed May l2, 1892, Serial No. 432,709- (llo model.)

,To alf; roh/omit' man concern:

` Be it known that I, ROBERT FWZ-ROY, a citiaen of thellnited States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ot' Connecticut, hare invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dumping-llagons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to malte and use the same. y

My invention has Afor its object to produce a dumping wagon in which the body shall be carried relatively low, in which the pivotal point upon which the body turns shall be forward ot the rear axle so as to throw a large portion ol' the weight on the front axle, in which the body may be easily dumped and returned to place, and all the parts of which moreover shall be simple and economicaly in oost and thoroughly durable in use.

1With these ends in view lhave devised the .improved dumping wagon which l will now describe referring by numbers to the accompanying drawings forming part of this speciiicatien in which,

Figure l is a longitudinal section on the line a; in Fig. Fig. 2 a sectional plan vieiv of the body, seat and tool box being removed, the line being indicated by y y in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation the Wheels being partially broken away.

l denotes the rear axle, 2 the rear wheel, 3 the front axle, d the front wheel, 5 the axle bed, G the tongue hounds,7 the transom plate bar, S the fifth Wheel blocks, 9 the fifth wheel, l@ the top carriage parts, ll the hing bolt, l2 the tool box, 13 the seat and le the toot board all of which may be of any ordinary or preferred construction although in practice l ordinarily build these parts substantially as shown in the drawings.

l5 denotes the parts ot' a double reach which rests 'upon the rear axle and is made solid therewith by means of iron plates braces and bolts which constitutes clips as at 1G. The parts 'of the double reach are placed edgeirise so as to give the greatest amount of strength and also to serve as an axle block thus dispensing with the ordinary rear axle bloeit. The forward ends of the parts of the reach are made of. less height than the rear ends and rest upon and are rigidly bolted to the top carriage parts, it being an important feature of myiuiproved construction that the line of draft at the freut axle is on the same horizontal plane as the line of draft at the rear axle. l

17 denotes the body, 1S the sills, 19 cross pieces between the sills upon which the bottom rests, and 2O a cross piece between the sills which extends downward between the parts of the reach and prevents lateral motion of the body under any circumstances. Cross piece 2O when the parts are in normal position rests upon a cross piece 2l the ends of which are niortised into or otherwise rigidly secured to the parts of the reach. The top of the parts of the reach, the under side of the sills, the under side ot" cross piece 2O and the upper side of cross piece 2l are all provided with wearing plates 22. The body is connected to cross piece 2l by means of heavy attaching plates 23 bolted to the sills and provided with downwardly extending arms 2i.

25 denotes heavy eye-bolts which extend backward from cross piece 2l, and 26 a heavy rod which extends through both parts of the reach, through arms 24: and through the eyebolts, said rod constituting a pivot upon which the body swings. The weight of the body in use rests entirely upon the reach, in which position it is locked by a swinging latch 27 pivoted to some portion of the body, the lower end of which is shown as engaging an eye 28 in a cross piece 29 between the parts of the reach. When it is desired to dump the body the latch is disengaged from the eye and the forward end of the body lifted. During the instant that the body is swinging the weight thereof is upon cross rod 26 but at all other times there is no weight upon this rod, the body being supported entirely by the reach. lu practice the pivotal point of the body may or may not be slightly out of center. ln the drawings l have shown the pivotal point as slight-ly nearer to the rear end of the body.

Having thus described my invention, l claim l. In combination, the front and rear arles, the doubled reach connected thereto, the cross bar 2i, extending between the lower por- IOO tions of side members of the double reach and of less height than said side members, the wagon body adapted in Width to rest on the side members and carrying the cross bar 2O depending below the sills of the body and adapted in length to extend only partially across the Wagon body and to fit between the upper portions of the reach members upon the cross bar 2l, and the arms 24, depending from the Wagon body along the rear faces of the bars 20, 2l and pivotally connected to the cross bar 2l, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the front and rear axles, the double reach connected thereto, the cross bar 2l extending between the side members of the double reach, the Wagon body adapted to rest on the double reach, the cross rod 26 arranged adjacent to the rear face of the cross ROBERT FITZ-ROY. Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, MATTIE K. DAVIS.