US560203A - Screen for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. M. FLEMING. SCREEN FOR VEHICLES.

No. 560,203. Patented May 19, 1896.

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JACOB M. FLEMING, OF RIPLEY, TEXAS.

SCREEN FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,203, dated May 19, 1896.

Application filed January 29, 1896. Serial No. 577,279. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB M. FLEMING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ripley, in the county of Titus and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screens, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in screens adapted to hide the hind parts of horses from the sight of occupants of vehicles, and it is embodied in the construction and arrangement of parts, as more fully hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

The aim and purpose of the invention is to produce a screen to obscure a horses rear quarters from view.

Another and important object of the invention is to form the device of light material yet retaining the requisite strength for durability, at the same time permitting of numerous adjustments, and one which can be cheaply manufactured.

The device also serves to hold the reins beyond the range of the horses tail.

The objects above stated are attained by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings,wherein like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure l is a side elevation of the device as applied to the thills of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view. Fig. 3is a front elevation of the device, and Fig. at is a view showing the cross-rods in detail.

In the drawings, wherein I have illustrated my invention, the letter A designates the thills of a buggy or other vehicle. Extending upward from the shafts or thills A are the standards 13 B, removably attached to the thills by the clamps O C and connected at or near their upper ends by the cross brace-rods 7). These brace-rods serve to prevent the standards from spreading apart or approaching each other.

By forming the uprights or standards l3 B of light metal rods, as I preferably do, and circular in cross-section a very neat and attractive support for the screen is produced without in any manner impairing the requisite strength. At the base of the standards are the flat offset feet I) b, with which the clamps O O engage.

D designates a cross-rod of substantially the same diameter as the uprights. This rod is provided at its ends with the eyes (Z and is slidingly connected to the uprights B. By this means the rod may be vertically adjusted and held in such position by the set-screws d.

In proximity to the upper ends of the standards B is a rod D, secured in substantially the same manner as the rod D. This rod D is, however, of a slightly-modified form, being bent substantially upward and outward at each end, forming the retaining portions (Z for purposes presently to be disclosed.

At the upper ends of the standards B is adj ustably connected thereto the cross-rod D of the same construction as the rod D.

The screen E consists of suitable flexible material, such as leather or fabric. It is suit-ably secured at one end, preferably by stitching, to the rod D, carried up and over the rod D and secured to the forward rod D at its opposite end, the raised portions d d holding the screen in proper position and preventing all lateral movement thereof.

It is clearly obvious that the device when properly adjusted and placed on the thills in advance of the singletree obscures the rear of the horse from view.

I am aware that dashboards have heretofore been constructed to extend forward and over the horse, but such constructions are expensive. There are other disadvantages, one of which is that in traveling over uneven ground or roads the dashboard Very frequently comes into contact with the animal, often resulting in serious accidents and damage by runaways. By my construction all such disadvantages are overcome, as by placing the screen on the shafts the same is kept in substantially uniform relation. to the horses body. 7

Another advantage is that it is only necessary to remove the clamps when it is desired to transfer the screen to another set of thills, the operation requiring but a few moments.

A device constructed as shown and herein described is clearly susceptible of numerous adjustments to enable the same to be used in connection with horses of varying heights.

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Also by the use of the removable securingclamps the screen may be adjusted longitudinally of the shafts.

While I have shown my construction in detail in the drawings, I do not intend thereby to limit my invention to the precise form, as it is evident that many minor changes can be made and substituted without in the least departing from the nature and principle of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a screen for vehicles, the combination with the thills, of upright standards secured thereon, and a screen having an upright and overhanging section supported by the standards, substantially as set forth.

2. In a screen for vehicles, the combination with the thills, of a screen comprising an upright and overhangingsection, and standards adjustably attached to the thills, substantially as described.

In a screen for vehicles, the combination with the thills, of a vertically-ad j ustable screen mounted thereon, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a screen for vehicles, the combination with the thills of standards adj ustably attached thereto, brace-rods connecting the upper ends of the standards, cross-rods secured to the standards, and a screen supported by the cross-rods, substantially as described.

5. In a screen, the combination of a vertically-adjustable frame, a flexible screen carried thereby, and means for adjustably securing the frame to the vehicle, substantially as described.

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

JACOB M. FLEMING. IVitnesses:

.T. N. ALnnrDeE, 1R. harsson.

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