US604811A - Running-gear for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)v E. E. WALLACE.

RUNNING GEAR EOE VEHICLES.

Patented May 3l, 1898.

lllnrrnn Staines Partnr Ormea.

ROBERT HENRY WALLACE, OF NEW CONCORD, OHIO.

liUNNlNG-GIEAE FOR VEB-HOLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,811, dated May 31, 1898. Application filed March 31, 1897. Serial No. 630,151. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ROBERT HENRY W'AL- LACE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Concord, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Running-Gear for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in running-gear for vehicles.

The objects of the present invention are to improve the construction of vehicle runninggear, to provide a simple and efficient device by which the front and rear axles can. be pivoted and caused to track perfectly, and to enable either end of a running-gear to be used as the front and to receive a pole or tongue.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a running gear constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view of the same, the axles being shown parallel in full lines and at an angle in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view illustrating the construction of the central guide and showing a portion of the connecting wires or rods. Fig. 4. is a detail sectional View illustrating the manner of mounting the brake-bar. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of one of the seinicircular end guides.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 and 2 designate axles, upon each of which is mounted a pair of outwardly-converging hounds 3, the outer terminals of each pairbeing adapted to receive a tongue or pole,where by the running-gear is adapted to have either of its ends arranged at the front of the vehicle. The inner terminals of the hounds are connected by transverse bars 4, and the two axles are connected by a reach-bar 5, pivoted at each end by a vertical pin or king-bolt 6, which also pivots a bolster 7 to each axle, a sand-bolster 8 being interposed between the hounds and the body-receiving bolster 7 in the ordinary manner. The bolsters 7 are provided with standards and are adapted to support a wagon-body, and springs can be employed, if desired.

The axles 1 and 2 are caused to track perfectly by a pair of diagonally-disposed connecting wires or rods 9 passing centrally through a guide 10 of the reach and secured at their terminals to the inner faces of the axles, at opposite sides of the center thereof. The central guide, which consists of a block suitably secured to the reach, is provided with diagonally-disposed openings through which the rods pass.

Semicircular guides 11, which are mounted on and extend inward from the axles, are interposed between the ends of the connecting wires or rods and are adapted to spread the same properly when the axles are arranged at an angle to each other in turning the running-gear to prevent the wires or rods from shortening through bending and thereby maintaining the axles firmly in proper relation to each other. The semicircular end guides are bolted to the hounds and are provided with peripheral grooves for the reception of the wires or rods 9.

A transverse brake-bar 13, which is arranged at one end of the running-gear, is mounted in brackets 14E and is connected by a substantially V- shaped frame or piece 15 with one arm of a rock-shaft 1G, and the latter, which is provided at its outer end with an arm, may be connected with any suitable operating mechanism. The brake-bar is recessed to receive the brackets and is provided at its end with brake-shoes, the recessing holding the brake-bar against longitudinal movement.

It will be seen that the connection between the axles cause them to track perfectly, that either end of the running-gear may be arranged at the front of avehicle, and that the improvement is applicable to various kinds of vehicles and sleds.

Wvhat I claim is- In a running-gear, the combination of a reach, a pair of axles pivoted to the ends of the reach, the centrally-arran ged guide-block mounted on the reach between the ends thereof and provided with diagonally-disposed openings, the wires or rods 9 disposed diagonally of the runnin g-gear, extending through IOO the openings of the guide and secured at In testimony that I claim the foregoing as their terminals to the axles near the ends my own I have hereto affixed my signature in Io thereof, and the semcircular guides mounted the presence of tWo Witnesses.

on the axles and interposed between the ends 5 of the Wires or rods to take up the slack vof ROBERT HENRY WALLACE' the latter and Cause the Wheels to track per- Witnesses: feetly in turning the vehicle, substantially J. M. WALLACE,

as and for the purpose described. l J. W. MILLER.

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