US635568A

US635568A - Buggy-top rest.

Info

Publication number: US635568A
Application number: US69866998A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Z Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1898-12-08
Filing date: 1898-12-08
Publication date: 1899-10-24
Anticipated expiration: 1916-10-24

Description

No. 635,568. Patented Oct. 24, I899.

J. Z. MILLER.

BUGGY TOP REST.

(Application filed Dec. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES JOHN Z. MILLER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BUGGY-TOP REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,568, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed December 8,1898. Serial No. 698,669. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOHN Z. MILLER, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, haveinvented a certain new and useful Buggy-Top Rest; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

My invention relates to a buggy-top rest consisting of a cushioned double-armed spring mounted on the prop or top-supporting arm of a buggy.

The object of this invention is to prevent the breaking, bending, or other injury of the bow-sockets or tearing the seat up at the connection with it of the shifting rail when the buggy-top is thrown back into its folded position. Most buggies in general use are provided with rigid horizontal arms or props extending laterally from the shifting rail. The result is that frequently when the buggy-top is thrown back said arm or prop will be broken or bent or the bow-socket that engages said arm will be broken or bent or the seat be torn up in front by the heavy weight of the top bearing on the prop.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty.

The nature of the invention will more fully appear from the accompanying drawings and the description and claims following.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of one side of a buggy, showing only a part of the seat and the side of the top in a folded position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the supporting-spring. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section through the prop and through the spring on the line A A of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section on the line B B of Fig. 3.

In detail, 1 is the seat of a buggy and 2 is the side elevation thereof, 3 the back, and 4. the shifting rail. At 5 the bow-sockets 6 of the buggy-top 7 are pivotally secured to the front end of said shifting rail. The top is covered, as shown, and provided with the prop-joints 8 and 9. The prop-joint 9 is pivotally mounted on the prop or supporting-arm 10. Said arm, as shown in Fig.3, has a square body, with a threaded end to receive the nut 11 and turned down around between the square body and the threaded end to afford a bearing for the prop-joint 9. The spring-support I have devised is formed preferably of wire, but may be made of any kind of spring metal. It is here made of one piece of wire formed as shown in Fig. 2, being mounted at the center at the brackets 12. Said brackets are made of sheet metal, with one end turned over the wire of the spring and with a square aperture which slips over the square portion of the prop or supporting-arm 10.

From the bracket 12 the wireis formed into two pairs of oppositely-extending spring-arms 13, each arm having in it a coil 14:. Their outer ends are connected by the cross-wires 15, which are a continuation or part of the wire that forms the rest of the spring-support. By this continuation the Whole springfraine will be solid and substantial. On the cross-wires 15 I mount cushions 16, made of rubber, leather, or any suitable material. When the double spring-support is placed on the prop or supporting-arm 10, its sides are held in place between the sleeve 17 and washers 18. This gives a rigid mounting for said spring-frame and furnishes a very strong yet yielding support for the buggytop when thrown back, inasmuch as it consists of four arms made of spring metal, each with springcoils and connected by cushioned cross-bars. Also the bow-socket 0f the buggy is received by two cushions 16 four or five inches apart, so that there is a double bearing, whereby the strain is not brought on only one point of the bow-socket, but it is distributed between two points four or five inches apart. Therefore it is apparent that with such construction it would be practically impossible to break, bend, or injure the bow-socket or the prop or supporting-arm 10 or the seat or other parts or the buggy in any way.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A buggy-top rest including two springframes each with oppositely-extending arms having spring-coils in them, a cushioned horizontal connection between the corresponding ends of said arms and means for securing said spring-frames to the buggy.

2. A buggy-top rest comprising a horizontal arm or prop secured to the buggy, two

spring-frames centrally mounted on said arm In Witness whereof I have hereunto afiixed or prop so they cannot revolve thereon each my signature in the presence of the witnesses formed of a spring-Wire with oppositely-exherein named. tending arms having coils in them, a horizon- 5 tel connection between the corresponding Vitnesses:

ends of the two frames, and a cushioned M. O. BUCK, sleeve 011 such horizontal connections. V. H. LOCKWOOD.

JOHN Z. MILLER.