US636949A - Vehicle-rack. - Google Patents

Description

N0- 636,949. Patented Nov. I4, |899.v

A. L. BUCHER.

VEHICLE RACK.

(Application filed Aug. 28, 1899.)

No. 636,949. Patented Nov. I4. |899.v

A. L; BucHEn.

- VEHICLE RACK.

' (Application led Aug. 28, 1899.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. BCHER, OF NORTH BALTIMORE, OHIO.l

VEHICLE-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,949, dated November 14, 1899.

Application filed August 28, 1899. Serial No. 728,749. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. BCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Baltimore, in the county of Wood and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Rack, of which the followingis a specication.

My present invention relates to Vehicleracks of that class designated combination wagon-racks, which employed as an attachment for farm or other Wagons are designed to adapt the latter for the accommodation of freight of varying form and bulk.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple, readily-detachable,and easily-adj ustable rack designed in its Various positions to accommodate hay, Wood, grain, and various other classes of load.

In its specific aspect the invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter de-v scribed and illustrated, and succinctly pointedout in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a wagon body or platform provided with my rack, the side racks being shown in their two intermediate adjustments for the purpose of illustrating the manner in which the rack is adapted for the accommodation of stick-wood. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same, showing the racks in their elevated positions. Fig. 3 is an end view showing the racks in their depressed positions for the accommodation of hay. Fig. 4 is a detail view in perspective of one of the keepers and the connected parts of the structure, and Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of one of the spring-stirrups designed for the adjustable retention and support of the links.

Referring to the numerals of reference on the drawings, 1 indicates the Wagon-platform, designed to be supported upon running-gear in the ordinary manner and provided with side rails 2.

3 and 4 indicate head or end racks, prefere ably, though notnecessarily, bolted at their lower ends between the rails 2 at the opposite ends of the wagon and comprising the side pieces 5' and 6 and one or more cross-pieces 7.

8 indicates an end braceextending between the extremities of the rails 2 immediately beyond the end frames 3 and 4, serving to brace the rails and to aid in the support of the end frames, which, as illustrated, are in divergent relation.

9 9 indicate extensible sections of the end frames, the preferred manner of mounting them being by way of hinges 10, intermediate of the contiguous ends of the end frames and their extensions and located along one edge in order that the contiguous end faces of the side bars will be correlative when the extensible sections are swung upwardly into alinelnent with the end frames, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and there secured by means of catches ll, located opposite the hinges.

12 12 indicate the side racks, comprising a series of standards 13, united by a series of vhorizontal rack-bars 14 and hinged at their lower ends by means of ordinary slip-pintle hinges 15 to the rails 2. It will now be seen that by means of this hinged connection between the side racks and the rails of the Wagon-body the' former may be swung to any desired position, and I shall now proceed to a description of novel supporting and adjusting mechanism which I have devised for readily arranging the racks in the several positions illustrated for the accommodation of the various materials to be hauled.

16. 16, cbc., indicate a series of keepers located, respectively, upon each of the standards 13 of the racks 12, preferably about midway of their length, and accommodating one end of supporting and adjusting links 17, the

event the racks may be retained in any position from the vertical (at which time the rack is retained against the sides ofthe end frames by catches 20, the upper end of the links lying at the lower ends of the keepers) to the almost horizontal position for the accommo-- IOO dation of hay, at which time the upper ends of the links are situated at the upper extremities of the keepers, serving to brace the racks.

The spring-stirrups 18 permit the links t0 swing freely to accommodate themselves to various positions of the racks, and when itis desired to remove the racks entirely from the vehicle it is simply necessary to slip the pintles of the hinges l5 and draw the lower ends of the links from the stirrups, slightly more than casual force being required for the latterpurpose, as itis intended that the inturned extremities 2l of the free or outer side of the stirrup shall in some measure resist the casual displacement of the link, Without, however, opposing material resistance to the detachment of the parts when it is desired to use the vehicle Without the rack.

The embodiment of my invention illustrated and described appears at this time preferable; but I do not desire to limit myself to the structural details enumerated, as it is obvious that they are susceptible of change, modication, and variation within the scope of the protection prayed.

Vthat I claim is- In a vehicle-rack, the combination with a support, of a rack detachably hinged thereto and provided with a keeper and a series of rests Within the keeper, a link movable Within the keeper and designed to engage the rests to adj ustably retain the rack, and a springstrrup carried by the support, provided with an inturned end and designed to detachably retain the lower end of the link.

1n testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT L. BCHER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. EWING, J. F. Woon.

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