US642267A - Thill-support. - Google Patents

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lNu. $42,267. Patented Jan. 30, I900. S. SHREFFLER.

THILL SUPPORT.

(Application filed Jan. 10, 1899.) (No Model.)

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THILL SUPPORT.

$PECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,267, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed January 10, 1899. Serial No. 701,694. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SHREFFLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at J oliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Thin-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of supporters adapted to hold the thills of a carriage raised in an upward-extendin g position, so that the carriage to which they are attached may occupy a less floorspace than with unsupported thills; and it consists of a bar having one end beveled, of a slide placed on the bar and adjustably held thereon by means of a set-screw, and of a hook made integral with the slide, which construction and arrangement of the parts are fully set forth and explained in the following specification and pointed out in the annexed claim.

The object of this invention is to so construct a supporter of this class that it will be adapted for service with all the various kinds of carriages commonly in use, and by reason of the beveled shape of the supporter-bar end and the adjustability and reversibility of the hooked slide placed on the bar such object is attained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of the supporter; Fig. 2, an illustrative view representing the supporter attached to a carriage, and Figs. 3 and I perspective views of the adjustable hooked slides of the supporters.

Referring to the said drawings, A represents the supporter-bar,provided with the enlarged beveled end B, having attached to the face of the bevel a pad 0, which further extends about and partially up the back edge a set thumb-screw F, turned into the slide and against the bar. Made as a part of said slide is a hook D, which is preferably padded, as represented at N.

In service in attaching the supporter to end-spring carriages, as represented in Fig. 2, the thills are first lifted. The supporter is then placed with its slide-hook D over the spring cross-bar and with the beveled hook B resting against the lower portion of the carriage-spring, whereupon the thills are lowered slightly, so that their crossbar will rest against the upper end portion of the supporter-bar.

In attaching the supporter to side-spring carriages and other types where the springbar is low the slide E is reversed on bar A, as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and lowered sufficiently to meet the spring-bar, and in such instance the back padded end part of the bar A will rest against the carriage-axle or some low-down part of the car riage.

The beveled end portion 13 of the supporter is for adapting that end to be adjusted up or down to bring difierent points of the bevel to bear against the carriage to accommodate the required position of the upper end of the bar and also accommodate the various makes of carriages.

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

The herein-described chill-supporter comprising the bar having the enlarged beveled end portion, and the slide arranged on said bar and adj ustably held thereon by means of the set-screw, and provided with the sidereaching hook, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL SI-IREFFLER.

Witnesses:

WM. J. IIUTOHINS, B. P. SHREFFLER.

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