US650281A - Wagon-body raiser. - Google Patents

Description

No. 650,28l. I Patented May 22, I900.

} H 6. STOUT.

WAGON BODY RAISEB.

(Application filed Sept. 13, 1899.)

(No mm.)

UNITED STATES j ,PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY o. sToUT, on NEW HOPE, VIRGINIA.

wmoa-soov RAISER.

SPECIFICATION forming part0]? Letters Patent N0. 650,281, dated may 22, 1900. Application filed September 13, 1899. Serial No. 730,374. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. STOUT, a cilizen of the United States,residingat New Hope, in the county of Augusta and State of Virinia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVagon-Body Raisers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

.This invention relates to apparatus for elevating hay-racks, wagon-bodies, and analogous devices from trucks and running-gear, holding them in suspension and again lowering them into position upon the truck or run ning-gear.

The purpose of the invention is to dispense with block and tackle, windlasses, and ropes, and to facilitate the operation of loading and unloading, and to provide an appliance operable by the draft for both purposes, whereby the desired result can be effected by the driver whether man or boy.

In its organization the apparatus consists of a frame comprising vertical posts and tiltin g bars and supports for opposite ends of the tilting bars about in line with the respective posts and upon opposite sides thereof.

The improvement will be described at length hereinafter, pointed out in the appended claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus, showing the tilting bars horizontally arranged. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, the bars being tilted, illustrating the manner of elevating the body. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the disposition of the parts when replacing the body on the truck or running-gear.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

At a selected spot the apparatus is located and the vertical posts 1 planted and braced from opposite sides, said posts being spaced a distance apart to admit of the team andwagon passing between them. The tilting bars 2 are disposed inparallel relation and pivoted about midway of their terminals to the upper ends of the posts 1, so as to rock vertically about a horizontal axis, and are located ata sufficient distance above the ground to admit of the truck or running-gear pass ing easily beneath them. A tie-rod 3 connects the upper end portions of the posts 1, and upwardly-divergent braces 4, secured at their upper ends to the respective bars 2, have their convergent ends secured to or mounted upon the tie-rod.

The tie-rod 3 prevents the spreading of the posts 1 at their upper ends and maintains them a determinate distance apart, whereby they mutually contribute to resist lateral stress. The outer sides of the braces 4 are flush with the outer faces of the respective tilting bars and are adapted to bear against the inner faces of the posts 1 and fix the position of the tilting bars and direct them in their tilting movements in each direction.

Four posts 5 (two for each bar 2) are arranged to engage with opposite ends of the respective bars 2 and are setin the ground and project therefrom a proper distance to form supports for the outer ends of said bars when tilted. The free ends of the bars 2 rest upon the upper ends of the fixed supports 5 when tilted.

The wagon whose body is to be raised from the truck or running=gear is driven up to one end of the apparatus, the body engaging over the ends of the bars which have been tilted, as shown in Fig. 2, and the running-gear and team passing between the said bars. Upon driving the team forward the body 6 will slide upward on the bars 2 and be completely disengaged from the truck or running-gear. A rope, cable, chain, or analogous device may be employed to connect the running gear with the body during the lifting operation. After the body has been raised the bars 2 are turned from an inclined position to the horizontal and are secured in any convenient way. To replace the body 6 upon the truck or running-gear, the latter is driven between the posts 1 and beneath the bars 2 until the front of the truck is about opposite the front of the body, when the bars 2 are tilted to bringthe front portion of the body upon the front end of the truck, the two being secured. The team is driven forward and the body 6 will slide down the bars 2 and settle upon the truck. In either tilted or inclined posi tion of the bars 2 the posts 5 form supports therefor.

Having-thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In apparatus for raising and lowering .wagon-bodies upon their beds, spaced'posts,

a tie-rod connecting the upper endsioif the posts, longitudinal bars, centrally-disposed divergent braces having their outer sides in the plane of the outer faces of the longitudinal bars and tiltingly mounted upon the end portions ot the tie-rod with iheir outer sides I adapted to bear against the inner faces of the upper end portions of the posts, and sup-

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