US65118A - Improvement in fastening seats to carriages - Google Patents

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M. 0. REMINGTON.

Carriage-Seat Fastening.

Patented May '28. 1867.

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MARTIN C. REMINGTON, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 65,118, dated ilfay 28, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENING SEATS T0 OARRIAGES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, MARTIN C. REMINGTON, of Auburn,'county of Cayuga, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastening Seats to Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, sufiicient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying. drawing, which makes part of this specification, and which is a front view of my device, showing the working thereof in red.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of an eccentric lever, by means of which a sliding or rotating hook, attached to the seat-raiser, and hooking around a pin on the carriage, is drawn upwards, so as to tightly hold the seat to the carriage.

In Figure 1 of the drawing, A may represent the inner face of the side of the box of a carriage or sleigh, near the top of which is fastened a cross-piece, a, provided with a vertical hole, 6, as shownin dotted lines, into which fits a pin, attached to the lower edge of the seat-raiser B. Pivoted to the seat-raiser B is an eccentric lever, 0, consisting of the plate -c, provided with-an elevated rim, d, eccentric with the pivot e, and with an arm, D. E is a hook, a longitudinal slot in the upper part of which plays around the pivot e,being secured by the washer f. This hook E is provided with a notch, g fitting over the rim d of the lever D, so that when the hook is placed around a pin, it, on the cross-piece a, and the arm D of the lever O is forced downward, the eccentric rim d working around the pivotf, and operating on the hook E by means of the notch g, will lift the hook, as that point of the rim d nearest the arm D is also nearest the pivot f, and the downward movement of the arm D shortens the distance between the always lowest part of the eccentric rim d and the pivotf. The hook E is enabled to move upward, by means of the slot in its upper part, and no lateral movement of the same can take place, and thus the seat-raiser will beheld firmlyin place. To release the hook the lever-arm D must be moved or forced upward, when the rim d following it, will cause the hook E to slide downwardbelow the pin or button 7],, and entirely clear the same. The seat-raiser can then be readily detached from the box A. v

Figure 2 is a modification. The shank of the hook is continued into a ring or circle, F, in the open space iof which fits the eccentric C. The lever-arm D is separate from the eccentric, and has a perforation near its 'i'im end, which receives a pin, 2', secured to the eccentric, at a point diametrically opposite the pivot pin f. The lower face of the lever has secured to it a spring, whereby the inner end of the lever is always retained against the ring F of the hook E. The upper face of the circle is serrated or pivoted with ratchet teeth K, into which drop corresponding teeth on the lower face of the inner end of the lever-arm. A The pivotfhas a bearing in a right-angular arm, G, which is mounted suitably on the seat-raiser. v

r The operation is as follows: When the seat-raiser is applied to'the box A, and the hook E is in line with the pin it, the lever is drawn downward, and the eccentric will then draw the hook upward. The toothed end of the lever will pass over the teeth on the ring, and catch therein, so soon as the hand is released; the spring on the lower side of the lever pressing the outer end of the lever outwardly, and consequently the inner end inwardly. The lever is readily raised from the eccentric, but always will operate the latter by means of the pin 2, on which the lever loosely plays. To release the hook the notched end of the lever D must be raised from the teeth It, and thelever drawn upward; the eccentric will then face the hook downward and laterally from the pin, and so clear the pin, as shown in red in the figure. I

It is evident that the fastener may be readily drawn up, and is easily operated and applied by an unskilful person. I design to make it of cast malleable iron, and thus cheapness will be combined with utility.

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

1. The device for fastening seats to carriages, and constructed substantially as described.

2. The eccentric G and sliding hook E, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

3. The locking device, .consistingfof thespring-toothed lever D, toothed ring F, of the hook E, in combination with the eccentric C, substantially as described.

The above specification of my improvement in fastening seats to carriages or sleighs'signed this tenth day ofApril, 1867.

' MARTIN C. REMINGTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. Wrsonnsnnrm, ALEXR. A. C. KLAUCKE.

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