US742851A

US742851A - Rotary axle.

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Publication number: US742851A
Application number: US13842103A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clay Faulkner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-01-09
Filing date: 1903-01-09
Publication date: 1903-11-03
Anticipated expiration: 1920-11-03

Description

PATENTED Nov. s, 1903. C. "FAULIQIBR ROTARY AXLB.

APPLIOA'HON FILED JAN. 9, 1903.

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WITNESSES NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES,

Patented November` 3, 1903.

.PATENTOFFICE ROTARY AxLE.

vSIPEGIEICLA'III'JN forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,851, dated November 3, 1903.

i Application iiled January 9, 1903. Serial No. 138,421. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAY FAULKNER, of Mc- Minnville, in the county of Warren and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rotary Axles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in rotary axles, the object of the invention being to provide a perfectly-running perfectlylubricated powerful axle which will greatly reduce friction, and thereby lighten the draft of the vehicle. 1

A further object is to provide an improved channel axle-support of great strength and which will inclose the axle-sections and exclude dirt and grit from the bearings.

A further object is to provide improved bearings for the axle-sections and improved waste-carrying trays or platforms to maintain waste saturated with lubricant in contact with the axle-sections attheir bearings.

With these objects in view the invention consists in cert-ain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View illustrating my improvements.

Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section. Fig.

3 is a rear View. Fig. 4 is a View in section on the line as of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a view in section on the line y y of Fig. 2. Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged views illustrating details of construction, and Fig. 8 is a view illustrating the application of my improvement as a front axle.'r

1 represents myl improved channel axlesupport, which is composed of metal stamped or formed into the general inverted-U shape in cross-section, Aas shown, and formed with flanges 2 at both lower edges throughout the entire length of the support. On top of this support gains 3 are securely riveted and project beyond the sides of ends and are perforated to receive bolts or rivets to secure the hounds 4. thereto. The ends of the support are inclined inwardly `from top to bottom and made with an outthe support at both "the bearings in place.

wardly-projecting flange to deflect dirt and grit away from the wheel-hubs, and sandbands 6 on wheel-hubs 7`overlap these anges 5, preventing any entrance of dirt and grit between the support and hub.

In the channel axle-support 1 at its respective ends journal-boxes 8 are located and each made in two sections, the upper section preferably lined with Babbitt metal or brass and provided on its upper face with a semispherical enlargement 9 to fit a correspondinglyshaped socket in support l and permit pivotal adjustment of the journalbox. The lower section of the box is cast hollow and has a removable shaft 10 mounted therein and made angular throughout a portion of its length to enter the angular bore of a dished or curved tray or platform 11, adapted to contain lubricant-saturated waste and hold the same in contact with axle-section 12 by means of a spring 13, secured to the tray and bearing on the bottom of the box. An opening 14 is provided in the side of support 1 for the entrance of waste and lubricant to the tray, and this opening is closed by a cover 14.. One end of shaft 10 projects beyond the box and is made with a crank-arm 15, to which a depending wire 16 is secured/,and located in convenient reach, so as to permit a person to pull down on this wire lower tray 11 and stuff Waste through opening 14 between the tray and axle, and when the wire is released spring 13 will return the tray to its former position and always maintain the lubricantsaturated waste in contact with the axle. These journal-boxes are secured in position by means of the hound-braces 17, which are secured to the support by bolts passed through perforations in the flanges 2 thereof.

The inner ends of axle-sections 12 are supported in pivoted bearings 18, which latter comprise bearing-sleeves having waste-receptacles 19 at the top and ducts 2O for conveying the lubricant from said receptaclesto the bearing. Circular enlargements 2Oa are provided on the lower side of the sleeves and are perforated to receive bolts 2l, passed through openings in the support and pivotally secure The sides of support 1, where it is perforated to form bolt-holes 22, is strengthened by reinforcing-plates 23, secured thereto, and the bolt holes 22 are ICO somewhat elongated to permit of a certain vertical adjustment of the bearings to exactly position the axle-sections and the wheels or, in other words, to allow a sufficient adjustment of the axle-sections to exactly dispose the spokes of the wheels in a vertical position, and thus insure the greatest possible strength thereof. I provide crescent-shaped blocks 24:,which may be placed in bolt-openings4 22 either below or above the bolts to accomplish this adjustment, and these blocks are held in position by the bolt-heads and nuts.

The inner ends of axle-sections 12, which terminate in close proximity to each other,

are grooved peripherally to receive a boxshaped coupling 25, whose ends are grooved and enter the grooves in the axles and inclose the inner ends thereof, preventing possibility of any longitudinal movement. This coupling 25 is held in position by a bar 26, bent at its ends around enlargements 20 and secured thereto by cap-screws 27. This coupling 25 is also adapted to contain Waste, and openings 28 are provided in the side of support l to permit the injection of Waste and lubricant into the coupling and receptacles 19. dirt and grit which may fall from the top of the support by means of a flange 29, overlapping and clamping the edges of a slide 30, made with a suitable handheld 3l to facilitate its movement in opening and closing the lubricant-inlets. n

A plate 32 is secured to the bottom flanges 2 of support l, entirely closing the sam/e between the end Iiournal-boxes, and thus exclude all dirt and grit from the axle-sections.

As shown in Fig. 8, when my improvements are employed as the front axle of a vehicle I secure to the top of support l at its center a raised plate 33, having a central opening for the king-bolt 34. I thus dispense with the necessity of perforating the channel axle-support, and thereby avoid the entrance of dirt and grit, which would otherwise follow the king-bolt into the channel.

By constructing myimprovements as above explained it will be seen that the axle-sections can be adjusted in their pivoted bearings to hold the wheel-spokes vertical and secure the greatest strength of the vehicle, that the bearings can be lubricated without removing the wheels, that dirt and grit are positively excluded from all of the bearings, and that an axle which is a vastv improvement over anything of this character heretofore known is the result.

A great many changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described Without departing from my invention, and hence I do not confine myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what These openings 28 are protected from' I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of ametal channel axlesupport of approximate inverted-U shape in cross-section and having flanges at its lower edges, and means for securing rotary axle-sections in said support.

2. The combination of a metal channel axlesupport of approximately-inverted-U shape in cross-section flanged throughout its lower edge and at both ends, and the ends of said support inclined inwardly from its top to its bottom, and means for securing rotary axlesections in said support.

3. The combination with a channel axlesupport, of bearings in the outer ends thereof for rotary axle-sections, and pivotally-supported bearings in said support for the inner ends of said axle-sections.

4. The combination with a channel axlesupport, of bearings in the outer ends thereof for rotary axle-sections, pivotally-supported bearings in said support for the inner ends of the axle-sections, and a box-coupling for the inner ends of said axle-sections.

5. The combination with a channel axlesupport having bearings in its ends for rotary axle-sections, of bearings for the inner ends of said axle-sections and bolts passed through the supports and bearings to pivotally secure the latter.

6. The combination with a channel axlesupport having bearings in its ends for rotary axle-sections,of pivotally-secured bearings in the support for the inner ends of the axlesections, lubricant-receptacles in the top of said bearings and ducts connecting the receptacles with the journal-bearings.

7. The combination with a channel axlesupport having bearings for the outer and inner ends of rotary axle-sections, a coupling for the inner ends of said axle-sections and said support made with lubricant-inlets to the inner bearings and coupling, of a slide to close said inlets, and a flanged protector overlapping the edges of the slide to deflect dirt and grit away from the inlets.

8. The combination of a channel axle-support extending from hub to hub of the wheels and inclosin g rotary axle-sections and a plate removably secured to the open bottom of said support. 9. The combination with a channel axlesupport, of bearings therein for rotary axlesections, bolts passed through elongated openings in the support and through openings in the bearings to pivotally support the latter and crescent-shaped blocks or plates:inserted in said elongated openings to properly position the bearings.

10. The combination with a channel axlesupport, of ybearings in the support for rotary axle-sections and having pockets therein, a shaftprojecting through the pocket and havingfa crank-arm o n its outer end, a tray or platform secured on the shaft in the pocket and adapted to support waste, a spring to IOO hold the Waste against the axle-sectionrrneans top of said support at its center and perfoxo for permitting the crank-arm to be pulled downward to draw the tray downward, and a cover closing an opening in the channel axlesupport through which waste and lubricant are forced onto the tray.

11. The combination with a channel axlesupport having bearings therein for rotary axle-sections, of a raised plate secured to the rated to receive a king-bolt.

In testimony whereof I have' signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLAY FAULKNER.

Writnesses:

S. W. FOSTER, R. S. FERGUSON.-