US772358A - Truck. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904.

W. I. & G. S. HUNT.

TRUCK.

APPLIOATION FILED snma, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

GYM/( 14 UNTTED STATES Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM I. HUNT AND GEORGE S. HUNT, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

TRUCK.

fiskECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,358, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed $eptembe1 3, 1903. Serial No. 171.717. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM I. HUNT and GEORGE S. HUNT,CltlZGI1S of the United States, residing at South Bend, in the county of St. J oseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trucks; and we do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in trucks, and has for its object to provide asimple and inexpensive device of this character adapted for supporting and transporting vehicle-bodies and other parts of vehicles, or it may be also utilized for moving furniture orv other articles. It is more particularly adapted for use in factories where it is desired to transport the vehicle from one department to another-as, for instance, from thepaint-shop to the blacksmith-shop and it serves as a convenient support for the vehicle while it is being repaired or painted.

For a full understanding of the merits and advantages of this invention reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, wherein' Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved truck, showing manner of supporting vehicle-seats while being painted or repaired. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a portion of the truck, showing the manner of supporting a piano-box buggy for finishing and rubbing the sides thereof.

Making renewed reference to the drawings, wherein similar reference notations indicate like parts appearing in the several illustrations, and reference being had thereto, 1 designates a frame which is composed of longitudinal side rails 2 2 and transverse end pieces 3 3, the ends of which extend transversely beyond the side rails, as at 4, to provide a broad substantial base for the truck, the end pieces being fitted with suitable casters 5 to permit of ready transportation. At each corner of the frame formed by the side rails 2 and the end pieces 3 are secured vertical uprights 6, the upper ends of which are embraced by pairs of side rails? 7 and end pieces8 8, which form an upper rectangular frame parallel with the lower frame 1. At each corner of the upper frame is an upstanding bracket-support 9, which may be an extension of the upright 6 or a separate piece fitted within the side rails 7, and from the ends of these supports project pins 10, adapted to engage apertures in the brackets.

As shown in Fig. 1, the brackets 11 comprise straight rods or bars having apertures 12 at each end to engage with the pin 10 of the supports, and, as shown in Fig. 2, these brackets have a fiat upper surface upon which a carriage-body or other object may be supported. Each bracket may be held upon its supports by means of a rod 13, the upper end of which is secured to the bracket at a point substantially intermediate its end, and the lower end is screw threaded and let into an aperture in one of the end pieces 8, and when so arranged the bracket may be clamped down upon the supports 9 by means of thumbnut 14:, which engages with the lower side of the end pieces 8.

When the side of a vehicle-body is to be finished or polished, the same may be suspended upon the truck, from the side thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, and for this purpose the ends of the bracket 10 are provided with pointed irons or spurs 11, which project slightly beyond the ends of the bracket and which are adapted to engage the inner face of the projecting edge of the side, so that the vehiclebody may be hung upon one or both sides of the truck, as shown in Fig. 2. It may, however, be supported in this position by resting it upon the extended ends 4 of the lower end pieces 3, as will be readily understood from the drawings.

For supporting and holding vehicle-seats or other parts, the seat being shown at B in dotted lines, we provide auxiliary. brackets, which brackets extend longitudinally of the truck and consist of bars 18, the ends of which are bent downwardly and pin-shaped, so as to fit into apertures in the brackets 11, leaving a flat unobstructed upper portion, upon which the seat rests. Each end of the auxiliary brackets 18 is provided with hooks 22*, from Which a buggy-seat may be suspended. Upon the upper side of each rod is secured a spacerblock 21, on which is mounted a clasping member 22, the ends of which project beyond the spacer block and are turned upwardly to permit the seat to be readily inserted therebeneath. It will be apparent that any article other than those cited may be readily clamped beneath the clasping member'QQ and that two seats may be clamped on the auxiliary brackets at the same time, also two seats suspended on each end of the brackets.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A truck comprising alower frame, an upper frame supported by the lower frame, brackets detachably mounted on the upper frame, rods with screw-threaded lower ends carried by the brackets and projecting downwardly through a perforation in the upper frame, and thumb-nuts on the ends of the rods, to clamp the brackets to the upper frame.

2. In a truck, the combination of a frame having bracket-supports, a bracket mounted on said supports, means on the bracket engaging the frame to lock the bracket on its supports, and spurs projecting from the ends of the brackets from which the work may be suspended.

3. Atruck comprisingalower frame, an upper frame having bracket-supports at each end thereof, brackets detachably mounted upon said supports, and auxiliary brackets detachably engaged with each of the first-mentioned brackets.

4. A truck com prising a frame, transverselydisposed brackets detachably mounted upon the frame, auxiliary brackets detachably supported at their opposite ends by the first-mentioned brackets and disposed longitudinally of the frame and having clamps, substantially as specified.

5. A truck comprising a frame having brackets detachably mounted thereon, auxiliary brackets detachably mounted upon the firstmentioned brackets and provided with clamps and also having hooks at each end thereof,

substantially as specified.

' 6. Atruck comprisingaframehavingbrackets detachably mounted thereon, means for clamping the brackets to the frame, auxiliary brackets detachably mounted upon the firstmentioned brackets, a clamping member upon each of the auxiliary brackets, and hooks at each end of each auxiliary bracket for supporting the work thereon.

7. In a truck, alower frame composed of side pieces and end pieces, the ends of the end pieces being extended transversely beyond the frame to constitute a shelf on which the work may be supported, vertically-disposed uprights secured to the lower frame, an upper frame composed of side pieces and end pieces connected at their ends with said uprights, bracket-supports disposed at each corner of the upper frame, brackets detachabl y mounted upon said supports, means carried by said brackets and engaging the end pieces of the upper frame for clamping the brackets upon their supports,

and auxiliary brackets disposed longitudinally of the frame and having a detachable engagement with the first-mentioned brackets and provided with means for clamping the work thereon, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

IVILLIAM I. HUNT. GEORGE S. HUNT.

\Vitnesses: I

GEORGE OLTSCH, MAGGIE OLTscH.

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