US810151A - Storm-top. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

W. A. HUNTER.

STORM TOP.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..30,1905.

2 SHEETS-SHBET 1.

No. 810,151. PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

w. A. HUNTER.

STORM TOP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.30,1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. HUNTER, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

I STORM-TOP.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HUNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 119 South Third street, Terre Haute, Indi ana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Storm-To'ps, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates to removable stormtops for vehicles.

One object of the invention is to provide a light, durable, and inexpensive top which may be readily applied to the vehicle in stormy weather and detached therefrom when the necessity for its use is removed.

A further object is to provide a form of storm-top which will completely inclose the occupants of the vehicle and in which while all points will be positively storm-tight yet may be readily opened to permit entrance to and egress from the vehicle.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a single seat buggy-box with the invention applied thereto. F ig. 2 is a perspective view with the removable rail raised. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the front fastening. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the curtain-housing. Figs. 5, 6, and

7 are detail views.

Referring more'particularly to these figures, the ordinal 1 designates the body of a buggy, which is shown as representative ofany suitable uncovered vehicle to which the the storm-top is to be secured.

To the inside of the seat (indicated at 2) are secured strap or like irons 3, which have outwardly or horizontally turned ends, forming lugs 4, which are provided with holes to receive the downwardly-projecting bolt extensions 5 of a rail 6. These extensions 5 correspond in number and location to the number of the lugs 4 and are threaded to receive nuts 7, whereby the rail may be securely clamped to the lugs 4, and consequently to the bugg -seat.

The rail 6 prefera 1y corresponds in shape to the outer edge of the seat and is provided with a lurality of upwardly-extending lugs or mem ers 8, to which are secured the vertical members or standards 9, which constitute the frame of the storm-top, (indicated at 10.) The storm-top has a forwardly-extending portion 11 projecting to or over the frontpanel of the buggy-box and has a front frame member 12 secured at its upper end to the storm-top frame and at its lower end detach- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March so, 1905. Serial No. 252,950.

Patented Jan. 16,1906.

ably connected to the front panel of the box or body by bolts, as indicated at 13, Fig. 3.

The front 12 is provided with a glass window 12 and opening for the reins, as shown at 17.

For closing the space at the sides I provide side curtains 16, which are wound under spring tension on vertical shafts or rollers 15, disposed within the corner frame members 14. The curtains maybe thus drawn across to close in the sides or released to permit entrance to and egress from-the buggy.

The tops of the curtains may be guided in grooves in the lower edges of the frame of the storm-top, but preferably overlap them on the inside, with the curtain-stick projecting up on the inside of the hood, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1. At the lower end the curtain overlaps the side panel of the box, but on the outside.

On the rear vertical or free edge of each curtain, which carries a curtain-stick, I secure a channeled strip 154, having a channel of preferably V shape, and each side post 19 has a correspondiiig-shaped front edge which enters the channel and effects an absolutely storm-proof joint. An opening or eye 18 in the strip receives a button 19 on the post and holds the curtain closed.

I prefer toprovide the curtain 16 with an opening 16, to the edges of which issecured a sheet of transparent flexible material, such as celluloid. I may also substitute for the sash 12 a curtain having a transparent llexible pane therein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with a vehicle-body having a seat portion, of a rail of substantially the same sbapeas the edge of the seat portion, lugs on said seat portion downwardly-extending projections on the rail detachably engaging with said lugs upwardlyextending projections on said rail and a rigid storm-top frame having verti al members bolted to said upwardly-extending projections.

2. The combination with a vehicle-body having a seat portion, a rail of substantially the same shape as the edge of the seat portion, means for detachabl y securing the rail to the seat portion, a storm-top having its rear portion secured to said rail and having a depending front portion, bolts connecting the bottom part of said depending portion to the front of the vehicle-body. vertical rollers cal- REISSUED ried by said depending portion, said rollers being under spring tension and side curtains carried by said rollers.

3. The combination with a vehicle-body, of a storm-top and front carried thereby, springactuated side curtains for the sides of said top and a strip carried at the edge of each curtain interlocking with a part carried by the storm-top, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a vehicle-body, of a storm-topand front carried thereby, springactuated side curtains for the sides of said top,

and a V-shaped strip carried at the edge of each curtain designed to receive the correspondingl -shaped'frame member, substantlally as escribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM A. HUNTER. Witnesses? WILLIAM A. ELLIOTT, JAMES H. KLEISER. I

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