US826636A - Vehicle-gear. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD JULY 24, 1906.

P. WILGOX.

VEHICLE GEAR.

APPLICATION FILED JANA], 1-906.

Witmeooed MM w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. WVILCOX, OF MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. VEHICLE-GEAR.

N 0. 826,636. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9,1906. Serial No. 295,229.

ends of the clips; 17, seats in the ends of the upperfifth-wheel member to receive the ends of the spring-plate; 18, the axle-clip; 19, a perforated lug at the rear of the clip 20, the axle-yoke 21, the king-bolt, having one side of its head cut away and a plain surface thereof bearing against the spring, whereby the said bolt is anchored so it cannot turn; 22, the brace and perforated brace-head, and 23 is a nut which holds the brace-head in position and also retains the king-bolt in place. It will be observed that in the construction shown the common head-block is omittedQthat a springplate unites the ends of the upper fifth-wheel member, which plate is provided with a seat for the lower leaves of the spring, and that the clip-bolts unite the ends of the reach-irons, the spring-plate, and the spring. As thus constructed the gear is simplified and cheapened, and the parts thereof can be assembled and detached for repairs Patented July 24, 1906.

To CLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. WILOOX, a citizen of the United States, chanicsburg, and State of P new and useful Gears, of which tion.

My invention relates to vehicle-gears, and especially to the plate which unites the ends of the upper fifth-wheel member and the atand the ends of the reach-1rons to the same, the object being to simplify the construction, dispense with the block, and locate t e spring upon a plate and nearer the axle than has heretofore been the common practice.

1 y invention consists in certain novelties construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and specified in the c aims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the physical embodiment of the invention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised.

igure 1 is a view in perspective of a veicle-gear, showing my improvements, the lower part only of the elliptic spring being illustrated. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the spring-plate, part of the spring, and one reach-iron. ig. 3 shows one of the clipbolts. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the springplate. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the plate. Fig. 6 is a section of Fig. 1 on the line of the kingbolt.

eferring to the several Ineral 1 designates the axis; 2, the axle-bed; 3, the lower member of the fifth-wheel; 4, the upper member of the fifth-wheel; 5, the reaches; 6, the reach-irons; 7, recesses in the ends of the irons with a hole at each side thereof for the bolt ends of spring-plate; 9, a curved seat upon the top surface of the l ennsylvania, have invented Improvements in Vehiclethe following is a specificawith facility.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

e combination in a vehicle-gear, of an axle and bed; an axle-clip; upper and lower fifth-wheel members; reach-irons With perforated ends; a spring-plate secured to the ends of the upper fifth-wheel member, said plate having a seat on its top surface for a spring, a perforated king-bolt lug, and seats in its lower surface for the ends of the reachirons; a spring; clip-bolts uniting the reachti)rons, springplate, and spring and a kingolt. figures, the nu- 2. A vehicle-gear having an upper fifthwheel member; a spring-plate joining the ends of the said fift -wheel member; reach-irons perforated at their ends; a spring; clip-bolts spring-plate, and and means for anchoring the spring 3. The combination in a vehicle-gear, of reach-irons with perforated ends pringplate; spring-leaves with apertures in the top leaf; and clip-bolts each having a lug seated within an aperture in the top leaf of t e spring.

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

FRANK E. WILCOX. Witnesses H. 0. BROWN, J. BRICKER.

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