US836240A - Metallic wagon running-gear. - Google Patents

Description

witnesses I A. N. GALKINS.

METALLIC WAGON RUNNING GEAR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.27. 1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

PATENTBD NOV. 20, 1906.

A. N. GALKINS. METALLIC WAGON RUNNING GEAR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB, 27,1906.

I 2 SHHETSSHEET 2- Q vi hwooeo 6 M 24 mm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

METALLIC WAGON RUNNING-GEAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.20, 1906.

Application filed February 27, 1906. Serial No. 303,267.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADDISON N. CAL INs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of 5'-Illinois, haveinvented certain new and use- ,ful Improvements in Metallic l/Vagon Running-Gear; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to t e o accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. This invention relates to improvements in the running-gear of Wagons, and particu- 5 larly runnin -gear made solely or chiefly of metal, the jects ofthe invention being to provide a gear of strong but simple construction and adapted to withstand hard. wear and rough usage.

0 Further objects of the invention are to provide a structure the parts of which may be manufactured economically and assembled with the greatest facility. The invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be now described, and pointed out particularly in the ap ended clalms.

eferring to the accompanying drawings, 0 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a Wagon running-gear embodying the present 1mprovements. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the front axle and bolster. Fi 3 is a similar view of the rear axle and boTster, one end 5 being shown partly in section. Figs. 4 and 5 are -vertical sections on the lines 4 4 and 5 5,

respectively, Fig. 2. Fi 6 is a horizontal section on the line 6 6, Tig. 2. Fig. 7 is a vertical section on the line 7 7, Fig. 3.

.0 Similar-letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

;The bodies of the axles are a composite structure, each embodying two pressed-steel plates united by rivets, the upper edges of 5 the plates being oppositely flanged and the flanges seated within and united to an in verted channeliron, the flat face of which thus constitutes the top of the structure.

The two pressed-steel axle-plates referred to are indicated in the drawings by the letters A A, eachhaving its upper edge flanged out wardly at B B and each having a substantially horizontal semicylindrical recess therein at C C. When brought together .and 5 united by rivets, the recesses C C inclose the axle lettered D, and it will be understood that this axle D may be tubular, as shown, or solid or may consist of short sections or stubs D, as shown in Fig. 3.

The flanges B B of the plates are surmounted by an inverted channel-iron E, se-

be placed upon it.

Where the stakes are rigid with the axle, as shown in Fi 3, the ends. of the channeliron are turned up, as at E, and they are' supported in this position and the Whole structure made solid by vertically-extending brace-plates G, G, Fig. 6, flanged at their inner edges at g g and united to the plates A A at their lower ends by rivets. These plates G G constitute stakebraces, and besides being riveted together and to. the channel-iron they carry the stake-rings H, which may be held by pivots passing through the plates, so as to form a permanent butloose attachment.

. The front axle carries at the center a bol star-plate I, secured in place on top of the channel-iron, and resting on this bolsterplate is a second bolster-plate I, secured to the bottomof the bolster. The bolster itself is formed of pressed-steel plate K K, flanged at is along the upper edges to receive a channel-iron L and at k to rest on the bolsterplate I. The bolster-stakes are formed by bending the ends of the channel-iron up and reinforcing them by pressed-steel plate overlapping and secured to the ends of the bolster, as before described in connection with the rear axle.

The plates K K, forming the bolster, and the front axle-plates A A are both formed with vertical recesses, preferably by being. ro ev pressed out centrally, for the reception of the king-bolt M which latter passes vertically between the plates K K, through the channel iron on the axle and between the axle-plates A A, and through the axle itself, 10 5 Where the latter extends from side'to side'of the wagon.

To prevent wear on th plates, the socket for the king-bolt is preferably reinforced by an additional thickness of metahas at N, Fig. 5, I I0 and theking-bolt is held in place by a crossriveted at their rear ends to the plates of the rear axle above the axle itself, and braces P extend from the plates below the axle to the channel-irons a short distance in rear of their union. Thus the parts are held rigidly and braced against a possibility of being twisted out of shape. 4

To relieve strain on the king-bolt, the front axle is rovided with a rearwardly-extending circ e Q, formed of angle-iron, riveted to the axle-plates and working through a guide Qon the reach. I

Where a tubular axle is employed, its ends are tapered, as shown in Fig. 3, and the skein lit-is held in place thereon by a nut r on a cen tral bolt 7*, anchored in an internal tapered plug W, and the nut S for retaining the wheel 1s formed with an opening ofsuflicient size to pass over the nut r.

The construction of the gear, it will be seen, is exceedingly simple and the parts serve to mutually reinforce each other, this being especially apparent in the overla ping of the stake-braces, plates, and axle-p ates, and in the united channel-irons and flanges of the plates. All of the transversesupports between the wlieels'i. e., the axles and bolsterare of the double pressed steel and channel-iron construction, thus permitting of the use of practically uniform stock throughout.

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

1. In a running-gear for wagons the com-. bination of pressed-steel plates flanged outwardly at their upper edges and connected rigidly together face to face and an inverted channel-iron within which said flanges are seated and to which they are rigidly secured to form a transverse support between the wheels substantially as described.

2. In a running-gear for wagons, a transverse support embodying pressed-steel plates riveted together and having their upper edges flanged outwardly in opposite directions and a channel-iron secured to said flanges and with its own flanges embracing I the flanges of the plates; substantially as described.

3. In a running-gear for wagons, a transverse support embodying pressed-steel plates secured ri idly together face to face and formed wi h opposite recesses constituting iron holding-chambers in the structure and oppositely-flanged upper edges and a channel-'ron secured to said flanges and with its own flanges embracing the flanges of the plates; substantially as described.

4. In a running-gear for wagons, a transverse support embodying pressed-steel plates secured rigidly together and having 0 posite longitudinal recesses and oppositelyanged upper edges, an axle mounted in the chamber formed by the opposite recesses and an inverted channel-iron seated over and secured rigidly to the flanges of the plates; substantially as described. a

5. In a running-gear for wagons a transverse support embodying pressed-steel axleplates secured rigidly together and having opposite recesses and oppositely-flangedupper edges, an axle mounted in the chamber formed by the recesses, upwardly-extending brace-plates overlapping and secured rigidly to the ends of the axle-plates and having their inner edges flanged in opposite directions, and an inverted channel-iron bent to embrace the flanges of the axle-plates and flanges of the bracelates and forming with the brace-plates sta es at the ends of the axle; substantially as described.

6. In a running-gear for wagons, a trans verse support embodying metal plates secured rigidly together face to face and flanges in opposite directions atthe upper edges, an inverted channel-iron secured to and embracing said flanges and having its ends bent upwardly to form stakes and brace-plates for said stakes; substantiall as described.

7. In a running-gear or wagons, atransverse support embodying metal" plates secured rigidly together face to face withtheir upper edges flanged in opposite directions, an inverted channel-iron secured to and embracing said flanges and having its ends bent upwardly to form stakes and brace-plates for said stakes having their inner edges flanged in opposite directions and .their lower ends overlapping andv secured rigidly to the'ends of the plates forming the transverse support; substantially as described.

8; In a running-gear for wagons thecombination with the rear axle, axlelates embracing the axle and secured toget er face to face, an inverted channel-iron secured onthe upper edge of the plates, and a reach, of a front axle, axle-plates embracing the front axle and secured together face to face and having their upper edges flanged in opposite directions, an inverted channel-iron secured to and embracing said flanges and a kingbolt passing vertically through the channeliron and between the axle-plates below the channel-iron; substantially as described.

, ADDISON N. CALKINS. Witnesses:

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L. E. EMMONB,J1.

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