US85951A

US85951A - Truck

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Publication number: US85951A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-01-19
Anticipated expiration: 1886-01-19

Description

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WILLIAM MiL-LIKAN, 0F 'THQRNTOWM INDIANA,

Leners Patent No; 85,951, daad Janna/ry 19,1869.

ne schedule refexred to 'in thnenstrersfpmne and making parrot the una Be it known that I, WILLIAM MILLIKAN, of Thornv town, in thecounty of Boone, and State of Indiana,

have inventednew and useful Improvements in House'- Moving Trucks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,`

- as in directing the course of the building. 5

Figure lis a side elevation of two pairs of trucks, with the building mounted thereon, the upper portion of the latter being cutaway.

Figure 2 is a top view of the forward end ofthe building, showing the manner of connecting the guidepoIes ofthe trucks, and the arrangement of the draw' chains, by which the building is drawn forward.

Figure 3 is. a side elevation of one ofthe trucks.

Figure 4 is a top View .of the same. l

.A are the wheels, and B, the axles of the trucks.

A The front and rear axles are coupled together by the timber O, which rests on the top of and is pivoted at its ends to the centre of both axles, and by the bar D, on *he under sideof fthe axles, pivoted at its ends y by the same bolts that constitute thepivots or coupling-pins of the timber O.

The front and rear axl are also connected by two bars, E E', that are'pivot d t them, near the wheels, as shown in g. 4, and cross each other under the centre of. timber C, that bar whose forward end is attached to the right hand ofthe front axle, being attached by its rear end to the lefthand end of the rear axle, and the bar'whose forward end is attached to the left-hand Yend of the ont axle, being attached -by its rear end to the right-hand end of the rearv axle.' f

F is the bolster, upon which'the building rests, and which is pivoted by a king-bolt to the centre of the couplngqtimber 0.

The object of constructing the trucks, and coupling their front and rear -axles as described,is,` that both axles may be affected simultaneously by the guideto direct the course of the building, so 'that-,the wheels lines drawn longitudinally through -the centre of each of the axles would cross each other, and by which the building may be more' readily turned at theangles of in the ordinary way.

Each truck is furnished with a guide-pole, G, as shown, and the guide-,poles of the several' pairs of by which each truck forming a'pair, is steered simultaneously-lin the same direction. l

` The building is drawn by means of a chain, I, that is attached by its ends tothe corners of the forward end of the building-and a chain, K, that extends to a capstan,'o1- other power. l The chain I runs through a pulley-block, J, that is A attached to the end of chain K, so that the latter may freely adjust itselftn the position of the building, land the direction of the draught;v the effect of which arrangement, in. combination with the trucks constructed andcoupled for steering, asv described, is to enable me to set the capstan, whenl necessary, in any convenient position 'to one side of the line, in the direction in which the building is to be moved, while the building is steered in the most direct course. i

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The trucks, constructed and coupled as herein described; and, in combination therewith, the manner of attaching the draw-chainsl K, all arranged and operating substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM MILLIKAN. Witnesses:

JOSEPH VANABSDEL, -`JAMES B. LPER RIN.

poles G, when these are turned tothe-right or left,

will be brought to the position to traverse a curve, forming part of a circle, ywhose centre is at a point where streets,oronA short curves, than with truckscoupled' trucks are connected together by a coupling-rod, H,