US900063A - Carriage-top. - Google Patents

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J. P. FILLINGHAM.

CARRIAGE TOP.

APPLICATION FILED man. 25, 1908.

- Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

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JOSEPH P. FILLINGHAM, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR 'IO REO MOTOR OAR COMPANY. OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN enamels-Tor.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed March 26, 1908. Serial No. 423,081.

Toall whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, JOSEPH P. FILLING- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansing, county of Ingham, State of Michian,have lnvented a certain new and useful mprovement in Carriage-Tops, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to carriage to s.

It has for its object an im roved olding bow adapted to be used with t e front extension of the large carriage tops now in common use on automobile bodles.

In the drawings -Figure 1, is a side elevation, showing the folding bow extended. Fig. 2, is a side elevation, showin the'folding bow folded. It is shown folded 111' twopositions. Fig. 3, is a plan view of the hinge. Fig.4, is

v a side elevation of the hinge on a large scale.

'In Fig. 2, thefabric covering is removed, leav ng the bows as a skeleton.

1 Indicates the seat ofa carriagebodyto I which is attached a bow 2 of ordinary or common construction, and an inclined how 3 also" one arrangement each oint is rigid, but may be made to bend in either direction by removing one of the two pins. The 'oint is made of two coupling pieces 7 and 8, 0 which the part 7 is ma o with plarallel perforated plates 71 and 72, and wit two= pin holes 73 and 7 4 The part 8 is made of a single plate 9 adapted to engage between the two plates 71 and 72; this sin leplate 9 is provided-with two pin holes w 'ch are adapted to register, and in the assembled conditlon do register, with the pin holes 73 and 7 4. Two pins 75 and 76 are inserted through the couphngs, and hold the couplings to ether; when both are inserted and held in p ace, the two parts 5 and 6 are in rigid arrangement. If either of the ins 75 or 76 be removed, the two parts 5 an 6 can bend around the remaining pin, and the bow may be folded to either of the positions shown in Fig. 2, (oneposition is shown "in full lines, one position in dotted lines). In the osition shown in full lines in Fi 2, the inner ace of the coverin material Ties exposed, and in the position s own in dotted lines the inner face is covered in, and the outer face of the coverin 'material is exposed. The ability to fold the bow in either of these positions is advantageous, because undersome conditions it is desirable to so fold it. The pins are held from escaping from either pivotal location by a spring detainer 10 secured to the piece 7, and arranged to engage in notches in the heads of the pins.

What I claim is In the horizontal bow of a carria e top, the combination of a bow member and a pair of base members, couplings uniting the said members provided wlth a pair of pins around either of which the two members may swing, the said pins being adapted to hold the members in rigid "arrangement when both are inserted, butto permit the s 'ng of one member with respect to the other when either of said pins is removed, substantially as de scribed. r 4

In testimony whereof, I si this specification in' the presence of two witnesses.

. JOSEPH P. FILLINGHAM.

,Witnesses:

E. F. PEER, DONALD E. Barns.

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