US937561A - Snow-road-making machine. - Google Patents

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F. ALEXANDER & B. A. MUNGIL.

SNOW ROAD MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIQN FILED MAR. 11, 1909.-

Patented Oct. 19,1909.

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SNOW ROAD MAKING MAGHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 11, 1909.

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FRANK ALEXANDER AND BENJAMIN A. MUNGIL, 0F PAUL SMITHS, NEW YORK.

' SNOW-ROAD-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK ALEXANDER and BENJAMIN A. MUNoIL, citizens of the United States, residing at Paul Smiths, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Snow- Road-Making Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine which makes a road on snow by dragging a weighted platform over the same.

The object of the present invention is to provide a machine of this kind which can be operated in any depth of snow, and which can also be employed for packing snow on streets or roads to render the same passable for sleighs, teams and pedestrians.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for leveling off holes and hollows, and also to form a foot path on both sides of the road.

The invention also has for its object to provide a road-making machine of the kind stated, which is simple in structure, and easily operated.

With the foregoing objects in view, the invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the drawing hereto annexed in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 8 is a central longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4.4 of Fig. l.

The machine is in the form of a sled, the runners of which are indicated at 5. Extending between said runners, at the front end thereof, and mounted therein so as to be free to rock, is a cross-bar 6 to which the draft pole or tongue 7 is connected. The draft animals are connected to this pole or tongue in the ordinary manner.

The runners 5 are connected at their rear ends by a cross-bar 8 having downturned ends 9 which are bolted or-otherwise suitably fastened to the runners on the outside thereof. By these downturned ends the cross-bar is spaced a suitable distance above the top of the runners, and said cross-bar carries seats 10 for the operators, said seats being secured to the cross-bar adjacent to the ends thereof. At the middle of the cross-bar is mounted a pair of uprights 11 which are spaced apart, and which are for a purpose to be presently described.

Extending between the runners 5 about midway between the ends thereof, and secured thereto in any suitable manner, is a rod 12 which carries a platform 13. To the top of the platform, adjacent to the side edges thereof, are secured metal strips 14 which are bent at one end into eyes 15 through which the rod 12 passes, whereby the platform is hingedly connected to and supported by the said rod. The bottom of this platform is covered with a metal sheathing 16. Extending across the top of the platform at the free end thereof is a strip 17.

In front of the platform .13 islocated a scraper comprising a pair of rearwardly diverging scraper-blades 18 secured to a cross-bar 19 extending between and mounted in the runners, said cross-bar being so mounted as to be free to rock. The scraper-blades are connected at their front ends by a shank 20 by means of which they are secured to the cross-bar 19, bolts 21 being passed through said parts and secured by nuts screwed thereon. The scraper-blades are slightly forwardly inclined in the direction of their lower ends, and their lower edges are also curved.

Extending rearwardly from the cross-bar 19 is a guard plate 22 which covers the front end of the scraper-blades, and which serves to prevent the snow from being thrown on the platform 13. To the scraper-blades are secured straps 22 which extend over the top of the guard plate, and are secured on top of the cross-bar 19. On top of the guardplate, adjacent to the rear edge thereof, and extending between the straps 22, is a strip 23 which serves as a brace.

Passing through openings in the guard plate 22 and the strip 23, is a stem 24, which is screw-threaded to receive nuts 25 and 26, the first-mentioned nut being screwed on the stem to engage the bottom of the guard plate 22, and the last mentioned nut being screwed on the stem to engage the top of the strip 23, whereby said stem is securely held in place. The stem rises from the strip 23 a suitable distance, and its upper end is also screw-threaded to receive the nut 27.

At 28 is indicated a lever having at one end ahook 29 which engages an eye 29 on the butt end of the tongue 7. The other end of the lever enters between the uprights 11, and is held by a bolt 30 passing transversely therethrough. Intermediate its ends, the lever is formed with an ofi-set 31, and secured to the lever adjacent to the ends of said off-set portion is a strip 32.. The off-set 31 andrstrip 32 form a slot inwhich the stem 24 is received. The upper edge of the lever is engaged by the nut 27,: and between the 5 lower edge of the lever and the nut 26 a spring 33, is-vcoiledaround the stem, awasher 3'4 beln'g interposed between one end of the spring and the lever.

In the operation of the machine, th'e'plat- -1-0 zform l3' -is loaded with-someheav-y material I 'i .such 'vas pig iron, stone; or lead, whichever is imost convenient' in the locality where the v mach-ine is -in user-- The platform is pitched aat r-an angle which-throws all the Weight v 15 cona Tsmarltsurface at the rear end thereof, and whensaid platforni is'dragged over the isurfaceiiof the snow', the latter is-packed :ihard enough to form a road or path! The m 'gst'ri'p ih z prevents the-weights from rolling r 2 the platform The {scraper-blades l8 clean the track where thehorses and sleighs r n'travel; and throw thesnow on the outside of each tra'ck, :thllS; making a shoulder to prevent sleighsfromslui-ng and the horses i'2 wfromzsl-umping, and a hard: foot path isalsoformed on iboth sides of the track. -The tion when the machine is used for'thedatter That is" claimed is i thereby, scraper-s rocking support-for said from the support, and passin'g through the stem-between the support and the lever, and

5 surface of the snow;

:runners act as guides tokeep the machine m-straightJmThe scraper blades are-adjusted bywmeans of the'lever 28;- When the track Witnesses s in construction and can be easily operated, and byits .usesnowroadscan be easily made, and it may also be employed for packing snow inv streets or on roads, the scraper blades 18 being elevated to inoperative posipurpose.

1. A snow road making machine comprising sled runnersya slotted lever carried scrapersc'arri'ed by=the runners, a stenr rising slot of the lever, =a- SPF-111g coiled around the a weighted platform "carried by the runners behind the scrapers, and-in contact= v fit h the --2.- A-snow" road making machine jjc'omprising sled runners, a -='-levercarried 'thereby, scrapers-ya rocking su p'ort for said scrapers carried 4 by the 1 runners, a 'stem; rising'- =.from the-support= and-loosely connected to the =lever,'; aspring coiled'around the --stem between the support and the lever,-" and a weighted platform carried by the runners behind the scrapers, and in' contact with the surface of the-snow. V

Intestimony that we'cla'im the-foregoing as our own, we have heretoafliXed oursignaturesin the presence of two' witnesses.

FRANKI'ALEXANDER. BENJAMIN AMUNGIL;

WmmAMAa WALTON,

IIiLIAM H-ERRON.

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