US956563A - Hood for road-vehicles. - Google Patents

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QBERT A D. HOOD FOR ROAD VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.12,1908.

956,563. Patented May 3, 1910.

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HOOD FOR ROAD-VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 12, 1908.

Serial N 0. 467,282.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLovIs BERTRAND, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Barnes, in the county of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoods for Road- Vehicles, and of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved construction and combination of parts composing supporting members of a folding hood for road vehicles, particularly motor driven road vehicles, and according to this invention a. rod is provided upon each side of the vehicle, the said rods being pivoted at their lower ends to the said body. Telescoping on to the upper ends of these rods are the two ends of a central or main hoop, and upon each of the said rods below the end of the said main hoop there is fitted a sleeve which will slide on the said pivoted rod independently of the said central hoop. To oppositely extending lugs on each sleeve are pivoted the ends of two side hoops and near each pivoted end of said side hoops one end of a link is pivoted, the opposite ends of these two links being pivoted to near the lower end of the central telescopic hoop. Means are provided for limiting the telescopic motion of the ends of the central hoop upon the pivoted rods and means are also provided for fixing the sliding sleeves in position upon the said rods when the hood is opened out.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the hood constructed according to this invention and a portion of the vehicle to which the said hood is attached, the hood being in the opened-out position. -Fig. 2 is a half vertical transverse section taken about the line 22 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the hood closed. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the supporting members of the hood in the open position, and Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the members closed. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 66' Fig. 4 to illustrate the jointing of the links, and Fig. 7 is a horizontal section on the lines 77 Fig. 4, showing the sliding bracket and the jointing thereto of the side members.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the central hoop-like member which extends from one side of the vehicle body to the other as shown at Fig. 2 and is tubular, while 2 and 3 indicate the side hoop-like members also extending from one side of the vehicle body to the other. The connections and attachments of these hoop-like members to one another, and to the body of the vehicle, are precisely similar as aforesaid upon each side of the said vehicle, and therefore in describing the construction it will be sufficient to refer to one side only. The central member 1 fits telescopically over the supportin rod 4, which latter is pivoted at 5 to the b0 y of the vehicle as shown, and upon the supporting rod 4 there is a sleeve bracket 6 capable of sliding upon the said rod, and the bracket 6, as shown at Fig. 7 has lugs to which the lower ends of the side members 2 and 3 are respectively pivoted.

At a distance from the lower end of the side member 2 there is pivoted, upon a pivot 15, to the said side member one end of a link 7, and similarly at a distance from the lower end of the side member 3 there is pivoted, upon a pivot 16, to the latter member one end of a link 8, and the opposite ends of these two links are pivoted upon a pivot 9 (Fig. 6) extending from a collar or the like fixed upon the central member 1.

.Means are provided whereby the sliding bracket 6 can be fixed in the raised position shown at Fig. 4 when the hood is open, that is can be fixed to the supporting rod, and in the example shown a hole extends through the bracket and through the supporting rod (which latter may be tubular). When these holes in the bracket and in the supporting rod 4 aline, a pin, 12, Figs. 4 and 7 can be inserted and the bracket so held in position.

The supporting rod 4 is formed with a longitudinal slot or groove 11 and a screw or stud 10 passes through the tubular central member and enters the said slot 11, so that the extent of vertical motion of the central member upon the supporting rod is limited. In Fig. 4 the central member has reached its highest position upon the said supporting rod, while the sliding bracket (3 is also in its highest position and in that position in which its locking pin 12 (Fig. 7) can be inserted.

The central and side members 1, 2, 3 carry and are connected by a flexible covering 13, which may be of canvas, leather or any other suitable or approved material, and the rear end of this covering, as shown at Fig. 1, can

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be attached to the vehicle body, while the forward side member, when the hood is opened out, is held by a strap or the like 14-.

To close the hood so constructed, that is to say to change the position of its members from that shown at Figs. 1 and 4. to that shown at Figs. 3 and 5, the sliding bracket 6 is released, that is to say, its locking pin 12 is withdrawn and it is slid down upon the supporting rod 4 along with the consequent closure of the side members 2 and 3 toward the central member 1, and then the whole structure, that is the three side members, is slid down the supporting rod. They will then assume the position shown at Fig. 5, and upon the supporting rod at being turned about its pivot 5, the members will assume the position shown at Fig. 3, and it will be observed that they do not project, when so contracted and shortened, appreciably beyond the back of the seat or the back of the vehicle. The hood is opened by reversing the operations just described.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by patent is i 1. In folding hoods for road vehicles the combination of a supporting rod upon each side of a vehicle, pivots connecting the lower ends of such supporting rods to said vehicle, a main hoop-like member to extend across the vehicle having its two ends straight. and tubular to fit over and telescopically move upon the free ends of said pivoted supporting rods, means for limiting the telescopic motion of said hoop-like member on said rods, a sliding sleeve-like bracket located upon each of said pivoted rods below the end of said main hoop-like member, free to slide on said rods and provided with lugs projecting forward and rearward on each bracket, two subsidiary hoop-like members extending across said vehicle, pivot pins uniting the ends of said subsidiary hoop like members to said lugs on said sliding sleeve-like brackets, pivoted links connecting said subsidiary hoop-like members to said main hoop-like member, and means for holding the sleeve-like brackets stationary on the pivoted rods when the said hoop-like members are extended, substantially as set forth.

2. In folding hoods for road vehicles the combination of a supporting rod upon each side of a vehicle, pivots connecting the lower ends of such supporting rods to said vehicle, a main hoop-like member to extend across the vehicle having its two ends straight and tubular to fit over and telescopically move upon the free ends of said pivoted supporting rods, means for limiting the telescopic motion of said hoop-like member on said rods, a sliding sleeve-like bracket located upon each of said pivoted rods below the end of said main hooplike member, free to slide on said rods, and provided with lugs projecting forward and rearward on each bracket, two subsidiary hoop-like members extending across said vehicle, pivot pins uniting the ends of said subsidiary hoop-like members to said lugs on said sliding sleeve-like brackets, two links at each side of the framework pivoted to each other and to the adjacent straight and tubular portion of the main hoop-like member and pivoted at their outer ends to the subsidiary hoop-like members, and means for holding the sleeve-like brackets stationary on the pivoted rods when the said hoop-like members are extended, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

CLOVIS BERTRAND. \Vitnesses THOMAS IV. Rooms, \Vnmmar Q. Minisrmriii.

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