USD32661S - Design for a driving-axle for motor-vehicles - Google Patents

Description

DESIGN.

N0. 32,66l; Paten'ied Mav 15. I900.

W. MORGAN &. J, G. HEASLET. DRIVING AXLE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

(Application filed Dec 14, 1899.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM MORGAN, OF PITTSBURG, AND JAMES G. HEASLET, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO THE AUTOOAR COMPANY, OF PITTSBURG,

PENNSYLVANIA.

DESIGN FOR A DRIVING-AXLE FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 32,661, dated May 15, 1900.

Application filed December 14, 1899. SerialNo. 740,357. Term of patent 14 years.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM MORGAN, a resident of Pittsburg, and JAMES G. HEASLET, a resident of Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and original Design for a Drivin g-Axle for Motor-Vehicles; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof. The figure illustrates a perspective view of our new driving-axle for motor-vehicles.

The essential feature of our new design is an axle comprising an arched member and a straight member joining each other at their :5 outer ends, the straight member being made in two sections with an inclosing case between their adjacent ends which is connected to the arched member.

1 represents the arched member, and 2 the straight member, which is formed in two sections 3 4, the outer ends of which fit within socket-pieces 5, which are expanded, as at 6, to form the recesses 7 therein. Fitting around the socket-pieces 5 are the clamps 8, which are provided with the sockets 9 thereon, to which are connected the outer ends of the arched member 1, and caps 1O 10 fit around each of the socket-pieces 5 and are bolted to the clamps 8. Between the inner adjacent ends of the two sections 3 4 of the 0 straight member 2 is an inclosing case 11, which is formed in two sections 12 12, having sockets 13 thereon which are connected to the said inner ends of the sections 3 4. The upper end of the inclosing case 11 is bolted to a collar 14 on the arched member 1. Upon the arched member 1 are the bearings 15, and upon the two sections 3 4 of the straight memher 2 are the flanged collars 16.

e claim The design for a driving-axle for motorvehicles, substantially as herein shown and described In testimony whereof we, the said \VILLIAM MORGAN and J AMES G. HEASLET, have here- 5 unto set our hands.

\VILLIAM MORGAN. JAMES G. HEASLET.

Witnesses:

GEO. B. LANG, J. N. OooKn.

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