USRE11040E - End-gate for wagons - Google Patents

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A. E. BBASON. END GATE FORWAGONS.

'No; 11,o40. Reissued Nov. 19, l 889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

' ALBERT E. BEASON, OF AUDUBON, IOWA.

END-GATE FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 11,040, dated November 19,1889.

Original No. 403,241, dated May 14, 1889. Application for reissue filed October 4, 1889. Serial No.326,035.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. BEASON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Audubon, in the county of Audubon and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved End-Gate for Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the adjustment of an end-gate that is permanently attached to a wagon-box in such amanner that it can be readily locked in a closed position, readily raised partially to let grain run out, readily placed in position to be used as a shovelingboard, and readily put on the front and top of the box to be used as a seat.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of supporting, adjust-ing,

and locking mechanism with a wagon-box and movable end-gate, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a rear end view of the wagonbox, showing the gate closed andlocked. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a top view, showing the gate in position as required for use as a shoveling-board. Fig. 4 is a side view of the box, showing the gate closed and locked, and dotted lines indicating the position of the gate when moved forward 011 top of the box to be used as a seat.

A is an end-gate of common form, provided with wings A at its ends and extensions 1) at the corners of the wings and reenforcing cleats l 2 3 011 its back.

O is a rod doubled at its center and bent into the form of a hook d. The ends of the rod extend divergently, an d are secured to the ends of the end-gate by means of staples or bearings d in such a manner as to allow the hook to swing vertically. The ends of the rod terminate in elbows f, adapted to serve as cranks when the hook is operated.

g are bars fixed to the outside of the rear portions of the box and near the top edges of the side-boards in such a manner that loops h, placed on the bars, can be moved backward and forward to alternately engage shoulders 2', produced bynotches formed in the top edges of the bars.

7; are connecting rods that extend from the cross-piece m, and the connecting-rods k on the ends of the cranks d, and secured at their front ends to the wagon-box by means of the loops h and shoulders z of the fixed bars 9, are drawn rearward by the downward motion of the hook as required to clamp the gate against the rear ends of the sides of the box. The rear ends of the rods are below the dead-centers of the cranks, and cannot rise to relax their binding force until the hook is disengaged from the cross-piece m and allowed to rise.

To discharge grain in bulk from the wagonbox, I free the hook and swing it upward and lift the gate to allow the grain to press the gate rearward until the projections 11 .engage the ends of the cross-piece m, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, so that the. grain can flow out downward. I

To use the gate as a shoveling-board, I place the loops h in the rear notches of the bars 9 and bring the gate into a horizontal position, where itwill be supported by means of the cross-piece m, the rods 75, and the hook d, as shown in Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention 1. A wagon end-gate having wings at its ends, a rod having a hook at its center and cranks on its diverging end portions hinged to the rear side of the gate, bars having notches in their top edges fixed to the sides of a wagon-box, and movable loops on said bars connected with cranks of the ends of the rod and hook, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth. 2. The rod 0, having a hook d at its center and cranks d on its ends, the endgate A, having wings A and projections b at the corners of the wings, the bars 9, having notches i, the loops h, and. the connecting-rods k, arranged and combined with a wagon-box having a fixed cross-piece m, substantially as shown and described, to operate in the man- 5 ner set forth, for the purposes stated.

3. A wagon end-gate having wings A? and fixed blocks 01' stops n on the outside of said wings, the hooks d, having cranks f, and the adjustable rods 70, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth.

ALBERT E. BEASON. Witnesses:

THEO. F. MYE-Rs, LOUIS ROLUBEOK.

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