USRE9729E - Running-gear for vehicles - Google Patents

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C. W. Running Gear for Vehicles.

Reissud May 31,1881.

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RUNNING-GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No, 9,729, dated May 31, 1881. Original No. 148,497, dated March 10, 1874. Application for reissue tiled February 28, 1881.

To alt 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CYRUS W. SALADEE, of Wolcottville, in the county ot' Litcheld and State of Connecticut, have invented an Im4- provement in Running-Gear forI Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of roadwagons in which the front and rear holsters or axles are connected by side bars or perches, andin which the body is hung upon semi-ellipand the object of my invention is to hang the body low down and close to the side bars, without being liable to strike the latter. This object is secured by arranging the side springs inside the side bars or perchesinstead of outside, as heretofore, and by connecting their adjacent ends to an equalizing device arranged to operate between said bars, as fully described hereinafter.

The frame connecting' the axles is made of one or more strips or pieces, as shown in the accompanying drawing, which is a plan of suflcicnt of a road-wagon to illustrate my invention. It consistsotl two piecesA,A, each sufficient to form one bolster and the half of each perch, and bent to the U shape shown, the ends of the two bent pieces being then spliced atF F. The frame thus formed has no jointed corners, and constitutes great strength.

Heretofore7 in hanging the bodies between side bars or perches, it has been necessary, to prevent the body from tilting` and striking said bars, to arrange the latter at such a distance from the body that they limit the movement of the wheels in turning, so that a short turn 7 cannot be made. I ohviate this by hanging the springs inside the perches, and by so equalizing the action of the springs that the body is prevented from tilting laterally, permitting the perches to be arranged much closer to the body than heretofore. To secure this action an endless perch of l unite the adjacent ends of the side springs, arrau ged between the perches, to ears D of an equalizing-bar, C, turniugin suitable hearings, so that any excess of weight upon one spring turning the bar C also lowers the other spring to an equal extent, and preserves the body horizontal., so that it will not strike the sideperches,

The arrangement ot equalizing-bars in combination with both ends ofthe springs,as shown, secures a like eii'ect at each end of the springplatform. Another resultot' this arrangement is the suspending of the body lower down than is possible when the springs are outside of the pci-ches, which would be struck by the body it' it were not raised well up above them.

I am aware that equalizing-bars have been used in connection with bodies hung to springs outside the perches; but in such cases the result which l effect is not attained, which is the perfect support of the body, while allowing all desirable vertical movement without unduly spreading the springs apart.

I claimi l. In a road-nagon, the combination, as set forth, of a body, side perches, semi-elliptic springs arranged betweenv the perches, and means for equalizing the action ofsuch springs, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the semi-elliptic springs supporting a body between the side bars or perches of a vehicle, of an equalizingbar arranged opposite and connected to the adjacent ends of said springs, substantially as set forth.

In testimony' whcreot'l have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GYRUS WELLING'IO SALADEE. IVitnt-sses:

JOSEPH E. ALLEN, G. L. MONEIL.

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