US37498A - Improvement in dirt-scrapers - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL H. DUDLEY, OF MILTON, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN DIRT-SCRAPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,498, dated January 27,1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. DUDLEY, of Milton, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in RoadScrapers; and I hereby declare the following to be a true and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings herewith presented, which drawings constitute a part of the said description.

This invention appertains t0 the roadscraper invented by me and patented on the 6th of June, 1854.

The object of my present improvement is to obviate some inconvenience that has attended the using of that implement when constructed in its original form, and to render it more complete and more valuable.

In the drawings, Figure l represents an oblique view of the scraper. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

A is the main board or body of the scraper with its draft hooks or bows H and H attached on the back side and projecting over forward for the purpose of allowing the load of dirt to be discharged without lifting the scraper. This was its original form, and it has been found that sometimes when the scraper was thrown forward to discharge the load it would fall on its face and endanger the breaking of the handles against the stones, and instead of sliding over the dirt it would occasionally catch a part of the dirt and load up on the back of the board. Now, to avoid any such accidents, I have devised means to prevent the scraper from falling at down when thrown forward, and I thereby make it secure against any such accidents.

By reference to the drawings it may be seen A is the board. D Dare the handles. B is the cross-bar. This projects out at each end over the bows H and H, and having iron rods I and P, which extend downward through the bar and enter into the board on each side of the bows, so that when the scraper is thrown forward the cross-bar rests on the bows, which support it clear from the ground. The rods P and P can be drawn out whenever occasion requires for the purpose of removing the hooks or for replacing them.

Fig. 3 shows the position of the scraper when thrown forward.

Having thus described my invention and the manner of using it, I do not confine myself precisely to this form.

What I claim as my improvement on the road-scraper is The arrangement and combination ofthe bar B and the rods P and P, with the bows H and H, or their equivalents, for the purpose and in manner as above set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL H. DUDLEY.

Witnesses GEo. M. WOODRUFF, RrvERIUs MARSH.

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