US599727A - Dumping wagon - Google Patents

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G. L. NORVELL. DUMPING WAGON.

No. 599,727. u Patented Mar. 1,1898.

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G.L.N0RVELL. DUMPING WAGON.

No. 599,727. Patented Mar. 1, 1898.A

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GEORGE LOGAN NORVELL, OF; COLUMBIA, MISSOURL DVUMP'lNe-WVAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 599,727, dated March 1, 1898.-

Application nea March s1, 1897. serial No. 630.1723. (No man.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known thatl, GEORGE LOGAN NonvELL, a citizenof the United States, residing at Columbia,in the county of Boone and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Dumping-Wagon, of which the following is a specification.

load andv return the parts to their proper po-` Y sition without leaving his seat.

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`The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a dumping-wagon constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal4 sectional View, -the bottom of the body being inclined for dumping a load. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan View. Fig. 4 is a detail view sho'wingthe inclined back portion of the body lowered to a horizontal position.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several gures of the 1 designates sides of a dumping wagon body which is mounted on a running-gear and which is provided with a pivoted or hinged bottom 2, adapted to tilt downward and rearward to d ischarge the load and provided at itsfront with short side pieces 3 and a front board 4. The pivot or pintle 5, which hinges the tilting bottom to the sides 1, is located at a point slightly in advance of the center of the bottom, so that the load will operate to tilt the latter and also to enable the driver by a comparatively slight pressure to control the downward swing of the same in order to discharge a load in a pile or distribute it evenly over a surface and thereby adapt the dumping-wagon to be employed for grading or distributing fertilizer or the like.

The sides of the body are extended in ad- Vance of the bottom, and a pivoted footboard 6 is mounted between them in advance of the by a link-rod 7. The pivots or' pintles 8 of the footboard are located at the rear edge of the saine and fit in suitable bearing-openings of the extending portions ofthe sides, and the link-rod 7 is connected with the footboard at the front edge thereof, whereby the footboard acts as a lever and enables the driver to control the tilting bottoni 2 and return the same to a horizontal position after the wagon has discharged its load.` A seat 9 for the accommodation of the driver is arranged at the front of the wagon and is supported by suitable standards 10, which are secured at their lower ends to the extended portions of the sides of the body.

The body is provided at its back with an inclined section 11, hingedat its upper edge to the top vof'an end-gate 12 and extending vdownward and forward thereof to the rear edgevof the tilting body 2 to assist in discharging the material `with which the wagon is loaded. It is arranged against the rear faces of vinclined cleats 13, and it is supported bya removable transverse rod 14, which passes through perforations of the sides of the wagonbody and through cleats 15 of the inclined section 11. When desired, the inclined sec-4 tion 11 may be lowered toahorizontal position by removing the rod 14, and the endgate 12 may then hang loose or be swung upward to a vertical position. In the latter case the end-gate is then secured by the rod 14, which is arrangedy in perforations 16 of the rear ends of the sides 1 and is passed through a perforation 17 of a central cleat or block of the end-gate.

As clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the sides of the wagon-body are provided near their lower edges with perforations adapted to rewhich engage hooks 2O of the sides 1 of the.

body, whereby the wagon is cushioned and is prevented from being injured in dumping aI load ot' heavy material. The chains are of such length that the tilting bottom will be prevented from coming in contact with the ground.

The sides 1, which are connected by front and rear transverse bars 21 and 22, are secured upon the rear bolster 23 of the rear axle 2.1 by clips consisting of vertical rods 25, arranged in pairs at each side of the wagon-body, secured to the outer faces of the same and extending below the rear axle and connected by inclined braces 26. The lower terminals of the vertical rods .are threaded and passed through perforations of the inclined braces, which extend upward from the rear axle to the sides ot the body, and the threaded terminals of the rods are engaged by nuts, which are arranged on the lower faces of the rear portions of the inclined braces. This connection between the rear portion of the body and the running-gear obviates the necessity of employing rear hounds.

The front of the body loosely rests upon a front bolster 27, to which a front axle 28 is pivotally connected in the usual manner, and a short reach 29, which extends from the front axle to the rear ends of the front hounds, is connected with the wagon-body and is supported by a transverse bar 30, which connects the rear ends of the front hounds. The short reach 29 passes through a keeper 3l of a crossbar 32, which is connected with and downwardly oifset from the sides of the Wagonbody, blocks 33 being interposed between the ends of the cross-bar 32 and the lower edges of the sides of t-he wagon-body. The bolster 27 is located between the front transverse bar 2l andthe blocks 33, which form stops, the transverse bar-2l limiting the forward movement of the bolster and the blocks the backward movement thereof.

The tilting bottom 2 is locked in ahorizontal position by a reciprocating bolt 34, disposed longitudinally of the wagon and arranged in an opening of the rear bolster. The front end of the reciprocating bolt is beveled and is adapted to engage under the rear edge of the tilting bottom, which is provided with a cleat, and the rear end of the bolt is pivoted to the inner end of a transverse lever 35, which is connected by a rod 36 with an operating-lever 37. The operating-lever is f ulcru med on one side of the body adjacent to the seat in order to be within convenient reach of the driver, and the transverse lever, which extends from one side of the body to the middle thereof, is fulcrumed in a suitable bracket or support on the rear bolster.

It will be seen that the dumping-wagon is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that itis under complete control of the driver and will enable him to discharge a load in'a pile or scatter the same, and that the tilting bottom may be returned to a horizontal position without the driver leaving his seat. It will also be apparent that the tilting bottom is prevented from striking the ground and is cushioned to avoid injury to the dumping-wagon.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Vhat I claim ,is-

l. In a dumping-wagon, the combination of a body provided with a tilting bottom, and a pivoted footboard arranged at the front of the body in position to be engaged by the feet of the driver and connected with the tilting bottom and adapted to return the same to a horizontal position, substantially as described.

2. In a dumping-wagon, the combination of the sides of the body, a tilting bottom mounted between the sides, a detachable endgate arranged at the back of the body, and the inclined back section hinged to the upper edges of the end-gate and extending down- Ward therefrom to the rear edge of the tilting bottom, said back section being detachably mounted in position and adapted to be lowered to a horizontal position, substantiallyas described.

3. In a dumping-Wagon, the combination of the sides of the body, a tilting bottom mounted between them, inclined cleats secured to the inner faces of the sides of the body, a removable inclined back sect-ion fitting against said cleats and extending upward from the rear end of said bottom, a removable end-gate hinged at its upper edge to the upper edge of the back section, and a removable rod securing the, back section in an inclined position and adapted to support the end-gate when the back section is lowered to a horizontal position, substantially as described. y

4. In a dumpingwagon, the combination of a front axle, a bolster pivotally connected thereto, the short reach extending from the front axle, the front hounds supporting the rear end of the short reach, the wagon-body sides loosely supported upon the bolster and provided at their front ends with a connecting cross-piece 2l located in advance of the bolster, the bottom 2 pivoted between its ends to the sides of the body and supported at its front end by said cross piece, the bracket-blocks 33 depending from said sides, the transverse bar 32 connecting the bracketblocks 33, and the centrally-arranged keeper loosely receiving the reach and mounted on the transverse bar 32, whereby the Wagonbody is detachably secured to the runninggear at the front thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE LOGAN NORVELL. lVitnesses: G. W. HARRELL, J r., B. F. VENABLE.

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