US680735A - Releasing device for buggy-tops. - Google Patents

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N0. 580,735. Patented Aug. 20, I901.

J. T. PRUUTY.

RELEASING DEVICE FOR BUGGY TOPS.

(Application filed Dec. 26, 1900.]

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JOHN T. PROUTY, OF PADDOCK, NEBRASKA.

RELEASIING DEVICE FOR BUGGY=TOPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 680,735, dated August 20, 1901. Application filed December 26, 1900. Serial No. 41,037. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN T. PROUTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paddock, Nebraska,have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Release Devices for Buggy-Tops, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient means to enable the occupant of the buggy to readily and easily operate the braces that keep the top in its raised position,whereby the top may be quickly lowered in case of emergency and whereby the occupant may lower it at any time Without getting out of the conveyance. This object I accomplish by means of the device illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a part thereof, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a buggy-top provided with my improved release device. a view in crosssection of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail showing the bearings and means for attaching the device to the frame of the buggytop, and Fig. 4 is a detail showing the releaselever.

The top A is of the usual construction, having a suitable supporting-frame, of which the through brace or rib a forms a part in the customary manner and which is held in normal raised position by means of the usual set of braces a. and top braces (1 connected to the frame in the well-known manner. A rod B is mounted to rotate in bearings 17, secured to the sides of the top, preferably upon the brace or rib a, the bearings being preferably in the form of short castings and being socured to the brace or rib a by suitable exterior and interior plates Z), which are bolted or riveted to the frame, preferably at its top curve, so the rod extends across the top at a point above the head of an occupant of the carriage. The rod is provided at either end with a release-lever B, fitted upon a squared portion of the shaft and adapted to operate upon the braces a and a Each lever is in the form of a yoke composed of the depending portion 11 and the legs or limbs 19 and b The legs have lateral ears or projections b and 6 respectively, extending into the space between the braces a and a and adapted to Fig. 2 is contact with and throw these braces, respem tively, when the lever is rocked backward or forward. The rod B is provided with a suitable handle b located within the top and convenient to the reach of the occupant.

When it is desired to lower the top, the op erator pulls down upon the handle 19 thereby rocking the yokes rearwardly and causing the projections b to throw the braces c as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4., whereby the top may drop. A reverse or upward. movement of the handle then causes the projections 19 to throw the top braces (1 whereby the roof of the cover may collapse to still farther lower the top, as is well understood. The legs of the yokes are curved or bowed to allow the requisite amount of play about the pivot c of the braces, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The braces a are usually outside of the braces a and hence the legs 19 of the yokes may be curved laterally to cause the pins 12 to engage their braces, or the pins may be lengthened for this purpose.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a buggy-top, the combination with the frame and braces thereof, of a release device comprising a rotatable rod mounted on the frame and having a yoke at each end adapted to release the braces when moved in opposite directions.

2. In a buggy-top, the combination with the frame and braces, of a release device comprisinga rod rotatably mounted in the frame, a yoke at each end of the rod composed of two legs, one pair of legs adapted to release the outside braces and the other the inside braces when the rod is oppositely rotated.

3. A release device for buggy-tops comprising a through-rod mounted in the frame, a yoke at each end of the rod composed of a depending portion and two bowed legs provided with lateral pins.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN T. PROUTY.

Witnesses:

- E. B. SEBRING,

FRANK W. Woons.

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