US697112A - Farm-windlass and wagon-hoist. - Google Patents

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Patented Apr. 8, I902,

N0. 697,ll2.

T. H. TABOR. FARM WINDLASS AND WAGQN HOIST.

(Application filed Jan. 2, 1902.)

(No Model.)

A wuemtoz A 44 MMW NiTn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS II. TABOR, OF ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.

FARM-WINDLASS AND WAGON-HOIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,112, dated April 8, 1902. Application filed January 2, 1902. Serial No. 88,129. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. TABOR, residing at Ellijay, in the county of Gilmer and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Farm WVindlasses and Nagon-Hoists, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to Windlass hoisters for wagon-bodies and other purposes to which a hand-Windlass is applicable.

The object of the invention is to produce a handy farm-Windlass and ready connections for grappling with weights, stretching wires, overturning stumps, and for such other mechanical uses as are likely to arise about a farm or plantation.

Figure 1 is a View of a wagon with my bodylifter attached. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the hand-Windlass as applied to a wagon-tongue, shown in' 'section. Fig. 3 is an elevation of an equalizing board for attachment to a wagon-body as a means for connecting a windlass-rope. Fig. i is an elevation of a modification of the Windlass connections.

Let A indicate a wagon-body, B the runhing-gear, and O the tongue thereof, the same being of usual or suitable construction. For convenience of connection I prefer to attach to one or both of the end-boards of the wagonbody an equalizing-board D. This may be a board or piece of sheet metal having near its top edge a series of holes, as D, more or less in number. In these holes D a sling E, of wire or rope, is or may be attached. The equalizing-board is attached to the end-board of the wagon by bolts E passing through boltholes D D in the equalizing board and through corresponding holes in the endboards of the wagon in manner readily understood. Thus the equalizing-boards D may be quickly attached to or removed from the wagon.

The holes D should be sufficient in numher to permit a considerable latitude in the attachment of the sling E. Thus should the body be unequally loaded the center of gravity may be brought approximately to the center of sling E by attaching said sling to the equalizing-board by hooks or other connections to holes D, more at one side than the other of the center of the equalizing-board.

One slingE at each end of the wagon is caught by lifting-ropes F or F, said ropes passing over pulleys. The rope F is shown as passing over pulleys G and G, while the rope I passes over pulley G and is connected to rope or cable F after passing over said pulley.

The pulleys G and G are suspended from any overhead structure, as to timbers H, by wires, cords, or chains or other suspensory devices. With the construction shown it is manifest that a pull of sufficient force applied to rope F in front of pulley G will serve to lift the wagon-body.

To the wagon-tongue O, I attach a handwindlass. This Windlass has a metallic frame I, which is substantially of yoke or U form, but has a bar I at one corner parallel with that end bar of the yoke and forming with the main frame bearings for the shaft K, which shaft bears the winding-pinion L and the hand-crank L outside of the yoke. Near the open end of yoke or frame I there is a .drum M, extending across the frame and having its bearings in the frame-bars. Outside the frame the shaft of this drum bears a pinion N, which is in gear with the pinion L on the crank-shaf t before referred to. By choice the crank-shaft will bear a ratchet-wheel O, which when engaged by pawl O on the frame prevents back movement of the pinions when the pawl is in engagement, but permits forward movement, as usual in windlasses. To the cross-bar of the frame I a swiveled grapple is connected. This grapple may be ayoke or clevis P, as in Fig. 2, or simply a swiveled hook P, as in Fig. 4. In either case the grapple can be passed around the tongue 0 of the wagon, and the Windlass will then be so connected, as shown in Fig. 1, that the operator can seat himself on the wagon-tongue and will then be in position to operate the Windlass to lift the wagon-body so long as the weight of the running-gear and tongue thus weighted exceeds that of the wagon-body and its load. In other cases there is usually little difficulty in holding down the wagon-tongue, so as to form a firm fulcrum or support for the windlass.

For some purposes, and especially if a new rope be used, it is advisable to have a swiveled hook S connected to a short rope-section F which rope-section is connected to the windlass-drum. The swivel-hook S- when connected to rope F permits a rotation or twisting of the rope without torsional strain on the Windlass. The swiveled grapple also has the same effect to some extent.

When both the swiveled grapple and the swiveled hook S are used, the Windlass can be operated in almost any position to lift weights, strain wire, pull stumps, and many other of the numerous mechanical operations about a farm or plantation.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a wagon-body, of an equalizing-board attached to each end board, and provided with a number of holes, a sling connected to each of said equalizingboards, a lifting rope or cable extending from each sling over a suitable pulley, a Windlass connected by rope or cable to both said lifting-ropes, and a swivel-grapple by which the Windlass is clasped to the wagon-tongue.

2. The combination with a wagon-body, of equalizing-boards having a series of perforations, slings which can be attached to said boards, a Windlass, and ropes from the windlass to the slings of the equalizing-boards.

3. The combination with suspensory connections to a wagon-body, of a Windlass and connected cable, a swiveled grapple on the Windlass, the wagon-tongue passing through said grapple, means for winding the Windlass, and means for holding the Windlass-drum against backward movement, substantially as described.

4;. In a farm-Windlass, the frame or yoke having a swiveled grapple at its closed side, a bar near one of the end bars and a crankshaft having its bearings in said bar and the end bar, a drum in the yoke, engaging pinions on the drum and crank-shaft outside the yoke, a cable on the drum, and a swiveled hook attached to said cable, all combined.

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

THOMAS H. TABOR.

Witnesses:

W. H. GUDGER, A. N. EDWARns.

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