US789698A - Dumping-wagon. - Google Patents

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No. 789,698. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

S. G. LANCASTER.

DUMPING WAGON.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9. 1905.

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DUMPING WAGON.

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DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,698, dated May 9, 1905.

Original application filed July 11, 1904, Serial No. 216,096. Divided and this application filed January 9, 1905. Serial No. 240,259.

To all whom it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL CHRISTOPHER LANCASTER, a resident of Jackson, in the county of Madison and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dumping-Wagons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in dumping-wagons, and more particularly to steering mechanism therefor, this application being a division of application for patent filed by me July 11, 1904, and designated by Serial No. 216,096.

The object of my present invention is to provide improved axle construction and wheeland-tongue mountings to enable the wheels at either end to be employed as steering-wheels or locked against movement, as may be desired.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the opposite ends of the wagon, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged view illustrating the axle-stub mounting.

1 1 represents the body sections of the wagon, which are pivotally connected at their upper inner ends and are made with inclined bottoms, sloping downward to their meeting edges, giving to the body the general hoppershape shown, so that all material in the body is directed to the center and downward and must leave the body when the sections are separated even very slightly and not stick to the sections, as would be the case were the sections of a shape such as ordinarily used.

The axles 2 and 3 each comprise upper and lower channel-irons, connected by side plates securely riveted thereto, and one of said axles (indicated by the numeral 3) is connected with a body-section 1 by vertical bars 1, having cross-braces 5, and is also connected by an approximately horizontal pair of bars 6 with the body-section near the inner edge of its bottom. The other axle 2 has a pivot-pin 7, projecting horizontally through the center of the axle'and through the lower end of a vertical yoke 8, secured to the other body-section, and said pin 7 is'secured at itsinner end to a horizontal yoke 9, secured to the bodyseetion bottom near its inner edge. This construction permits the axle to tilt in passing ungven places in the road without tilting the b0 y.

At the ends of both axles 2 and 3 stubs 10 are provided and located at right angles to sleeves 11, which carry them. These sleeves 11 are disposed vertically between the upper and lower angle-irons of the axle and have conical bores at their ends to receive coneshaped thimbles or journals 12, screw-threaded at their ends to permit them to be adjusted vertically in threaded openings in the channelirons and take up wear, and bolts 13 are passed through said thimbles and sleeves and secured by nuts 14 to firmly hold the parts at any adjustment.

Tongues 15 are pivoted to brackets 16 on both axles'2 and 3 and connected by links 18 with arms 19 on the sleeves 11 to turn the stubs at will, and yokes 17 are secured to the axles and extend over the tongues and are each provided with eyes to aline with openings in the tongues when straight to receive pins to lock the tongues and wheels at either end.

By this arrangement of parts it will be seen that the wheels at either end of the wagon can be employed as steering-wheels, and the draftanimals or engine can be attached to either end and operate the wagon equally well. This is especially desirable where the wagon is in use on narrow roads, enabling it to be drawn back and forth without turning around by simply reversing the draft-animals or engine from end to end of the wagon.

Below the bottom of one body-section 1a shaft 20 is mounted in suitable bearings and projects beyond the sides of the body, where it is provided with spools or 'drums 21, and chains 22 are secured to said drums, wound thereon, and secured at their other ends to the other body-section, and a gear 22 is provided I00 on this shaft at one side of the wagon, meshing with a pinion 23 on a short shaft 24:, supported in a suitable bearing 25 and made angular at its end to receive a suitable wrench or crank-arm to turn the same and open or close the body-sections, and a ratchet-dog 26 is adapted to engage gear 22 to control the operation of the shaft and hold the same in any adjustment. To look the body-sections together, catches 27 are provided at both sides of one section and comprise crossed arms pivoted together and having hooks 28 at one end to engage and hold arrow-head lugs 29 on the other body-section, and said arms are provided with springs between them, which tend to force the hooks 28 together, and it will be observed that when the body-sections are brought together the arrow-heads of lugs 29 will enter betweenthe hooks and be automatically locked. To permit opening of hooks, a rod 30 extends across beneath the body-section and has eccentrics 31 located between the arms 27, and a lever 32 is located on one end of this rod 30 to permit the same and eccentrics to be simultaneously turned to open or separate both pairs of arms and release the lugs 29 when it is desired to separate the wagon-body sections.

A great many slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

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

1. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with two body-sections and means for connecting them, of an axle attached to each bodysection,wheels supporting each axle, said axles movable away from and toward each other, a tongue having pivotal connection with each axle, means connected with the tongues for steering the wagon from either end, and means for locking either tongue against pivotal movement.

2. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with an axle comprising parallel horizontal channel-irons and side plates connecting them, of vertical sleeves mounted between the channel-irons and having conical bores in their ends, conical thimbles or journals in the ends of said sleeves, and screw-threaded to screw through openings in the channel-irons, a bolt passed through said thimbles and sleeve, and secured in place by a nut, and axle-stubs carried by said sleeves.

3. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with an axle, comprising a frame of vertical sleeves in the ends of said frame having conical bores at their ends, conical thimbles or journals screwed through openings in the frame and projected into the ends of the sleeves, axle-stubs carried by said sleeves, arms on said sleeves, a tongue pivoted to the axle, and links connecting said tongue with the arms to move the stubs and wheels when the tongue is moved.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL CHRISTOPHER LANCASTER. Witnesses:

W. P. BUTLER, 'HARRY D. ARNOLD.

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