US35743A - Improvement in wagon-standards - Google Patents

Description

B. F. BEAN.

Wagon-Standard.

Patented Jly `l, 1862 'weniar' y UNrTED STATES PATENT B. F. BEAN, OF SCHUYLKILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-STANDARDS.

Specification forming part of Leiters Patent No. 35,743, dated July l, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. F. BEAN, of Schuylkill, in the county ofChester and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful'lmpiovement in Wagon-Standards; and I do hereb'y declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l. is a side elevation ofthe improved standard. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same at m a", showing it in two positions.

Similar letters of reference indicate corrc spending parts in both views.

My said invention is particularly, (though not exelusively,) designed for wagons for haul-l ing` lumber; and it consists in a certain improved construction of standard which may be secured at its full height to support the vload while the wagon is in motion, or readily lowered to facilitate the operation of loading or unloading, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the saine, I will proceed to describe its construe? tion and operation.

A is a cast-iron socket, constituting the lower part of the standard and formed to lit and be held in the bolster of the-Wagon in customary manner.

B is an upper part constructed principally of wood and adapted to slide within the said socket. The slide B. is incased at its lower end by an iron ferrule, C, the external diani- 4 eter ol' which is slightly less than the internal diameter ofthe upper end of the socket A.

D is an elastic bar bolted at its lower end to the outside ofthe socket A, and carrying at its upper end a pin, E, which passes through perforations a a near the iop of the socket A and a hole, b, in the ferrule C when the slide B is elevated. Ly this means the said slide is l held securely and rigidly at its full height. This position is represented in Fig. l, and by redv lines in Fig. 2. Forloading or unloading the-slide is allowed to fall within the socket, as shown in Fig. 2. This is accomplished by withdrawing the pin E, and after the slide has descended'the said pin passes through an aperture, b, therein, so as to be out of the way and to hold the parts together when the standard is not upon the wagon.

F is an iron fulcrum-pin projecting from the top of the standard to rnill7 lumber on in customary manner.

G represents the wagonbolstcr.

In practice the socket A and slide B may each be made about a foot long; but I do not restrict myself to any specilic dimensions, form, or materials. rIhe socket may be of cast, malleable, or wrought iron, and the slide of either iron or wood.

By means of this invention a standard is afforded of suflicient height and strength for use and admitting of being readily lowered to a level with the wagon-wheel, so as to present no obstruction in loading and unloading.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by y B. F. BEAN.

Vitnesses:

WM. H. GRIsToeK, J os. B. SMITH.

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