US1478913A - Barrel truck and rack - Google Patents

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Dec. 25 1923.- 1,478,913

G. O. RHODES BARREL TRUCK AND BACK Filed June 19, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet I Q I 2f 36 Z 35 6 2 55 G. 0.j ilzode.s INVENTOR.

Dec. 25 1923.

ca. 0. RHODES BARREL TRUCK AND RACK Filed June 1'9. @922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I NV EN TOR.

a. 0. Rhodes ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

UNITED STATES GBANVILLE O. RHODES, 0F HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

BARREL TRUCK AND BACK;

Application filed June 19, 1922. $eria1 No. 569,190.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRANVILLE O. RHODES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Cabell and State of West Virginia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel Trucks and Racks, of which the following in a specification.

This invention relates to combined barrel trucks and supporting racks, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be disposed beneath a barrel when the latter is in horizontal position without lifting or otherwise moving the, barrel until the truck is in condition to be tilted to elevate the barrel.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character combining a tilting support or rack and a wheeled truck which may be. quickly transformed from one to the other without detaching any of the parts. 1

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, andin the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device arranged as a wheel truck with the outlines of a barrel thereon in hori zontal position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view partly in section,

with the outlines of a barrel thereon in vertical position.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation, partly in section.

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the upper or stationary frame, with the frame members in transverse section on the line 44 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the lower or swinging frame in tranverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

- Fig. 6 is an enlarged front elevation illustrating the construction of the locking mechanism of theswinging frame.

Fig. 7 is a transverse section on the line 740i Fig. 2.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional detail illustrating the, construction of the trip de- 'ment with the rear member of the frame 20.

The improved device comprises coacting.

main frame members each formed of a section of tubing, preferably? double strength steel piping, and each formed with relatively long straight portions 10, a relatively short straight portion 11, and aconnecting curved portion 12. The straight portions 10 are connected by an outwardly curved brace or stay member 13, while a combined stay and pivot rod 14 extends through the frame members at the juncture ofthe portions ll.

and 12, and secured from longitudinal displacement as by cotter pins 15 to prevent the frame members from spreading, while at the same t1me leaving therodfree to rotate.

Attached. to the portions 11 and 12 of the main frame members is an oblong frame represented as a whole at 16 and including an inwardly curvlng rear member 17.

Slidably disposed in the outer open ends of the portion 10 of the main frame members is a U-shaped combined handle and extension member 18, and detachably engaged in the open ends of the shorter portions 11 of the main frame members, are angularly directed supports 19 adapted to be set to en- 1 gage a barrel, indicated bydotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, in eitherhorizontal orvertical position. I

Mounted to swing with the rod 14: is another oblong frame represented as a whole at 20, and provided with suitable caster whilethe frame member 20 is also secured to the rod 14- by electrio'welding.

Pivoted at 22 between ears 23 attached to the inwardly curving frame member 17 is link member 24:, and pivoted at 25 to the free end of the link is a notched latch 26 engageable by its notch over the upstanding web of the rear member of the, frame 20.

Extending from the bar 24 intermediate 28, while a similar hook extension 29 is carried by the latch member 26,1the hooks serving to support a spring 30 which operates to maintain the latch 26 yieldingly in engageits ends is a lug 27 withahooked extension I Projecting laterally from the lug 27 are spacing bosses 31, having pivots 32 to swingingly receive links 33.

Attached to the lower face of the rear member of the frame 20 is a plate 3% with a pivot 35 at its inner end to receive the lower ends of the links 33.

When the bar 24 and the links 33 are in the positionshown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 6, the main frame and its attachments will be maintained in vertical position with the frame 20 supported upon the floor, indicated at 36, thusproviding an efficient combined 'truck and stand or rack for the barrel, either in vertical or horizontal position. The barjrel. may be easily moved about as will be obvious from Figs. 1 and 2. a

hen the barrel is tobe unloaded from the support, the latch 26 isreleased, for instance by a suitable implement inserted between the projecting portion of the member a p 34: and the latch and the former used as a fulcrum to force the latch free from the bar 20 when the bar 24 with its released latch and the frame 20 and links 33 can swing beneath the frame 16l7 as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2,, with no portions extending rearwardly of the curved portions 12 of the main frame. i

The U-shaped extension 18 is then insertedand the device tilted rearwardly on the curved portions12 as rockers or runners,

until the, portionslO of the frame bear upon the floor 36, when the barrel can be. easily rolled free from the frame. 7 v

'When the barrel is to'be loaded, the U- shaped member 18 is detached and the device arranged in lower position and the portions 10 thrust beneath the barrel at each side of the bulge if the barrelis to be supported vertically, as indicated in Fig. 2, or the bar rel rolled upon the portions 10 if the barrel is to be supported horizontally as indicated in Fig. 1. The stops lQare then arrangedto support the barrel either horizontally or vertically, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2,

the member 18 inserted, the main frame tilted into vertical position, and theframe j20 drawninto horizontal -position,.which movement will cause'the latch 26, to auto-' matically couple the frame 20 to the frame 1 6 17, and support the main frame in vertical position. V @The barrel as thussupported can then be wheeled to any required position, and a draw off faucet or spigot, indicated at 37, in serted in the usual manner,

v V The improved device is simple in construc-V tion, can be inexpensively manufactured, and

operates effectually for the purposes described.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed the drawings and set forth in the specification, but it will be 65* understood that modifications Within the longitudinally directed portions, a base member swinging fI'ODl'SitlCl frame at the juncture of the curved portions and the shorter longitudinal portions, means for supporting said base member at right angles to the longitudinally directed portions'of the frame to support the same invertical'position, and

means r01 det-achablycoupling said supporting means to enable the same to be folded within the lines of the frame when 'not in use.

QQAn apparatus of the class described comprising a frame including relatively long longitudinally directed portions and relatively short longitudinally directed portions merging into curved portions and a rigid supporting portion at right angles to the longitudinally directed portions and the shorter longitudinal portions, a bar swinging from one'end of said frameand with a spring controlled lock device at the other end engageable with the free end of the base member, and a link device pivotally united at the ends respectively to the bar and to the base frame.

3. An apparatus of the class described comprising a f ame including longitudinally directed portions merging into curved portions, and a rigid supporting portion at right angles to the longitudinally directed portions, a base member swinging from said frame, a bar swinging at one end from said frame, a latch device swinging upon "said bar at the other end and engageable with the swinging frame, a spring connected respectively to said bar and to said latch, and

a link device ,pivotally, united at the ends respectively to the bar and to the swinging frame. p o

4:. An apparatus of the class described comprising a frame. formed of relatively long longitudinal portions and relatively short longitudinal portions connected by curvedportions, a rigid supporting portion connecting the longitudinally directed portions, a base member swinging from the frame at the juncture of the shorter longitudinal portions and the curved portions, and detachable supporting means between the frame and the base at its free end.

apparatus of the class described comprislng a frame formed of relatively long longitudinal portions and relatively short longitudinal portions connected by curved portions, a rigid supporting portionv from the frame at the juncture of the shorter longitudinal portions and the curved portions, a link swinging at one end from the frame, a latch deviceat the free end of the link and adapted to be detachably engaged with the base. i

6. An apparatus of the class described comprising a frame formed of relatively long longitudinal portions and relatively short longitudinal portions connected by curved portions, a rigid supporting portion connecting the longitudinally directed portions, a base member swinging from the frame at the juncture of the shorter longitudinal portions and the curved portions, detachable supporting means between the frame and the base at its free end, and a. handle member detachably engaging the longer longitudinal portions.

7. An apparatus of the class described comprising a frame formed of relatively long longitudinal tubular portions and relatively short longitudinal tubular portions connected by curved portions, a rigid supporting portion connecting the longitudinally directed portions, a base member swinging from the frame at the junctureof the shorter longitudinal portions and the curved portions, detachable supporting means between the frame and the base at its free end, and a handle member including spaced side portions detacha'bly engaging in the free ends of the longer tubular longitudinal portions.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature hereto.

GRANVILLE O. RHODES.

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