US326019A - Shifting-rail for buggy-seats - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

S. GOTHERMON.

1emr-"flueRAIL.Pole BUGGY SEATS. A No. 326,019. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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SIMON COTHERMON, OF CONSTANTINE, MICHIGAN.

SHlFTlNG-RAI-L FOR BUGGY-SETS.

@IFESIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,019, dated September 8, 1885. Application filed J' une 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Beit known that I, SIMON CoTHERMoN, of Constantine, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Shifting-Rails for Buggy-Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The objects of this improvement are greater simplicity and economy in the construction of parts employed for and greater .convenience in attaching shifting-rails to and detaching the same from buggy-seats. These results are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings herewith iiled as part hereof,i n which the same letters of reference denote the same parts in the dierent views.

Figure l is a rear elevation of a buggyseat provided wit-h my improved means for attaching and detaching theAshifting-rail. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line x x of Fig. 3.

A is the buggy-seat, provided with a series of seat-irons, a, tiXed thereto in the usual manner. The seat-irons are provided at their outer vends with integral circularrheads a', having perforations for the reception of screw-threaded shanks b2 of lazy-back irons B B,wliich are secured in the position shown by means of the nuts b and screws, as shown at b3, Fig. 2.

D D are lazyback irons having screwthreaded Shanks d and integral extensions or `prongs D', provided with screw-threaded shanks d. The lazy-back irons D are secured to the lazy-back O in the ordinary manner, as shown at d4, and to the seat-irons a a ct a by nuts d2 d, as fully shown in Fig. 3.

E is the shifting-rai l,having one straight and E E2 are integral extensions of the rail E, forming the props for the top or cover. (Not shown.)

The lazy-back irons B B and D D D D areiiled or otherwise cut away to form dovetail projections, which fit over the convexed side of' the shifting-rail E, as shown at b b, Fig. l, b c c', Fig.`8, and more fully shown at Ao, Fig. 4. Thecircular heads a of the seat-irons a are filed or otherwise cut away to form dovetail projections a2, which also tit over the conv handles for use in enteringthevehicle to which the mechanism is attached.

By means of the nuts d2 dit on the screwthreaded Shanks of the lazy-back irons D D and the nuts b on the screw-threaded shanks of the irons B the shifting-rail E is irmly clutched between the dovetail projections b c c' of the lazy-back irons and the dovetail proiec'tions a2 of the seat-irons a. By loosening the nuts d, d3, and bsufticiently to clear the dovetail projections b of the irons B from the railA E the latter may be removed from the seat without dctaching and replacing the lazy-back.

I am aware that by reason of the patent to Fuller, September 24, 1878, the within-de scribed mechanism is not broadly new; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.The shifting-rail E, having one convexed and one perpendicular side meeting in sharp edges, in combination with the seat-irons a,

having circular heads a,.provided withdovetailed recesses for fitting over the lower edge of the shifting-rail, the lazy-back irons B, provided with dovetailed recesses for fitting over the upper edge of the shifting-rail, and the lazy back irons D D', provided wit-h dovetailed recesses for fitting over the upper edge of the shifting-rail, and arranged to secure theposition of the same, as set forth.

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

SIMON COTHERMON.

Witnesses: Y THOMAS HARRISON, THOMAS S. BATLEY.

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