US391407A - Vehicle-pole tip - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

0. W. EUNSON.

VEHIGLE POLE TIP.

No. 391,407. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT UrricE.

CHARLES W'JEUNSON, OF EMERALD GROVE, WISCONSIN.

VEHICLE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,407, dated Qetober 23, 1888.

Application filed May 8, 1888, Serial No. 273,212. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. EUNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at En1- erald Grove, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Attachments for Vehicle-Poles; and I do hereby declare the following to be alull, 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.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in safety appliances or attachments for vehicle-poles; and it has for its object to improve generally upon the construction of appliances intended for use in preventing possible displacement, accidentally, of the neck-yoke ring from the pole of the vehicle.

A further object of the invention consists in providing a simple and efficient device of this kind,which may be readily and easily secured to any of the various forms of vehicle poles now in use.

To these ends, and to such others as the invention may relate, the same consists in the peculiar combinations and in the novel construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then sought to be particularly and definitely defined in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view in which myinvention is shown as attached to a vehiclepole. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the device as it appears when detached from the pole. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the spring-actuated latch.

Reference now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter, A represents a vehiclepole provided upon its under side, at a point near its end, with a shoulder or pin, 13, which serves to prevent the neck-yoke ring from slipping too far back upon the pole, and O repre sents the ring, which is secured to the center of the neclcyoke, all of which parts are of ordinary and well-known construction.

D is a casting of suitable form to adaptit to be fitted to the lower face of the pole, and hav' its sides extended upward, so as to embrace the sides of the pole. This casting may be secured to the pole in any suitable mannner, but preferably by screws or bolts passed through the sides of the casting and extended into or through the pole. The lower portion of the casting D is provided with a downwardly-extended portion, E.

F is a lug or latch pivoted at a point near its upper end within a vertical recess, a, formed within the extension E of the casting, the rear portion of which recess is cut away,as shown, so as to permit the latch to turn freely upon its pivot G, which is passed horizontally through the extension E.

Within the upper portion of the latch or lug F is formed a recess or chamber,II,for the reception of a coiled spring, I, which spring is coiled around the pivot G, having one of its ends secured to the pivot and its opposite end attached in any suitable way to the easting at the rear of the latch.

In practice the eye or ring upon the neck yoke is passed over the end of the pole in the usual manner,and as in passing along the pole it contacts with the pivoted latch F, the latch is thrown backward, and as soon as the ring has passed the end of the latch the spring I serves to at once return the latch to its normal position, where it serves to prevent the ring from slipping forward or from being accidentally displaced. When it is desired to remove the neck-yoke, the latch is pressed back, and the ring is then readily removed from the pole.

Various expedients have heretofore been devised for locking the neck-yoke ring in place upon the vehicle-pole; but in most instances it has been sought to accomplish the object by embodying in the construction of the pole certain features of mechanism adapted to accomplish the purpose; but so far as I am aware it has not heretofore been proposed to provide a simple locking device which is adapted for use in connection with any of the various vehicle-poles now in use. Such a device I have described, and it will be readily seen that my within the upper portion of the latch and adapted to actuate the same, all arranged and operating substantially as described, and for attachmentmay be quickly and easily attached to any vehicle pole or shaft without necessitating a change in either the form or construction of the pole. the purpose specified.

Having thus described my invention, what I In testimony whereof I affix my signature in ordain! to he new,and desire to secure by Letters presence of two witnesses.

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The combination, with the casting D, of a CHARLES EUNSON' latch pivoted within a vertical recess formed in the lower portion of the casting,andaspring adjusted within a chamber or recess formed \Vitnesses:

PAUL MEAGHER, V. D. GARDINER.

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