US69227A - Improvement in wagon-tongue suppoet - Google Patents

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0. LAPHAM, 0F EL PASO, ILLINOIS Letters Patent No. 69,227, dated Sepfember 24, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-TONGUE SUPPORT.`

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that l', O. LAPHAM, of El Puso, in thecounty of Woodford, and State of Illinois, have invented anew and improved Wagcn-Tongue Support; and I dovherehy declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the artfto make and use the same, reference being hud tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 is e top view of the hounds und tongue of a wagon with my improvement attached.

Figure '2 is a detail sectional -view of the same, takenrthrough theline :u n', g. I.

'Figure 3 is a detail sectional View of the same, teken through'the line y y, fig. 2.

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My invention has for its object to furnish an improved means for supporting the tongue so as to relieve the horses from supporting its entire weight,and it consists in theieombination ofnspring with the rear end ofthe tongue und with the hounds,k in the manner hereinafter more fully described. f

A is the forward axle, B is the bolster, C are the forward hounds, and D is the tongue, about lthe construction of which parts there is nothing new. is a spring, the ends of which are-connected to the hounds C by links a-nd eye-bolts, as shown in figs. 1, 2, und 3, or n any other convenient and substantial manner that will allow theneeessnry play to the said spring. F is an arm or bar, the forward end of which is bolted or otherwise secured to the rear end of the tongue D, and its rear end is secured to the middle'part of the spring E', us shown in figs. I, 2, and 3. The spring E should he of' such :t strength und stiffness that when released. from the neck-yoke or pole-straps its weight will he bnrelysulicient to bring it to the ground, so that the horses will have to sustain a weight of" four or five pounds, sufficient to give steadiness to the tonguewhen in use.

I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Putent- Y The combination of the spring E with the rear end of the tongue D, and with t'he hounds C, substantially as herein shown and described, and for 'the purpose -set forth.

0. LAIHAM. Witnesses:

J. H. Moons, V. LAPHAM'.

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