US896329A - Buggy attachment. - Google Patents

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No. 898,889. K ,PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908. G. ROSE 88 M. HAWLEY.

BUGGY' ATTACHMENT.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 2,1907.

wi h1 nous UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GRAHAM ROSE AND MATCHEITE HAWLEY, OF BOURBON, INDIANA.

BUGGY ATTACHJVIENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GRAHAM Rosie and MATCHETTE HAWLEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Bourbon, in the county of Marshall and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buggy Attachments, of which the following is a speciiication.

Our invention pertains to buggy boots, and more particularly to attachments for holding buggy boots against-casual movement when the same are closed and also when they are open; and it consists in the simple, efficient and easily applied attachment hereinafter described and denitely claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification: Figure 1 is a view of a buggy body equipped with our improvements and illustrating the latter as retaining the boot in its open position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing our improvements as retaining the boot in its closed position. Fig. 3 is a broken plan view showing our novel attachment on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a broken view, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of the attachment.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of thedrawings, referring to which:

A is a buggy body having a boot B which is of the ordinary well known construction, and C is our novel attachment as a whole.

As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the attachment C consists essentially of a U-shaped bracket a, a vertically swinging U-shaped piece b having trunnion's c at its ends jour-- naled in the arms of the bracket adjacent to the outer ends of said arms, a rod d fixed to or formed integral with the middle of the swinging U-shaped piece b and extending longitudinally therefrom, a rear tubular section e which is provided at its rear end with an apertured plate f for connection to the boot and which receives the rod d in order to enable the attachment to accommodate itself to the up and down movements of the boot, a clevis g which straddles the inner end of the rod d and is provided at its ends with eyes h loosely receiving the cross-bar of the piece I), a tractile spring t connected at its outer end to the clevis g, and a ring j, connecting the inner end of the spring fi, and the cross-bar of the bracket (L. rIhe mentioned cross-bar of the bracket a is provided with apertures 7c, and hence it will be apparent Specification of Letters I Patent.

Application filed August 2, 1907.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Serial No. 386,687.

that the bracket is adapted to be arranged directly under and directly connected to the underside of the seat of the body A.

In practice, the bracket a is positioned under and screwed to the underside of the seat of the body, and the plate f is attached to the inner side of the boot B at a point adjacent to the rear or swinging end thereof. With the attachment thus arranged ,relative to the body A and the boot B, it will be readily understood that when the boot is raised as shown in Fig. 1 to permit of articles being placed in or removed from the rear portion of the body A, the spring i will operate to retain the boot in said position, and in that way contribute to the facility with which the rear portion of the body A may be loaded and unloaded. vIt will also be readily understood that when the boot B is swung down to its closed position, the connection of the spring i to the clevis g will have been carried past the center of movement of the swinging piece b, whereupon the said spring t by tending to contract will serve to prevent casual upward movement of the boot B and in that way preclude the loss of articles from the rear portion of the body A.

By reference to Figs. 3 and 4 it will be apparent that the clevis`g and ring j enable the spring t to accommodate itself freely to the movements of the swinging piece b and the rod d, and in consequence the spring is enabled to serve the purposes ascribed to it without liability of binding or becoming disarranged. It will also be noted by reference to Figs. 3 and 4 that our attachment is at once inexpensive, simple and compact, and is adapted to be expeditiously and easily connected to a buggy body and to a boot without the necessity of skilled labor being employed, and it will further be observed that the attachment as a whole is strong and durable and well adapted to withstand the rough usage to which buggy attachments are ordinarily subjected.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire. to secure by Letters-Patattachment consisting essentially of a U- shaped bracket having an apertured crossbar at its top arranged directly against and directly connected to the under side of the seat and also having arms depending from said cross-bar and disposed at right angles to said seat, which arms are provided with transverse apertures, a U-shaped-,vertically swinging piece having outwardly extending trunnions disposed in the said transverse apertures of the bracket arm, whereby said swinging piece is connected of itseli1 to the bracket, a rod fixed with respect to and eX- tending rearwardly at a right angle from the middle of the bight of the swinging piece, a tubular sectionloosely receiving and eX- tending rearwardly from said rod and directly connected to the boot, a U-shaped clevis straddling the rod and pivotally conseeze nected to the bight of the swinging piece and adapted to swing on said bight, a ring connected to the cross-bar at the top of the bracket and disposed at a right angle to said bar, and a coiled spring having a hook at one end connected. to said clevis and a hook at its opposite end connected to said ring.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GRAHAM ROSE. MATCHETTE HAWLEY. Witnesses:

CHARLES C. VINK, FERD F. FRIBLEY.

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