US1153924A - Sleigh attachment for perambulators. - Google Patents

Description

A. J. INGERSOLL.

SLEIGH ATTACHMENT FOR PERAMBULATORS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13. 1915.

1,153,924, PatentedSept. 21, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Wikuuoao ADELBERT J. INGERSOLL, 0F NILES CENTER, ILLINOIS.

SLEIGH ATTACHMENT FOR PERAMBULATORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

Application filed March 13, 1915. Serial No. 14,174.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELBERT J. TNGER- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Niles Center, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleigh Attachments for Perambulators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My present invention relates to new and useful improvements in sleds or sleighs and as its principal object aims to construct a sled which may be readily attached to any standard type of four-wheeled perambulator.

A further and more specific object of my invention is to construct a sled in which the runners are accompanied by an attaching frame, adapted to be moved by a hand lever for lowering the sled runners into engagement With the ground or elevating them to a position above the tread of the perambulator wheels so that the vehicle may be utilized in the ordinary manner.

The above and other incidental objects of a similar nature which will be hereinafter more specifically treated, are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out in the claim which is ap pended hereto and forms a part of this application. I

With reference to the drawings, wherein there has been illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention, as it is reduced to practice, and throughout the several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the sled attachment applied to the body supporting frame of a perambulator. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the sled removed from the perambulator. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken through the sled, as disclosed in Fig. 1, and looking toward the forward end of the vehicle; and Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view illustrating particularly the manner in which the crank axles of the runners are connected to the perambulator frame.

As embodied in the accompanying drawings and as best shown as an entirety in Figs. 1 and 2 thereof, the sled includes a pair of parallel runners 10 and 11. These the end members of which are runners are terminally bowed, as at 12 and are equipped at each end with an axle receiv ing bracket 13. Each bracket member is formed from a single strip of metal which is bent at its approximate central point to form a bearing sleeve 14-. The arms 15 produced by the bending of the metal strip during the formation of the sleeve, are connected to each other, immediately adjacent to the sleeve by rivets or equivalent fastening devices 16. The arms are then directed outwardly and are terminally secured by rivets or equivalent fastening devices to the runners. In each bracket is journaled the bight portion of a substantially U-shaped axle, as indicated at 17, 18, 19 and 20. The adjacent horizontal arms of the axles 17 and 18 are received within a connecting sleeve or tube 21 and are secured therein by cotter pins 22. The cotter pins 22 are insertible in any one of a number of receiving bores or apertures formed in the axle arms so that the bight or crank portions of the axles may be spaced the desired distance from each other to accommodate the sled to perambulators having varying treads. The adjacent horizontal arms of the axles 19 and 20 are connected by a sleeve 23 and cotter pins 24: in the same manner above de scribed in connection with the axles 17 and 18. The outer horizontal arm of each of the axles 17, 18, 19 and 20 is journaled in a bracket 25. These brackets 25 are similar to the brackets previously described but are inverted so that their arms may be attached to the longitudinal frame bars 26 and 27.

Between the members 25 and the longitudinal frame members 26 and 27 are interposed the horizontally disposed attaching plates 28. These members 28 extend beyond the inner edge of the longitudinal frame bars a considerable distance so that they may be provided with apertures 29, through which attaching bolts may be passed to secure the longitudinal frame members to the body of the perambulator. The diagonally opposed crank members 17 and 19 are operatively connected by an extensible bar which consists of two sections 30 and 31. These two sections 30 and 31 are each provided with a longitudinal series of uniformly spaced apertures which are adapted to register when the terminals of the members 30 and 31 are overlapped. The two members 30 and 31 are, of course, connected by bolts 32. Obviously the connecting to the distance between the cranks of the bar, constituted by the two sections 30 and 31 may be elongated or contracted at will, by removing the bolts and sliding the over lapping terminals to the desired position. The forward terminal of the member 30 is bent at an obtuse angle so that it will extend in a plane parallel to the plane of the adjacent runner. An aperture 33 is formed in the terminal of the member 30 to receive the bight or horizontal portion of the axle crank indicated at 17. The rear terminal of the member 31 is obtusely bent as at '34 and is connected b'y a rivet or equivalent fastening device to the longitudinally extending portion .36 of an L-shaped bracket, one terminal oftwhich is secured to the adjusting bar 37 and the other terminal of which is apertured to receive the crank or bight portion 38 of the axle 19.

The adjusting bar 37 is of a length equal axles 18 and 19 and freely connects these members, as shown in Fig. 1. The front end of the adjusting rod is accompanied by an L-shaped bracket 38, the forward end of which freely receives the crank and is dis posed on the opposite side of the bracket from the adjusting rod. A controlling lever 39 is longitudinally slotted, as at 40 and receives therein a bolt or stud 41, by

which it is pivotally connected to the longitudinal frame member 26, at the approximate center thereof. The lower terminal of the controlling lever is inwardly offset, as indicated at 42 and is pivotally connected by a pin 43 to the adjusting bar at the ap proximate center thereof. A segmental clutch plate i4 rises from the frame bar 26 and is provided with lateral jaws 45, by means of which the lever may be held in adjusted position. A V-shaped guard 46 is carried by the clutch plate to prevent any undue lateral movement of the lever.

From the foregoing description the manner in which the sled is adapted to be attached to a perambulator will now be apparent. It will be seen that by passing bolts 46 through the plates 28, the brackets 25 and consequently the axles and runners may be attached as a unit to the perambulator frame 47. It is now to be observed that by constructing the crank axles in two sections which are adjustably connected by the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

sleeves 21 and 23 and by forming the connecting bar in two sections which are adjustably connected, it is possible to space the runners any desired distance. Thus the sled may beaccommodated to perambulators of varying wheel tread.

As regards the use of the sled, when it is attached to a perambulator, it is to be observed that the controlling lever may be swung to either lift the runners out of engagement with the ground, as in Fig. 1, to permit the perambulator to be wheeled in the usual manner, or to project the runners to a position below the tread of the wheels, so that the perambulator may be supported on the runners.

In reduction to practice, it has been found that the form of this invention illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred embodiment, is the most eflicient and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of this device will necessarily vary, it is desirable to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in details of conas defined in the append- I at each terminal of each runner, said crank axl'es being swingingly connected to the vehicle body, sleeve members slidably receiving the adjacent portions of theradjacent crank axles ofthe two runners, means for securing the crank axles in adjusted position within the sleeves, whereby the runners may. be secured in adjusted, transversely spaced relation to eachother, and a lineally adjustable member secured at its forward end to the front crank axle of one runner and at its rear end to the rear crank axle of the other runner.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ADELBERT J. INGERSOLL.

Witnesses:

HENRY A. REMKE, ADOLPH H. HoNEMANN.

Commissioner of Patents,

Images