US1300813A - Sleigh-runner attachment for vehicles. - Google Patents

Description

S. M. BUCK.

SLEIGH RUNNER ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4,1911.

1,300,81 3, Patentd Apr. 15, 1919.

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SLEIGH-RUNNER ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Application filed May 4, 1917. Serial No. 1665471.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. BUCK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cedar Lake, in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sleigh- Runner Attachments for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to vehicles and more particularly to a sleigh attachment for wagons, buggies, and the like vehicles. 7

An object of the present invention is to provide runners adapted to be substituted for the usual wheels on the spindles of the vehicle, and to maintain the same relatively wide thread of the vehicle to prevent tilting of the same when the runners are applied 7 thereto.

The figure is a top plan view of the sleigh runners, the axles with their spindles being applied to the runners.

Referring to these drawings, C indicates the front and rear axles, and D indicates the ton ue of an ordinary vehicle.

T he sleigh runners for supporting a vehicle are arranged in front and rear pairs l0'and 11. Each runner is composed of a vmain body portion or shoe which is relatively long and narrow and may be provided upon its under face with a metallic strip or sole 12 for contact with the snow and ice as is ordinary in sleigh runner construction. The rear end of the sole 12 is held in place by overlapping the same about the rear end of the shoe and the forward end of the sole is held in place by overlapping the forward end thereof over the horn or upturned for: Ward end of the shoe. The forward end of the shoe may be reinforced by the provision of side plates 13 to be riveted or bolted against the opposite sides of the shoe and which are curved to conform to the configuration thereof.

The body or shoe of the runner is pro vided with a mounting or connecting block 14 preferably in the form of a casting having a longitudinally extending channel in its lower end forming lateral flanges 15 adapted for overlapping engagement against the opposite sides of the shoe. The block 14 is provided with a vertically extending Web portion which rises from the channeled lower end of the block, and which is reinforced by the provision of a second vertical web portion which rises from the flanges 15 and is transversely widened toward the up per end of the block. The block is further provided with a sleeve 16 or cylindrical portion adapted to fit over the spindle of the axle C to rotatably connect the block 14 to the axle for free oscillating movement thereon. The block 16 is thus reinforced against longitudinal and transverse strain, and the sleeve portion 16 upon the upper end of the block projects from the opposite sides of the same to maintain the shoe of the runner in substantially the same plane as is occupied by the tread portion of the wheel when mounted on the axle.

The runners 10 are connected together at their forward ends by spacing sleeves 17 through which bolts 18 pass, the latter being secured at opposite ends to the forward ends of the runners 10. The sleeve 17 is thus rotatably mounted upon the forward end of the runners. The sleeve 17 is provided with a pair of forwardly extending spaced-apart hounds 19 adapted to receive the inner end of the wagon tongue D therebetween, and are preferably reinforced by the provision of wear strips 20 secured along the inner op: posite edges of the hounds 19 and being overturned about the outer extremities of the same. A bolt 21, such as usually employed for securing the tongue D to the usual hounds of a vehicle, is secured through the hounds and through the tongue D to hold the latter in position. Brace rods 22 are preferably connected at their forward ends to the bolt 21 at the outer sides or edges of the hounds 19 and diverge rearwardly from the hounds toward the opposite ends of the sleeves 17. The rear ends of the braces 22 are preferably of circular or collar form and are adapted to bind about the ends of the sleeve 17 for holding the hounds 19 against endwise deflection.

When the vehicle is in motion, it is apparent that the front runners 10 are free to swing of oscillate'upon the front axle C.

It is of course understood that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction of the above specifically described sleigh runner attachment for vehicles Without departing from the spirit of this invention, and being restricted only in the scope of the following claim.

I claim In a sleigh runner attachment for vehicles the combination, With a pair of runners, of

braces having their rear ends connected to' said sleeve and their forward ends to said bolt, and a draft member pivotally mount-ed upon said bolt and extending'rea-rwardly thereof having its rear end projecting be yond and beneath said sleeve.

SAMUEL M. BUCK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0.

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