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I. M. {A0088 AND W. CRAMER. SUPPORT FOR ENGINES mmown vmcuist APPLICATION FILED OCT- 26. I917.

Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Ismon M. moons, on KANSAS CITY,-AND WILLIAM cater/inn, on s1 ours, vrrssoum,

ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSI GNM-ENTS, TO TRUCK, TBACTOR AND MANUFACTURING- COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

SUPPORT FOR ENGINES IN v MOT OILVEHICIJES.

Specification of Letters-Patent.

Patentedoeezs 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Isrnon M. JAooBs and WILLIAM ORAMER, citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, and St. Louis, State of Missouri, respectively, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Supports for Engines in Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, while it may be of general utility, is especially designed in aid of the salvaged constructions contemplated by the application for patent Serial Number 163,652, filed by one of the joint lnventors herein named, and has for its object the ready utilization of salvaged motor vehicle parts, and provides specific means under the generic invention described 1n the above named application for patent for attachment of an engine of a motor vehicle to a chassis for the purposes set forth at length in the said application.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing an engine supported by the brackets of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the brackets; I

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3- in Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Figure 4 is a top view.

The chassis 1 may be of any ordinary or desired construction, and in pursuance of the invention described in the above-namedapplication is likely to be of standard form and of a size wider than any engine likely to be salvaged or used second-hand or bought new for the particular purpose of use in constructing a cheap motor truck, tractor, or tractor truck. The bracket 2 that forms the particular subject-matter of this invention has a vertical part 3 and two Webs 4 which strongly unite the pair of jaws 5 and 6, which jaws are adapted tightly to grip the flanges 7 and 8 of the channel irons forming the sides of chassis 1.

Bolt 9 passes through the chassis 1 and is connected to the part 1 to hold the bracket 2 from disengagement with the flanges 8 and 7. Itwillbe observed, however, that the double jaw construction is of such a nature that direct downward pull upon the bracket 2, as for instance by a weight bearing upon the arm 10 of bracket 2, will not disengage jaw 6 from flange 8 but merely causes the same to bear harder thereon, while at the same time jaw 5 is forced into closer engagement with flange 7.

The upper surface of arm 10 is dished as at 11 (see Fig. 2) to receive any suitable connecting means from the engine 12, such, for instance, as channel iron 13 that is rigidly attached to the engine 12. The weight of the engine 12 is such that it will cause the channel irons. 13 to bear down upon the arms 10 of brackets 2 and thereby force the lower jaw 5 of both brackets 2 into lever-like engagement with the flanges 7, it being impossible, however, for jaw 6 to move to such an extent as to become disengaged from flange 8. Bolts ltattach the channel member 13 to the arms 10.

It is to be understood that the channel member 13 is duplicated on the other end of the engine opposite to that shown in Fig. 1, and so located as to receive and support the ends of said duplicate channel member 13 is another pair of brackets 2 in the same relation as those shown in Fig. 1.

The engine support can be regarded as either the brackets upon the opposite sides of the chassis or as consisting of said brackets and the channel members that extend between each pair of brackets or the same plus such connection between the members as is in part aflorded by the engine itself.

Having thus described this invention, we hereby reserve the benefit of all changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it is-evident that many minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of this invention, or the scope of the following claims:

1. A load sustaining bracket comprising an upper jaw and a lower jaw both of which open in the same direction, a compression member connecting said jaws and positioned at the outer end portions of said jaws, an arm extending inwardly from the upper jaw, and a web extending between the said arm and compression member.

2. A bracket adapted to coiiperate with a channel member and formed With a pair of jaws adapted to embrace the flanges of the said channel member, the said bracket bearing against said channel member between the flanges, said bracket having an arm extending at substantially a right angle to the remainder of the bracket, and said arm being dished on its upper surface.

3. A Weight-supporting bracket having a 10 vertical part and a substantially horizontal part, the said vertical part being adapted to bear against the Web of a channel member and having a pair of jaws adapted to embrace the flanges of the said channel member, the said horizontal part having a Weight-supporting dish in its upper surface.

In testimony whereof We hereunto afiix our signatures.

ISIDOR M. JACOBS. WILLIAM CRAMER.

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

Washington, D. 0.

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