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Description

(No Model.)

J. L. CRISP,

BARREL TRUCK. v

Patented Dec. 4:

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JAMES L. CRISP, or BLooMriELn, NEW JERSEY.

BARREL-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,753, dated December 4, 1883.

l v Application filed Juno 6, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom zit may concern:

Be it known that 1,3 AMES L. CRISP, a citizen of the United States, residing in Bloomfiel d, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Trucks, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompa nying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in an improved truck for transporting barrels, and is constructed with a tilting platform pivoted between the side bars, and an adjustable brace for retaining the platform in a level position when desired.

The invention is shown in the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of the device sustaining a barrel. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same closed up and lying on the floor, and Fig. 4 is an edge view of the latter.

. Referring to all the views, a a are the sides of the frame, terminated in handles at the upper end, where they are joined by a tie-bar, I). Another tie-bar, 0, unites them at the bottom, and a foot-plate, (I, may also be secured to the lower end, as in other trucks, as shown in Fig. 4.

The support for the barrel consists of a platform, 6, provided with battens a uponits lower side, through the middle of which is inserted a bolt, f, by which the platform is pivoted to the sides a a at any desired distance from the floor beneath the truck. The battens are arranged in pairs at the ends of the platform, leaving a space between them for leveling-rods g, which are operated by braces h, secured to the sides a a at a higher point. As shown in Fig. 2, the braces are of equal length with the distance of their fulcrum z from the floor, and the rods 9 are pivoted to them at a level with the platform. The rods are held in their places between the battens by the bolt f, and serve not only to hold the platform from tipping when extended, as in Figs. 1 and 2, but to automatically incline the platform as the truck or frame a is raised from a horizontal or depressed position to the erect position shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

When .not in use, or when collapsed for application to a barrel lying on the floor, the apparatus appears as in Figs. 3 and 4, with the braces i'zfolded backward and upward in contact with the cross-bar b, the braces themselves being connected together near their extremities by a tie-bar, j. When thus folded, the platform is drawn into a position parallel with the sides a. a, and as the whole apparatus lies upon the floor a barrel is easily rolled into its proper position upon the platform, where it is held in place by choclcblocks m As the handles of the frame or truck are elevated, the level of the platform can be adjusted in any desired degree by moving the braces h downward with the hand, and, when thus adjusted in a suitable position to transport, the truck and barrel can be rolled along upon the rollers k to any desired location, and there fixed in the elevated position attained by the barrel during the'raising of the truck from the floor. The pivots or axles of the rollers are so applied to the side bars, a a, that the rollers project beneath the lower sides of the bars, but not beyond the ends of the bars, by which arrangement their surfaces lose contact with the floor when the frame or truck is elevated to its full height, as shown in Fig. 2, and the frame is prevented from slipping upon the floor, while the barrel is left in a fixed position.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the apparatus takes less room when in use under a barrel than the barrel would do if packed up with ordinary blocking to the same height, while it is much more safely retained in its place, is so elevated that its contents can be conveniently drawn off by a spigot in the end, as at Z in Fig. 1, and it can also be readily moved to any other spot without requiring the exertion necessary to remove a barrel from a pile of blocking and replace it elsewhere. Being thus portable, the barrel can be readily moved for cleaning and sweeping under it, and the floor beneath it is better exposed, to detect leakage or to receive a pan to collect drippings. In thus moving the barrel, the brace his preferably drawn toward the handles, and the latter lowered until the rollers bear upon the floor, so as to transport the truck in the usual way, the barreKmeantime being retained in a nearly-level position by the action of the rods g 9 upon the platform.

Without the truck wheels or rollers 7c the device is adapted to raise and support a barrel in any given location. WVith them it may serve as an ordinary truck in many cases when it is not in use as a barrel-support.

The chock-blocks on may be made longer 7 brace h, pivoted to the sides, as described, and provided with the leveling rods, 9 g, fitting beneath the platform, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the sides a a and platform 6, pivoted thereto, and operated as described, of the adjustable chock-blocks m, secured to the platform by means substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 1n y hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES L. CRISP.

Vitnesses JOHN A. RoDRIGo, XV. F. D. CRANE.

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