US366063A - Twowheeled vehicle - Google Patents

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TWO WHBELED VEHICLE.

No. 366,063. Patented VJuly 5, 188.7.

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JEDUTIEUN P. BARKER, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

TWO=WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,063, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed December 3, 1886. Serial No. 220,602.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J EDUTHEUN P. BARKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Two- Wheeled Vehicle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of twowheel vehicles which employ thills of the ordinary lengt-h for four-wheeled vehicles by attaching to them bars having the forward end turned upward oppositely to the downward bend of the thill at the rear.

The object of this invention is to effect certain improvements, as below described and claimed.

In the drawing forming a part of this speciication is shown a side elevation with one wheel removed.

Referring to the lettered parts, B are the ordinary buggy-thills, with cross-bar a. The

bars A, which extend forward and bow up-4 rlhe forward end of the bars A isu (No model.)

of the axle, extends forward, and curves upward, meeting the end of the thill B, towhich it is hinged at b. By this means the thills play on the fulcruni e against a'spring-resistance, said spring also constituting a rear extension of the thill, and thus the draft strain, by means of the bars A and spring S, as here arranged, comes on both the top and bottom of the axle, and the spring S, from the fact that the draft strain draws endwise upon it, obviates danger of said draft strain straightening the bows of the bars A. This peculiar construction and arrangement of parts makes asirnple, strong, and fine appearing vehicle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isp l The combination of the ordinary thills, the springs bowed up at the forward end, hinged to the rear end of the thills, thence extending rearward, the axle with the rear end of said springs attached on top, and the bars attached to the under side of the axle, thence extending substantially as set forth.

witnesses.

JEDUTHEUN BARKER.

Vit-ncsses:

SAMUEL FoLz,

G; D. B. HALL.

forward and upward and hinged to the thills,

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my naine in presence of two

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