US739715A - Dumping-wagon. - Google Patents

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No. 739,715. PATBNTED SEPT. 22,1903,

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DUMPING WAGON.

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PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 739,715, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed March 28, 19Q3. Serial No. 150,018. (No model.)

1"0 (tZZ whom it inrtyconcernz Be it known that I, AMANDUS HOWELL RANDOLPH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Corry, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Dumping-Wagon, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in dumping apparatus, and while it is shown as applied to a wagon it is equally as well adapted for use with cars.

The object of the invention is to provide a double pivoted bottom and means fordumping the same, whereby the material may be dumped in the center ofthe road or track or at the sides of same. 7

My invention consists in a sectional bottom, the sections extendingthe length of the car or wagon and so pivoted at their ends that each section can be tipped in either direction.

The invention consists also in the special features of construction pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a wagon equipped with my dumping apparatus. Fig. 2 is aplan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is an end view showing the dumping mechanism. Fig. 4 is asection about the line i i of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view, partly in section, showing the bearing-plates. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing from the under side an end of one of the sections and the bracket by which it is secured to a revoluble shaft running the length of the vehicle.

In the drawings, A represents the sides of the body of a wheeled vehicle, the ends A of which preferably extend below the sides. Arranged centrally in the lower part of the body and extending from end to end is a ver ideally-arranged strip B, diamond-shaped in cross-section. Journaled in and extending through the end pieces and below the plane of the bottom of the body are two parallel shafts 0, each arranged midway between one of the sides and the strip B. Adjacent the inner faces of the ends a bracket D is rigidly secured on each shaft, having arms extending laterally and slightly upwardly. The two bottom sections E are supported by and secured to these brackets and have beveled side edges, as shown at E. On each end of each shaftare rigidly mounted gear-wheels F. On the outer and inner faces of each end piece between the gears F are arranged metal plates F, and journaled in these plates are gears F of similar size and larger than the gears F. Each set of gears F mesh together and also with the adjacent gear F. On one of the end pieces is mounted a quadrant F", above and meshing with one of the gears F A lever F is rigidly secured to the quadrant and slides between parallel segments F bolted together but spaced apart, and a gripping-catch F is pivoted to the lever and engages notches cut into the outer segment. v

The operation of my device is as follows: When it is desired to dump the material to one side, the lever, which is normally in a vertical position, is moved to the left, the gears and'shafts are rotated, and the outer edges of the bottom sections are swung downward in the direction of the lower arrows of Fig. .4. If, however, it is desired to dump the material on the road or track, the lever is moved to the right and the inner edges of the sections swing downward, the outer edge rising, as indicated by the upper arrows 0 Fig. 4. The positions occupied by thebottom sections when the lever is moved in each direction are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4. 7 It will be noted that when in its normal position the center of each section E is slightly lower than the sides.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A dumping apparatus comprising two parallel bottom sections pivoted centrally adjacent each end, and means common to each section for tipping them toward or away from each other.

2. The combination with a vehicle, of parallel shafts revolubly journaled in the ends of the vehicle, brackets secured on said shafts, a stationary strip running from end to end of .the vehicle between'the shafts, a bottom section carried by the brackets on each shaft, and means for rotating the shaft in either direction.

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3. The combination with a vehicle, a strip extending centrally from end to end of the vehicle, shafts journaled in the ends on each and each meshing with a gear on one of the side of the stationary strip, and extending shafts, a quadrant engaging one of theinter- 10 through said ends, bottom sections rigidly mediate gears, and a lever adapted to move connected to and supported by said shafts, said quadrant in either direction.

said sections extending when in a normal po- AMANDUS HOWELL RANDOLPH. sition from the stationary strip to the sides '\/Vitnesses:

of the vehicle, gears at each end of each shaft, A. R. MORGAN,

intermediate gears at each end intermeshing GEO. W. MORRIS.

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