US841745A - Combination hay-rack and wagon-body. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

. .N J. T. WARWICK. COMBINATION HAY RACK AND WAGON BODY.

APPLICATION FILED 00123, 1905.

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UNITED STATES JAY T. WARWICK, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

COMBINATION HAY-RACK AND WAGON-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 23, 1905. Seria No. 284.028.

\ To all whmn it Tnrty/ concern:

Be it known that I, JAY T. -WARWICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination Hay- Racks and Wagon-Bodies, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to combination hayracks and wagon-bodies; and the object of my improvement is to provide a single bottom and side rails whereon the separable parts of either ahay-rack or of awagon-body may be removably assembled and secured.

This object is attained in the following described manner, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are isometrical views, respectively, of a hay-rack and awagon-body embodying my improvement; Figs. 3 and 4, transverse vertical sections with the parts broken away on the respective lines a a and b b of Fig. 1; Fig. 5, a transverse vertical section with parts broken away on the line 6 c of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 6 represents the heavy side rails, 7 the end piece, '8 the bottom,

11, 12, 13, and 14 cross-bars, all being secured together and forming a low stone-bed adapted to fit between the standards on the bolsters of a wagon.

The rear member of the hay-rack consists of cross-pieces 16 and 17, with bows 18 secured thereon. The front member consists of cross-pieces 19, 21, and -22, with seatboards 23 secured thereon and with supporting-blocks 24 and 25 secured under the respective cross-pieces 21 and 22 to properly elevate the seat-boards 23 above the front wheels of the wagon. (Not shown.) After said rear and front members of the hay-rack are properly placed on the side rails yokes 26 serve to connect them together by spanning the contiguous cross pieces 17 and 19. Hooked bolts 27 depend from yokes 26 between said contiguous cross-pieces and detachably engage with hooked bolts 28, which are adjustable through holes formed in crossbar 12. Corresponding hooked bolts 29, adjustably secured in the remaining. cross-bars, serve to detachably engage with corresponding hooked bolts 30 in corresponding crosspieces-of'the hay-rack, whereby they may be removably clamped on the side rails.

Rear and front ladders 31 and 32 are removably secured between the end portions of the side rails by means of sliding pivots 33,

each automatically maintained in engaged position by means of a spring 34 and provided with an actuating-knob 35.

The rear and front members and ladders assembled and secured on the side rails form a complete hay-rack which may be separately removed or replaced thereon by one person without assistance. In the absence of the hay-rack a wagon-body consisting of independent side-boards 36, tail-gate 37, and

front gate 38 may be assembled and secured on the side rails by the engagement of hooked straps 39 on the side-boards 36, with the corresponding hooked bolts adjustable in adjacent cross-bars 12 and 13. Straps 41, secured near the end of the side-boards, overlap the side rails to prevent any lateral displacement of said side-boards thereon.

Braces 42, having one end pivotally secured at an intermediate point in respective hooked straps 39, are each formed with a shoulder 43 and a pin 44 thereunder, adapted to removably engage with an opening 45, formed in the adjacent cross-bar. The tail and front gates are removably secured. between t-he side-boards in the usual manner by means of clamping-rods 46.

The hooked bolts 27 and 30 in the crosspieces of the hay rack and the hooked straps 39 on the side-boards 36 are contiguous to the outside of the side rails. Corresponding adjustable hooked bolts 28 and 29 in the cross bars are located a sufiicient distance outwardly therefrom to permit them to pass or overlap the former to facilitate their engagement therewith or disengagement therefrom, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Having fully described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination of a' stone-bed consisting of cross-bars provided with a bottom and with side rails adapted to rest directly on the bolsters of a wagon, a rear member of a hayrack consisting. of cross-pieces registering with corresponding cross-bars and connected near their ends by means of bows, a front member of a hay-rack consisting of similar cross ieces registering with corresponding crossars and connected neartheir ends by means of seat-boards, yokes adapted to removably secure adjacent cross-pieces of the respective members together, hooked bolts depending from the yokes and from the op- Iro posite cross-pieces, and other hooked bolts adapted to respectively and detachably engage therewith being a'djustably secured to one side of the line thereof and in corresponding cross-bars.

2. The combination of a stone-bed consisting of cross-bars having side rails and a bottom secured thereon, a hay-rack consisting of front and rear members, yokes adapted to separably connect said members together, hooked bolts adapted to removably clamp said members on the side rails, and ladders provided with sliding bolts; whereby they may be removably hinged between the respective end portions of the side rails said ladders being limited in their outward movement by contact with adjacent cross-bars of the hay-rack.

3. The combination of a stone-bed consisting of side rails and a bottom secured on cross-bars, a hay-rack comprising two members and means adapted to separably connect them together, the one of said members consisting of seat-boards secured on crosspieces, the other member consisting of bows secured on other cross-pieces, hooked bolts depending from the cross-pieces of both members, a wagon-body consisting of independent side-boards and front and tail gates, means for removably securing the said parts of the wagon-body together, hooked bolts depending from the said side-boards, and a series of hooked clamping-bolts adjustably secured in said cross-bars and adapted to detachably engage with the corresponding hooked bolts depending from the cross-pieces or from the side-boards, whereby, said hayrack or said wagon-body may be removably secured on the stone-bed.

JAY T. WARWICK. Witnesses:

CLARENCE MURPHY, R. S. CARR.

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