US924154A - Feed and litter carrier. - Google Patents

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- H. L. FERRIS. FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1909.

I 924,154. Patented June 8,1909.

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Ill-MINI H. L. FBRRIS. FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.-

, APPLIGATION FILED M AR. 18, 1909. 924,154, Patented June 8, 1909. 1 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2. I O3 To alt whom it may: concern? R iLEEnBIs;oFHKRvARDfiLLrNoIs; Assierio-R mOHUNTQHELM, rnnnrsja oourhnr, I.

' DFJHKBYARDFILLINOIS;YA oonronirrron OF ILLINOIS;

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Application filed was, 1909. S'eria1 1* To. 484,319.

Be it known that I, HENnrLl FEnm g l'a citizen of" the United States, residingat cation.

My invention q useful improvements in feeda'nd litter can Harvard, in the county of Mclienry and State of Illinois, have. invented newt anduseful Improvements in; Feed and Litter Carriers, of which. the 'following'is. a specifi-1 relates to certain new and riers, and is fully described and eirplained in the specification and'shoivn'in the accompanying drawings, inWhich: ,Figurel i an elevation of a portion of the. frame and one of the hangers of my 1111 proved device ;'Fig; 2' is an end view'of the.

parts ShOWILJiIl Fig. 1-; Fig. 3 is atop plan of the track, such as is used in connection; with my improved device jFig.- 4 is a section in the line 4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 isja transverse section inthe line 5 of Fig. 4", and Fig. \6 is a side elevation of one of thesWitch-castings used with myimproved device.v 1

The subject-.matter of my present appli" cation is an improvement upon the device shown, described and claimedv in my Patent No. 862,460, granted {Xugust 6th,' -1 907,"the device being as a Whole, substantially identical with that shown in saidv atent. Forthis reason I-have' not deeme itnecessary to illustrate all the details .of construction of the carrier, illustratirigfon the-contrary,

' merits lie and-the partslwhichnecessarily cooperate, therewith in operation.

merely those portions wherein my improve- Referring 4 to "the drawings-P rk, A -are two-lengths ofround flexible track running at an angle toeach other and crossing as set forth in said "patent"; These tracks are .con-

nected byan' arc-shaped tr-ack 'B ofangl j iron with a vertical web'. and. a horizontal.

'- web nvhichg-lies on the outside of the zcurve;

the" vertical- 'web being brought -at its 1 ends somewhat above the levelof t 1e tracks. A;

it is just inside said tfiaclrs :so

p etr-ical switch' castings C 'aref-p dedat-"the endsf-o'f the g 'quadrant haped track B; each easting comprising a vertical Web 0, riveted, or otherwise secured,

to the. outside of the vertical web of the quadrant-shaped angle-iron track, av hori- -'zonta1 Web 0 grooved-on its lOXifiGljilCG to receive the corresponding track A or A, as the case may be, an inclined bead running "Specificatibn of Letters Patent.

practically atangent 3i toits Patented r nes, 1909.-

.dowriwardi'roin the verticalwebi.andfoi er hanging 'thcadjacent section of. track Am A ,-'so' as to guide-the pulleys-cf the reed anal." V

littercarrierirom the track tothe quadrantj land air-upwardly slantnfg care at theieiid of the horizontal Web c ,ythe purpose fofr C are .providedupon the quadrant shaped track for the purpose of engaging and holding the same to the tracks A .AH'

identical with the corresponding parts shown in the patent referred to, and it will also be possible in the details these par-ts.

D is a frame adapted afr'eed and litter carrier; the frame, tub and accessory devices adapted for locking and re able construction.

7 observed thatas far as the present applica tron 1s concerned,- considerable variation is of construction of;

tio'os ppbaa ate- "which will presently be" described-.- Q.

65 o, v l 9: beenoted that the parts already s'etjforth are leasing. the tub being of:anyusual or d'esire Inasmuch as the'tubfand its manner of suspension form'nei art of-the present invention, they havenot een i l'lus-flBO trated herein, as-any mechanic" skilled inithiscart Wil1 understand exactl yu howlsuch parts i are assembled. A thoroughly"'satisfactory manner of assembling sueh parts is-;i11us'-- l Brackets are secured 'tosaid'frame at the upper corners thereof, rn'which brackets are sw1veled} hanger-frames E, the "particular- Inanner nwluch the swiyel-j'o'int -1simade be"- mg nnmaterial. The ha nger'frarnes carry the usual way.

Each of the fltanceb etween the .end offeach flattened 7' bracket B a n .It will be seen that my present constructrated in the patent- "above referred "tor pulleys E adapted to ride-upon .the'traolr in;

I h anger-frames Beani s: in the i position illustrated an angular'ly"dis )o'sed,i :flattened pin F inovable' through "a ollow bracket provided to receive it andfnorniallyf spring-pressed upward ortowardthe p ulley rin bymeans of aspringflthe normal dis 5 'ies tion is practically identical with that of my prior patent, exceptingfor the fact that the pin which holds thepulley' upon the-track is made flattened, and carriesa lug or tooth shortthat a very undesirable tlltmg motion adapted to enga e with the notehiin the bracket, upon which, the hanger-frame is awiveled. 'Dhenotch is so posrtioned 'f't'hat thiaengagement will take p we only when the pulleys are in direct alinenient with the container-frame. The construction operates in the same way as does that of my prior patent in that sense that when thecarrier reaches the curve, the pulley rims up on flange of the sWit'ch-casting,.and the pin is depressed b enga 'ement with the inclined ear c of t e said switch casting running therefrom onto the horizontal web 0, thence to the horizontal web of the quadrant-shaped passing around curves they are free to turn."

'Inthe use of feed and litter-carriers in the pastit has been necessary 'eitherto make a rigid connection between the hangers and the container frame, or a permanently SWIV- eled connection. In the first case in, order to permitthe device to pass around a curve at all it has been necessary to place thg? two lleys close together, in which case the sup ort of the carrier upon the track has been so has been im artedyto the carrier when in nabvement. ln order, to make the carriers readilypass around curves without this unfortunate oscillatory movement, the pulleys have been in manyyinstances separated and made permanently swiveling as in the device of my prior patent, but in such'cases the ulleys have had a tendency to get out of. inc and bind the comparatively small trackbetween the flanges of their grooves, thereby. making the movement of the carrier unnecessarily difficult. This construction has been generall deemed to be the lesser of the two evils an the construction with the two pulleys separated at a considerable distance and permanently swiveled to the frame has been generally preferred. With my'present construction, however, I obtain the advantages of both forms of construction with the disadvantages of neither. I Diiring the great ,bulk of its movement, the carrier has its hanger-framesermanently locked against movement, an the pulleys are therefore held in goper alinementand do not bind on thetrac When a curve is reached, however, the hanger-frames are promptly and automatically unlocked so that the curve can readily be passed in spite of the great sepa-' ration between the hangers. As a result,

therefore, this eonstruction is far so" erior to any -constructionheretoforegene'ra y used.v

Itis perfectly obvious that the present feature of ,inyention is ca able of consider- ,vtariation and-that W e; it is shown in theform of an improvement upon the specific form illustrated in my atent already mentioned, still it is applica le to CM'IIQXS other than t e one therein shown, described and claimed. ltherefore have no intention of limiting myself as to the scope of my invention except as is pointed out in the claims which follow, t I What I claim aanew, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a frame, hangerframes having swiveled connection therewith, pulleys carriedlby the hanger-frames, and a coking-device constructed and arranged to secure the hanger fjrames against rotation upon straig'htllengths of track and to permit rotation upon curved track.

2. The combination with a main frame, hangervframes pivoted'there'to and ulleys jonrnaled upon the hanger-frames, of ocking' devices constructed and arranged to secure the hanger-frames a ainst rotation under normalconditions an means upon the track for releasing said locking me'ans as the hangers run upon curyes in'the track.-

3. The combination with atrack having a 'curvei of a main frame, hanger frames swive d thereto, pulleys journaled in the hanger-frames and adapted torun u on the track, locking-devices upon the angerframesadapted normally to prevent relative rotation between the hangerframes and main-frame and stationary cam devices upon the track constructed and arranged to disengage the locking-devices when the pulleys run'u ponthe curve. t

4. he combination with a track, a pulley adapted to run upon the track and a frame supporting'the pulley from one side thereof extending below the track, of-a movable pin upon the oppositeside. of the frame and a apted to extend -upward into close proximity with the pnlle so as 'toprevent the passage of'the track etween the pulley and the pin when'the pin is in its advanced positron, said pin havin a portion-adaptedto engage parts carried y "said frame when said a pm is in its advanced-position.

5'. Thecoinbination with attack, a mainframe, a pulley adapted to run upon the track and a hanger-frame sup orting the pulley frgm one s de thereof an extending elow tra k and having a swiveled connection with he main-frame, of a movable pin upon the opposite side of the hangerrame and adapted to extend'into close proximity with the pulley so asto revent the passage of the track between sai ulley and pin when the pin is in its advance position,

said pin having a portion adapted to engage ei'mveen the hangel rframe and 'main frame. then the'pi'n, is in'itsadvanced-poition. W '6. The eombination with two main tracks, B -pulleys adap'ted to run upon said tracks, a

main frame, ,hanger-framessupporting t he ;p111}1eys f r0m,;. 0ne; side thereof and having" veled connectiens withthemain frame,

ite'sid'e bhereof and adj ajcent to the pul ,fihQ Seidpins being movable and-'80 p0- oiled-that;

' and'means Wherebyssaid pin is retract slcarr iedbyuthe hanger-frames'on the op- 1 in: theiradv'arie'ed os i'-' 6n",' the'y pyevent-fthe pass 9 he I t Ia (sk betweeli the p illleys andthe pins,

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