US404900A - Carriage-bow - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

' G. L. ORANDAL.

CARRIAGE BOW. v No. 404,900. Patented June 11, 1889.

WITNESSES. INVENTOR J %MM 4 mu-2,.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. ORANDAL, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

CARRIAG E'-BOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,900, dated June 11, 1889.

Application filed March 18, 1889. Serial No. 803,810. (No model.) 7 v To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE L. ORANDAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in' the county of Broome and State of New .York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Bows, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for strengthening carriage-bows at the point where the inside strengthening-strip of steel and wood bow or filler meet the slat-iron. WVhere the wood filler and inside metal strengthening-stri p were driven down .into the tubular socket until they came in contact with the blunt flat end of the slat-iron, it was found that the finished bow-socket was weak and liable to break at the pointof contact. This trouble has been avoided sometimes by welding the inside sheet-metal strengtheningstrip to the slat-iron or by welding in a ferrule of somekind and then driving the metal strengthening-strip into the ferrule. These methods are somewhat complicated and expensive, while my improved method is simple and inexpensive.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of abow-socket embodying my invention. B is the outside metal tubular bow-socket, which is welded to the slat-iron A in the usual way. 0 is the sheet-metal strengthening-strip, a detached view of which is represented by Fig. 2. D is the usual wood bow or filler.

Fig. 3 is a detached view of the slat-iron A. The upper end of the slat-iron A is forged out into a projecting tang or point X, and the metal strengthening-strip O is cut away at the lower end at T, so as to fit closely on both sides of the projecting tang X. The wood bow or filler D is cut away in the same manner at the lower end, and also cut into far enough in the direction of its length so that the metal strip 0 can be inserted. After the slat-iron A has been welded to the tubular socket B, the wood bow or filler D, with the inserted sheet-metal strip 0, is driven down into the tubular socket B, so that the woodD and metal strip O restflrmly upon and against both sides of the tang X of the slat-iron A, and also against the inside surface of the socket B. In this way no weak point is left unprotected, and a strong joint is made.

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

1. In a carriage-bow, the combination, with the metal tubular bow-socket B and wood bow or filler D, of the slat-iron A, having the proj ect-ing tang X, and the metal strengtheningstrip 0, made with its lower end cut away at T, so as to fit over and rest upon the projecting tang X of the slat-iron A, substantially as described.

2. In a carriage-bow, the combination, with the metal tubular bow-socket B, of the slatiron A, having the projecting tang X, and the metal strengthening-strip 0, made with its lower end cut away at T, so as to fit over and rest upon the tang X, substantially as described.

GEORGE L. CRANDAL. Witnesses:

FRANK S. TITOHENER, CHARLES E. TITCHENER.

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