US62796A - Improvement in wagon-brake - Google Patents

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. F. WOOD, 2nd.

Wagon-Brake.

No; 62,796. Pater lted Mar. 12, 1867 Imewwr/ N-PETERS, PHOTO-'LITHOGRAPDER WASHINGTON, D. C,

UNITED SrATEs PATENT OFF- on. 1

JAMES'F. WOOD, 2D, OF GOHOGTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BRAKE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 62,796, dated March 12, 1867; antedated March 1, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs F. Woon, 2d, of

Oohocton, in the coimty of Steuben, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self-Acting Wagon-Brakes and the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being I hadto the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of the running-gear of a wagon. Fig. 2 shows a broken-01f section of the portion with the brake mechanism. Fig. 3 shows the edge. and top views of the adjustable angle-lever. Fig. 4 shows the metal link or slide through which the king-bolt passes to operate the brake.

Fig. 5- is a side view of the running-gear of the wagon with brake attached. I

The object of my invention is an improvement on the one for which. Letters Patent were granted to me on the 10th day of May, 1864.

My invention or improvement consists in making the right-angle arm lever in two pieces,

so-that the cam is adjustable and can be va-' ried in length to suit the wear on the brakeblocks, the cam having its bearing on an in-.

clined plate, so as to operate surely and with ease; also, in having a metallic-plate slide, through which the king-bolt passes to form the connection between the brake mechanism and the wagon tongue or pole.

To enable others skilled in the'artto make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it more fully, referring to the drawings, and to the letters marked thereon.

The running-gear of the wagon being the same, or nearly so, asv that shown and represented in my patent of May 10, 1864, it is not deemed necessary to explain it further than to show the alterations in attaching the pole A,

which is made to slide in between two forks or braces, a a, which are fitted in between the hounds b b. The metal-plate slide B rests up on the perch or reach 0, it having an opening of sufficient length to give it the necessary play. on the king-bolt. To the plate Bis the connecting-bar c to the arm d of the lever D,

on the top of whichI make a series of notches, e, for the purpose of holding the cam-piece E, where it is placed on the lever D. The campiece E has notches or teeth on its under side to correspond with the notches or teeth e on v the .top side of the lever D. There is also a slot in the piece E for a bolt or set-screw, f, to hold the cam to the lever. ()n the brake-bar F I secure a metal plate, h, which has a protuberance for the cam E to hold against.

When the brake-blocks i i are made they are to be of such size'that the cam E. is at the plate h on the brake-lever, as and for the purposes herein described. 1

2. The sliding plate B, hasp 7c, in combination with the sliding pole A, fork braces a a, and the brake-blocks i i, substantially in the manner herein described, for the purposes set forth.

, JAMES F. WOOD, 21).

' Witnesses: 1 i

R. D. 0. SMITH; J. B. WOODRUFF.

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