An Improved Combined Hand Barrow and Truck for Handling Luggage and Baggage.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Hand Barrow and Truck for Handling
Luggage and Baggage.
We, JOHN JACOB BOHN, of Chicago, Illinois, Journalist, and CHARLES
EDWARD MARTIN, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, Dealer in Real Estate, of the
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to a hand barrow and truck which is intended for handling
luggage and baggage in and around hotels, inns and the like.
The invention consists in providing a hand-barrow having rigid handles at one
end and adjustable pivoting handles at the other. The body or framework of
the barrow is made up of two side-bars and two or more cross-bars secured
rigidly thereto. These parts, as also the pivoting handles, are preferably made
of metal pipe, the cross-bars being secured to either side by tubular T connections.
Upon the cross-bars are placed a number of slats forming the bed proper of the
barrow and truck. The side-bars are sufficiently extended at one end to serve
as handles. Near this end of the barrow shoulders or stops are placed to prevent
the load from slipping off towards that end. Also at this end of the barrow are
provided two small truck-wheels, one upon either side, made preferably of iron
with rubber tires. The truck-wheel is secured to the body of the device by a
bracket which acts as a bearing for the axle of the truck-wheels. These brackets
are detachably secured to the hand-barrow, so that they with the truck-wheels
and axle may be removed when it is desired to use the device as a hand-barrow
simply, although it is intended to be commonly so used without such removal.
At the other end of each side-bar is pivoted or hinged a handle. This handle
is pivoted into a bifurcated socket piece at and upon said end of the side-bar.
The handle is so adjusted in the socket-piece that it will set at such an angle
between the plane of the side-bars and a line vertical to such plane that when
carrying a load up or down a stairway or other incline the bed of the barrow
will be in as nearly a horizontal plane as may be, and the handles be in a proper
position when the barrow is being wheeled as a truck; aslo the handles may be
folded underneath the barrow into close proximity with the bed out of the way
when the device is not in use.
Also bracket-arms may be secured to the side-bars near the ends which pivot
with the handles, which brackets are adjustable on such side-bars so as to be
secured thereon at any desired distance from the pivoting handles. The upper
ends of these arms coming into contact with the pivoted handles determine the
angle which such handles shall form with the side-bars or bed of the barrow.
Dated this 1st day of July 1891
JOHN J. BOHN.
CHARLES E. MARTIN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Hand Barrow and Truck for Handling
Luggage and Baggage.
We, JOHN JACOB BOHN, of Chicago, Illinois, Journalist, and CHARLES
EDWARD MARTIN, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, Dealer in Real Estate, both of the
United States, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: in and by the following statement
Our invention is illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings, wherein similar
letters indicate like parts.
Figure 1 is a view in perspective of our device embodying our improvements,
Figures 2 and 3 are views on enlarged scale of the socket-piece and handle
which hinges therewith.
Our invention relates to a combined hand-barrow and truck which is intended
for handling luggage and baggage in and around hotels, inns, and the like.
The invention consists in providing a hand-barrow having rigid handles at one
eud and adjustable pivoting handles at the other. The body or frame-work of the
barrow is made up of two side-bars, A, A, and two or more cross-bars, a a, secured
rigidly thereto. These parts, as also the pivoting handles, are preferably made of
metal pipe or tubing. The cross-bars a are secured at their respective ends to
the side-bars, A A, by the tubular T connections, c c c c. Upon the cross-bars are
placed a number of slats, d d, forming the bed proper of the barrow and truck.
The side-bars are sufficiently extending at one end to serve as handles, B B. Near
this end of the barrow, shoulders or stops e e are placed to prevent the load from
slipping off towards that end. Also at this end of the barrow, are provided two
small truck-wheels, ff, one upon either side, made preferably of two iron flanges
bolted together with rubber tire rigidly secured between said flanges. The truck-
wheels are secured to the body of the device by brackets or boxes, g g, which
afford bearings for the axle h of the truck-wheels. These boxes are detachably
secured to the hand-barrow by bolts, ii, so that they with the truck-wheels and
axle may be removed when it is desired to use the device as a hand barrow simply,
although it is intended to be commonly so used without such removal.
At the other end of each side-bar A is provided a bifurcated socket-piece k,
secured to the end of the side-bar by a threaded engagement or otherwise. Between
the outer ends or bifurcated part of the socket-piece k is hinged or pivoted the
inner ends of the handles, CC. The bifurcated ends of the socket-piece may be
curved downwardly so that the handles, CC, will admit of being folded under the
device into close proximity with the bed thereof out of the way when the device is
not in use; or the inner ends of the handles C C may be curved downwardly as
shown in Figure 3, to admit of folding under in like manner; or both the socket-
piece and inner end of the handles may be somewhat so curved to accomplish the
same end. The pivoting ends of the handles, C C, are so adjusted in the socket-
pieces that their upward motion is arrested by coming in contact with the body
portion of the socket-piece at m, and when in use they will stand at such an angle
or position between the plane of the side-bars and a line vertical to such plane as
that the bed of the barrow will be in as nearly a horizontal position as may be,
whether a load is being carried up or down a stairway or other incline or the
barrow is being wheeled as a truck. When using the device to carry luggage or
baggage up stairways, the carrier holding handles CC will precede the carrier
having handles B B; in descending stairways, the carrier having handles B B will
precede the other carrier.
Bracket arms, ll, may be secured to the side-bars near the ends which pivot
with the handles, which brackets are adjustable upon such side-bars so as to be
secured thereon at any desired distance from the pivoting handles, the upper ends
of these arms coming into contact with the pivoted handles determine the angle
which such handles shall form with the side-bars or bed of the barrow.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare what we
claim is :
1. In a combined hand-barrow and truck for handling luggage and baggage the
combination of the side-bars A A. extended at one end. to form handles B B, the

page_text: socket-pieces kk, the handles C C, pivoted to said socket-pieces, substantially as
described.
2. In a combined hand-barrow and truck for haudling luggage and baggage, the
combination of the side-bars A A, extended at one end to form handles B B, and
at the other end pivoted or binged to the handles C C, said handles C C, the cross
connections a a between said side-bars, and the truck-wheels ff secured by the
axle h and boxes 99, all substantially as described.
3. An improved combined hand-barrow and truck for handling luggage and
baggage, consisting of the side-bars A A and cross-bars a a, with the T-connections,.
the pivoting or hinging handles C C and truck-wheels ff, axle h and boxes g g, all
substantially as described.
Datod this 14th day of Donnmhan A D 1001