Improved Dumping Cart.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
COM LEID DT DUITIVATION.
Improved Dumping Cart.
I WILLIAM HENRY MUNNS, of Victoria Chambers, 55 and 56, Chancery Lane,
in the County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (a communication to me from abroad by Francis Gibson, of Good Hope,
Ohio, U.S.A., Inventor,) to be as follows
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My invention relates to vehicles, and especially to those four-wheeled wagons in
which it is desirable either to use the running-gear for the transportation of lumber,
and the like, or to have a body for such loads as require it.
My invention aims at providing a body with appliances that enable it to be
readily placed upon, or removed from the running-gear, and also adapt it to be used
as a dumping cart.
The invention consists mainly in a peculiar hinged hooked-shaped device, by
which the body is united to the running-gear, as hereinafter set forth, and
particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a wagon embodying my improvements,
and Fig. 2 is a detail of the hinge-joint.
The running-gear, consisting of the wheels A A', the bolsters B B', and the
reach C is of the usual construction.
The body D may be of any desired construction. It is shown as consisting of a
Hoor d secured to the battens d', a front and sides d³ secured to the parts d'.
The bottom board of, each side projects forward of the front end, and a cleat d³ is
fastened across them to strengthen the front. A narrow board near the top of
each side is similarly extended forward to support the seat d. When the side is
formed by one board it may be similarly extended to support the seat.
Secured to the under side of the floor of the body, preferably near the edge, is
an eye or staple E, which engages with a pintle f (Fig. 2) formed upon or attached
to the hook-shaped metal strap F. There are preferably two of these straps
secured at or near the ends of the bars G G¹, the parts being so proportioned that
the bars may lie close to the rear bolster B on each side thereof, while the straps
pass over the same. To give the straps and bars a good bearing the bolster should
be rather wide, and if the improvement is to be applied to a wagon having a narrow
bolster, the latter may be widened by securing a cleat or cleats along one or both
sides. The bar G is cut away slightly at g adjacent to the pintles to give the
eye E room to turn on the pintle. It will be seen that the straps and the bars form
a kind of hook adapted to drop down over the rear bolster B, to prevent the body D
from sliding forward or backward. Lateral movement of the body by which it
might come in contact with the wheels A is prevented by standards inserted in
the ends of the bolster. The eyes E are preferably located slightly in the rear of
the centre of gravity of the body D, so that when the latter is in a horizontal
position, as shown in dotted line elevation, it tends to remain in place. When the
load is to be dumped the body can easily be tilted on the pintles f to the position
shown in full lines. If it is then desired to take off the body it is only necessary
to back the team, when the body will be tipped up on end, as shown in dotted lines,
the hinged-joint F, G, G₁ being automatically lifted off the bolster B by the
movement of the body into an upright position. When the body is replaced upon
the running-gear the adjustment of the bars G Gis facilitated by the fact that the
inner lower edge of the former is bevelled off, as shown at Gin Fig. 2. It is
evident that either one of the bars G Gmay be omitted, provided the straps are
suitably formed to engage snugly with the bolster. If the straps are permanently

page_text: hinged to the body, instead of using the separable eye and pintle it might be possible
to dispense with both the bars G G'.
The facility with which the body, can be placed upon or removed from the
running-gear by one person, is an important advantage.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A dumping-cart having hinged to its body a hook like device adapted to fit
removably over the bolster, substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. The combination with the bolster of a wagon, of a body having hinged to its
under side a pair of hook-shaped straps adapted to fit removably over the bolster,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
3. The combination, with a wagon body, and the hook-shaped straps hinged
thereto, and one or more bars uniting said straps, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
4. The combination, with a wagon body, provided with eyes near its edges, of
hook-shaped straps having pintles to engage with said eyes, and a bar uniting said
straps, substantially as and for the purposes described.
5. The combination, with the bolster B, of the body D, having eyes E, the
straps F having pintles engaging with the eyes, and the bars G G secured to the
straps and lying on each side of the bolster, substantially as described.
Tad in 7th dor of Wahwowv 1901
W. H. MUNNS.