New or Improved Combined Spring and Brake Hangers for Road Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Combined Spring and Brake Hangers for Road
Vehicles.
I, ARTHUR OLDBURY, of Reliance Works, Wednesbury, in the County of
Stafford, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows: -
My invention has for its object to dispense with the front scroll irons for the
springs of road vehicles and consists in so constructing the hangers for the brakes
that the said hangers may be utilised for carrying the front ends of the carriage
springs as well as the said brakes of the vehicle.
In constructing a combined spring and brake hanger according to one arrange-
ment of my invention 1 form in one piece with the brake hanger, whether the
said brake hanger has a single arm or double arms by which it is connected to the
underside of the body of the vehicle, a pair of eyes through which eyes the hori-
zontal bolt for carrying the front end of the carriage spring may be passed. The
said eyes may be so arranged that the axis of the horizontal spring carrying bolt
may be in the same vertical plane as the axis of the vertical bolt on which the
brake lever turns. Or the said eyes may be arranged so that the axis of the
horizontal spring carrying bolt shall fall behind the axis of the vertical bolt or
pivot of the brake lever but I do not limit myself to any particular position of
the said eyes for carrying the front end of the spring.
According to another arrangement of my invention the lower horizontal plate,
of the air of bearing plates to and between which the brake lever is pivotted and
works, is made separate from the hanger and carries the pair of eyes for the
spring carrying bolt the said lewer plate being fixed in position by the vertical
pivot pin of the brake lever. I provide the lower plate with a fixed stud or pair
of studs to take in corresponding depressions in the part or parts against which
the lower plate bears so as, in conjunction with the pivot pin, to secure the said
lower plate firmly in place.
According to another arrangement of my invention, instead of making the pair
of eyes in one piece with the body of the hanger or in one piece with the lower
bearing plate of the hanger, when the said lower bearing plate is detachable, I
make the pair of eyes for the spring carrying bolt in one piece with the head of
the vertical pivot pin of the brake lever."
the Twenty-fifth day of June 1898.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: New or Improved Combined Spring and Brake Hangers for Road
Vehicles.
I, ARTHUR OLDBURY, of Reliance Works, Wednesbury, in the County of
Stafford, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object to dispense with the front scroll irons for the
springs of road vehicles and consists in so constructing the hangers for the brakes
that the said hangers may be utilised for carrying the front ends of the carriage
springs as well as the said brakes of the vehicle.
In constructing a combined spring and brake hanger according to one arrange-
ment of my invention I form in one piece with the brake hanger, whether the
said brake hanger has a single arm or double arm by which it is connected to the
underside of the body of the vehicle, a pair of eyes through which eyes the hori-
zontal bolt for carrying the front end of the carriage spring may be passed. The
said eyes may be so arranged that the axis of the horizontal spring carrying bolt
may be in the same vertical plane as the axis of the vertical bolt on which the
brake lever turns. Or the said eyes may be arranged so that the axis of the
horizontal spring carrying bolt shall fall behind the axis of the vertical bolt or
pivot of the brake lever but I do not limit myself to any particular position of
the said eyes for carrying the front end of the spring.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in perspective a double
armed combined spring and brake hanger constructed according to my invention
with carriage spring attached thereto; Figure 2 is a plan and Figure 3 an end
elevation of the said double armed hanger and Figure 4 is a longitudinal section
of the same.
Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 are similar views of a single armed combined spring and
brake hanger.
Figures 9 to 15 both inclusive illustrate modified constructions of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
According to the first arrangement of my invention (Figures 1 to 8 both in-
slusive), I form in one piece with the lower horizontal plate or branch a¹ of the
bearer or carrier a, a, to which the brake lever is pivotted, a pair of pierced ear
pieces or eyes a³, as at such a distance apart as will admit of the introduction of
the end of the spring 6 between the said pierced ear pieces or eyes a³, a².
Through the holes c, el in the upper and lower plates or branches a, a¹ re-
spectively of the brake lever carrier, the vertical bolt d, which constitutes the
pivot of the brake lever, is passed. On the introduction of the end of the spring b
between the eyes a³, a³ the horizontal bolt is passed through the said eyes a³, a2
and through the hole cr eye in the end of the spring 6 and the said spring is
there by securely attached to the hanger.
By the use of the combined spring and brake hanger described and illustrated,
front scroll irons ordinarily employed at the front of the vehicle are rendered
unnecessary.
In the arrangement described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 8 both inclusive
the axis of the vertical bolt or brake lever pivot and the axis of the horizontal
spring carrying bolte are in the same vertical plane. I wish it to be understood
that I do not limit myself to the position of the eyes a², a described and repre-

page_text: sented, for example, the said eyes a². a² may be arranged at the rear of the brake
hanger as represented in Figures 9 and 10.
According to another arrangement of my invention the lower horizontal
plate al of the pair of bearing plates a, a to and between which the brake lever is
pivotted and works, is made separate from the hanger and carries the pair of
eyes a, a for the spring carrying bolt e, the said lower plate a being fixed in
position by the vertical pivot pin d of the brake lever. I provide the lower plate
with a fixed stud or pair of studs to take in corresponding depressions in the part
or parts against which the lower plate bears so as in conjunction with the pivot
pin to secure the said lower plate firmly in place.
This arangement of my invention is represented in Figures 11, 12, 13 and 14.
Figure 11 representing the arrangement in perspective before the two parts are
secured together and Figure 12 representing the same in vertical section the
spring b being omitted: Figure 13 represents in plan of underside the middle
part of the bracket before the attachment of the lower plate a which latter is
represented detached (in plan) in Figure 14.
In carrying out this modification of my invention I make on the separate lower
horizontal plate al a pair of studs or projections f, f and make corresponding
recesses g, in the underside of the arms or legs a³, 3 to which the plate a¹ is
attached by the vertical pivot bolt d. On the connecting of the two parts a, a, a
and a a, a together by the screwing home of the nut of the screw bolt a the
engagement of the studs or projections f, f with the recesses g, g is effected and
the turning of the one part with respect to the other prevented.
According to another arrangement of my invention, I make the pair of eyes
for the spring carrying bolt in one piece with the head of the vertical pivot pin
of the brake lever instead of forming the said eyes in one piece with the body of
the hanger or in one piece with the lower bearing plate of the hanger, when the
said lower bearing plate is detachable.
A vertical pivet bolt constructed according to this modification of my invention
is represented in Figure 15. It will be understood that with a bolt of this con-
struction the pair of eyes a², a herein before described and illustrated as forming
part of the hanger or lower detachable plate of the hanger is dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my in-
vention:-
The new or improved combined spring and brake hangers for road vehicles
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings by the use
of which combined spring and brake hangers the ordinary scroll irons for carrying
the front ends of the springs are dispensed with; the essential feature of the sail
new or improved combined spring and brake hangers consisting in forming on or
attaching to the brake hanger a pair of pierced ear pieces or eyes for the hori-
zontal spring carrying bolt to pass through substantially as described and
illustrated.
Buted the Tenth der of March 1899