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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JAMES T. HALL, OF WACO, TEXAS.
TRUCKSpecification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 25, 1920.
Application filed Tuly 24, 1919. Serial No. 312,933.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JAMES T. HALL, a
citizen of the United States, and a resident
of Waco, in the county of McLennan and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Trucks, of
which the following is a specification.
My invention is an improvement in trucks,
and has for its object to provide a truck,
i o especially adapted for railroad use, as for
instance, handling baggage, freight and
the like, wherein the supporting wheels are
so arranged with respect to the body of the
truck, that they may be moved longitudi-
15 ally thereof, to permit the end of the truck
to rest directly on the ground in loading, or
to raise the body and the load well above
the ground during transportation.
In the drawings
20 Figure 1 is an inside view of the improved
truck,
Fig. 2 is a rear view, rockers on inside of
the frame,
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the
25 connecting brackets.
In the present embodiment of the inven-
tion, the truck body is of usual formation,
consisting of the handles 1 connected by the
cross bars 2 and the front faces of the lower
30 ends of the handles are reinforced by metal
straps 3 which have outwardly bent portions
4 upon which the load is adapted to be sup-
ported, and which are adapted to be inserted
beneath the load in loading.
35 Wheels 5 which are of usual construction,
are fitted to an axle 6 whose ends move in
an arc-shaped guideway 7 in brackets 8,
which are secured to the handles at the ends
remote from the grip by bolts. Referring
40 to Fig. 2, it will be noticed that the wheels
have hubs 9 which engage the outer faces
of the brackets 8, and washers 10 are ar-
ranged on the axle outside of the wheels,
the washers being held in place by cotter
45 pins 11.The ends of the axle are freely movable
in the slots or passages 7, the said slots be-
ing arranged with their convexity out-
wardly, and each slot has at the end re-
mote from the grip of the adjacent handle, 50
a recess 12 for receiving the axle, to hold
the axle in position when moving the truck
forward or backward.
When not in use, the grip portions of the
handles are swung forwardly, and the axle 55
rolls down the slots, into the recesses 12,
holding the truck thus in upright position,
where it takes up but little room and is not
in the way. When desired for use, a for-
ward movement of the grip ends of the 60
handles will release the axle from the re-
cesses 12, and the rearward swinging move-
ments of the grips together with the weight
of the wheels and truck body will return the
arts to the position of Fig. 1. 65
Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that
the brackets 8 are outside the truck body,
and that the wheels being at the inner sides
of the brackets are directly behind the
handles. Thus the wheels occupy less space, 70
and present a neater and more sightly ap-
pearance.
The present invention is an improvement
over my prior Patent #1,201,957 granted
October 7, 1916, and dispenses with the use 75
of the latches for holding the axle at the
front of the slot 7, attaining all of the ad-
vantages of the latches without the necessity
for their use.
I claim:- 80
A truck including a body having handles
at one end, rockers adjacent the opposite end
of the truck beneath the same, said rockers
h having registering curved guide slots, and
the truck axle moving in the slots, each 85
slot having at its forward end and on the
upper side a notch for engagement by the
axle to hold it at the front end of the slots.JAMES T. HALL.
1,341,171.
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Hall, James T. Truck., patent, May 25, 1920; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256596/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.