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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
CHAIRLES BUCKEL, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.
S'EI-FICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,830, dated May 11, 1886.
Application filed January 7. 1886. Serial No. 187,876. (No modell)To call whe 77t it nay concern:
Be it known that I, CHARLES BUCKEL, a
citizen of the United States, residing at San
Antonio,in the county of Bexar,in the State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Spider-Gigs, of which the
following is so full, clear, and exact descrip-
tion as will enable one skilled in the art to
which my invention appertains to make and
io use the same, reference being had to the ac-
companying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a side view of my improved gig.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a
cross-section of Fig. 2 on the line xx. Fig. 4
I5 is a detail end view of the rear of my gig,
showing the cross-springs in position.
The object of my invention is to provide a
gig which shall be cheap, simple in construe-
tion, light, and durable.
20 Another object of my invention is to pro-
vide a vehicle in which a person can ride over
rongh ground without serious inconvenience
or discomfort incident to travel over such
roads.
25 Still another object of my invention is to so
construct a gig that a person can get into the
same without serious inconvenience, and to
this end it is made low, the rear of the shafts
being extended in line with the axle and the
30 step secured to the shaft and extending some-
what below it.
Still another object of my invention is to
provide a gig with springs that will work in
two directions-laterally and vertically.
35 With these objects in view I proceed to ac-
complish the same by the construction, com-
bination, and arrangement of parts, as willbe
hereinafter fully set forth.
In the drawings, A represents the body of
40 an ordinary gig, which is secured to the
springs B, said springs extending in a down-
ward curve from the seat to the axle, where
they are secured to a second spring, b, being
secured at its center to a third spring, a, hav-
45 ing a packing, c, between the spring b and a.
The spring a is secured to the curved arms or
hooks d, and said hooks are bolted to the axle
at d'. The spring B is bent downward in front of
the axle and extends forward to a point in front
50 of that portion of the box which would be oc-
cupied by the feet of a person riding in the
gig. Here it extends upward in an obliqueline and is secured to a rock-shaft, f. Said
rock - shaft is provided with crank-arms g,
which are pivotally journaled in the brackets 55
or lugs lh, and these brackets are secured to a
bow cross-bar, i. The ends of this cross-bar
are bolted to the shaftsj, said shafts being re-
cessed atj',to make a smooth connection. On
the outsides of the shaftsj we secure the shaft- 6o
irons k., which extend to the rear, and are se-
cured to the axle beneath the seat of the gig
at k'.
On the inside of the shaft-iron k,I secure the
step 1, and diagonally opposite this I secure 65
the second step, in, which extends somewhat
below the plane of the shaft. Just back of
the step m, and between it and the axle, I se-
cure a guard n, which extends backward to
the axle, and is secured to it at the outer end 70
of the hub of the wheel by the same nut which
holds the wheel on the axle. Thus it will be
seen that this nut performs the double pur-
pose of holding the guard and wheel, while
the guard serves the double purpose of hold- 75
ing the axle and shaft in position and of pre-
venting the wheel from being damaged or from
soiling the clothing of persons getting in and
out of the gig.
Instead of the rock-shaftf, shown in Fig. 2, I 80o
might use linksf', as shown in Fig. 3, by piv-
oting the front ends of the springs B in these
links and pivoting the links to the lugs h, as
will be readily understood.
By reference to Fig. 3 it will be observed 85
that a brace, o, extends from the axle to the
springs B at a point about midway between
the seat and the foot-rest of the body of the
gig. This brace is designed to steady the
body of the gig and to prevent its being over- 90
thrown by sudden jars caused by the stopping
or starting of the horse or the jolting of the
gig over rough ground.
It is noted here that the spring B is quite
elastic just beneath the foot-rest in front of the.95
vehicle, which admirably adapts it to use in
this connection, as all jar is thus obviated.
By reference to Fig. 1 it will be observed
that a canopy, C, is secured to the uprights or
standards D, and is held in position by the . o
strips or stays d". This canopy is pivoted at
c', and is adjustable at any angle by means of
the stays d".
In front of the wheels I secure a secondary
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Buckel, Charles. Two Wheeled Vehicle., patent, May 11, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171262/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.