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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN R. BEVIL, OF VILLAGE MILLS, TEXAS.
ANIMAL-TREAD.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,200, dated June 16, 1891.
Application filed October 29, 1890. Serial No, 369,661, (No model.)To all whom, it ma7y C0oncerb:
Be it known that I, JOHN R. BEVIL, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Village
Mills, in the county of Hardin and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Animal-Treads; and I do
declare the following to be a full, clear, and
exact description of the invention, such as
will enable others skilled in the art to which
io it appertains to make and use the same, ref-
erence being had to the accompanying draw-
ings, and to the letters of reference marked
thereon, which form a part of this specifica-
tion.
S5 My invention has relation to animal-treads;
and it consists in the novel construction and
arrangement of its parts.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a side elevation of my invention, showing a
20 horse operating the tread. Fig. 2 is a detail
view. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is a ver-
tical sectional view.
My invention is described as follows: It
consists of two large wheels A and A', hav-
25 ingthe spokes a and a'. Said wheels are jour-
naled on an axle a and have a space a' be-
tween them. Said wheels and axle work in
a suitable frame B, as shown, with a center
beam b, (see Fig. 2,) provided with a number
30 of -sockets b', so that the position of the up-
rights C and c may be changed at will. Up-
right C is perforated at its upper end, so that
an animal may be hitched to it, and upright
c has an arm c' pivoted to its upper end. Said
35 arm has a perforated lug c2, to which is fast-
ened one end of arope c8, the other end of which
passes over a pulley c, journaled in an up-
right c', and is attached to a weight c'. The
lower ends of the uprights C, c, and c5 are set
40 in the mortises b' of the longitudinal beam b,
and the uprights C and c pass up through the
space a8 between the wheels A and A', and the
rope c also passes through said space. Around
the periphery of wheel A' and around pul-
45 ley a' works an endless belt al.
Wheels A and A' are constructed as fol-
lows: The spokes a are mortised in the felly
a, which runs around under the outer end
of the planks that compose the floor a8, and
50 around the periphery of said felly is at-
tached the floor a', and around the periph-ery of the floor and near its inner edge is se-
cured tire a', which in turn is secured to the
spokes a', which pass through the floor a6.
This tire and said spokes a' support the weight 55
of the horse. The companion wheel is made
exactly similar to the one just described.
My invention is operated as follows: The
animals or animal is placed in the tread, as
shown, the single or double tree being attached 6o
to the arm c', and thus in addition to his
weight he will have his strength to operate
the tread. The function of the rope c" and
weight co is to keep the traces and tree from
under the animal's feet in case he should 65
slack his speed, and thus prevent his tripping.
Having described my invention, what I
claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is-
1. In combination with a frame, substan- 70
tially as shown and described, a tread con-
sisting of the wheels A and A', upright c,
having the pivoted arm c', weight c6, and rope
c", and pulley cl, journaled in a suitable bear-
ing, substantially as shown and described, and 75
for the purposes set forth.
2. In combination with a frame, substan-
tially as shown and described, a tread con-
sisting of the wheels A and A', upright C, up-
right c, having the pivoted arm c', weight cG, 8o
and rope c", pulley c4, journaled in a suitable
bearing, band a4, and pulley a, substantially
as shown and described, and for the purposes
set forth.
3. In combination with a frame, substan- 85
tially as shown and described, a tread con-
sisting of the wheels A and A', having the
spokes a and a', axle a', fellies a', floors a',
and tires ca, upright C, upright c, having the
arm c' pivoted to its upper end, weight c6, and 90
rope c", working over pulley c, one end at-
tached to said weight and the other secured
to arm c', pulley c', journaled in upright c",
band c, working around one of the wheels A
or A', and pulley a8, all substantially as shown 95
and described, and for the purposes set forth.
4. In combination with a frame, substan-
tially as shown and described, the wheels A
and A', mounted on axle a- and having the
space a' between them, the spokes a and a', 0oo
felly a, floor a around the periphery of felly
a", and tire a" around the periphery of floor
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