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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
MANLY BREAKER BOONE, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
TWO-WHEELED DELIVERY-VEHICLE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,912, dated February 2, 1892.
Application filed June 12, 1891. Serial No. 395,997. (No model,)To call whom it Tmay con0cer'7
Be it known that, MANLYBREAKER BOONE,
a citizen of the United States,residing at Gal-
veston, in the county of Galveston and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
provement in Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehi-
cles, of which the following is a specification.
The object of my invention is to provide a
light and convenient vehicle for the use of
to mail-collectors in cities, and for the transpor-
tation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other
articles in which the mail or parcel receptacle
may be readily removed and replaced, and it
is adjustably located on the front of the frame
15 in full sight of and readily accessible to the
driver to balance the weight of the rear of
the vehicle; and my invention consists of a
wagon frame or body supported on the axle
of the two wheels, having on the rear of the
20 frame a rearwardly-open drop-box by which
access to the interior of the vehicle is at-
tained, a seat located centrally and length-
wise the drop-box, and a case or receptacle
mounted in front of the axle on the wagon-
25 frame removable at the rear of the vehicle
by sliding in guides and adjustably secured
in place in front of the axle to balance the
weight of the drop-box at the rear of the axle.
In the drawings forming part of my speci-
30 fication I have showed my invention as ap-
plied to a milk-delivery cart, in which the
milk-cans are represented as placed in the re-
movable box, which may contain the ice or
other cooling-mixture; but I do not limit my-
35 self to its use for such purpose alone, as it
may be employed in a great variety of ways
for the purposes of transportation and de-
livery.
In the accompanying drawings, which illus-
40 trate my invention, Figure 1 is a side view of
the vehicle. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the
same. Fig. 3 is a rear view; Fig. 4, a bottom
view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail of the
axle-brace attachment.
45 A is the wagon-frame mounted on the axle B.
C is a drop-box suspended from the frame
A back of the axle and open to the rear.
D is the driver's seat projecting back from
the cross-piece a of the frame through the
50 center of the drop-box C and not rising above
the level of the sills a' a' of the wagon-frame.
E is a box resting upon the forward endsof the sills a' a' of the frame in front of the
axle, to which it is secured by means of one
or more bolts F and thumb-screws f, passing 55
through the sides of the box and down through
longitudinal slots G in the sills a' of the frame.
I 1are strips secured to the outer edge of
the sills a' a' the entire length of the latter
and forming therewith guides or slides by 6o
which the box E is removed at the rear of the
vehicle after the bolts F have been withdrawn.
The box E is provided with a lid I, having
a metal band i around its edge to prevent the
sifting of dust into the box, and has handles 65
e e by which it is moved when desired.
In Fig. 4, J is a V-shaped axle-brace, the
tongue of which, after passing through the
loop K on the forward cross-piece a" of the
frame, is attached to the singletree L in a 70
well-known way. MI M are the shaft-braces,
and N N the shafts.
The operation of my invention is as follows:
The box E, having been packed with the de-
sired article, is slid into place over the guides 75
formed by the wagon-sills a' a' and the strips
II II, passes easily over the seat, which may
be placed at such a level as to serve as an ad-
tional support in sliding in the box, if so de-
sired, and is finally secured in place by means So
of the bolts and thumb-screws passing through
the box and the slots G after having been so
adjusted in respect to the axle as to counter-
balance the weight of the rear part of the ve-
hicle, the necessary variation in position be- 85
ing permitted by the longitudinal slots in the
sills. I thus secure a two-wheeled vehicle
having great adaptability for the easy trans-
portation of a variety of loads without the car-
rying of any unnecessary additional weight. 90
The box is carried with the greatest econ-
omy of room in full view of and immediately
accessible to the driver without moving from
his seat-an obvious advantage in the trans-
portation of valuable packages-while the 95
loading and unloading of the box and mount-
ing and dismounting from the vehicle are ac-
complished with the least possible obstruc-
tion and without removing the seat.
I do not limit myself to the particular form 1oo
of the guides shown for sliding the box into
position, neither to the particular means for
securing the adjustment of the box in respect
to the weight of the drop-box in the rear, or
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Boone, Manly Breaker. Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle., patent, February 2, 1892; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172929/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.