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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
STONEWALL J. DOWLING, OF WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS.
VEHICLE-BODY CONSTRUCTION.No. 809,788.
TO all wfhOm, it mfldly concern:
Be it known that I, STONEWALL J. Dow-
LING, a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at Waxahachie, in the county of El-
E us and State of Texas, have invented certain
new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-
Body Construction, of which the following is
a specification.
This invention relates to new and useful
i o improvements in buggy orvehicle bodies, and
relates more particularly to the corner-irons
employed in buggy or vehicle body construc-
tion.
It is an object of this invention to provide
z 5 a device of this character that will form a
compact and firm joint of a buggy or vehicle
body and prove at the same time simple in
construction and economical in manufacture..
With the foregoing and other objects in
20 view the invention consists in the details of
construction andi in the arrangement and
combination of parts to be hereinafter more
fully described and claimed.
In describing the invention in detail refer-
25 ence will be had to the accompanying draw-
ings, forming part of this specification, where-
in like characters of reference denote corre-
sponding parts in the several views, and in
which-
30 Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the cor-
ner of a buggy or vehicle bed or body em-
ploying the invention. Fig. 2 is a view in
perspective of the invention detached. Fig..
3 is a view in elevation of a fragment of a side
35 strip or board, showing the manner in which
it is cut when employed with a corner-iron
constructed according to the invention.
In the drawings, 1 2 indicate the meeting
base-beams of a buggy or vehicle body which
4o have their meeting ends cut to form overlap-
ping joints, as plainly indicated by dotted
lines in Fig. 1.. Suitably secured to the
beams, preferably by bolts passing through
apertures, is a corner-iron A.. This iron ex-
45 tends above the beams a distance equal to the
height of a buggy or vehicle body, as will be
plainly understood by those familiar. with
buggy or vehicle body construction. The
iron bar A is preferably L-shaped in cross-
50 section and has formed on the inside at the
junction of the members 4 5 a reinforcing-
strip 6, which may be formed integral there-
with or separate, according to the results de-
sired in practice; but it is the intention of the
55 invention to have the entire iron cast inte-Patented Jan. .9, 1906.
gral. The reinforcing-strip 6 is not of the
same height as the iron proper, but extends
from the upper edge of the iron down to a
ioint slightly below the top or upper surface
of the base-beam 1. 6o
At the lower end of the strip 6 is a foot 7,
which fits in a recess 8, formed in the beam 1.
This foot projects on a line of about ninety
degrees with relation to the members 4 5 of
the iron A and is provided with an aperture 65
or opening 9, through which a bolt or other
securing means is intended to pass in order
that said foot may be attached to the beam 1.
In practice it is the intention to have the bolt
or whatever means is employed to. pass 70
through both of the beams 1 and 2. By this
arrangement the foot not only provides a se-
curing means for the angle-iron, but presents
a means for holding the beams positively
united. 75
The inner surf ace of each of the members 4
5 of the iron A is reduced or recessed interme-
diate its width, said recess extending beyond
the reinforcing -strip 6. From the top of
each of the members 4 5 extends an arm 9a, 8o
which is provided with a plurality of aper-
tures through which screws or the like are in-
tended to pass to engage the upper edge of
the buggy or vehicle side strip B. The buggy
or vehicle side strip B has its end portion 10 85
reduced in thickness to joint with the reduced
portion of the members 4 5, while the upper
and lower corners of the side are provided
with cut-away portions 11 12, respectively,
to receive the normal portions 13 of the mem- 90
bers 4 5 and the arms 9a of said angle or cor-
ner iron A. The reinforcing-strip 6 is also
provided with a series of apertures extending
therethrough to provide means whereby a
dashboard may be applied. These aper- 95
tures are preferably two in number and are
located in those irons positioned at the front
of the vehicle-body, as is thought to be un-
derstood by those skilled in the art.
The advantages of said invention and the 100
operation thereof are thought to be clearly
apparent from the drawings and the forego-
ing description thereof, it being stated that
one of these irons is applied to each corner of
a buggy or vehicle body. 105
Having fully described my invention, what
I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-
ters Patent, is-
An.angle-iron for a buggy or vehicle body
comprising an L - shaped member, a rein- i1oSpecification of Letters Patent.
Application filed July 8, 1905, Serial No. 268,767.
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Dowling, Stonewall J. Vehicle-Body Construction, patent, January 9, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508289/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.