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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
SILAS CHAMBERS, OF TAHOKA, TEXAS.
RESILIENT MOUNTING FOR VEHICLE-BODIES.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 9,1916.
Application filed JTuly 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,692.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, SILAS CHAMBERS, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Ta-
hoka, in the county of Lynn and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Re-
silient Mounting for Vehicle-Bodies, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to resilient mount-
ings for vehicle bodies,
10 The invention aims primarily to, mount a
body in such manner as to eliminate the
jars and jolts of a vehicle body when mount-
ed upon steel tired wheels.
A further object is to provide a mounting
15 which in addition to limiting the body to
motion in a vertical plane, allows for the
local absorption and elimination of jars and
shocks by allowing the body to tilt, in a re-
stricted but substantially frictionless manner
20 about any of its four points of resilient sup-
port.
With the foregoing and other objects in
view which will appear as the description
proceeds, the invention resides in the com-
25 bination and arrangement of parts and in
the details of construction hereinafter de-
scribed and claimed, it being understood
that changes in the precise embodiment of
the invention herein disclosed, can be made
30 within the scope of what is claimed, without
departing from the spirit of the invention.
In the drawings accompanying this speci-
fication and forming a part thereof, the pre-
ferred embodiment .of my invention is illus-
35 trated.
In said drawings: Figure 1 is a view in
side elevation of a wagon body embodying
my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view
thereof with the body removed. Fig. 3 is a
40 detail view of the securing means holding
the springs to the wagon body.
Referring to the drawings in which simi-
lar reference numerals designate correspond-
ing parts throughout the several views, 6
45 represents a running gear of a buggy or al-
lied vehicle and includes the front and rear
axles 7 and 8. The front axle 7 is pivoted
to the forward bolster 9 in the usual manner.
The wagon body 10 is depicted in the
50 present drawings as being of the conven-
tional buggy type, but it will be readily ap-
preciated that it may take any form con-
sistent with its use in connection with andforming a part of the vehicle. Secured to
the bottom of the body adjacent each of its 55
corners is a bearing 19. Journaled within
these bearings are stub shafts 20 extending
inwardly from disks 21 which are provided,
in their lower faces, with sockets. Thus
each of the disks 21 is capable of rocking 60
about the axis of its stub shaft. The disk
is of considerable thickness so that a con-
siderable area or surface will be had for the
bearing. A vertical post. 15 extends through
the said bearing and is rigidly secured, in 65
an upright manner, at its lower extremity
by the U-shaped bolt or clip 16. The bolt
extends around the axle or bolster, as the
case may be, and is tightened thereagainst
by the securing nuts 17. 70
A helical spring 18 extends between and
impinges against the lower surface of the
disk and the upper surface of the clip or bolt
16, there being four vertical posts and co-
operating parts, and there being also four .75
helical springs, thus resiliently mounting
the vehicle"body and at the same time pre-
venting its relative shifting, in a horizontal
plane, with respect to the running gear.
With the horizontally rotatable disk, the 80
body may be depressed or elevated to differ-
ent degrees at its various corners in a ver-
tical and longitudinal plane and is rigidly
held against such unequal motions in a ver-
tical and lateral plane and held against all 85
relative motion in a horizontal plane.
The many advantages of the foregoing are
readily apparent and result in the smooth
and easy riding of a vehicle despite the fact
that steel tires are used and the road be other 90
than a smooth surface, although it is to be
noted in this connection that the resilient
mounting may be employed with equal facil-
ity with corresponding success upon auto-
mobiles or other types of vehicles. 95
What is claimed is:-
The combination with an axle and a vehi-
cle body thereabove, of a clip fixedly mount-
ed upon the axle, a bolt fixedly connected to
the clip and extending upwardly therefrom, 100
a bearing member secured to the bottom of
the body, a disk having a radial stub shaft
journaled in the bearing, said disk extend-
ing beyond the side of the body and being
revoluble about an axis extending trans- 105
versely of the body, said disk being slidably1,182,457.
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Chambers, Silas. Resilient Mounting for Vehicle Bodies, patent, May 9, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858890/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.