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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM W. LEACH, OF PINELAND, TEXAS.
TRANSPORTING-TRUCK.Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed September 24, 1914. Serial No. 863,258.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAr W. LEACH,
citizen of the United States of America,
residing at Pineland, in the county of Sa-
5 bine and State of Texas, have invented cer-
tain new and useful Improvements in Trans-
porting-Trucks, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to certain new and
10 useful improvements in transporting trucks
for agricultural implements.or the like, and
while shown and described in connection
with the frame of a stump borer, it will be
understood that its use is not confined there-
15 to, but can be extended to all implements or
machines of a transportable type.
The primary object of the invention is to
provide a truck which can be operated by
one man and also to provide means which
20 can be manipulated so as to throw a trans-
porting wheel into and.out of engagement
with the ground so as to enable transport-
ing of the machine when the wheel is on
the ground, and to enable the wheel to be
25 moved out of engagement with the ground
to thereby allow the machine to solidly rest
upon the ground after transportation..
A further object of . the invention is to
provide means for positively locking the
30 wheel in ground engaging position and for
also enabling the locking means to be dis-
engaged to thereby allow the frame to move
down to engage the ground.
Further the invention aims to provide
35 means whereby upon tilting of the frame to
partially raise same from the ground, the
transporting wheel will be automatically
locked in ground engaging position.
In the drawings: Figure 1 is a top :plan
40 view of the invention; Fig. 2 is a side ele-
vation showing the wheel of the truck in
contact with the earth, in full lines, for
transporting purposes and the wheel forced
to swing upward when released from the
45 frame to the position shown in dotted lines
when it encounters an obstruction in the
earth; Fig. 3 is a section on the line A-A
of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective
view of a portion of the yoke.
50 The present illustration of the inventionis shown in connection with the frame of a
stump boring machine which includes a pair
of transverse inverted U-bars or uprights
1 and 2, secured to a pair of longitudinal
bars 3 and 4 by means of clips 6, the bars 3 55
and 4 extending beyond the uprights 1 and
2 as clearly shown in the drawings. Brack-
ets 13 and 14 are secured to the ends 7 and
8 of the bars 3 and 4, and are provided with
depending arms 15 and 16 respectively. 60
Locking levers 17 and 18 are pivoted to the
arms 15 and 16 respectively, at points inter-
mediate the ends of the bars 17 and 18.
The bars 3 and 4 have brackets 19 and 20
respectively secured thereto, the brackets 65
having eyes or bearings 21 and 22 in which
latter a transverse shaft 23 is journaled, the
ends of the shaft being turned at right an-
gles to provide cranks 24 and 25.
For the purpose of operating the pivoted 70
locking levers 17 and 18 from the shaft 23
links 26 and 27 are pivotally connected to
the upper ends of the levers 17 and 18 and
to the cranks 24 and 25 respectively of the
shaft 23, by which means, operation of the 75
shaft 23 will be communicated to both of
the links 26 and 27 and thereby to the levers
17 and 18, simultaneously.
For the purpose of rocking or operating
the shaft 23, an operating link 28 is pivoted 80
at one end to the crank 25 and at its opposite
end to a hand operated lever 29 which latter
is pivoted to the end portion 9 of the bar 4
and is tensioned by a coil spring 30, which
latter acts to normally hold the parts in 85
their locked position shown in full lines in
Fig. 2.
The transporting wheel 31 is mounted
upon a yoke which consists of the side bars
32 and 33 which support the axle 34 at one 90.
of their ends and at their opposite ends are
pivotally attached by the bolts 35 and 36
to the end portions 7 and 8 of the bars 3
and 4. The yoke normally could be moved
upwardly and downwardly with respect to 95
the ends 7 and 8 of the bars 3 and 4, but
with use of the hereinabove described mech-
anism, the movement of the yoke is restrict-
ed or controlled by such mechanism.
In operation, it will be seen that the lock- 100Patented Mar. 21, 1916.
1,176,375.,
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Leach, William W. Transporting Truck, patent, March 21, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859381/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.