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UN]TED STATES PATENT OFFIC
GEORGE J. WINSLOW, OF BISHOP, TEXAS.
WAGON-SEAT.1,179,259. Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Apr.11, 1916.
Application filed October 5, 1914. Serial No. 865,124.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, GEORGE J. WINSLOW,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Bishop, in the county of Nueces and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Wagon-Seats; and
I do hereby declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled
10 in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same.
This invention relates to wagon seats,
and the primary object of the invention is
the provision of a detachable spring or re-
15 silient support for wagon seats, by means of
which the seat may be detachably mounted
upon a wagon at any desired point, as con-
venient.
Another object of this invention is the
20 provision of a resilient support for wagon
seats, which may be adjusted for position-
ing the seat at various elevations above the
upper edge of the wagon.
With the foregoing and other objects in
25 view this invention consists in such novel
features of construction, combination and
arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter
more fully described, illustrated in the ac-
companying drawings and claimed.
80 In describing the invention in detail ref-
erence will be had to the accompanying
drawings wherein like characters of refer-
ence designate like or corresponding parts
throughout the several views, and in
g5 which:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fragment
of a wagon bed showing the improved seat
attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary
view of a portion of the wagon seat showing
40 a portion of the resilient support in sections,
and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the
line 3-3 of Fig. 1.
Referring more particularly to the draw-
ings, 1 designates a seat which is commonly
45 used upon wagons and vehicles of similar
construction, and it has attached to the
under surface of the bottom 2 of the seat,
upon the ends thereof, rods 5, which rods
have their upper ends bent transversely
so to the body portion thereof and secured to
the under surface of the seat by any suitable
type of fastening means as is shown at 6 in
Fig. 2 of the drawings.
The rods 5 depend from the bottom 2 of
5 - the wagon seat 1,- and they are slidably
seated in sleeves 7. The sleeves 7 have ex-pansible collars 8 secured to their outer sur-
face, which expansible collars have hook
portions 9 formed thereupon for engage-
ment with the upper end of the side or 60
grain board of a wagon (not shown) for
supporting the sleeve 7 in close proximity
to the outer surface of the side 10 of the
wagon. The rods 5 have their lower ends
externally screw threaded, and nuts 11 are 65
mounted upon the screw threaded end for
holding said rods in adjusted positions with-
in the sleeve 7. Washers 12 are interposed
between the nut 11 and the lower terminal
end of the sleeve 7. Collars 14 are mounted 70
upon the rods 5, and they have the lower
ends of spiral spring 15 abutting there-
against. The other ends of the spiral
springs 15 abut plates 16. The plates 16
extend laterally across the bottom 2 of the 7
seat 1 at the ends of the same, and they are
mounted upon the rod 5 as is clearly shown
in Fig. 1 of the drawing. By the provision
of the spiral springs 15 the seat 1 is resili-
ently supported above a wagon bed. 80
In the operation of the improved seat
support: when a person seats himself upon
the seat 1, his weight will compress the
spiral springs 15 to a certain extent and
the springs will resiliently support the seat, 85
so that the shocks occasioned by rough travel
of the wagon will be absorbed by the spiral
springs preventing the administration of the
shock to the seat.
The tension of the springs 15 may be regu- 90
lated by the adjustment of the nuts 11 upon
the externally screw threaded ends of the
rods 5, which will regulate the shock absorb-
ing proclivities of the springs making them
more or less susceptible to movement under 95
weight.
In reducing the invention to practice,
minor features of construction,.combination
and arrangement of parts may necessitate
alterations to which the patentee is entitled 100
provided such alterations are comprehended
within the scope of what is claimed.
What is claimed is:-
In a wagon seat support, the combination
with an ordinary wagon seat, of a plurality 105
of depending vertically extending rods, said
rods having their upper ends bent angu-
larly, said angularly bent ends secured to
the undersurface of the wagon seat adjacent
the ends thereof, sleeves, split rings detach- 110
ably mounted upon the outer surface of said
sleeves, hooks formed upon said rings and
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Winslow, George J. Wagon-Seat., patent, April 11, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859763/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.