US1475732A - Combined wagon box and end gate - Google Patents

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Nov. 27, 1923. 1,475,732

J. wooDs COMBINED WAGON Box AND END GATE Filed April 8, 192 2 Patented Ploy. 2?, i923.

JACOB WOODS, OF GRISVIOLD, IO' JVA.

COMBINED MAGGIE? BOX AND END GATE.

Application filed April 8, 1922.

1 '0 all whom it may concern.

e it known that 1, Jason lioons, a citizen of the United States residing at Griswold in the county of Cass and. State 01? Iowa, have invented certain new and useiiul Improvements in Combined llagon Boxes and End Gates, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in vehicle structures and more particularly relates to a combined wagon box and end gate and the supporting means therefor.

It is an object of the invention to provide a construction of wagon body and end gate in which the upper surfacesthereot will be free of nail or bolt heads or other obstacles which interfere with a smooth surface and are apt to catch a shovel or other implement as the material i being removed from the vehic e; at the same time the agon body and end gate are appropriately reinforced and form a strong and rigid structure and the various boards comprising these parts are adapted to be held together z'igainst accidental spreading.

Other objects of the invention are to provide for the support of the end gate in position even with the wagon. body floor and to dispense with the use oi": nails, bolts, chains and the like for supporting the end gate and for keeping it closed, the supporting means being capable of easy and convenient operation and acting to'permit oi the quick raising or lowering of the tail gate, the tail gate being held against lateral movement by suitable side rails which prevent material also from spilling over the sides of the gate.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more partic ularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view through a wagon body and end gate with the latter in the lowered position;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a rear View of the end gate in the raised or closed position;

Fig. a shows a side view of the end gate construction with a part of the supporting rod illustrated; and. i

Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 5-5 in Fig. 1.

Serial No. 550,709.

Referring more particularly to the draw ings, 10 indicates the sides of the wagon .body and ll the floor boards which may be of a usual construction and laid lengthwise between the sides 10 in accordance with the conventional plan. lieint'oreing beams 12 in any suitable number and at desirably spaced intervals are placed transversely across the floor or the body beneath and against the floor boards 11, but these beams are not bolted in the usual manner but are secured to the boards by the use of bolts 13 having nuts l at their lower ends beneath the beam and provided with perforated heads 15 lying embedded in suitable sockets made there-. :tor in the floor boards 11. The structure is that of an eye-bolt in which the eyes of the various bolts, as best seen in Fig. 2. are connected by coupling rods 16 which pass in common through the various eyes and through the floor boards 11 and act to prevent the separation of the floor boards'by shrinkage and also bind together the various eye bolts which support the reinforcing beams 12.

The rods 16 are provided with heads 17 at one end and nuts 18 at the other, the nuts providing for taking up any looseness in the boards which is apt to occur from time to time. The rear-most supporting beam 12 i; situated at the rearmost end of the wagon body and is adapted to carry a 'shelt beam 19 projecting beyond th end of the wagon body and having its up r surface flush with the lower surface of the tloor boards 11.

Bolts or other suitable mo us 20 may be employed to pass through the beams 12 and 19 for the purpose oi holding the latter firmly and ii y In place in such wise as to torm a rest for the end sale which is composed. in t1]? main o'l similar tloor boards 21 disposed longitudinally and flanked at the sides by rails 22. The end gate is slightly wider than the wagon box and the side rails s are projected forwardly in order that tiny may overlap upon the sides 10 of the wagon and thus avoid the casual shifting of the end gate in a sidewise direction. The end gate is further provided with reinforcing beams 23 supported therebeneath by the use of eye-bolts 241 similar to the eyebolts heretofore described and counter-sunk within the boards 21 and connected by rods as previously described in connection with the floor ot the wagon box. The foremost beam i extended beyond the sides of the end gate as indicated in Fir nd 3 and lellliOlclllQf and J. 1 -Y Y L1 4 i nested between the or we is is anc tililb The inn r end of the gate is adapted to rest upon the shelf beam 19 as 0 lie flush with the wagon box and form or onions and unbrolzen y t hi l The shelf beam 19 also 1.1 do end in the raised position truncated pro c 'tiu end downwardly at the c ,2 thus prevent lateral e gate.

The gat support t both upper and e bi 1 lower positions by the use or rods .40 which have out-turned upper ends er ,a pivotally in perforations ]71O="1f.l in rearwardly extending bre ets w "h are u iined at on and are carr a slight downwa i direc on the sides of the wagon bot-t to which the; are secured by bolts The lowe ends or the rods 25 are off-set 1 1 2S and are provided with her. lower extremities. lhe off-so .e rods pass downwardly thro erfor ons 1 {rate boards and made through the end i wid beans ail through an exceptionally lying beneath the internietliu e part 0' i end gate and secured thereto as by eye-ioits and other bolts which pass through the side rails The rods 2-5 are two in number and project downwardly from the brackets 26 conne t with the end gate iust insid of the The beam side rails 22. is thicker or deeper at its rear edge portion where it receives the eye-bolts 82. this thicker portion providing); a ledpge to support the rods 25 when they are folded over against the rear side of the end state when it is ele ated. clip 34!; is carried by this been 81 or upon another part of the end to for the purpose of confining; the folded rods and thus securing the end grate in its raised position.

The end portions of the large bear-.1 31 are reinforced by wear plates 35 where the heads 29 of the rods engage them and to more effecti ely hold the wear plates in plane the rear thicker portion of the beam 31 is slit, as indicated in Fig. 5. to receive the same. The bolts holding the bean also go through th s metallic or other wear plate and hol the same securely in place. 7

In the use of the device, the end gate may be caused to assume the position shown in Fig. 1 when the loading or unload'n of the wagon is to be accomplished. in this case, the floor of the wagon and the end grate lie tlush with one another and form unbroken even surfaces for the shoveling of loads savages here are no obstructions, such as bolt nail ls, to interfere or strike the operators but the construction is not *rnioed as to stength but is in reality counnon structures where 1 t M a the roos i LllLOugh the open r o. nnally tie brackets 26 will be to these openings witi the gate supported on end upon the shelf beam The rods ar thereupon folded over upon the other and adapted to rest upon clip upon the shelf provided by the larn'ed portion of the beam 31,

it will be appreciated from the forego' a t the invention is simple, inexpensive I r able and tl 2 it will enable the quich. lifting: and low ring of the tail gate and will n. -d it etiieetiyely in place in either of these positions with strength when loading and unloading. without rattling when in motion.

il hat is claimed lhe combination with a wagon body havi a bottom one. sides. a ledge secured cross the lower side of the bottom anl profrozn the rear edoje thereof end harino a bottom and sides bottom adapted to seat on tr e project. ion of the ledge and to hinge upon said ll] swinging the bottom into raised o red positions. said sides of the end wanted to overlap the sides of bony and extending; beyond the inner end of the end gate for holding the end gate in alinement with the wagon body and for interlocking; engagement with the 1 Tyre when the end gate is raised. a pair of rods hinqed to th sides of the wagon body spaced relation above the bottom thereof and be no; offsetinwardly and projecting through the bottom of the end gate. said rods beinp; h n ed at their upper ends and adapted to be folded in overlapping relation e the outer sides of the end gate when err is raised, supporting means for s id rods in crossed transverse relast the outer side of the end gate, and a clamp carried upon the outer side of the end oats and acapted for binding on Qageinent against said rods when overla oped.

testimony whereof, I have atiixed my presence of two witnesses.

JACOB WQODS.

l i itnesses A RTHUR H. STU'RGES, firmer A. Sronons.

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