US1096350A - Truck. - Google Patents

Description

W. H. BROWN.

TRUCK.

APPLIUATIoN FILED DB0. 24, 1912.

` 1,096,350, Patented May12, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led December 24, 1912. 4Serial No. 738,457.

To all whom t may concern: A

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los =Angeles and State of California, have invented acer-I tain new and useful Improvement in Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a truck particularly for handling and transporting large and bulky articles, especially large and heavy rolls of paper such as are used in newspaper and other publishing plants. In order thatthe nature and object of this invention may be fully understood, it may be stated that the damage to such paper rolls, as a result of carelessly dumping them from the Vehicles in which they are carried, is very large, inasmuch as the edges of the rolls become crushed and such crushed and crumpled portions of the paper must be cut ofi' because they will not pass through the press. Again, no small damage to the edges of the rolls is occasioned by the lips of the ordinary trucks which, when forced under the paper edge, tear or render a good portion uniit for use.

Objects of this invention, therefore, are,

to provide a truckupon which the paper rolls may be deposited directly from the delivery wagons; in which the edges of the rolls are always guarded, and by means of whichthe paper rolls may be set in upright position without using the edges of the same as pivots for this purpose. These and other objects are accomplished by the truck represented in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1, is a side elevation, showing the truck embodying my invention, and a roll of paper carried thereby. Fig. 2, is a side elevation, showing the platform of the truck in tilted position, and the operative position of the lip for holding the paper roll on the platform, dotted lines indicating the position of the lip after the roll has been raised to vertical position, and Fig. 3, is a sectionall elevation on lines aa, Fig. 1.

- The truck consists of a frame 1supported at its forward end by wheels 2, journaled on an axle 3, and at its lrear end -by legs 4. On a trunnion 5, mounted in suitable bearings 6, on the frame, is a-platform or bed 7, which consists of ay channel iron 8, and substantially V-shaped braces 9, to the ends of which are fastened longitudinal supporting rods 10, which are arranged to give lateral support to a roll of paper. The end. 10, of these supporting rods are slightly curved downwardly and are designed to rest on the ground or floor when the bed is tilted to the position shown in Fig. 2. Pivotally mounted in and extending beyond the end of said channel iron 8, is a lip 11, having an elongated end 12, for the purpose of holding said lip in position for engagement by a roll when the bed is tilted. The movement of a r oll of paper on the supporting rods 10, is lm nted, as seen, by the lip 11, which is sufciently large to prevent the weight of the roll from injuring the edges thereof. When the roll is gradually lifted from the position shown in Fig. 2, the lin 11, will gradually remove from engagement with the edge of the roll, as this edge, following the curvature of the ends 10', of the supporting rods 10, moves in the opposite direction from that of the said lip 11. At the time, therefore, that the lip has escaped from the edge of the roll, the roll will be in substantially vertical position, thus preventing injury to the edges of the roll when it iinally comes to rest. It will be obvious that where two or more rolls of paper of smaller length than a full roll are deposited on the truck platform, they may be set in upright position in exactly the same manner as the large rolls.

What I claim, is: I

1. A truck for paper rolls and the like comprising a frame, a bed pivotally mounted on said frame and extending beyond the' end of the same, and a lip pivoted in and extending beyond the forward end of said bed to hold a roll of paper thereon when tilted, said lip automatlcally removing from the edge of the roll when said roll is raised to vertical position.

2. A truck for paper rolls and the like, comprising a frame having a pair of wheels, a bed pivotally mounted on said frame and consisting of connected supporting rods and a channel iron disposed between said rods, said rods having their ends slightly curved downwardly, and a lip pivotcd in the forward end of and extending beyond said bed to hold a roll of paper on said bed when tilted, said lip being arranged to automaticall remove from the edge of said roll when saidyrollis raised to vertical position.

3. A truck for paper rolls and the like, comprising a frame havinga pair of wheels,

Patented May 12, 1914.

and handles', a trunnion on said frame, a pluin tilted position, and being arranged to aurality of braces one of Which is fastened to tomatically remove from engagement With said trunnion, a `channel iron carried censaid roll When said roll is raised to vertical trally of said braces and forming a central position. 5 support for said roll, a plurality of rods In testimony whereof I have set my hand 15 also carried by said braces anu forming a in the presence of two Witnesses. lateral support for said roll, said rods hav- WILLIAM H. BROWN. ing their ends curved downwardly, and a lip Witnesses:

ivoted in and extending beyond the end of WALTER C. MARsToN, 1-0 said channel iron to support the paper roll CATHERINE M. BURKE.

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