US1398460A - Hayrack-lifter - Google Patents

Description

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HAYRACK LI FTER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. s, 1921.

Patented Nov. 29, 1921.

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HAYVBACK LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 5, 1921.

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Robeii' [fame am 7 M ROBERT KANE, OF EUMBOLDT, ILLINOIS.

HAYRACK-LI FTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29, 1921.

Application filed March 5, 1921.. Serial No. 449,863.

To all 10 ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT KANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Humboldt, in the county of Coles and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hayrack-Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide simple, inexpensive and efficient apparatus whereby a hay rack or wagon body may be automatically lifted from the running gear as the vehicle is drawn forward. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved apparatus showing a hay rack about to be engaged and withdrawn from the running gear;

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the rack withdrawn from and supported above the running gear;

Fig. l is a transverse section on the line 47-4: of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a detail section on a somewhat larger scale.

In carrying out my invention, I employ two similar frames which are set up in a field or within a barn or other shelter in parallel relation and spaced apart a distance which will permit an ordinary running gear to pass between them as it is drawn forward by draft animals. Each" of these frames comprises posts 1 which are connected by suitable braces 2 and to the upper ends of which are secured horizontal rails 8. EX- tending downwardly from one end of each rail 3 is an inclined rail 4, which has its lower end resting upon the ground or upon the floor of a shelter and is alinecl with the respective rail At the junction of the rails 3 and i, I provide a laterally extending pin or similar support 5 and upon the outer end of said support I mount a roller 6. The running gear, indicated at 7, may be of any well-known type, and in the drawings I have indicated a conventional hay rack 8 supported upon the bolsters of the running gear, the I rack being provided with depending brackets 9 adapted to engage the front and rear sides of the respective bolsters so that the travel of the running gear will be transmitted directly to the rack. Upon the sides of the rack, at the ends thereof, I provide rollers 10 which are adapted to run upon the rails 4 and 3 and at the outer sides of said rollers I secure tracks 11 which are adapted to engage and ride upon the rollers 6. The tracks 11 may be of any convenient or preferred formation and are illustrated as consisting of anglebars having vertically disposed webs whereby they may be secured to the sides of the hay rack or the wagon body and horizontal webs extending outwardly from the upper edges of the vertical webs so as to ride upon the rollers 6.

The operation of the device will be readily understood. When the rack or the wagon body is to be lifted from the running gear, the vehicle is drawn forward between the rails a and the rollers 1.0 at the front end of the rack will be thereby brought into engage ment with the inclined rails l below the upper ends of the same so that as the travel of the vehicle proceeds the front end of the rack will be raised and caused to ride upward upon the said inclined rails and pass over onto the rails 3, the lugs 9 at the rear end of the rack remaining in engagement with the rear bolster of the running gear until the porton of the rack in advance of the rollers 6 overbalances the rear portion of the rack and thereby swings downwardly to rest upon the upper horizontal rails 3. This downward movement of the forward end of the rack will, of course, cause the rear end of the rack to swing upwardly free of the running gear so that the rack will be supported upon the rails 3 and the running gear may be drawn forward past the sup porting structure and used for other purposes. The momentum acquired by the rack as it travels up the rails t and onto the rails 3 which carry it forward upon the upper rails to a sufficient distance to guard against the rack moving backwardly and sliding off the support. When the rack or wagon body is to be again used, the running gear is driven into position below the rack and between the rail supports so that. if a rear movement be imparted to the rack, it will run down the inclined rails 41: and engage the running gear. The rollers provided upon the supports and upon the rack permit the rack to move easily when it is to be returned to position upon the running gear so that laborious effort will not be needed to render the rack or wagon body again available for use. The apparatus is obviously simple in construction and may be set up wherever desired at a very low cost.

Having thus described the invention, what 5 is claimed as new is:

The combination of parallel-supporting structures between which a vehicle may be driven, horizontal rails on said supporting structures, inclined rails leading down- 10 wardly from the horizontal rails and alined therewith, rollers upon the outer sidesof the rails at the junctions of the horizontal and inclined members thereof, rollers mounted upon a wagon body to run upon the said rails, and tracks secured longitudinally upon 15 the outer sides of the wagon body laterally beyond the rollers thereon and arranged to ride upon the first-mentioned rollers.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ROBERT KANE. 1,. 5.

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