US Patent: 1,136,564
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| Vehicle Coupling
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Patentee:
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| Marquis J. Todd (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, Erie County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Apr. 25, 1913 |
| Granted: |
Apr. 20, 1915 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Buffalo Pitts Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The primary object of this invention is to provide an improved coupler, especially adapted for wheeled vehicles such as dump- wagons or load-carrying wagons manipulated by a traction engine at either end of a train of vehicles, although the coupler may be employed wherever it is desired to couple cars. One of the objects of the invention is to insure the automatic locking of the coupling bar and to allow of longitudinal play of such bar without danger of impairing the efficiency of the coupler and a further object is to provide means for taking the end thrust of the coupling bar as well as its longitudinal pull so that a train of vehicles may be moved in either direction.
Claim:
A coupler for wheeled vehicles comprising, in combination, a base having an upwardly projecting lug, a coupling a designed to be held by said lug, a pivoted keeper designed to engage the upper end o1 said lug to retain the coupling bar in engagement therewith, and a latch supported by said lug for retaining the keeper in engagement with the latter. |
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