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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
PHILLIP A. CHAUVIN, OF BIVINS; TEXAS.
LUMBER-CARRIER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,189, dated November 15, 1892.
Application filed December 22, 1891, Serial No, 415,909. (No model,)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, PHILLIP A. CHAUVIN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Biv-
ins, in the county of Cass and State of Texas,
5 have invented anewand useful Log and Lum-
ber Carrier, of which the following is a speci-
fication.
This invention relates to conveyers, and
more especially to those which are adapted to
ro carry lumber, logs, and the like; and the ob-
ject of the same is to effect certain improve-
ments in devices of this character.
To this end the invention consists in the
construction hereinafter more fully described
15 and claimed, and as illustrated on the accom-
panying sheet of drawings, wherein-
Figure 1 is a general perspective view of a
portion of the track for my improved con-
veyer. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the
20 trucks with the wheels thereof removed. Fig.
3 is a plan view of a truck.
Referring to the said drawings, AA are in-
clined uprights or posts set in the ground in
pairs and connected at their upper ends, so
25 as to form A-shaped figures, as shown. De-
pending from the sides of the A-shaped fig-
ures are hangers B, and across their lower ends
are feet C, whose outer ends are connected to
the uprights and whose inner ends extend
30 slightly beyond the hangers and support the
rails D. The latter are preferably of wood
of a proper size to support the load to be car-
ried, and are preferably faced on their upper
and inner sides with metal, as shown at E.
35 Each truck of this improved carrier consists
of an elongated rectangular body F, having
slots G extending upward thereinto from the
bottom edge and adjacent to the ends of said
body to form openings to loosely and remov-
40 ably fit over the axles H of the truck-wheels
I, which have flanges J and are adapted to
travel on the metal faces of the rails, the said
body F having a lower centrally-depending
extension F', projecting between and below
45 said rails. In the lower end of the body is a
ring K, from which depends a chain L, hav-
ing a hook M at its end, or from the ring may
depend two chains N, connected by a cross-
bar O, the chain or the cross-bar being passed
50 under one end of the log or load of lumber,
while the other end is supported by a secondtruck in a similar manner. In the inner side
of one of the flanges J is cut a number of
notches P, and Q is a pawl pivoted at R to
the top of the body F and operated by a weight 55
S to throw its tip normally into engagement
with said notches.
By the removable structure of the body F
from the axles of the truck-wheels means are
supplied for readily replacing another body 6o
of similar construction if the one in use or
parts thereof should become disarranged or
broken, or if either of the axles and the truck-
wheels carried thereby should become broken
they can be readily removed and others of a 65
similar nature be readily adjusted to the said
body.
The track is built as nearly straight as pos-
sible and with a gradual descent toward the
mill, although it will be understood that if it 70
be of considerable length there may be undula-
tions, as occasioned by the rise and fall of
the ground. After the trees are felled and
secured to a pair of trucks (above described)
the whole is let free, with the notched wheels 75
to the front, and as the weight of the log is
considerable the device will run downhill at
a great speed, usually sufficient to carry it
over the next hill if the track be properly
built. However, should it fail to go over the 80o
hill the engagement of the pawls with the
notches will prevent a retrograde movement
of the front wheels of each truck, and the log
will be held near the top of the rising hill,
whence it can be pushed over by the operator 85
with the expenditure of butlittle force. The
whole is made of lumber which would not be
otherwise available and useful, and the size
of parts and distance which the uprights are
spaced will depend on the weight of the logs 90
to be carried.
What is claimed as new is-
In a lumber-carrier, the combination, with
closely-arranged tracks with a space between
the same, of a truck consisting of an elon- 95
gated rectangular body having slots extend-
ing upward thereinto from the bottom edge
and adjacent to the ends thereof and a de-
pending extension located centrally of said
slots and adapted to project between and be- Ioc
low said rails and having a ring in the lower
end thereof with a chain connected thereto, a
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Chauvin, Phillip A. Lumber-Carrier, patent, November 15, 1892; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173221/m1/3/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.