US502738A - Brick truck - Google Patents

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' UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

JAMES F. MOCK, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA, ASSIGNQR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN D.

, MQCK, OF SAME PLACE.

.BRICK'JTRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,738, dated August 8, 1893.

Application filed January 21, 1893. Serial'llo, 459.115- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. MOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Handling Brick, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates'to apparatus for handling brick; and the objects of the improvement are to provide a single apparatus operated by one man that can be readily attached and detached from racks for the purpose of conveying the latter when loaded with brick to their properly assigned places, as may be necessary in the manufacturing of the same, whereby green or newly pressed brick can be removed easily, quickly and without being damaged, from the machine to the dry-shed, and after drying from thence to the kiln, and to curtail the expense and lighten the labor of handling the same. I accomplish these objects by means of the apparatus which will be hereinafter fully described and referred to in the claims. I

In the drawings which are made a part hereof, similar letters refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the wheeled carrier in position to lift the rack. Fig. 2 is a front view of the wheeled carrier and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rack Fig. 4 is a plan view of the axle.

The Wheeled carrier is provided with handle bars A, which are provided with gripstocks 1), and are attached to the fulcrumposts F, by means of the saddle-clips I. To the handle-bars A, are bolted at 't', the legs or feet 0, said legs or feet being also secured to the axle D by the clip M. The fulcrum-posts are joined to the axle D by means of the bolts J. The fulcrum-posts F F are provided at their upper ends with the spindles j, upon which the arms N are mounted. The pieces E E form supportsor braces from the axlespindles K to the fulcrum-post spindles j, and are held in place by the set screws G and H.

N, N, are arms mounted on the fulcrumpost spindles j, by means of which the lifting posts T are raised and lowered, and to which the lever-arms O are bolted by the bolts P.

K K are the axle-spindles forming a beargle-joints at same.

R, is an operating lever to which the levering for the wheels or hubs L. The liftingpo'sts T and the arms N, N, are pivotally connected by means of the bolts Q, forming togarms 0, are bolted by the bolts S. The lifting-posts T, suspend the rack shown in Fig. 3 by the beam f. The extensions U, U, to the lifting-posts T, rise above the rack as shown in Fig. 1 and are joined to the lifting-posts T -by means of bolts Wand the stud-bolts V,

and are formed with a half turn m, at the stud-bolt V, which adds to the bearing ends of the lifting-posts T, and the half turn of the extensions U brings their flat faces against the beam f and form guards which automatically adjust the carrier to the beam and rack. The braces B B, are attached to the handlebars A by the bolts h, and to the lifter-bars T by the stud-bolts V, which form a joint for the said braces B at said bolts. The archbar X, connects the extensions U, U, by means of the bolts Y, Y.

Z is a lateral brace joined to the handlebars A by the bolts a, a.

The rack shown in Fig. 3 consists in, and forms a combination of the main posts or legs 0, the ties (1, binding the posts or logs, the strengthening braces e, the beam f necessary in its peculiar shape as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to conform with the general c011- struction and add strength and rigidity to the rack; the same being the means by which the rack is suspended on the lifting-posts T, and the brackets g, twenty in number, necessarily pointed in shape to give compactness and add material strength and rigidity to the general construction of said rack, as well as to hold the pallets of brick.

In practical use the rack shown in Fig. 3, is placed at the brick machine and the pallets of brick are placed thereon until the brackets g, are filled. The carrier is then wheeled into the position shown'in Fig. 1, the rack being between the wheels, and-the lifting-posts T directly beneath the beam f. The operator then grasps the lever B, and pulls downward until the toggle-joints Q Q buckle slightly. This movement suspends the loaded rack from the lifting-posts T, and the buckling of the joints Q holds it in suspension ICO until the lever B is raised thus liberating the carrier truck from the rack and its load; or vice versa. The loaded rack can be wheeled to the dry shed and deposited at any desired point. The axle D is formed with two right angles one forming the axle spindles K K, and the other a yoke horizontally yoking around the rack-posts c and beneath the brackets g at either end, thus allowing the rack shown in Fig. 3, to be suspended from the lifting-posts T Without having the main posts or legs 0 touch the axle.

Fig. 4 is a view of the axle showing its horizontal position when transversely attached to the carrier truck and its manner of yoking around the rack-legs c.

sufficiently dry to place in the kiln, the racks are moved to the kiln in the same manner as from the machine.

It will be readily seen that this apparatus not only saves the labor of several handlings but prevents the damage and waste .to the soft brick incident thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In an apparatus for handling brick, the f wheeled carrier consistingin an axle D, of the shape and position specified, the fulcrumposts F, combining a part thereof and joined thereto, the arms N, in union with the fulcrum-post spindles J, and bolts Q, forming toggle-joints at same, and stud-bolts V, and extensions U, their peculiar shape and application, and operating lever B and lever arms 0 and lifting-post T, and the means for operating the same substantially as shown and described.

2. In an apparatus for handling brick, a brick-rack carrier-truck as herein described in combination with a brick pallet rack consisting of the main posts a suitably braced and provided with brackets g, and the beam By the use of this apparatus one man can perform the labor of four, where the brick are removed by hand. When the brick are fby which the rack is suspended, substantially as shown and described.

3. An apparatus for handling brick, the combination of the wheeled carrier formed and constructed as specified with the brick pallet rack, consisting of the legs a, the ties d, the braces e, and the beam f of the shape specified, as and for the purpose shown and described.

JAMES F. MOCK.

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GEo. A. Torr, P. M. BARNARD.

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