US Patent: 904,407
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| Steering Gear
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Patentee:
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| Harry C. Clay (exact or similar names) - Columbus, Bartholomew County, IN |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jun. 20, 1908 |
| Granted: |
Nov. 17, 1908 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Reeves & Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
It has heretofore been customary, in traction engines, to provide rubbing blocks, which are mounted on the shell of the boiler, to prevent the steering wheels from being swung around too far. Such a construction, under some circumstances, results in a bad buckling of the boiler sheets and the object of my present invention is to provide a structure wherein the steering gear itself is provided with members adapted to engage the steering wheels when they are swung around far enough, and prevent their coming into engagement with the boiler shell.
Claim:
In a steering gear, the combination, with a swinging axle and traction wheels carried thereby, of steering chains attached to the axle at opposite sides of the axis, and a rubbing block carried by each of. said chains in position to be engaged by the traction wheel when the axle is sufficiently swung. |
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