Moyer's Patent Noiseless King Bolt 



THIS, I consider one of the greatest improvements to the old style clip king bolt that has 

 ever been made, on account of the endless trouble 1 have had with the old style king 

 bolt getting loose and rattling. You will notice that the clip king bolt here does the same 

 work it has always done, but through the centre of this king bolt there is an independent bolt 

 which is forged solid to the stay brace which goes from the bottom of the axle to the reach. 

 This does away with the clumsy, awkward nut on the bottom, which was always getting loose 

 and producing a rattle. In the old style clip king bolt there is a nut on the top and one on the 

 bottom. These nuts screw up in opposite directions to each other, so that by cramping the 

 carriage you tighten one nut and loosen the other. When this is done, in one case it causes 



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it to rattle and in the other case causes the king bolt to be twisted off. With my improve- 

 ment, the nut on the top of the king bolt never moves and is no more apt to get loose than the 

 nut that holds the spring to the head block, as the king bolt always stands still, the clip king 

 bolt turning with the axle back and forth as the carriage is cramped. In this way that great 

 trouble of the loosening of the nut of the king bolt is avoided. The endless trouble that 1 have 

 had in past years with the old style clip king bolt caused me to make this improvement, which 

 1 am very proud of, as it has done away with all that old trouble which we had with the old 

 style clip king bolt and king bolt tie. This also makes a much tidier and neater connection 

 than the old style. 



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