An Improved Weight Motor.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Weight Motor.
We, EWALD HÖSEL, of Wüstenbrand, THEODOR NEUBERT, of Oberlungwitz, and
GUSTAV RICHTER, also of Wüstenbrand, all in the Kingdom of Saxony, German
Empire, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The present invention consists of improvements in power transmitting machinery
of the class operated by falling weights.
In order to render the specification more easily intelligible, reference is had to
the accompanying drawing, in which similar letters of reference denote similar
parts throughout the several views:―
Fig. 1 is a front elevation,
Fig. 2 an end elevation and
Fig. 3 a plan of the machine.
A series of levers 6" to 6° are loosely mounted on a shaft 5, mounted in suitable
bearings in the machine frame, formed by the end and central plates 1 and the
stays 3. The said levers are of the two arm type and slotted in the middle, to
enclose each a disc 8" to 8º, said discs each having a spring pin 9 mounted therein
and radially sliding on the disc. The outer end of each lever is provided with a
weight 7 to 7. The discs Sª to Se are fast on the shaft and the object is to rotate
the said shaft by the successive falling of the weights. Thus as the lever 7" falls,
it engages the pin of its disc and turns the shaft a certain part of a revolution.
This causes a second shaft 12 to rotate by means of gearing 10 11, said shaft carry-
ing a series of arms 13 to 13, fast thereon, each arm being adapted to engage
the inward end of one of the corresponding levers 6 to 6; these arms are
intended to lift the successive falling weights, which in being raised, depress and
pass over their respective pins 9 which as shown in Fig. 2 are provided with a
slanting or cam shaped end, and are spring pressed outwardly, so that they again
engage under the said lever arms when the latter are moved in the opposite direc-
tion and are coupled therewith as long as each lever falls. This operation repeats
itself with each of the levers and thus the machine is kept running. 15 is a
brake device in connection with a governor 17, driven from the pulley 18 and
adapted to tighten the brake band, when the machine is running too quickly.
16 is a fly wheel and 14 indicates rollers one at the end of each arm 13 to 13° and
2, 2 are collars, arranged on each of the shafts 12 and 5 between each pair of
levers. By means of the pulley 18 motion may be transmitted to the machine
it is required to drive.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
A series of weighted levers loosely mounted on the driving shaft, a series of
dises fast on said shaft and operated by the downward motion of said levers, a
second shaft in proximity to the said first shaft and a series of arms thereon
adapted to engage with and raise the successively falling levers and gearing
between said shafts, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1897.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicants Agent, Monument Chambers, London, E.C.