Improvements in the Driving Gear of Velosipedes, applicable also to other Vehicles and Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1896.
Improvements in the Driving Gear of Velosipedes, applicable also to
other Vehicles and Machines.
I STEPHEN APPLEBY, Engineer 98 Parliament Street Middlesbrough-on-Tees
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The invention relates to a new and improved & better method of propelling or
moveing by pressure velocopedes, tramcars, and all and every manner of vehicle,
and machinery of any and every description shape or form, and all and every
substance, body article, or thing which does and may require or it may be desired
to propel drive or move in any way.
The pressure required by my invention can be applied by mechanical or any
other means as desired or may be found practicable.
It consists firstly of a wheel containing in or on its rims: Balls made of steel
or other case hardened, metal as substitute or of metal rollers with balls or other
bearings, working on balls or otherwise. or any other shape or form or substitute
for balls or rollers that may be required this wheel I call No. 1.
No. 1 wheel is ball bearings or otherwise or roller or substitute running or
bearings or otherwise attached to a rod, stay, lever, or shaft, or substitute and when
the necessary pressure is put on this rod, stay, lever, or shaft or substitute it' causes
No. 1 wheel to act upon No. 2 wheel causes the motion.
On this No. 2 wheel I place a toothed or band wheel No. 3 which may be cast
or solid or bolted or screwed or otherwise fastened on.
This auxiliary wheel (No. 3) is connected to the driven wheel No. 4 by a chain
or any other substitute which may be required to make the connection.
My invention also enables me to reverse the motion when and where required.
As for example on a tram-car by the addition of another No. wheel working on
the reverse side of No. 1 wheel in a tricycle the rod from which No. 1' wheel
works may have the pressure applied by the riders weight on the seat or as
already mentioned the pressure may be applied mechanically or by other means.
It will drive all classes of machinery with an endless pressure.
Dated this 10th day of December 180x
STEPHEN APPLEBY,
His X mark.
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-Sigued by the said Stephen Appleby by making
bis mark, the same baving been read and
explained to him in the presence of-
THOMAS GALE WHITLOCK,
31 Nout Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Grocer, &c.

page_text: Improvements in the Driving Gear of Velocipedes, applicable also to
other Vehicles and Machines.
I, STEPHEN APPLEBY, of No. 98, Parliament Street, Middlesbrough, in the
County of York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
drawings hereunto annexed and the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say :-
My said invention relates to a new or improved method of propelling, driving,
or moving cycles, tram-cars, and other vehicles or machines also boats or vessels
and has for its object to convert weight or pressure into continuous rotary motion
and to transmit the same to the road or other wheels to be driven.
In the accompanying drawings:
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Figure 1. is a sectional side elevation of a tricycle having the present invention
applied thereto.
Figure 2. is a diagrammatic sectional top view of the principal parts.
Figure 3. is a side view partly in section of a portion of Figure 2.
Figure 4. is a sectional side view illustrating the application of the invention
to a tramcar.
In the several figures in which like parts are indicated by similar letters of
reference, Figures 2 and 3. are drawn to an increased scale with respect to Figures 1.
and 4.
Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 3 a. represents the frame of the machine,
b. represents the road or driving wheels, b¹ is the front or steering wheel, b is the
steering post and a* is the saddle or seat.
On a stud or short axle a' fixed to the saddle pillar or post a coupled with the
frame a. of the machine by links as is mounted through the intervention of ball
bearings or otherwise a wheel c. the rim of which is formed with an annular,
circular or other undercut groove or race c' in which are loosely placed a number
of steel or equivalent balls c' or loose rollers, or, rollers fixed upon axles mounted
in bearings might be substituted therefor.
The rim of the wheel c. is provided with an annular slot which communicates
with the groove or ball race c¹ and upon a stud a' carried by the frame of the
machine is loosely mounted a disc wheel d. the periphery of which enters the annular
slot of the wheel c. and runs in contact with the balls or rollers c.
Fixed with the disc wheel d. is a chain wheel e. which by an endless chain e¹ is
coupled with another chain wheel fixed upon the hub or axle of the driving
wheel b. so that any motion given to the wheel c. is transmitted through the balls c
to the disc wheel d. and thence through the chain wheel e. and chain wheel fito
the driving wheel b.
The required motion is given to the wheel c. by the weight of the rider upon
the saddle a or the required weight or pressure might be derived from compressed
springs or other mechanical means.
Or, in lieu of, or, in addition to, the means herein before described one of the
wheels c. or d. may be provided with cranks and pedals.
In the example given at Figure 4, the invention is shown applied to a tramcar
and in this case it is necessary to reverse the motion of the parts at the end of the
journey in order to travel in the opposite direction, and for this purpose the axle a¹
of the wheel c. is carried in a shifting bearing moveable by a lever c' and connections
to bring the wheel c. into contact with the disc wheel d. or d* according to the

page_text: direction of motion of the vehicle, the diso wheel d* and alternative chain wheel
being mounted upon a lever a moving with the axle of the wheel b.
It will be obvious that the invention with slight modifications is equally
applicable to the driving of stationary machinery.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
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A means of giving motion to the driving wheels of cycles or other vehicles or
machines comprising a wheel mounted on an axis linked to a frame and receiving
motion by weight or pressure and formed with an annular race in its periphery
filled with balls or rollers, a disc wheel at its periphery entering the race and
engaging the balls or rollers, and chain wheels aud chains or other means for
conveying motion from the disc wheel to the object to be driven, substantially as
herein shown and described.
Dated this 12th dow of October 1806
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.