IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Antoine Ray at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th July
1872. A communication from abroad by Raberin Jean, a Dyer,
at St. Etienne, Loire, France.
I, ANTOINE RAY, of Castle School, Guildford, Surrey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," to be as follows:-
The mechanical combination for which I ask a Provisional Protection
is a motive power able to produce a useful work. It has a regular and
constant movement, and whatever may be the greater or less reality of
the principle of the constant movement which puts it in motion it is not
less certain that it moves, and were it obliged in certain cases to have
recourse to the aid of any motive power whatever it will be able to
produce a useful work.
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The mechanism consists in two similar apparatus A and B joined by
levers. The Fig. 1 of the plan represents the mechanism in a vertical
projection seen on one side; the apparatus seen on the other side, that
is to say, behind, gives exactly the same Drawing, so that if I drew in
that Fig. 1 the whole of the two sides of the mechanism two other
levers would be seen crossing the two visible ones. In one word, what
is seen in Fig. 1 is reproduced behind and necessarily is in an inverted
side.
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page_text: The principal piece of the system which is double, that is to say,
in A and B is composed of three parts; the crown C or mover
wheel having, as it is determined in the Fig. 2 of the plan, twenty-four
holes, and the exterior crown, called distributer D, having itself twelve
holes placed in respect to those of the mover wheel C in the position
determined in the plan. In each of the twelve holes pierced in the
semicircle of the mover wheel C is placed a metallic ball, as well as
in the six opposite holes of the distributer D. The mover wheel C has
a fixed envelope M which is used as an axis in the system; this envelope
has a circular hole in a, in which will pass (during the rotation of the
distributer D) the highest ball to fall into the highest hole of the mover
wheel. That envelope has also an identical hole in b, by which the
mover wheel C in its rotative movement will allow the lowest ball to
escape and go into the lowest hole of the distributer D. That fixed
iron plate envelope covers entirely and makes invisible the mover
wheel C, which turns within its inside, almost touching its sides. It is
supported by two spindles fixed in an unmoveable manner upon supports
whatever. Those spindles are pierced in such a manner so that they
may be able to support and allow to turn the extremities of the tree
of the mover wheel C; the spindles are equally used to support as a
fixed tree the nave of the distributer D placed on each of them, which
in turning does not touch entirely, in order to avoid the friction of the
envelope; the balls only of that distributer D touch and roll on that
part of the envelope till they meet with the hole a of that envelope
by which they successively fall in one of the holes of the mover

page_text: the pivot of which is in S2 to rise and fall alternately as in S, B, with
the help of the guide V, V³, with which each of them is furnished.
These two levers act with considerable force considering the relative
length of their arms, each of them by their ratchet wheel K, K¹, on
the three toothed wheel L, the small tree of which bears the pinion.
either of eight teeth m, which works with the toothed wheel, either of
64 teeth C, that causes the pinion to move, or of eight teeth m³, which
is fixed with it at the turning stock of the distributer D, which in
consequence is obliged to turn and by the size of those wheels and
pinions or the number of the teeth to turn with a movement of accelera-
tion doublé of that of the mover wheel itself, so that the six balls of that
distributer may come constantly to feed that mover wheel. The latter
turns once only while the distributer D has two complete rotations.
From those explanations it results that the movement of the distributer D
of the apparatus established in A is caused by transmission by the action
of the apparatus established in B, the levers of which act upon that
distributer. The initial movement begins by the mover wheel placed
in the side A, arrives to the one placed in B, and thence comes back
to the distributer of the apparatus placed in A.
It is evident that the two mover wheels and their distributer acting
by the levers, which join them, help each other and gather strength in
a common and constant movement easy to understand; if we remember
that the Fig. 1 of the plan represents exactly the front side of the
mechanism, and that that representation is exactly the same on the
opposite side, the motion being inverted, the two mover apparatus of
the sides A and B acting equally in inverse side, as it is indicated by
the arrows, then the movement acts in a circle without solution of
continuity.
Without giving more ample mechanical details, in saying only that,
in placing a pulley to the one or the other of one of the mover wheels,
I can obtain the resultant able of a useful work, I wish to have
Patented the principle of constant motion which results from the use
of my mechanism, and which may be applied everywhere in industrial
works where a mover power is required.