Improvements in Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
We JOSEPH PRESTWICH of Elm Bank 72 Eccles Old Road, Eccles, Manager
and THE PROTECTOR LAMP AND LIGHTING COMPANY LIMITED, also of
Eccles, in the County of Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to velocipedes and other vehicles driven by an oil engine,
the object of the invention being to render the mechanism for driving the vehicle
as light and compact as possible.
For this purpose we make the frame of the velocipede or vehicle tubular, some-
what as usual for bicycles and tricycles, but where possible so as to form a single
chamber or cistern (or as few chambers or cisterns as practicable) and we connect
each cistern or chamber at the lowest point thereof to a pipe connected by a suitable
valve with the oil engine.
Thus the hollow frame of the vehicle forms a cistern or chamber to contain the
oil for supplying the motor or engine for propelling the said vehicle.
Dated this 20th day of November 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Velocipedes and other venicies.
We JOSEPH PRESTWICH, of Elm Bank, 72 Eccles Old Road, Manager, and
THE PROTECTOR LAMP AND LIGHTING COMPANY LIMITED, both of Eccles,
in the County of Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention relates to velocipedes and other vehicles driven by an oil engine,
the object of the invention being to render the mechanism for driving the vehicle
as light and compact as possible.
For this purpose we make the frame of the velocipede or vehicle tubular some-
what as usual for bicycles and tricycles but where possible so as to form a single
chamber or cistern (or as few chambers or cisterns as practicable) and we connect
each cistern or chamber at the lowest point thereof to a pipe connected by a suitable
valve with the oil engine.
Thus the hollow frame of the vehicle forms a cistern or chamber to contain the
oil for supplying the motor or engine for propelling the said vehicle.
The form of the frame will of course vary with the nature of the vehicle but in
order that the invention may be clearly understood we have annexed a drawing
hereto illustrating in side elevation the application of the same to a bicycle to be
driven (when required) by oil power.
The frame of this machine consists of hollow parts so made as to form several
oil vessels a¹, a³, a³, a', a³, aº. These are connected together as shewn by pipes a+

page_text: thus actually forming one oil container and the vessel a¹ is connected at its lowest
point by a pipe b to the oil engine c.
6 is a valve by which the oil admitted to the engine c is regulated as required.
6 is a tap for withdrawing all or part of the oil from the frame as required.
d is an air inlet or air valve to be opened to admit the necessary air for the
escape of the oil from the frame. The frame may also be filled with oil at the
inlet d.
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 frame for velocipedes, and other vehicles to be driven by an oil engine, formed
in such a manner that such frame will itself serve to hold oil and provided with
means for supplying the oil as required to the said oil engine, substantially as
herein before set forth.
Do this 10th Jan of Amount 1906
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.