Improvements in Electrically Propelled Carriages.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electrically Propelled Carriages.
We, ERNEST JOHN CLUBBE and ALFRED WILLIAM SOUTHEY, both of
16, Elm Street, Gray's Inn Road, in the County of Middlesex, Electrical
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in electrically propelled road carriages
and it has for its object to simplify the construction of the vehicle and ensure
more easy running without the employment of the ordinary gear frame and bogey
carriage as now generally used.
In carrying the invention into effect, side bars of steel tubing or angle iron
extend at either side of the carriage body and serve to connect together the
springs of the front and rear axles at the same side of the carriage. The springs
may be of elliptic form and the side bars virtually divide each spring into halves,
the body being supported on the upper halves which are semi-elliptic and so
connected to the side bars as to possess the necessary freedom of extension, the
lower semi-elliptic halves of the springs being similarly connected to the side
bars and suitably supported by the rear axle and fore-carriage. The upper halves
of the springs may also be fitted across at right angles to the lower halves, the
ends resting one on each of the side bars. The accumulators and motor and the
gearing whereby the motion of the latter is transmitted to the driving axle are
supported by the side bars and the lower set of springs without the employment
of the ordinary gear frame.
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A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
Improvements in Electrically Propelled Carriages.
We, ERNEST JOHN CLUBBE and ALFRED WILLIAM SOUTHEY both of
16, Elm Street, Gray's Inn Road, in the County of Middlesex, Electrical
Engineers, 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 improvements in propelled road carriages and it has
for its object to prevent the transmission of the vibrations set up by the driving
mechanism to the body of the vehicle.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a
rear elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation of a van provided with one form of
the improved method of suspension of the body of the carriage which with or
without modification is applicable for bodies of other form.
In carrying the invention into effect, side bars A of steel tubing or angle (or
other section) iron or wood, bamboo, or other suitable material extend at either
side and serve to connect together the springs B of the front axle and the springs C

page_text: of the rear axle at the same side of the carriage. The body of the vehicle is
supported on the side bars through the medium of transverse springs D whose
ends are connected to the side bars through links which allow of the necessary
extension of the springs. Instead of using transverse springs D the body may
rest upon longitudinal springs placed above the side rods. The said springs may
be spiral, elliptic,, C-shaped,, or otherwise. The side bars instead of being
horizontal throughout may if required be bent to any curve to suit the level of
the springs, or the shape, of, the particular, vehicle, to which they are applied.
The steering of the vehicle would be effected either by swivelling the front
wheels about independent, centrescas, described in the Specification of another
application for Letters Patent dated the 20th day of August 1895 No. 15,692 or
by means of the usual under-carriage fitted to the side bars either directly or
between the front springs and the front axle. The driving mechanism is supported
by the side bars A independently of the body of the carriage. (as shown for.
example, in Figures, 3 and 4, in which, E.,represents the case enclosing this
mechanism either supported on, uprights passing up through the floor or on
hangers below the axle) the rotary, motion being transmitted to the driving wheel
by any mechanism allowing for the play of the springs supporting the side rods,
as, for instance a chain but preferably by means of a flexible coupling as described
in our Letters Patent No. 13,713 of 1895.,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what, manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In propelled vehicles the method of springing the body of the carriage
separately from the propelling mechanism consisting in the use of two side rods.
supported on the axles of the carriage by springs, the propelling mechanism, and,
the body of the carriage being supported on the side rods, the latter by means of
independent springs as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 01.
of M 1906
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A. M. & W M. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.