Improvements in Means for Measuring and Registering the Distance Travelled or Passed Over by any Wheeled Carriage.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Measuring and Registering the Distance
Travelled or Passed Over by any Wheeled Carriage.
1 SAMUEL MONTAGUE GROVER of Keele Road Newcastle in the County of
Stafford Coal Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The means I employ for the above purpose is composed of a machine which is
enclosed in a circular case having a numbered dial in the front thereof with a finger
which points to a number on said dial and so indicates the distance travelled or
passed over.
Inside and in the centre of the case is fixed a stud or shaft upon or
from which hangs a bracket like a pendulum which not being keyed or fastened to
the stud always hangs perpendicularly and carries wheels and gearing which convey
motion to the dial and finger as herein after explained. Upon the centre stud and
just in front of the pendulum bracket a small wheel is keyed or fastened which
turns round with the instrument or machine when revolving on the wheel of the
carriage. This small wheel geared into one of two wheels which work together
on a stud or shaft fixed on the pendulum bracket and imparts motion to them.
The said two wheels are keyed or otherwise fastened together and the second one
is wide enough to be geared into both the dial wheel and the finger wheel which
work side by side on the centre stud and is so geared into both. The finger wheel
which works loose on the centre stud just in front of the small fixed wheel has a boss
or cannon upon which the dial wheel works loose and in front of the dial wheel is
a finger which is attached to the boss of the finger wheel and works with it. The
finger wheel has one tooth less than the dial wheel so that (since they both gear
side by side in the second of the two wheels working on the pendulum bracket) the
finger wheel will as they are turned by the gearing already described gain slightly
on the dial wheel the gearing being so arranged according to the size of the carriage
wheel to which the instrument is attached that this gain of speed will cause the
finger to indicate on the dial the distance travelled. The instrument or machine
may be fixed to any part of the.carriage wheel but where convenient it is preferable
to fix it on the centre of the wheel..
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H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Commercial Street, Sheffield, Agent..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Measuring and Registering the Distance
Travelled or Passed Over by any Wheeled Carriage.
I SAMUEL MONTAGUE GROVER of Keele Road Newcastle in the County of
Stafford Coal Manager 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 apparatus for measuring and registering the distance
travelled or passed over by any wheeled carriage which apparatus will be fully
understood by reference to the accompanying drawings and the following
description thereof:
Fig. 1 is a front elevation with cover removed.
Fig. 2 a cross elevation taken on line a a of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 3 a front elevation of my improved apparatus.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.

page_text: The said apparatus or machine is composed of a circular case A and a numbered
dial B is arranged so as to be visible through a glass or transparency placed at
front of said case and a finger C is also visible and points to a number on the said
dial B and' so indicates the distance travelled or passed over. Inside and in the
centre of the case A is fixed a stud or shaft D upon which hangs a bracket E in
pendulum fashion which not being keyed or fastened to the stud D always hangs
perpendicularly and carries wheels and gearing which convey motion to the dial
and finger as hereinafter explained. Upon the centre stud D and just in front of
the pendulum bracket E a small wheel F is keyed or fastened which turns round
with the instrument apparatus or machine when revolving on the wheel of the
carriage. The said small wheel F is geared into the larger wheel G which with
the smaller wheel H works together freely on a stud or shaft J fixed to the
pendulum bracket E and imparts motion to them. The said wheels G and H are
keyed or otherwise fastened together and the second one or wheel H gears into an
intermediate wheel ' fastened to which is a wheel 2 of sufficient width on the face
'so as to gear with both a dial wheel K and a finger wheel L which two latter wheels
work side by side on the fixed centre stud D. The finger wheel L which works
loose on the centre stud D just in front of the small fixed wheel F has a boss or
cannon upon which the dial wheel K works loose and upon the said dial wheel K
is fixed or marked the dial B in front of which is the finger C which is attached to
the extended boss or cannon of the finger wheel L and works with it.
The finger
wheel L has one tooth less than the dial wheel K so that (since they both gear side
by side into the wheel 2) the finger wheel L will as they are turned by the gearing
described gain slightly on the dial wheel K the gearing being, so arranged according
to the size of the wheel to which the instrument is attached that the gain of speed
will cause the finger C. to indicate on the dial the distance travelled.
The instrument or machine may be fixed to any part of the carriage wheel but
preferably to the centre or the hub of said wheel. am aware that apparatus for
measuring distances have been made with gearing fitted to a hanging pendulum
bracket therefore I would have it understood that I do not lay claim to such a
principle per se but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
:claim is:
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1. In apparatus for measuring and registering the distance travelled or passed
over by any wheeled carriage the combination of a dial wheel working loosely on
the cannon of a finger wheel the one wheel having one tooth less than the other
with the mechanism for operating the same substantially as described and
illustrated.