A MOTIVE APPARATUS, AND PROCESSES PROPER FOR GIVING TO IT A CONTINUOUS MOTION AND UNLIMITED STRENGTH
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by General Henry Dembinski at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the 19th
August 1862.
I, General HENRY DEMBINSKI, of No. 18, Rue de l'Oratoire, Paris, in the
Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A MOTIVE APPARATUS, AND PROCESSES PROPER FOR GIVING TO IT A CONTINUOUS
MOTION AND UNLIMITED STRENGTH," to be as follows :—
This Invention consists of certain arrangements of mechanism for obtaining
continuous motion with any amount of power, according to the size and
strength of the parts; and in order that it may be better understood I annex
the accompanying Drawing and letters of reference.
The apparatus is composed of a double-toothed wheel A, A, A, A, without
arms, having one set of teeth on the outside of the rim and the other set in
the inside, and the exterior teeth are larger than the interior. This wheel is
suspended on the pinion or toothed wheel B, the toothed part of which corre-
sponds with the interior teeth of the wheel A, A, A, A. In order to keep the
wheel in position and give its rotating motion the necessary regularity, I place
opposite the pinion B the pinion B', exactly similar to the pinion B. The
shafts or axes of these two pinions are kept apart from each other by the strong
bar c, c, c, c, which causes the teeth of the pinions to press firmly against the
interior of the wheel A, A, A, A. The pinions B and B' move freely on their
axes D and D'.

page_text: It is clear that if we would prove by what manner the axes D and D¹ move
one towards the right the other towards the left, then the pinions B and
B¹ yielding to the traction exerted on their respective axes will turn the one
towards the right and the other towards the left, and will by this means com-
municate a uniform rotary motion to the wheel A, A, A, A; but in order that
this motion may be more easy, I add to the pinions B and B¹ other pinions of
greater diameter. The teeth of these pinions gear into pinions or wheels
placed outside the wheel A, A, A, A, so as to give it, by means of other pinions
acting on the exterior a rotary motion conformable to that which it receives
from the pinions B, B³, the arrows marking the direction of rotation. The
pinion B¹ is shewn without the additional pinion, in order that the Drawing
may be more easily understood. The toothed wheels E and E¹ fixed to the
axes F and F are intended to receive and communicate the useful motion of
the whole machine; they may be smaller or larger than the wheel A, A, A, A,
from which they receive motion.
Having now explained the construction of the apparatus and the manner in
which motion may be communicated to it, I pass to the explanation of the
means of giving the whole system continuous motion. The means consists in
employing an elastic resistance on the axes of the pinions B and B¹. The
rounds G, G¹, are intended to represent springs of elastic material, that is,
springs made of steel, compressed air, or even caoutchouc. These rounds
serve as supports to the bars H and H³, against which the axes of the pinions
recline and yield as much as is necessary, but they should resist sufficiently
to compel the pinions to turn.
In order to operate the apparatus it is necessary to make it work between
two iron plates or wooden planks; in this way the axes will have their points
of support at right angles with the plates, which should be placed parallel, one
opposite the other.