Improvements in Vehicles or Cars for Railways for Recreation.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 18th Sept.,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vehicles or Cars for Railways for Recreation.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18
Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Ellis Newton,
of 58 East Eleventh Street, New York, United States of America, 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 a car or vehicle adapted to travel on an elevated road
or track and the invention consists in the novel features of construction set forth
in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawing
in which-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the car or vehicle.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1.
Figure 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Figure 4 is a plan view of a modification.
A vehicle is shown with its side bars or rails at 1 and mounted on wheels 2
and 3. Journaled to the vehicle or to its side bars at 4 is a wheel or carrier 5
carrying chariots or passenger cars 6 swinging on wheel or carrier 5 so as to retain
a vertical position as the latter rotates. The wheel 5 has a driving pulley 7 from
which a driving belt or connection 8 extends to a wheel 2 or to a pulley 9 con-
nected to or rotated by such wheel 2. As the vehic.e travels and the wheels 2
rotate such rotation by pulleys and connection 9, 7 and 8 effects a rotation of the
chariot carrier 5.
The wheels 2 or at least one of said wheels can be made to act as a driving wheel
by means of an electric or other suitable motor or driving apparatus 10.
The wheels 2 and 3 are shown adapted to run on elevated supporting rails or
track 11. Said rails are suitably separated for allowing the wheel 5 to rotate
there between. Said wheel 5 is shown of larger diameter than the vehicle wheels
or of such size as during its rotation to dip or lower its chariots below the vehicle
or below the track 11 as also to carry said chariots above such track or vehicle.
A combined movement is imparted to the chariots by the simultaneous rotation
of wheel 5 and travel of vehicle 1. This compound movement of the chariots
can be made to furnish amusement to spectators and passengers in the chariots so
that the device can be popularly employed at such localities for example as the sea
shore, play grounds and the like.
The chariot carrier 5 is not necessarily in form of a wheel since an equivalent
construction such as arms radiating from axle 4 can be made to carry the chariots.
It has been found practical in case the vehicle runs on a curved or circular track
as 111 Fig. 4, to curve the vehicle sides 1' in conformity to the track curvature,
and also to make the vehicle wheels resting on the outer rail of a curved track
somewhat larger in diameter than the vehicle wheels running on the inner rail.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A wheeled vehicle having a chariot carrying wheel or carrier journaled
thereto, and a belt or driving connection between a vehicle wheel and the chariot
carrier substantially as described.
2. A wheeled vehicle provided with a motor or driving mechanism and having
a chariot carrying wheel or carrier journaled thereto, and a belt or driving con-
nection between a vehicle wheel, and the chariot carrier substantially as described.
3. A wheeled vehicle having one of its wheels provided with a pulley, a chariot
carrying wheel or carrier journaled to the vehicle and provided with a pulley, and
a driving belt made to connect the pulleys substantially as described.
4. A vehicle comprising side bars or rails mounted on wheels, a chariot carrying
wheel or carrier, journaled to said bars and of larger diameter that the vehicle
wheels, a pulley and belt connection between a vehicle wheel and the chariot
carrying wheel, and elevated supporting rails for the vehicle wheels, said rails.
being separated for allowing the dip or rotation of the chariots substantially as
described.