Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887,
I, EDWARD LLEWELLYN WHITE of 32 Queens Road, Ilford, Essex, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention, is to construct or arrange boat like or boat shaped
vessel or vehicle preferably with a flat bottom and provided with wheels or rollers and
also a caster wheel or bogie in front or rear, said wheels can run in or on groove or
other rails or upon a prepared or upon ordinary ground when moved by the usual
action of rowing by oars or sculls which may be caused to impinge or bear against as
in the act of rowing, projections, or stop pieces, such as keys driven in the ground at
fixed distances apart, or the sculls or oars may be so made with forks or prongs on
their ends or their blades may be arranged for taking hold of the ground for pro-
pulsion purposes or one or more of the wheels may be connected by gearing for
producing the forward motion or pushes may be used, the propulsion being obtained
by levers by contact with the ground which may be gravel, grass, or other surface, as
in places of public resort.
When the caster wheel or bogie is affixed it can be pulled round by the ordinary
yoke lines of the rudder of a boat.
The boats thus prepared and the track, if a track be made, is intended for healthy
exercise and in order that the sculls may be caused to follow, the ordinary sweep and
feather as in rowing they can be made to move in a frame which shall give that
result.
Dated this 4th day of October 1886
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. L. White.

page_text: Artificial Boating.
I, EDWARD LLEWELLYN WHITE, of 32 Queens Road, Ilford, Essex, Engineer, 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:
The object of this invention is to construct or arrange boat like, or boat shaped
vessel or vehicle, preferably with a flat bottom and provided with wheels or rollers
and also a caster wheel or bogie in front or rear, said wheels run in or on groove or
other rails or upon a prepared or upon ordinary ground when moved by the usual
action of rowing by oars or sculls which may be caused to impinge or bear against,
as in the act of rowing, projections or stop pieces such as pegs driven in the ground
at fixed distances apart or the sculls or oars may be made with forks or prongs on
their ends or their blades may be arranged for taking hold of the ground for pro-
pulsion purposes, or one or more of the wheels of the boat may be connected by
gearing for producing the forward motion, or pushers may be used, the propulsion
being obtained by levers by contact with the ground which may be gravel, grass, or
other surface as in places of public resort.
When the caster wheel or bogie is affixed it can be pulled round for steering
purposes by the ordinary yoke lines of the rudder of a boat or the steering wheel of a
"cycle."
The boats thus prepared and the track, if a track be made, is intended for healthy
exercise and in order that the sculls may be caused to follow the ordinary sweep
and feather as in rowing they can be made to move in a frame which shall give that
result.
The boats may be moved on a straight level course, or on a curve, or in a circle, or
on an undulating ore, and if desired the track may be in two parts, one of said parts
being level and the other undulatory so that a rising and falling motion may be given,
like to a boat beating through the surf, and where the track is of sufficient scope, a
sail may be set for propelling the boat or for assisting the propulsion. Thus if the
course or track be a return one, the oars or sculls could be used for the movement
in one direction and the sail for the movement in the other directions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
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The employment of boats on wheels in combination with made tracks and said
boats being propelled by manual power for recreative purposes and termed artificial
boating as hereinbefore set forth.
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