IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS POR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER.” ADDARATUS POR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER.
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hanson, of Chapel Hill, Huddersfield,
in the County of York, and John Bottomley, of Kirkgate, in the
said Huddersfield, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS POR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER.”
ADDARATUS POR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER.'
Sealed the 23rd November 1869, and dated the 26th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hanson and
John Bottomley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 26th May 1869.
We, CHARLES HANSON, of Chapel Hill, Huddersfield, in the County
of York, and JOHN BOTTOMLEY, of Kirkgate, in the said Huddersfield,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is a new motive power to dispense
entirely with cranks, fly wheel (except in case of a stationary engine),
and double cylinders as a portion of or a complete driving power. For
this purpose to gain the propelling power we fit a driving wheel with
faced sides on a shaft; on one side of this wheel we fit a solid ratchet
and spur wheel, in the last of which we make a rack toothed to fit the
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page_text: wheel to work in a parallel motion. On the driving wheel we fix a
click which is kept to the ratchet wheel by means of a spring, this click
fitting the ratchet wheel teeth. By reversing the arrangement of the
wheels and rack on the other side of driving wheel we obtain a
propelling power by the backward or the forward motion of the piston
rod or lever. To gain the repelling power we fit another driving wheel
on the same shaft and reverse the whole of the previous arrangement of
ratchet and spur wheels, and at once have the propelling or repelling
power at pleasure or command by means of sliding clutch boxes fixed to
cach end of the shaft to fall into the clutch boxes of the driving wheels.
The propelling or repelling power can be obtained without altering or
reversing the stroke of the piston rod.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Hanson and John Bottomley in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
IIANSON, of Chapel Hill, Huddersfield, in the County of York, and Jons
BOTTOMLEY, of Kirkgate, in the said Huddersfield, send greeting.
WHEREAS 1er most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Charles Hanson and John Bottomley, Her
special licence that we, the said Charles Hanson and John Bottomley,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Charles Hanson and John Bottomley, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR
OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Charles Hanson and John Bottomley, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and scals,
or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that wc, the said Charles Hanson and John
Bottomley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to
say:-
The object of this Invention is a new motive power to dispense
entirely with cranks, fly wheel (except in the case of a stationary engine),
and double cylinders as a portion of or complete driving power. For
this purpose to gain the propelling power we fix a driving wheel with
faced sides on a shaft; on one side of this wheel we fit a solid ratchet
and spur wheel, in the last of which we make a rack toothed to fit the
wheel to work in a parallel motion; on the driving wheel we fix a click
which is kept to the rachet wheel by means of a spring, this click fitting
the ratchet wheel teeth. By reversing the arrangement of the wheels
and rack on the other side of driving wheel we obtain a propelling power
by the backward or the forward motion of the piston rod or lever. To
gain the repelling power we fit another driving wheel on the same shaft,
and reverse the whole of the previous arrangement of ratchet and spur
wheels, and at once have the propelling or repelling power at pleasure
or command by means of sliding clutch boxes fitted to oach end of the
shaft to fall into the clutch boxes of the driving wheels. The pro-
pelling or repelling power can be obtained without altering or reversing
the stroke of the piston rod.
But that the Invention may be fully understood we will by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings proceed more fully to describe the same...
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view of apparatus arranged according to, our
Invention; Figures 2 and 3 show opposite sides of one of the disc wheels
and parts acting therewith; and Figures 4 and 5 show the opposite sides
of the other disc wheel and parts acting therewith. In each of the
Figures the same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, represents a portion of the cylinder of a steam, or other motive power
engine, and the piston rod of the piston thereof.. The upper end of

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this piston rod is connected to the frame or cross head c, which by means
of rods d, e, f, g, is connected to another similar frame 4, and that carries
the rod i, which by passing through a suitable guide indicated by the
dotted lines will serve to steady the parts in their up-and-down
motion; is the main axis, which is required to have motion given to it,
and this axis is supported in suitable bearings m, m; n and o are driving
wheels. The wheel is affixed to or formed with a boss', which on
cach side receives a pair of wheels p and q, the wheel p on each side
being connected to the wheel 7 on that side so as to move together.
The wheels parc toothed, and their teeth are respectively taken into by
the teeth of the racks and e' formed on the rods d and e, so that in the
to-and-fro motion of the piston rod alternate rotary motion will be given to
the wheels simultaneously. The wheels p being cach connected to a
wheel and each of those wheels being formed with ratchet teeth,
which are taken into by clicks q' which turn upon ccutres carried by
the wheel, and are borne to the teeth of the wheels g by springs q*;
it will thus be seen that whilst in the upward motion of the piston the
teeth of the rod d in acting in those of the wheel p to give it motion
will also give motion to its wheel q, and in so doing by its click or
driver give motion to the wheel » always in the direction of the arrow,
whilst the teeth of the rod e, by taking into the teeth of the wheel p
on the opposite side of the wheel n, will by acting on that wheel on the
opposite side of it through the wheel 9 and click q' give motion to that
wheel also in the same direction; thus in whichever direction the
wheels p, p, of the disc wheel are moving they always give motion
to that disc wheel in the same direction when one or the other of
the clicks q' will always be slipping over a wheel q, and supposing the
boss of the disc wheel to be fixed to the shaft 2, that shaft would be
continually caused to rotate in the same direction. But in order that
the shaft may be capable of rotation in either direction we employ
the second disc o, which is provided with pinion and ratchet. wheel
and parts on each side of it, similar to those of the disc n, to be operated
simultaneously by the teeth on the rods and g, but by these respective
rods being on the opposite sides of the wheel o, they operate on that
wheel o to cause it to move on the shaft in the opposite direction to
that of the wheel 2, and the direction of motion desired to the
shaft for the time being is obtained by causing the teeth of the clutch &
to gear
with the the teeth of the boss ' or o', such clutch being capable
of sliding on the shaft endways with a stud therefrom in a groove or

page_text: other suitable means to cause the clutch as acted upon by one or the
other boss to move in one or the other direction.
Having thus described our Invention, and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what we
claim is, the adaptation or combination of means or apparatus for
obtaining motive power, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Hanson and John
Bottomley, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twenty-
fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-ninc.
CHARLES HANSON. (L.s.)
JOHN BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)