for Driving Machinery and Propelling Vehicles.
Year: 1885

page_text: for Driving Machinery and Propelling Vehicles.
We, JOACHIM JOSEPH Defalque, Engineer 8 Rue de la Station, Uccle-les-
Bruxelles (Belgium and JULES OPPENHEIM, Commission Agent 21 Great St Helens,
London, EC. do hereby declare the nature of our invention for MECHANICAL MOTOR
OB APPARATUS FOR UTILISING MANUAL POWER FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND
PROPELLING VEHICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This apparatus is worked by hand it can be adapted to all sorts of machine tools,
to replace steam, air gas, electric and other engines, it can also be adapted for the
traction of all sorts of vehicles, of tramways, secondary railways, coal and other
mineral wagons to replace all sorts of machines and horses.
It is composed of the following parts:
For Machine Tools-
1° A driving wheel toothed on the circumference in order to hook the paralell
links of an endless flat chain, this wheel is provided with a crank handle and
worked by hand.
2° An endless flat chain hooking on one side to the driving wheel and on the
other side to a wheel toothed on the circumference which is on the shafts provided
with flying wheels.
3° For Vehicles, Tramways, & Mineral Wagons-A second endless flat chain, or
leather or other belt with holes hooking on one side to the second wheel toothed on
the circumference and on the other side passing over one of the pulleys not toothed
which are on the shaft supported by the wheels on rails, one of these pulleys is
fixed the other one is loose.
4° Of a shaft provided on the extremity with one or more fly wheels according
to the power required, this shaft is supported by two chairs, the form of which
varies according to the requirements It is provided with two wheels also toothed
on the circumference one of these wheels receives the endless flat chain coming from
the driving wheel the other receives the second flat chain or belt with holes.
5° Of two or three shafts supported by wheels on rails on one of these shafts
are placed one fixed and one loose pulley not toothed receiving the second chain or.
endless belt, to communicate the movement a pedal is also adapted thereto to causo

page_text: the above mentioned chain or belt to glide from the loose pulley on the fixed
pulley and vice versa for running or stopping as required, there are also breaks to
moderate the movement as required.
6° These shafts supported by wheels on rails are in two pieces, that is to say
they are cut in the middle the two middle ends are supported by double step
bearings so that in curves one of the wheels can run quicker than the other in
order to avoid the running off the rails.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The application of this mechanical Motor for the working of all kinds of machine
tools and other machines, also for the traction of tramways, secondary railways,
large and small waggons and for all vehicles in general and we claim at the same
time all the modifications and all the improvements which we may be able
to make.