IMPROVED GEARING FOR MULTIPLYING MOTION ON A SINGLE SHAPT
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED GEARING FOR MULTIPLYING MOTION
ON A SINGLE SHAPT."-A communication from abroad by Lemuel
Scudder Fithian, of Brooklyn, State of New York, United States
of America.
Sealed the 13th April 1869, and dated the 24th November 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th November 1868.
I, HENRY EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lanc, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engincer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED GEARING POR MULTIPLYING
MOTION ON A SINGLE SHAFT," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new and useful combination of cog wheels
whereby motion may be increased on a single shaft, thereby greatly
simplifying the methods in common use for that purpose.

page_text: The Invention consists in arranging a series of face and pin or com-
municating wheels on a horizontal shaft. The shaft is supported on
standards, and carries a face wheel or disc No. 1, which is cogged on the
side and is fast on the shaft. Another wheel or disc No. 2 is cogged on
both sides and revolves on the shaft. Another wheel or lever is made
fast on the shaft and carries a pinion which gears into wheel No. 2 and
a similar wheel No. 3 which also drives two similar wheels Nos. 4 and 5,
provided wlth slotted lugs to receive pinions for transmitting motion
from one to the other. Wheels Nos. 3, 4, and 5 revolve on the shaft.
The revolution of the wheel No. 1 will through its pinion act upon the
wheel No. 2, giving the latter a corresponding motion in the reverse
direction, and No. 1 being fast on the shaft will at the same time revolve
the shaft and with it the wheel or lever which is fast thereon, and by
means of the next pinion will receive motion from the wheel No. 2
and pass the motion to wheel No. 3 and so on through the series.
. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Edward Newton, Her special
licence that I, the said Henry Edward Newton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Edward Newton,
my 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
"IMPROVED GEARING FOR MULTIPLYING MOTION ON A SINGLE SHAFT," being a
communication to me from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others)

page_text: that I, the said Henry Edward Newton, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Edward Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):-
This Invention relates to a new and useful combination and arrange-
ment of cog wheels on a single horizontal shaft, whereby motion may be
increased, and thereby greatly simplifying the methods in common use
for that purpose.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section
of the arrangement; Fig. 2 is a sectional clevation taken in the
line W, X, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a partial sectional elevation in the
line Y, Z, looking in the direction of the arrows. The shaft S, S, is
supported on the standards B, B', and carries the bevil wheel or disc A
which is keyed thereto. The standard B has a slot to receive the
pinion to connect the wheels A and C. The wheel or disc C is cogged
on both sides and revolves loosely on the shaft. A lever or disc A' is
made fast on the shaft S and carries a pinion a which gears into the
wheel C and also into a similar wheel D which also drives two similar
wheels E and F. All these wheels or discs are provided with slotted
lugs to receive pinions for transmitting motion from one to the other.
The wheels E and F are allowed to revolve on the shaft S, S.
The manner of working this arrangement of parts is as follows:-The
revolution of the wheel A will through the pinion 6 act upon the
wheel C, giving the latter a corresponding motion in the reverse direction,
and the bevil wheel A being fast on the shaft will at the same time
revolve the shaft and the lever A' with it, and by means of the pinion a
will receive motion from the wheel C and transmit the motion to the
wheel D, which also carrying a pinion d acts on the wheel or disc E,
which thus receives motion from C. The wheel or disc E carries a

page_text: pinion e, which also receives motion from the wheel or disc C and
transmits it to F, and so on indefinitely as wheels are added. The
number of revolutions each wheel will make will be as follows:-The
wheel D three, the wheel E seven, and the wheel F fifteen revolutions
in the same time that the wheel A makes one. If it be desired to
multiply the reverse motion it may be done by means of multiplying
wheels in the slot B, or the inertia motion may be increased by
multiplying wheels in the slots in the wheels A', D, E. In place of
the wheel C an increased series of bevilled cogs, or the section of a
sphere with a series of cogs upon it, or a cylinder or shaft cogged upon
the outer side may be employed with corresponding levers and discs
taking motion from the bevils, spheres, or cylinder shaft, and continue
the same motion or increasing leverage and decreasing motion as com-
munication is made with pinions placed horizontally to the shaft, or with
an increasing angle up to the vertical and thus passing on to a longer
lever instead of a shorter.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention as com-
municated to me by my foreign correspondent, I wish it to be under-
stood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim,
the general construction and arrangement of parts as herein described
for multiplying motion on a single horizontal shaft.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Edward Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-first day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.