Improvements in or applicable to Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1995
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Bicycles, Tricycles, and other
Vehicles.
We JOSEPH PRESTWICH of Elm Bank 72 Eccles Old Road, Manager and
THE PROTECTOR LAMP AND LIGHTING COMPANY LIMITED, both of Eccles
in the County of Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to bicycles tricycles and other vehicles which are or may
be propelled by foot or other power, but is especially useful for such vehicles or
machines as are driven by an oil engine or similar motor; and the invention
consists mainly in applying to the vehicle or the "machine a small "dynamo or
generator of electricity actuated by the crank or one of the wheels or other
suitable part of the said vehicle and capable of generating sufficient electricity to
ignite a gas or vapor or volatile oil, either for lighting the oil lamp or lamps of a
velocipede or similar machine or to maintain the action of the oil engine or similar
motor where such motor is employed on the vehicle, or for lighting a lamp or
lamps as well as driving the engine or motor.
The ignition may be effected by electric sparks or by an incandescent platinum
or other wire.
We also provide a convenient switch or switches to complete and break the
electric circuit and so maintain and arrest the action of the motor, or to light the
lamp or lamps as required.
By these means the use of storage batteries for the above or similar purposes
upon vehicles is dispensed with.
Dated this 19th day of November 1895
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in or applicable to Bicycles, Tricycles, and other
Vehicles.
We JOSEPH PRESTWICH, of Elm Bank, 72 Eccles Old Road, Manager, and
THE PROTECTOR LAMP AND LIGHTING COMPANY LIMITED, both of Eccles
in the County of Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention relates to bicycles, tricycles and other vehicles which are or may
be propelled by foot or other power but is especially useful for such vehicles or
machines as are driven by an oil engine gas engine or similar motor; and the
invention consists mainly in applying to the vehicle or the "machine" a small
dynamo" or generator of electricity actuated by the crank or one of the wheels
or other suitable part of the said vehicle and capable of generating sufficient
electricity to ignite a gas or vapor or volatile oil, either for lighting the oil lamp
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page_text: or lamps of a velocipede or similar machine or to maintain the action of the oil
engine or similar motor where such motor is employed on the vehicle or for
lighting a lamp or lamps as well as driving the engine or motor.
The ignition may be effected by electric sparks or by an incandescent platinum
or other wire.
We also provide a convenient switch or switches to complete and break the
electric circuit and so maintain and arrest the action of the motor, or to light the
lamp or lamps as required.
By these means the use of storage batteries for the above or similar purposes
upon vehicles is dispensed with; it may however be found advantageous to use a
small storage battery for the purpose of starting the engine or motor and this
battery can be charged by the dynamo aforesaid.
Our invention will be fully understood from the following explanation on
reference to the accompanying drawings of which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a
tricycle, and Fig. 2 a similar view of a bicycle with our improvements applied
thereto.
a is the small dynamo, seen on Fig. 1 driven from the driving wheel b or its
shaft by the pulley 6¹ and band 62, and seen on Fig. 2 driven by a small wheel a¹
driven by friction of contact with the tyre 63 of the wheel 64.
The wires a from the dynamo are passed to the ignition chamber of the motor c
where they ignite the oil in any known manner by sparks or by heating a platinum
or other wire to incandescence.
A suitable push button or switch at a 2 stops the action of the engine.
Other wires a++ pass from the dynamo to a switch a 3 and thence to a platinum
wire in the lamp so that the lamp, which is of any suitable known construction
capable of being lit by an electric current, may be ignited when required.
When the vehicle is descending an incline the switch a 2 may be turned "off"
and another switch a 4 connect wires to a small storage battery seen at d. This
battery can be thus charged and when it is desired to start the motor it, being also
connected to the ignition wires thereof, will effect the requisite ignition in the
ignition chamber of the motor until the dynamo can be brought into action again.
Other means of starting the motor and the dynamo can be provided if preferred.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The combination with the driving wheel or axle or other moving part of the
velocipede or vehicle of a small dynamo or similar generator of electricity and
suitable connections to light an oil lamp or to maintain the action of an oil or
similar motor, or for both purposes when required, substantially as herein before
described.
Dated this 10th Jan C A
1000
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.