IMPROVED MACHINERY ROOM.ACH FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Cannon, of No. 27, Dance Street, in
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Chair Maker, for the
Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY ROOM.
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Sealed the 8th March 1854, and dated the 12th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Cannon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th September 1853.
I, CHARLES CANNON, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER" to be as
follows:-
Many attempts have been made to obtain a motive power which
should supersede "steam," atmospheric influence, or electricity. Among
other appliances fly wheels have been used, but with very partial
success, because, although powerful agents in themselves, they require
a further agency to keep them in motion. Now the object of the present
Invention is to supply this desideratum, and this I propose to effect in
the following manner-Our opposite ends of an iron arm I mount a
fly wheel, and so equipoise or balance them that the slightest impetus

page_text: will set them in motion. These wheels I construct so that one half of
the wheel or crescent shall gradually encrease in weight, while the
other half shall be lighter, so that when one wheel bears the weight at
the top its opposite fellow will have it underneath; consequently, one
must rise as the other falls, and thus a continued motion may be kept
up by the aid of a very slight impetus to give it action at each revolu-
tion. The axle of the iron arın which carries the fly wheels works in
suitable journals and to it 4 cranks are connected, two of which are
intended to set the wheels in motion, while the others are connected
with the general machinery.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Cannon in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
CHARLES CANNON, of No. 27, Dance Street, in Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Chair Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Cannon, Her special license
that I, the said Charles Cannon, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Cannon, 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
MACHINERY FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Cannon, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly 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

page_text: Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that J, the said Charles Cannon, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 Drawing
hereunto annexed, and the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):
Many attempts have been made to obtain a motive power to supersede
steam, atmospheric influence, or electricity. Among other appliances
fly wheels have been used, but with very partial success, because,
although powerful agents in themselves, they require a further agency
to keep them in motion. Now the object of the present Invention of
improved machinery for obtaining motive power is to supply this deside-
ratum, and this I propose to effect in the manner shewn in the several
Figures of the accompanying Drawing, in which Fig. 1, is a side eleva-
tion of my improved machine, and Fig. 2, is a plan view.
a, a, is the
framework of the machine; b, b, the running wheels, on which the
framing is mounted. Two fly wheels c, and c, are fixed on iron shafts
d, d. These fly wheels are so equipoised or balanced that the slightest
impetus will set them in motion. They are so constructed that one
half of the wheel or crescent shall gradually increase in weight, while
the other half shall be lighter, so that when one wheel bears the weight
at the top its opposite fellow will have it underneath; consequently, one
must rise as the other falls, and thus a continued motion may be kept
up by the aid of a very slight impetus to be given to the shafts d, d*,
at each revolution. The axle e, which carries the central fly wheel f
works in suitable journals, and upon it four cranks or excentrics are
mounted, two of which g, and h, are by means of connecting rods
intended to set the wheels c, cx, in motion, while the others i, and j, are
connected with cranks k, l, on the hind axle m. A seat n, is provided
for the person who is to actuate the machine by means of the levers or
treadles o,
The pivots of the levers o, and p, are placed below
the shaft e, and are linked to the radial click levers s, and t, which
and p.
take into the teeth of the ratchet wheels g, and 7, and by that means

page_text: drive the shaft e, and through the cranks g, and h, and their connecting
rods cause the fly wheels c, c*, and their shafts d, d*, to rotate and
keep the motion even, while the excentrics i, and j, on the shaft e, will
actuate the cranks k, and l, on the hind shaft of the running wheels,
and cause the latter to revolve and propel the whole machine forward.
Having now described my improved machinery for obtaining motive
power, and the best means with which I am acquainted for carrying
the same into effect, I claim, in conclusion, the general arrangement of
the machine herein shewn and described for obtaining motive power,
and also the use of the fly wheels c, c, and f, for maintaining the
motion of the machine with regularity.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Cannon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
CHARLES CANNON. (L.s.)
Vitnessed by
ROBERT ROBINSON,
Gregson Street, Everton,
Liverpool.
THOMAS JOHNSTONE,
Hodson Place, Everton Village,
Liverpool.
RICHARD WAISTALL CAPSTICK,
3, Clayton Square,
Liverpool.