IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR IMPELLING, PROPELLING, OR MOVING CARRIAGES, BOATS, AND OTHER BODIES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lewis Emanuel, of 36, Finsbury Circus, in the
City of London, Solicitor and Sole Executor of Michael Henry, of
Fleet Chambers, 68, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, deceased, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF
AND APPARATUS FOR IMPELLING, PROPELLING, OR MOVING CARRIAGES, BOATS,
AND OTHER BODIES."-A communication to the said Michael Henry
from abroad by Narcisse Huret, of 17, Boulevart Saint Martin,
Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael Henry,
deceased, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 31st May 1875.
I, MICHAEL HENRY, of Fleet Chambers, 68, Fleet Street, in the City
of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR IMPELLING,
PROPELLING, OR MOVING CARRIAGES, BOATS, AND OTHER BODIES," communicated

page_text: to me from abroad by Narcisse Huret, of 17, Boulevart Saint Martin,
Paris, France, to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this Invention is to construct apparatus in such manner
that carriages, boats, and other moveable bodies may be impelled,
propelled, or moved by dogs or other animals placed in cages or
chambers fitted or formed therein or connected therewith. For this
purpose a cage or reticulated or ventilated chamber or frame contrived
to contain a dog or other animal, is hung or fitted in or fixed to the
carriage, boat, or body to be moved, and is also connected with wheels
or other working appliances. The weight or motion of the dog or
animal in the cage or chamber, i.e., its weight beyond the axial line or
centro of stability, gives motion to the said cage or chamber, and hence
to the wheels or appliances connected therewith, whereby the carriage,
boat, or other body is moved, impelled, or propelled.
The wheels are best made of light metal with caoutchouc tyres held
in V groove hoops. Suitable breaks are provided to regulate, check, and
stan the motion
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lewis Emanuel, Sole Executor of Michael Henry,
deceased, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th November
1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEWIS
EMANUEL, of 36, Finsbury Circus, in the City of London, Solicitor and
Sole Executor of Michael Henry, of Fleet Chambers, 68, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, deceased, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in, the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Lewis Emanuel, Her special licence
that I, the said Lewis Emanuel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Lewis Emanuel, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: 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
THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR IMPELLING, PROPELLING, OR MOVING CARRIAGES,
BOATS, AND OTHER BODIES," a communication to the said Michael Henry
from abroad by Narcisse Huret, of 17, Boulevart Saint Martin, Paris,
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lewis
Emanuel, my executors or administrators, 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 performed, 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 Lewis Emanuel, 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 accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, as communicated, that is
to say :-
The object of this Invention is to construct apparatus in such manner
that carriages, boats, and other moveable bodies, may be impelled,
propelled, or moved by dogs or other animals placed in cages or
chambers fitted or formed therein or connected therewith. For this
purpose a cage or reticulated or ventilated chamber or frame contrived
to contain a dog or other animal, is hung or fitted in or fixed to the
carriage, boat, or body to be moved, and is also connected with wheels
or other working appliances. The weight or motion of the dog or
animal in the cage or chamber, i.e., its weight beyond the axial line or
centre of stability, gives motion to the said cage or chamber, and hence
to the wheels or appliances connected therewith, whereby the carriage,
boat, or other body is moved, impelled, or propelled.
The wheels are best made of light metal with caoutchouc tyres held
in V groove hoops. Suitable breaks are provided to regulate, check,

page_text: I now proceed with reference to the accompanying Drawings to
describe a carriage constructed according to the Invention.
A is the seat; B, B, are the motive or driving wheels which are
mounted loose or free on the axle B¹; and C is the guiding wheel. These
wheels are of light metal, and the tyres are of caoutchouc fitted in
V shaped grooves; F is a guiding handle. Inside of the driving or
motive wheels I place the cages or reticulated or ventilated chambers D,
which are open on one side for the reception of the dog or other animal,
and are held together with the wheels. These cages or chambers are
formed with rods or bars of light metal or wood fitted to hoops or
circular frames. Inside of the cages I place the dogs or other animals,
'which are secured therein to a fixed bar K, so that the weight and
motion of the animal act beyond the axial line or centre of stability, and
give motion to the said cages or chambers and also to the wheels to
which they are fixed. The animal being maintained in the determined
position will run or walk on the rods or bars of the cage, and will thus
turn them so as to transmit motion to the body to be moved, impelled,
or propelled. Instead of two wheels, four or more may be used with a
corresponding number of dogs or other animals. It is not necessary
however to employ as many animals as there are wheels, because the
motive power may lie in one wheel as in the others.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim,—
First. The arrangement and construction of a vehicle with two or
more wheels, which are put in motion by means of dogs or other animals
placed in a cage or cages fitted to the driving wheels, as and for the a
purposes described.

page_text: stituting the improved apparatus for impelling, propelling, or moving
carriages, boats, and other bodies.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lewis Emanuel, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in the year
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
LEWID EMANUEL. (L.8.)
Witness,
As Sole Acting Executor of Michael Henry, deceased.
THOMAS BAKER,
Clerk to Mr. Lewis Emanuel.