IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING CYCLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN ALFRED STEPHAN of Fernville Hamilton Road in the City of Worcester
in the County of the same City Artist do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING CYCLES to be as follows:-
I cause the weight of the body to swing or rock on a pivot above the pivot is the
seat on which the body is placed when the body moves the seat moves on the pivot
or rocker which is connected to a spindle by an arm or connecting rod the arm is
attached to a crank and at the other end of the spindle I place the wheel which is
connected with the driving wheel.
I JOHN ALFRED STEPHAN of Fernville Hamilton Road in the City of Worcester
in the County of the same City Artist do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING CYCLES and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
I cause the weight of the body to swing or rock on a pivot above the pivot is the
seat on which the body is placed when the body moves the seat moves on the pivot
or rocker which is connected to a spindle by an arm or connecting rod the arm is
attached to a crank and at the other end of the spindle I place the wheel which is
connected with the driving wheel or by preference I place the driving wheels on
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the spindle or driving shaft the crank being placed between the driving wheels as
shown in chain dots Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings.
The seat C Figure 1 and 2 is in the form of a carriage body as shown in the
Drawings and is moved by the weight and power of the body rocking or swinging
on the horizontal axis or pivot.
In the Drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation and Figure 2 a front
elevation of the Invention as applied to an ordinary tricycle and with this machine
or any similar vehicle or machine the body alluded to will be the human body
when it is intended that the human body shall be used as the weight to propel
the machine.
In the moving of inert matter the carriage or vessel would be made to hold
the weight whether solid or liquid this weight would rock or swing in precisely
the same manner as the above which would cause the rotary motion of the crank
and wheels the only difference would be the mode of applying the power to cause
this inert matter to rock or oscillate. This would be best applied at one of the
extreme ends of the carriage or vessel and the person so applying this power would
either walk or run pulling the handle or lever thereby causing oscillation of the
load which would be propelled by its own homentum the weight being placed at
equal distances from the pivot and mounted on a strong tricycle or other similar
vehicle or machine it will be clearly seen that a person applying power as
described would have none of the weight to bear.
It will be seen in Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings that I can if I prefer it for
any vehicle or machine make the back wheel or front wheel driving wheels by
simply reversing the connecting rod and attaching cranks to either of these
wheels.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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1st. The combination of the seat carriage or vessel and supporting frame mounted
to rock or swing on a horizontal axis or pivot and provided with an extension or
arm with a connecting rod and crank for imparting rotary motion to the crank or
crank shaft by the rocking or swinging of the human body or other weight upon
or in the seat carriage or vessel substantially as herein described.
2nd. The means described above employed to communicate this motion to the
driving shaft c as shown in Drawings.
3rd. The form of the seat C which is so arranged that the whole weight and
of the
power of the body is working within it or on it as shewn in Figure 1
Drawings.
4th. For the arrangements described above by which the arm d in Figures 1
and 2 of the Drawings is attached to the pivot a seat C and crank b as shewn in
Drawings 1 and 2.
Dated thin 10th dow of March 1901