An Improvement in Railways for Recreation.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Railways for Recreation.
I HENRY EACHUS Victoria Street Sandbach Cheshire Draughtsman and Joiner
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The machine commences with being twenty-two feet high and has a gradient of
five feet in fifteen feet and then rises three feet in fifteen feet and then falls again
five feet in fifteen feet and then rises again three feet three inches in fifteen feet
then returns round a radius of seven feet with a fall of one foot to take it round
and it repeats the same actions on the return back journey.
The car is suspended on a two and half inches steel tube which is bent in two
radius to suit the gradient of the down fall and the rising.
Dated this 7th day of June 1891
An Improvement in Railways for Recreation.
HENRY EACHUS Victoria Street Sandbach Cheshire Draughtsman and Joiner
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 :-
The machine commences with being twenty-two feet high and has a gradient of
five feet in fifteen ft. and then rises three feet in fifteen ft. and then falls again
five feet in fifteen ft. and then rises again three ft. three inches in fifteen feet and
then return round a radius of seven feet with a fall of one foot to take it round and
it repeats the same action on the return back journey.
The track consists of a single endless rail A, of steel tubing or other suitable
material, in lengths, joined where necessary, and bent in an undulating form
horizontally, the summit of each succeeding undulation from the starting point
being fixed as much lower than its predecessor as may be necessary to give the
required velocity to the car.
The rail from the starting point runs preferably straight in the vertical plane
for a certain distance rising and falling as often as may be desired it then describes
half a circle and returns in an undulating course parallel to the other. This return
track or rail has a falling undulating course similar to the outward one, but it is
obvious that the course may be of any other form.
Suspended to this rail is the car B (to carry two or more persons) by a roller or
rollers but pivotted as shown in detail C so as to have a swinging or pendulous
motion. The car runs the course by gravitation from the starting platform D to
the discharging platform E and is passed up the incline loop L to the starting
point by band or other mechanical means.
F are the uprights of the framework carrying track.
G top crossbars H foundation pieces.
I longitudinal diagonal bracing.
J transverse diagonal bracing.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
:-
1. The suspended passenger car running on an undulating single endless rail or
track.
2. The swinging or pendulous motion in addition to the rising and falling
motion.
3. The car returning to the same end of the track from which it started but at a
lower level.
HENRY. EACHUS.