Improvements in Water-carousals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1897
Improvements in Water-carousals.
I GUSTAV HOGARD of Schwelm iu the German Empire Miller and Inn-keeper
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has reference to that class of carousals which are built in a pond
or other water place and therefore are fitted with boats or gondolas which are enabled
to swim on the water level.
The essential features of this invention consist in an arrangement which causes
a balancing of the vessels whilst they are carried round about and it also consists in
a special arrangement which allows the passenger to change the balancing movement
of his boat at pleasure.
With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction,
combination, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth,
and pointed out in the following claims.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a carousal being arranged in a pond ;
Figure 2 is a plan of the same ;.
Figures 3 and 4 are corresponding views of a carousal. which is constructed in a
tank, so that it may be taken to pieces and transported;
Figures 41, 5, 6, and 7 are details of construction;
Figure 8 shows the construction of a gondola as it may be used for an icy way.
In the said drawing a indicates four abutments of brick and iron which are
erected in the pond to carry a roof a 1, serving to protect the passengers in the
case of bad weather; b is an abutment which is erected in the middle of the
abutments a.
It carries a shaft c running in vertical direction the abutment b down, where
it is securely guided in a stepbearing whilst a suitable bracket is provided for its
top part.
The shaft c is provided with a bevil wheel d into which gears a bevil wheel e,
being keyed to the horizontal shaft f, which is set in motion in any suitable
manner.
At the bottom part of shaft c is arranged a shoe g having radially arranged. arms
that are provided with mortises into which fit and are fastened iron bars h which
are surrounded by.tubes i. These tubes are connected at one end with said shoe by
means of a two parted socket k in such a manner that the socket may turn on the
shoe arm but is prevented from being withdrawn. With the other end the tubes
are fastened by means of suitable spears to the gondolas. These being combined
with each other by chains will be turned round in a circle when the vertical shaft c.
is set in motion.
In order that the boats may follow the buoyancy of the water or the subsiding of
the floods the shoe is made movable on the shaft in vertical direction having its
connection with said shaft for being turned round by a wedge.
As I have described before the combination of the vessels and the shoe arms are
nade by tubes which are turnable round the fastened iron bars and it will be easily
anderstood how by means of this arrangement the gondolas are enabled to swing
whilst they are carried roundabout.

page_text: Now for being able to cause the gondolas to swing more or less or to perfectly
stop the swinging motion of them I have proceeded as follows.
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put around the shaft ca tube n which carries at its top part a lever o which is
provided at its free end with a pin o 1. To the shaft is keyed a disk g fitted with
a projection that engages with said pin and operates the lever o in such a way that
it is forced to swing about. Below the lever o are situated on the tube n two
ratchet wheels K, K1, the teeth of one being contrary to those of the other
wheel. To the lever o are pivotted two pawls 1, 11 which are in engagement with
the ratchet and it will now be easy understood that by these means the oscillating
movement of the lever o will be communicated to the tube n independent from the
rotation of the whole apparatus.
Now above the shoe g to the tube n is keyed a disk p being radially slotted so as
to take up in these slots a lever q' which is pivotted to the socket k. A spring r
has the tendency to draw the lever towards the centre whilst a cords is arranged to
draw the lever in the contrary direction and to remove it from the centre.
By means of the oscillating disk p the lever q is turned to and fro round its
second fulcrum which is formed by the bar h and as the tube h forms part of said
lever it will be also made to swing together with the gondola fastened to it.
The degree of this oscillation depends on the position of the lever q' in its alot,
and is based on the angle velocity of the disk p; it will be the lower the more the.
lever is drawn towards the centre and the greater the more the lever is removed.
from the same.
When the lever is drawn out of the disk, the balancing of the vessels has
ceased.
In order to regulate the degree of the balancing or to perfectly stop this
movement, the cords is guided through ears by running along the tube i to the boat
and by means of guiding rollers along the rail of the same to the stern of the vessel
where it is fixed to a lever s 1 which instead of the rudder is used to regulate at
pleasure the movement of the vessel.
In Figures 3 and 4 is shown a carousal which may be taken to pieces and
transported from one place to another for being used on fairs or for being mounted
in buildings.
It consists of an annular tank in the centre of which is erected a shaft c1 being
made to turn by a horizontal shaft t 1 running underneath the bottom of the tank
and communicating motion to shaft c1 by means of bevil gearing. The gondolas
and their fittings and their connection to the shaft c1 are the same as before
described and also the arrangement for balancing the vessels may be carried out in
the same manner as before. To the shaft c1 is fastened the roof 61 which may be.
handsomely decorated and is turned round.
As will be seen from Figures 3 and 4 the inner part of the tank is formed in steps
for the purpose of gaining a great water level and covering at the same time the:
moving mechanisms.
In winter time when the pond is frozen up my improved carousal may be used.
without the construction of oscillating the vessels. The latter are then fitted with
a curved iron band a Fig. 8 which is large enough to prevent the cutting in of
the ice.
Having thus described the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :
(1) In a water carousal the combination of a vertical shaft c, with a shoe g,
having fixed bars and tubes i surrounding said bars and having connection to the
shoe and the vessels substantially as specified.
(2) In a water carousal the combination of the vertical shaft c1 shoe g, bars h,
tubes i and socket & with a vertical tube n being provided with means of oscillating
said tube, a radially slotted disk p having connection to said tube and levers q
engaging said disk, means to move the levers q' round their pivots from the vessel
substantially as set forth.
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page_text: (3) In a water carousal the combination of an iron water tank with a vertical
shaft and means to move and oscillate the vessels substantially as described.
(4) In a water carousal the arrangement of the vessels for the special use on an
icy way, having one or more curved iron bands.
Dated thin 7th of Narembar 1906
GUSTAV HOGARD,
By A. Daumas,
Agent for Applicant.