Improvements in or relating to Tricycles or other Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL DIMITIVATIO
Improvements in or relating to Tricycles or other Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM BAINES, Jur., of 166, Amesbury Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to tricycles or
other vehicles and my invention consists in the application to tricycles or other
vehicles of a motor arranged and combined with mechanism substantially as
hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention with reference to a tricycle for which my
improvements have been more especially designed, although I do not confine
the application of my invention to any class of vehicles.
In carrying this invention into practice I employ a motor of any desired
construction which motor I attach to any suitable part of the frame of the
tricycle. I also mount a hollow axle or sleeve on the ordinary crank axle of the
tricycle; one end of said sleeve I provide with a sprocket wheel and I drive this
sprocket wheel by a chain geared to a sprocket wheel on the crank shaft of the
motor.
The crank axle of the tricycle is provided with the usual crank and pedals
to start the motor and also so that the tricycle may be driven without the aid
of the motor in the usual way, and said cranks are preferably adapted to be held
stationary even while the motor is driving the tricycle as hereinafter described.
Said crank axle is further provided with two chain or sprocket wheels one
on each side of the sleeves referrd to, and one of which sprocket wheels is of
greater diameter than the other.
On the main or driven axle of the tricycle I mount two sprocket wheels each
of which is adapted to revolve independently of the other. Each of said lastly
referred to sprocket wheels is provided with a friction cone or disc and the main
or driven axle is also provided with two friction cones or discs the arrangement
being such that if one of said cones or discs on the axle be moved in one
direction one of the wheels will become frictionally locked or engaged with the
axle and if the other of said cones or discs on the axle be moved in the opposite
direction the other wheel will become frictionally locked or engaged with the
axle.
The said two wheels on the driven axle are respectively geared with two
sprocket wheels on the crank axle firstly referred to and inasmuch as said sprocket
wheels are of different diameters, one of the two wheels on the driven axle will
rotate faster than the other, and consequently if one of the wheels be frictionally
engaged with the driven axle as described the tricycle will be driven faster than
if the other wheel be so engaged.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to any particular
means for throwing the friction clutches in or out of gear and instead of friction

page_text: cones or discs I may employ any other suitable clutch. If desired the clutch
may be situated on the crank axle of the tricycle instead of on the main axle.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1898.
WILLIAM BAINES.
By his Agents, Horn, Son & Co.,
151, Strand (next to Somerset House) London.
improvements in or relating to Tricycles or other venicies,
I, WILLIAM BAINES, Junior, of 166, Amesbury Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.,
Engineer, 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:
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to tricycles or
other vehicles and my invention consists in the application to tricycles or other
vehicles of a motor arranged and combined with mechanism substantially as
hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention with reference to a tricycle for which my
improvements have been more especially designed, although I do not confine
the application of my invention to any class of vehicles.
In carrying this invention into practice and referring to the accompanying
drawing I employ a motor A of any desired construction, which motor I attach
to any suitable part of the frame of the tricycle. I also mount a hollow axle
or sleeve a on the ordinary crank axle of the tricycle; I provide said sleeve with
a sprocket wheel B and I drive this sprocket wheel by a chain geared to a
sprocket wheel C on the crank shaft of the motor.
The crank axle of the tricycle is provided with the usual cranks D and pedals
to start the motor and also so that the tricycle may be driven without the aid
of the motor in the usual way, and said cranks are preferably adapted-in any
usual manner to be held stationary even while the motor is driving the tricycle.
Said crank axle is further provided with two chain or sprocket wheels E F
one on each side or end of the sleeve a referred to, and one of which sprocket
wheels is of greater diameter than the other.
On the main or driven axle G of the tricycle I mount two sprocket wheels H, J,
each of which is adapted to revolve independently of the other. Each of said
lastly referred to sprocket wheels is provided with a friction cone or disc h, j,
and the main or driven axle is also provided with two friction cones or discs h¹ j¹
the arrangement being such that if one of said cones or discs on the axle be moved
in one direction one of the wheels will become frictionally locked or engaged
with the axle and if the other of said cones or discs on the axle be moved in the
opposite direction the other wheel will become frictionally locked or engaged
with the axle.
The said two wheels H, J, on the driven axle are respectively geared with the
two sprocket wheels E, F on the crank axle and inasmuch as said sprocket wheels
are of different diameters, one of the two wheels on the driven axle will rotate
faster than the other, and consequently if one of the wheels be frictionally engaged
with the driven axle as described the tricycle will be driven faster than if the
other wheel be so engaged.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to any particular
means for throwing the friction clutches in or out of gear and instead of friction

page_text: cones or discs I may employ any other suitable clutch. If desired the clutch
may be situated on the crank axle instead of on the main axle.
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
A tricycle or other vehicle having in combination a motor, a hollow axle or
sleeve on the crank axle-provided with a sprocket wheel a crank shaft having
sprocket wheels a main axle having two sprockef wheels, and friction cones or
discs all substantially as set forth.
Dated this th day on apin
WILLIAM BAINES, JNR..
By his Agents, Horn, Son & Co.,
Somerset Chambers, 151, Strand (next to Somerset House) London, W.C.