Improvement in Roundabouts.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Roundabouts.
I, EDWIN HARRY PARGETER 33 Middleton Road, Banbury, Butcher, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvement in roundabouts, the object being to give the
horses or cars carrying the riders or occupants a secondary circular motion besides
the usual motion at the same time ensuring that the horses or cars will maintain a
steady motion without swinging and the same is carried out as follows:-
I provide a desired number of platforms which are carried by the main revolving
wheel or frame. These platforms carry uprights between which a rectangular frame
rotates; at each end of this frame a spindle is carried which is attached to a toothed
wheel. These toothed wheels gear with intermediate toothed wheels which in turn
gear with a fixed toothed wheel at the axis of the rectangular frame. The supports
carrying the horses or cars are attached to the spindles at the ends of the rectangular
frame. The spindle carrying the rectangular frame is driven through the medium of
suitable gear such as chain wheels which are driven by rods and toothed wheels which
rotate upon a fixed circular rack when the roundabout is in motion. By this
arrangement while the whole rotates around a vertical axis, the horses or cars will
rotate around a horizontal axis and the toothed wheels upon the rectangular frame
will prevent the horses or cars from swinging.
Dated this 7th day of August 1895.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvement in Roundabouts.
I, EDWIN HARRY PARGETER 33 Middleton Road Banbury Butcher, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is to be perforined,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvement in roundabouts the object being to give the
horses or cars carrying the riders or occupants a secondary circular motion besides the
usual motion at the same time ensuring that the horses or cars will maintain a steady
motion without swinging and the same is carried out as follows.
Referring to the annexed drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my invention.
Figure 2 plan views of same.
I provide a desired number of platforms a which are carried by the main revolving
wheel or frame b. These platforms a carry uprights c between which a rectangular
frame d rotates through the medium of the spindle e which is rotated through the
medium of the bevel wheel and fixed rack g. At each end of this framed a spindle
is carried which is secured to a toothed wheel i. These toothed wheels
intermediate toothed wheels; which in turn gear with a fixed toothed wheel
axis of the rectangular frame d. I are the horses or cars supported by platforms a¹
which are connected to the spindles h. By this arrangement while the whole rotates
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page_text: around a vertical axis, the horses or cars, & platform a will rotate upon a
horizontal axis; the gear wheels i, j & k maintaining the horses or cars & the
platforms a¹ always in a horizontal position during each revolution of frames d &
preventing swinging. The object of the platform a is to facilitate a person getting on
to platform a¹ from the ground & may be in the form of an ordinary step only.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
& in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is.
1. In roundabouts a frame carrying horses or cars carried upon spindles having
gear wheels so that the horses or cars are prevented from swinging when the machine
is in motion, substantially as described & illustrated.
2. The combination and arrangement of the various parts substantially as described
and illustrated herein.
Dated this 1th dose of 100%
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.