Improvements in Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vehicles.
I, JOHANN BOGATZ, Merchant, of 30, Ramlerstr, Berlin, 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;-
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This invention relates to improvements in vehicles, and it has for its object
to provide such vehicles as omnibuses or the like with a means whereby they may
be propelled by the occupants, suitable pedals and mechanism connected there-
with being provided and arranged in such a manner as to be conveniently actuated
by the occupants. A means for steering is also provided and the pedals are
arranged either in series or singly.
In order that the invention may be the better understood drawings are appended,
in which
Fig. 1, is a longitudinal section of a' vehicle to which the invention has been
applied.
Fig. 2, is a plan of the undercarriage.
Fig. 3, is an elevation of the fore-carriage.
Fig. 4, is an elevation of the hind-carriage.
Referring to the drawings m is the body of the carriage which may be of any
convenient form and is provided with seats o one only of which is shown upon
the drawings, such seats being situated above the pedals in a position that
they may be conveniently operated by the persons seated in the carriage. The
body of the carriage is supported upon an under frame consisting of the fore
carriage, which is fitted with the steering mechanism, and the hind carriage
The fore carriage consists of a frame
which is fitted with the driving axle.
provided with suitable bearings for two vertical rods, having their lower ends
These rods are capable of being actuated
forked to receive the steering wheels e.
simultaneously from the vehicle by means of a hand wheel secured to a transverse
spindle or shaft Fig. 3, to which are attached mitre wheels gearing with similar
wheels attached to the upper end of the vertical rods carrying the wheels e. The
hind carriage is formed of a U shaped beam v, through the vertical limbs of
which passes the driving axle t, to which are rigidly secured the wheels e¹. The
fore and hind carriages are joined together by rods or bars s, which rods also
support spindles having attached to them cranks and ordinary cycle pedals u.
The pedals may be arranged either singly or seriatim and when worked by
the persons occupying the vehicle, the whole of the power exerted by them
is transmitted from the sprockets upon the pedal spindles, by means of a
suitable chain or chains, to a sprocket wheel upon the spindlet and thus
employed for propelling the vehicle. The body of the carriage is supported upon
A brake p is also provided
the under frame by means of springs 1, q and r.
and is actuated by means of the rod n.
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 cycle omnibus characterised by the circumstance that the hind wheels e',
fixed on the axle & can be set in motion, from the body of the omnibus m sus-

page_text: pended in springs by means of pedals u arranged singly or in series, and chain
gear, and the hind wheels e¹ can be braked, through the medium of a rod n by
a brake p mounted on the bow or curved bar in which the hind axle is pivotted,
while the front wheels e are steered by means of two pairs of conical wheels.
Dated this 27th day of April 1898.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.