REGISTERING THE MILES TRAVELLED BY TRAP CARRIAGE OR TRICYCLE
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
REDMOND MCSHANE Camlough near Newry Ireland Hawker or travelling draper
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for REGISTERING THE MILES TRAVELLED
BY TRAP CARRIAGE OR TRICYCLE to be as follows:-
A little Brass or Metal Box about 3 in. long by 3 in. wide by 2 in. broad on the
top will be made fast to the axle of the trap it will project over the collar of axle
about an in. then there will be a little space for a wheel to partly come through.
The wheel will be about 2 in. in diameter and will have about 10 or 12 teeth the
teeth will be about an in. deep and will almost toutch the collar of axle, then there
will be a pin partly drove into the nave of the trap wheel, and every time the trap
wheel goes round it will take a tooth of the other wheel and leave the next tooth in
exactly the same position, and by the continuation of as many small and large cog
wheels and a worm as will reduce the motion to the exact mile or miles. There will
be two dials one will indicate from one mile to ten the other from ten to a hundred
miles, the will face upwards so that the driver can always look down on them. There
will be two pins supplied with it one a straight one in a solid piece the other will
work on a spring like the blade of a pocket knife it can be shut over when the mile
gauge is not wanted the straight pin more suitable when traps are let out to strangers.
There will be a ratchet wheel to prevent it from going backwards it will be on the
third or fourth wheel. But the second wheel will work loose on its axle it will have
a little spring riveted to its axle and little nicks or notches cut in the wheel and as
the trap goes on it will catch on the spring and drive the clock work on when the

page_text: trap goes back the cog wheel will slip over the spring. The mile gauge will fit on
between the collar of axle and block that the trap spring rests on traps that have not
enough room between block and collar I will have mile gauge in the other side of
block and a spindle come through block and first wheel on it. The wheel that will
carry the first hand will work in a worm its teeth will be perpendicular it will have
one large horizontal tooth that will take a tenth part of the other dial every time it
goes round and that will denote ten miles on the other dial. It will have a registering
hand that will work on the dial glass like the registering hand of a barometer so that
when starting a journey it can be placed to register where the hands were when
starting.

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Registering the Distance Travelled by
Wheeled Vehicles.
REDMOND MOSHANE of Camlough near Newry Ireland Travelling Draper
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:
1st on the axle (2) between the Block that the spring rests on and the collar of the
axle (3) I place a metal box A that partly projects over the collar of the axle (3) In
the said projection there is a slot B that a toothed wheel C partly comes through.
On the arbour of the said toothed wheel there is a worm or endless screw D that
works in and drives the cog wheel E which I call the milage wheel as I vary the
number of teeth in it according to the diameter of the vehicle wheel.
The cog
wheel. E works loose on its spindle and is fitted with ratchett wheels and click which
prevents it registering by a backward action thus-By a forward motion of the trap
the spring (a) slips over the ratchett wheel (b) and the click (c) catches the ratchett
wheel (d) and so holds the cog wheel E fast and thus drives the hands on.
But by
a backward motion the spring (a) catches the ratchett wheel (b) and so holds the
spindle fast and the click (c) slipping over the ratchett wheel (d) the cog wheel E
revolves without having any affect on the hands. (e) is a sping attached to the
click (c).
On the spindle of the cog wheel E there is a hand to indicate on the first dial
showing & 1 mile. Next I place 2 star wheels F. & G of ten teeth each. On
the spindle of each star wheel I place a hand. The dial of the first star wheel F
indicates from 1 to 10 miles. The dial of the second star wheel G indicates from
10 to 100 miles H is a steady spring for the toothed wheel C. I is a steady
spring for the star wheel F. J. is a steady spring for the star wheel G. K is a
catch wire and as the cog wheel E has completed one revolution which is a mile,
the catch wire K takes a tooth of the first star wheel F and moves it on so as to
transfer the mile on to the 2nd dial and in like manner when the first star wheel F
has completed its revolution it has a catch wire L which moves a tooth of the 2nd
star wheel thus transferring the 10 miles from the second to the third dial. Then I
make fast to the nave of the vehicle wheel (4) a pin (5) that revolves round the
collar of the axle (3) and each time it revolves it takes a tooth of the wheel C and
leaves the next one in the same position and by so doing gives motion to the
clockwork.

page_text: 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
1st. On the axle between the Block that the spring rests on and the collar of the
axle I place a metal Box that partly projects over the collar of the axle.
2nd. In the same projection there is a slot that a toothed wheel c partly comes
through.
3rd. I make fast to the nave of the vehicle wheel a pin that gives intermittant
motion to the toothed wheel C.
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