AN IMPROVED STEAM BOAD CARRIAGE
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM SEDDON SUTHERLAND of Richmond House, Poplar Avenue Sandon
Road Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED STEAM BOAD CARRIAGE" to be as
follows:-
The object is to provide a light, compact, durable and efficient engine and
vehicle for running and conveying persons on roads.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of the various parts
hereinafter described in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned
namely a frame provided with suitable bearings and springs for axles and wheels.
A complete circuit motor constructed and arranged to give motion to the wheels
above mentioned; heat producing and regulating appliances, and suitable starting,
stopping, brake, steering, connecting and driving gear.
The frame is preferably tee shaped, fitted at the long end or stem with a
steering wheel. and lever and at the ends of the cross piece with driving wheels.
The bearings for the steering and driving wheel axles are connected to the frame
by springs. The driving wheel axles are connected and fitted with differential or
other suitable gear in any usual or desired manner. The motor has generators and
condensers constructed substantially in the manner set forth in provisional specifi-
cation No 8054 of the year 1884. The engines are of any usual high and low pressure
reversing type. The feed pump is arranged at such an elevation as to pump just
the required quantity of condensed water and no more into the boiler and the
whole of these parts are arranged to operate on the complete circuit system
described in my provisional specification No 9833 of 1884.
The generators engine and condensers are securely bolted or attached to the
stem or long end of the tee frame. The crank shaft of the engines carries a chain
wheel and is coupled by a chain to a chain wheel on the driving wheel axles. The
furnace is arranged in any well known manner for the combustion of petroleum
and is carried on pivots or slides. A piston rod in a cylinder open to the generator
is attached by levers links or the like to the furnace that increase of pressure
in the generator beyond the required limits will move the furnace from under the
generator. The engine is started and stopped by means of a throttle valve and
reversing gear in the usual manner and a friction brake is provided for arresting
the motion of the vehicle when required.
Seats or saddles are suspended by springs over the driving axles.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM SEDDON SUTHERLAND of Richmond House Poplar Avenue, Sandon
Road Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said invention for "AN IMPROVED STEAM ROAD CARRIAGE" and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object is to provide a light, compact, durable and efficient engine and vehicle
for running and conveying persons on roads.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of the various parts
hereinafter described in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Namely a frame provided with suitable bearings and springs for axles and wheels.
A complete circuit motor constructed and arranged to give motion to the wheels
above mentioned; heat producing and regulating appliances and suitable starting,
stopping, brake, steering connecting and driving gear.
The frame is preferably tee shaped, fitted at the long end or stem with a
steering wheel and lever and at the ends of the cross piece with driving wheels.
The bearings for the steering and driving wheel axles are connected to the frame
by springs. The driving wheel axles are connected and fitted with differential or
other suitable gear in any usual or desired manner. The motor has generators
and condensers constructed substantially in the manner setforth in provisional
specification N° 8054 of the year 1884. The engines are of any usual high and
low pressure reversing type. The feed pump is arranged at such an elevation and
in such a manner as to pump just the required quantity of condensed water and no
more into the boiler and the whole of these parts are arranged to operate on the
complete circuit system described in my provisional specification No 9833 of 1884.
The generators engine and condensers are securely bolted or attached to the stem
or long end of the tee frame. The crank shaft of the engines carries a chain wheel
and is coupled by a chain to a chain wheel on the driving wheel axles. The
furnace is arranged in any well known manner for the combustion of petroleum or
other liquid fuel and is carried on pivots or slides. A piston rod in a cylinder
open to the generator is attached by levers links or the like to the furnace that
increase of pressure in the generator beyond the required limits will move the
furnace from under the generator. The engine is started and stopped by means of
a throttle valve and reversing gear in the usual manner and a friction brake is
provided for arresting the motion of the vehicle when required.
Seats.or saddles are suspended by springs over the driving axles.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In the side elevation of a carriage constructed in accordance with my invention
(the position and combination of the parts only being shown as the details of the
various parts may be modified and altered to suit circumstances) a is the frame
at the lane and on stem with a steering

page_text: are connected to the frame by springs f, g toothed gear similar to the fast and
Blow gear of a lathe for giving motion to the driving axle when climbing hills
Any of the well known or other suitable fast and slow speed gears for use on
tricycles or like vehicles may be substituted for the gear above shown, h lever
for throwing the gear ginto and out of action, i steam generator, j condenser
constructed of tubes by electro deposition as setforth in complete specification
No 8054 of the year 1884. Though the above construction of generator and
condenser are preferred other suitable generators and condensers may be used.
kare reversible engines of any usual high and low pressure type. is the feed
pump arranged so as to pump the required quantity of condensed water into the
boiler and no more The connections between the generator engines condenser and
feed pump are such that a complete circuit is formed as setforth in complete
specification N° 9833 of the year 1884 and the same water is evaporated and
condensed over and over again. m chain wheel on the crank shaft of the engine
n. chain gearing the said wheel m with the driving wheels o petroleum or paraffin
oil furnace of any suitable construction carried on slides p and connected through
the levers q with the piston rod r in the cylinder 8. The cylinders is open at the
end to the generator and a spring is used to hold the piston and rod in the
required position so that any increase in the pressure of steam beyond that required
will actuate the piston and cause the furnace to be withdrawn from beneath the
generator, t reversing gear of the common link or any suitable type, u reversing
lever, throttle valve and lever. wo friction brake.
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
First. Steam road carriages constructed substantially as herein setforth.
Second. The combination with the frame of a road carriage of a complete circuit
steam motor substantially as herein setforth.
Third. The combination with a steam road carriage of heat regulating appliances
substantially as herein setforth.