Improvements in Manumotive Tricycles and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Manumotive Tricycles and other Velocipedes.
JOSEPH MUNN 41 Harwar Street Parish of St. Leonards Shore litch County of
Middlesex Butcher's Assistant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to a machine made in the style of an or.linary tricycle and
by means of an added device can be propelled by handles which reach up on each
side of person to be worked by the hands.
The propelling device consists in a small axle iron to go through the centre of
front crank wheel of driving-gear to reach to a bar each side, which run as frame
bars throughout.
In these bars an eye is made for axle iron to rotate, the ends coming through the
eye in bars to which is afixed an irou gradually curving ringletwise outwards t
opposite point of starting from, on the outer point a pivot is made for the eye of
handle to rotate on, the ringlet irons are placed reverse or opposite way to each
other to work with similar revolution as pedals in tricycle.
By the following mechanissm the construction of this machine is slightly altered
from the ordinary tricycle to suit the requirements of the new propelling component
parts Fig. 1 it is necessary to have two long frame bars A. to reach from front
wheel to the behind wheels and these frame bars are clipped (or connecte 1) round
the behind axle iron or bar of the behind wheels and are made almost level from
behind to the foot board A' at front wheel over which they circle to a small bar B.
fixed across and around the forks handle, on the inner stem of the forks handle at
the top point the handle C. for guiding is circuled over downwards by a rod to a
The seat is fitted and
small cross bar and can be worked either by hand or foot.
placed just behind the front crank wheel on four legs attached to the frame long
bars, two long slots D. are fastened to the outer side of the centre part of seat legs
for the steady guidance of the handles in working.
The component parts of E. F. G. H. I. are more particularly shown and
discribed in Fig. 2, a small axle iron E. is placed through the centre of the front
crank wheel of the driving gear and the ends of the axle iron are passed through a
stout eye made in the frame bars each side to rotate on the ends of the axle iron at
the outer side of the eye aforesaid are afixed G. an iron gradully curving ringlet-
wise outwards the outer point terminating opposite the starting from point on this
point a pivot H. is afixed for the eye in the handles to rotate on to work and
revolve the whole of the parts these aforesaid ringlet iron are fitted opposite or
reverse ways to each other to give a similar revolution as pedals in the ordinary
tricycle.
1. are rods afixed on the axle iron at the inside end next to the frame bar eye, to
reach to frame of crank wheel for the firmer support in the working.
Dated this 5th of December 1894.
JOSEPH MUNN,
41 Harwar Street, Parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch,
County of Middlesex.

page_text: Tricycles and other velocipedes.
I, JOSEPH MUNN 41 Harwar Street Parish of St. Leonards Shoreditch London
County of Middlesex Butcher's Assistant 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:-
The drawings as those left with the Provisional Specification. This invention
relates to a machine of ordinary tricycle pattern to be propelled by arm action
versus pedals by the following mechanism.
Fig. 1 it is necessary to have two long frame bars A to reach from the front wheel
to the behind wheels and these frame bars are clipped on the behind axle iron or
bar of behind wheels and are brought almost level to the A' foot board at front
wheel over which they circle to a small bar B fixed across and around the forks
handle on the inner stem of the top of forks handle. C. the handle for guiding is
circuled over downwards by a rod to a small cross bar and can be worked either by
hand or foot to guide Also the said cross bar can be made as the foot rest versus
the foot board the seat would come in the usual place just behind the front chain
wheel with supporting legs on the frame bars D. are two long slots fastened to the
outer side of the seat legs for the steady guidance of the handles in working.
The handles are made either straight or half length bowed forward at the lower
end E. F. G. H. are more particularly shown in Fig. 2. E. a small axle iron is
placed through the centre of the front chain wheel of the driving gear the end of
axle iron each side comes through a stout eye F. made in the frame bars and on the
ends of axle iron are afixed a round iron G. for revolveing, which has a gradual ringlet
curve outwards, on the outer point of this said iron is afixed H a pivot on which the
eye of the handle is fitted to rotate these said irons G are afixed at reverse ways to
each other to give the same revolution in working as pedals in the ordinary tricycle
I are small rods fastened on for steadying the chain wheel in adapting the
invention to seat two persons abreast the above discription is altered of the traine
bars which are bent inward at the foot board part to allow of the handles to be
worked in the front of each person. Each person to work their handle one after
the other the machine being made stouter then the one for one person.
Having now particularly discribed and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim a
1. in Fig. 1 the rod C. for guiding by foot or hand or as foot rest for
guiding.
2. The component parts in Fig. 2 of 1. F. (1. the axle iron r. to come though
the frame eye F. end the roural iron (.ps foreseid discribed which the Imadies
will revolve by the pivot if to propell tricycles and similar machine by the endless
chain gear.
Dated this 21st day of August 1895.