IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Farrell, of 1, Clanbrassil Terrace, South
Circular Road, Dublin, and William Turner, of Hammersmith Iron
Works, Dublin, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES."
Sealed the 9th October 1869, and dated the 26th April 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Farrell and
William Turner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 26th April 1869.
We, ISAAC FARRELL, of I, Clanbrassil Terrace, South Circular Road,
Dublin, and WILLIAM TURNER, of Hammersmith Iron Works, Dublin,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
VELOCIPEDES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to velocipedes in general, the object being to.
do away with the reciprocal motion of the treddles, and thus obviate
the straining muscular action of the feet and legs. With this view
we adapt a saddle to springs, bars, or arms in connexion with the
lever cranks actuating the driving wheel or wheels, as the case may
be, so that the undulatory movement produced by the weight of the
[Price 8d1

page_text: body thrown alternately upon the saddle and the treddles communicates
motion to the cranks, and the velocipede by this means is impelled
forward without the straining effects referred to, the action being easy,
uniform, and similar to that of horse exercise. The guide wheel is
or may be directed in the usual manner.
in
SPECIFICATION
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Isaac Farrell and William Turner in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th October 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ISAAC
FARRELL, of No. 1, Clanbrassil Terrace, South Circular Road, Dublin,
and WILLIAM TURNER, of Hammersmith Iron Works, Dublin, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Isaac Farrell and William Turner, Her
special licence that we, the said Isaac Farrell and William Turner,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Isaac Farrell and William Turner, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter, during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMEN18 IN VELOCIPEDES,"
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Isaac Farrell and
William Turner, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
upon
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Isaac Farrell and William Turner,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
The improvements relate to velocipedes in general, and to other
carriages worked by manual labor, but preferably to trycicles or three-
wheeled velocipedes, and consist in the utilization of the weight of
the body to be thrown alternatively upon a saddle or seat bar, and upon
a footboard to be supplied for the purpose, as a substitute for the
muscular action of the legs on a crank as at present performed; also
in attaching a T-shaped rod or bar to a saddle or seat bar or to a lever
handle, or to both, so that when the lever handle is pressed down it may
act on the top of the T-shaped bar, which being connected with the
saddle bar or lever handle causes or assists in causing the cranked axle of
the machine attached to the saddle bar to revolve; further in applying
a brake by means of a bar of metal attached to the outer end of the lever
handle of the guide wheel. The improvements may conveniently be
performed by making the apparatus or velocipede with a lever or saddle
bar which may be straight or curved, the fulcrum or support of which
rests upon the carriage frame, one end of this lever or saddle bar being
attached by means of a connecting rod to a central crank formed upon
the axle of the driving wheels, the other end being connected by means
of slings with the footboard, the front of which is thus supported, while
at the back it rests on or is hung from two side cranks formed upon
the axle of the driving wheels, these cranks being so disposed that
when the central crank is up the two side cranks are down, and vice
versâ, so that when the rider throws his weight upon the saddle bar
he propels the machine by means of the central crank, and when he
throws his weight upon the footboard the motion is continued by means
of the side cranks, thus completing the revolution. The other parts of
the improvements may be performed by attaching a rod or bar of a
T-shape, or it may be made of other convenient shape, to the saddle
bar or lever handle, having the cross or T-shaped upwards or downwards
and placed in such a position that when the lever handle of the guide
wheel is pressed down it may by means of the T bar pressing against
the saddle bar thereby assist in the propulsion of the machine. The
brake applied to the guide wheel may be made of a metal rod, with
a nut or knob screwed on or secured to the lower end, and passing
through a lug attached to the front of the fork or frame of the guide
wheel, and attached to and suspended from the outer end of the lower

page_text: handle of the guide wheel, so that when the inner end of the lever
handle which rests in and turns upon a pivot is thrown up the brake
is pressed down upon the guide wheel. The different parts of the
machine, velocipede, or carriage may be made of metal, or wood and
metal combined.
The annexed Drawings will serve to illustrate two convenient modes
of performing the Invention.
Figure 1 is a view of a "trycicle
trycicle "showing a way of making the
machine with a footboard and rising and falling seat as described above;
Figure 1 also shows the brake at a
Figure 2 is another plan of performing our Invention, and shows the
T-shaped rod b, which is secured to the saddle bar at c, and against
which the lever handle passes, but is not fastened. The Drawings are
intended to serve only as illustrations of the way in which the improve-
ments may be performed, as it is obvious that the details may be varied
considerably without departing from the nature of the Invention.
In witness whereof, we, the said Isaac Farrell and William Turner,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third day
of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
ISAAC FARRELL.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM TURNER. (L.S.)