IMPROVED MODE OF AND MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING MOTIVE-POWER IN STEAM AND OTHER MOTORS AND MACHINERY
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, JOSEPHI EDWIN HOLLOWAY, of Westminster Bridgo Road, in the County of
Surrey, Clothier and Outfitter do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
"IMPROVED MODE OF AND MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING MOTIVE-POWER IN STEAM
AND OTHER MOTORS AND MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
According to this invention I transmit motive power in the following manner :-
As applied, for instance, to a steam engine I fix a disc or wheel on the crank or
engine shaft; the circumference of this disc is provided with one or more tangential
or radial rods or bars which are jointed to it and to the rim of the fly-wheel or
other driving pulley or wheel, which latter is loose on the shaft but running.
between collars and from which the power is taken off by strap or tooth wheel or
other gearing. In some cases the disc or wheel may be the disc in which the
crank pin is fixed.

page_text: According to this Invention I transmit motive power in the following manner:
As applied for instance to a steam engine I fix a disc or wheel on the crank or
engine shaft; the circumference of this disc is provided with one or more tangential
or radial rods or bars pulling in either direction which are jointed to it and to the
rim of the fly_wheel or other driving pulley or wheel which_latter_is_loose_on_the_
shaft but running between collars and from which the power is taken off by strap
or-tooth-wheel-or-other-gearing.-In-some-cases-the-disc.or_wheel may be the disc_
in which the crank pin is fixed.
Figure 1-of-the accompanying-drawings-is-a-side-view-and-Figure-2-a-part
sectional plan of a steam engine with a fly wheel and disc constructed and
connected according to my Invention. The disc A is fixed on the engine shaft B
and is by means of four tangential rods C connected to the flywheel D the rods
being jointed to cach. The shaft turning in the direction of the arrow the disc A
will by means of the rods C carry the flywheel round with it. On the fly wheel is
formed or fixed a driving pulley E from which the power of the Engine is
transmitted and it will thus be seen that the power is transmitted by. the disc A to
the driving pulley E through means of the rods C. The flywheel D with its
pulley work between collars F and G on the shaft B. C' are rods for taking
the strain when the engine is stopped (or reversed).
Figure 3 is an end view and Figure a vertical section through another
construction of wheels in which a disc A fixed on a driving shaft (or engine
shaft) B transmits motion to a fly wheel E serving as a driving pulley by means of
rods C jointed to both. The fly wheel E works between the disc A and a collar G
formed (or fixed) on the shaft B. C¹are the rods for the action in the opposite
direction.
Figure 5 is an end view and Figure 6 a vertical section of a similar construction
adapted to an ordinary strap pulley E.
Obviously the form of the driving disc the rods, the rod joints, the fly wheel and
the driving pulley may be varied very much according to requirements and local
or existing circumstances.
Figure 7 is an end view of a feathering paddle wheel and Figure 8 a vertical
section through same. The disc A may in such a case be placed on the inner side
of the wheel as shown. It is fixed on the paddle wheel shaft B and the power is
transmitted from it by rods C C in both directions (for ahead and astern motion)
to a rim E forming part of the paddle wheel which latter is loose on the shaft. G is
a collar between the disc A and the paddle wheel boss. F is the bearing or
plummer block of the shaft.

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
In steam engines and other motors and machinery the driving from the
circumference or rim of a disc fixed on the shaft which disc by tangential jointed
rods is connected to the rim of a larger flywheel or other wheel loose on the shaft
and serving to transmit the power substantially as set forth.
BREWER & JENSEN,
For the Applicant.