An Improved Method of and Means for Mounting Steam or other Motors upon Vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1900-Accepted, 31st Mar.,
1900
TRUVIDIONAL
An Improved Method of and Means for Mounting Steam or other
Motors upon Vehicles.
We, JOHN FREDERIC PAGE, Works Manager of Invicta Works, St. Peter
Street, Maidstone, and JESSE ELLIS & CO., LIMITED, Engineers, of Invicta Works,
St. Peter Street, Maidstone, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of and means for mounting
motors upon vehicles and has for its object to provide a means whereby the
driving engine when mounted shall be free to follow the motion of the driving
axle when any transverse or longitudinal displacement of the same occurs due
to an uneven or badly laid road, which in the case of a rigidly mounted motor
frequently gives rise to such accidents as the stripping of the teeth of the
driving gear, when pinions are employed, or causing the bed plate of the engine
or other motor to be twisted or cracked by reason of the torsion caused by such
displacement.
In carrying the invention into effect we provide two supporting beams or
girders of channel or other iron supported at the forward end by vertical exten-
sions formed integral with the said girders, or formed separately and secured
thereto in any suitable manner.
The upper ends of these extensions have formed upon them an eye through
which passes the shaft serving to support that end of the girders. At the rear
end of the girders openings are formed in the vertical portion thereof through
which pass the ends of a transverse bar which may be secured by means of pins
or by any other convenient means.
In the centre of the bar a hole is formed through which passes a pin serving
as a pivot for the forked end of a vertical rod. The rod is also formed at its
upper end and is attached by means of the bolt or pin to the eye forming part.
of a plate bolted or otherwise secured to any convenient part of the frame of
the vehicle.
It will be evident from the foregoing that the bed plate and consequently
the mechanism mounted thereon is perfectly free to follow the movement of
the shaft and thereby prevent any straining or damage to the same in the event
of the driving wheel of the vehicle striking against a large stone or suddenly
dropping into a rut in the road.
Dated this 17th day of June 1899.
J. E. EVANS JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: An Improved Method of and Means for Mounting Steam or other
Motors upon Vehicles.
We, JOHN FREDERIC PAGE, Works Manager of Invicta Works, St. Peter
Street, Maidstone, and JESSE ELLIS & Co., LIMITED, Engineers, of Invicta Works,
St. Peter Street, Maidstone, 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:
This invention relates to an improved method of and means for mounting
motors upon vehicles and has for its object to provide a means whereby the
driving engine when mounted shall be free to follow the motion of the driving
axle when any transverse or longitudinal displacement of the same occurs due
to an uneven or badly laid road, which in the case of a rigidly mounted inotor
frequently gives rise to such accidents as the stripping of the teeth of. the
driving gear, when pinions are employed, or causing the bed plate of the engine
or other motor to be twisted or cracked by reason of the torsion caused by such
displacement.
In carrying the invention into effect we provide two supporting beams or
girders of channel or other iron supported at the forward end by vertical exten-
sions formed integral with the said girders, or formed separately and secured
thereto in any suitable manner..
The upper ends of these extensions have formed upon them an eye through
which passes the shaft serving to support that end of the girders. At the rear
end of the girders openings are formed in the vertical portion thereof through
which pass the ends of a transverse bar which may be secured by means of pins
or by any other convenient means.
In the centre of the bar a hole is formed through which passes a pin serving
as a pivot for the forked end of a vertical rod. The rod is also formed at its
upper end and is attached by means of the bolt or pin to the eye forming part
of a plate bolted or otherwise secured to any convenient part of the frame of
the vehicle.
In order that the invention may be the better understood drawings are appended
in which :
Fig. 1 is an end view of the device.
Fig. 2 is a side elevational view thereof.
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Referring to the drawings are supporting beams or girders of channel iron
or other suitable material provided at their forward ends with vertical exten-
sions bb. by which they are suspended from the axle d passing through the eye
or boss c formed at the end of the aforesaid extensions b. The extension bare
shown as being formed integral with the channel irons but they may if desired
be formed separately and be secured by bolts or the like to the said channels.
At the opposite end of the channels a slot is formed in the vertical portion of
cach to permit of the passage therethrough of the, ends of the transverse bar e
secured against movement by means of the pins for the like inserted in holes
formed to secure them outside the channels a as shown. At the middle of its
length the bar e has drilled or otherwise formed a 'hole through which passes
a bolt or stud-g serving to secure to the bar the end of the forked rod h the
upper end of which rod is pivotally attached by means of the bolt i or the like
to the eye forming part of the plate which plate is bolted or otherwise secured
to the frame of the vehicle. The two bolts or pivots being arranged at right
angles are to the other so as to permit lateral and longitudinal motion. It will

page_text: be evident from the foregoing that the bed plate and consequently the mechanism
mounted thereon is perfectly free to follow the movement of the shaft and
thereby prevent any damage due to straining of the said bed plate in the event
of the wheels attached to the axle striking against a large stone or suddenly
dropping into a rut in the road.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improved means for mounting steam or other motors upon vehicles
consisting of a support or foundation formed of two bars of channel or other iron,
the said bars being provided at one end with a means whereby they may be secured
to the driving axle and at the other pivotally supported by means of a suitable
rod secured at one end to a plate attached to the frame of the vehicle and at the
other to the centre of a transverse bar joining the bars together the respective
pivots occupying positions at right angles one to the other by this means per-
mitting the motor supported by the aforesaid bars to follow either the trans-
verse or longitudinal displacement of the axle substantially as herein described
and illustrated by the appended drawings.
2. A means for mounting steam or other motors upon vehicles constructed
to allow of the bed of the motor occupying a plane always paralell with the
centre line of the axle substantially as herein described and illustrated by the
appended drawings.
Dated this 31st day of January 1900.
J. E. EVANS JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.