IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Wirth, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
July 1874. A communication from Karl Kleinpell, residing at
Rothhaus (Germany), and Leopold Dramburg, residing at Raincy,
near Paris (France).
I, FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Agency,
of Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING MOTIVE
POWER, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," a communication from
Karl Kleinpell, a person resident at Rothhaus (Germany), and Leopold
Dramburg, a person resident at Raincy, near Paris, France, to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to obtain and manufacture motive-
power engines founded on the combination of different natural powers,
such as gravity, leverage, centrifugal force, clasticity, and the reaction
of torsion.
mi... Tution is of menoral unplicability. but the construction is

page_text: different in stationary engines than in engines for ships and carriages.
For the stationary motive-power engines we fix to the lower part of any
suitable framework or standard a horizontal platform having a hole in
the centre, and fix to the upper part of the framework a horizontal tablo
or ring, and to both platform and table are fixed chambers containing a
number of antifriction balls or rollers. The lower set of balls or rollers
carry a horizontal plate or disc to which is fixed a vertical shaft carrying
near the bottom a bevil wheel or pulley, used used for transmitting or
communicating the power of the engine to other gearing or pulleys, and
to the upper end of the shaft is fixed a large toothed crown wheel
resting and running on the antifriction balls or rollers on the upper table
or ring, in which there is a space to allow the passage of a water wheel.
On the lower moveable platform there are two snugs to which are jointed
the bottom ends of two vibrating levers, carrying female screws, having
pivots supporting two levers, one of which moves forwards and the other
backwards, and near the ends of these lovers there are holes through
which are passed bolts to which heavy weights are connected, and in the
crown wheel there are slots through which are passed the upper ends of
the vibrating levers. On the vertical shaft there is a tube carrying a
rope or chain pulley to which are fixed the ends of ropes or chains, one
passing from left to right, and the other the reverse, and the other ends of
these ropes or chains are fastened to rings or cycleots on the extreme end
of the levers which carry the weights.
The tubes surrounding the vertical shaft carries at the top a two-armed
lever, to the ends or heads of which are fastened one end of ropes, their
other ends being fastened to the under side of the crown wheel; and to
enable the horizontal shaft carrying the water wheel which also serves
as a fly wheel to work casily, we fix on the shaft a cone pulley revolving
in contact with a conical disc, turning on antifriction balls or rollers, and
to the shaft is fixed a bevil toothed wheel gearing into the teeth of the
crown wheel. The water wheel is turned by water from a reservoir, the
supply being regulated by a cock, and as the wheel revolves it gives
motion to all the working parts. The weights pressing on tho
vibrating levers and changing their equilibrium exert a force in
proportion to their size, and one part of this force is used for pumping
the water delivered from the water wheel back to the reservoir which
supplies it, and as there is a continual change in the equilibrium of the
vibrating levers no dead point is possible, and the machine works with

page_text: a power in proportion to its size; and we may here state that an
archimedian screw may be employed instead of the pump, and sand
raised to fall upon a vaned wheel instead of water.
For motive-power engines for carriages and ships we bolt to the
carriage or ship a platform on which are fixed four curved rails having
projecting edges, which rails support by means of rollers and supports
another platform carrying another set of four rails at right angles to
the first,, the latter rails also supporting a platform by means of rollers
and supports; and on this last platform is fixed the machine described as
the stationary motive-power engine, there being a hole through all the
platforms to allow transmission of the power, and it will be seen that the
object of the sets of curved rails at right angles to each other is to
keep the machine plumb or level at all inclinations of the carrige or
ship.