AN IMPROVED BRAKE FOR UTILIZING THE ENERGY OF MOVING BODIES BY CAUSING DYNAMOS TO CHARGE SECONDARY BATTERIES
Year: 1884

page_text: I ROBERT SUTCLIFFE of Idle in the County of York, Cotton Doubler do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BRAKE FOR
UTILIZING THE ENERGY OF MOVING BODIES BY CAUSING DYNAMOS TO CHARGE
SECONDARY BATTERIES" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to utilize the momentum of railway trains, tram
cars, colliery winding drums and other moving bodies which require the application
of a brake or brakes to destroy the momentum.
According to this my Invention I employ friction discs or friction pulleys, or
other like apparatus for transmitting power from the revolving wheels of the
carriage or carriages of a railway train or tram car or from revolving wheels or
axles of locomotive engines or from the drum or its axle of colliery winding
apparatus which in turn are connected (either with or without intervening gear)
with any of the well known dynaino machines such as Wild's, Gramine's,
Crompton's and accumulators such as Plante's, Faure's, Spagenolliti's, the apparatus
being driven when the brake (or in conjunction with the brake) would be applied
for purpose of arresting the momentum.
Dated this 14th law of T…………. 1001.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I ROBERT SUTCLIFFE of Idle in the County of York, Cotton Doubler, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BRAKE FOR
UTILIZING THE ENERGY OF MOVING BODIES BY CAUSING DYNAMOS TO CHARGE
SECONDARY BATTERIES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement aided
by the annexed Drawings:-
The object of this Invention is, to utilize the momentum of railway trains, tram
cars, colliery winding drums, and other moving bodies, which require the application
of a brake or brakos to destroy the momentum.
According to this my Invention, I employ friction discs or friction pulleys, or
other like apparatus for transmitting power from the revolving wheels of the
carriage or carriages of a railway train or train car, or from revolving wheels or
axles of locomotive engines, or from the druin or its axle of colliery winding
apparatus, which in turn are connected, (either with or without intervening gear),
with any of the well known dynamo machines, such as Wild's, Gramme's,
Crompton's, and accumulators such as Plante's, Fauro's, Spagenolliti's, the apparatus
being driven when the brake (or in conjunction with the brake) would be applied
for purpose of arresting the momentum.
Such being the nature and object of the said Invention, the following is a
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of a railway carriago wheel, fitted with the improved
apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a side olevation.
Fig. 3 shows section of whicel, and friction disc clear of plate.
At 1 is a carriage wheel having disc or plate 2 affixed to the same-or liko plate
may be attached to the wheel of a train car or drum of a hoist-3 is a friction disc,
the periphery of which bears against the face of the plate 2, and the friction disc
being keyed fast upon the upright shaft 4, rotates the same, and by the gear
wheels 5, 6 drives the dynamo wachine 7, of which is in communication with an
accumulator such as Plante's, Faure's, or other well known apparatus, for storing
electricity The wheel 5 has a key S received within a groove 9, of the shaft 4, so
as to admit of the raising and lowering the disc 3 nearer to or further from the
coutre of the wheel 1, so as to regulate the speed of the wheels 5, 6, and the
dynamo machine 7, and to admit of the speed of the machine 7 being regulated
irrespective of the speed of the train-10 is a balance wheel and screw by which
the relative position of the friction disc is adjusted in relation to the plate or
disc 2, according to the speed required, and by which the friction disc may be put
in and out of contact with the said plate or lise 2 (see Fig. 3).
In the collar 11, at the upper end of the shaft, is a groove 12-13 is an
ordinary clip joint to allow the shaft 4 to rotate without driving the screw 14, in
which is the key way 15, for the key 16, in the bracket 17.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, it will be understood,
that the power necessary to drive the dynamo machine, is obtained by absorbing
in part the power of momentum, and which power is transmitted to the dynamo
machine for charging secondary batteries, the power absorbed being in effect a

page_text: brake or retarding action on the train, train car, wheel, or other like moving body,
the apparatus being specially designed for absorbing power when trains are running
down inclines, or when a tram car or drum is being stopped by application of the
ordinary brake, but the apparatus may of course be worked during the ordinary
running of train, train car, or other moving body, in connection therowith-
I declare that what I claim is:
Tho plato 2, friction disc 3, in combination with, and for driving the dynamo
machine 7, as herein described.