IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLE WHEELS FOR PROPELLING VESSELS IN WATER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Enoch Tayler, of 62, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn
Lane, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLE WHEELS FOR
PROPELLING VESSELS IN WATER."
Sealed the 23rd May 1856, and dated the 27th November 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Enoch Tayler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th.
November 1855.
I, ENOCH TAYLER, of 62, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane, London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLE
WHEELS FOR PROPELLING VESSELS IN WATER" to be as follows; and consists in
applying the paddle floats to two wheels, and a ring or rim of a wheel which is
without spokes or radii and of like diameter, which paddle floats are arranged
in pairs opposite each other on each side of the said ring or rim of a wheel, to
which they are attached by an axle or spindle passing through and revolving
therein, which axle or spindle is fixed at or near one edge and the inner
corners of the said pair of paddle floats, and the diagonally opposite or outer
corners of the said paddle floats at or near to the opposite edge being attached
to similar axles or spindles, passing through or into and revolving in the rinis
of the outer wheels, which are fixed on the main shaft or axle of the paddle
wheel. The axles of cach pair of paddle floats may be in one piece, forming

page_text: cranks or crooked axles, having the elbaw or second bend of the crank passed
through and revolving in holes pierced in the aforesaid ring or rim of a wheel,
and the ends of the said crank or crooked axle being inserted into or through
and revolving in the rims of the outer wheels, which cranks support one
paddle float on each side of the aforesaid ring or rim of a wheel, and
traverse each of them diagonally from corner to corner, or nearly so; the
said ring or rim of a wheel receiving its motion from the first-mentioned
separate float axles; or from the cranks or crooked axles, if used, and being
supported in its position above or below the outer wheels by means of two or
more friction wheels or rollers, bearing on the outer circumference of it and
placed before and behind it, the main shaft or axle of the paddle wheel pass-
ing eccentrically through the open space of such said ring or rim of a wheel;
and the axles or centres of the said friction wheels or rollers being stationary
when adjusted to any convenient position, and entirely independent of the
said paddle wheels.
The paddle floats may be parallelograms, or of other convenient form, and
are perpendicular to the plane of the wheel and of the said eccentric ring or
rim of a wheel, and retain a position parallel to each other, entering and
leaving the water edgewise or vertically.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Enoch Tayler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ENOCH
TAYLER, of 62, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Enoch Tayler, Her special licence that I, the said Enoch Tayler, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said. Enoch
Tayler, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLE WHEELS

page_text: FOR PROPELLING VESSELS IN WATER," upon the condition, amongst others, that
I, the said Enoch Tayler, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Enoch Tayler, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
.
My Invention consists in applying paddle floats a, a, to two wheels b, b,
and a ring or rim c of a wheel which is without spokes or radii, and of like
diameter to the wheels b, b. The paddle floats a, a, are arranged, by prefer-
ence, in pairs, opposite each other on each side of the ring or rim c of the
wheel, to which they are attached by pin joints, their lower ends being attached
in a similar manner to the rims of the wheels b, b. The pin joints or attach-
ments of the floats a, a, I prefer to be at or near one edge and the inner
corners of each pair of paddle floats, the diagonally opposite or outer corners
thereof being attached by pin joints passing into the rims of the outer wheels,
which are fixed on the main shaft or axis d in the ordinary manner. The
connections of each pair of paddle floats a, a, may, if thought desirable, be in
one piece, and thus form a crank or crooked axle, having the elbow or second
bend of the crank passed through and revolving in holes pierced in the rim or,
ring c, and the ends of such crank or crooked axle being inserted into or
through and revolving in the rims b, b, of the outer wheels. Two or more"
friction rollers e, e, are employed for the purpose of keeping the ring or rim c
in position, and by bearing upon its outer circumference prevent it from falling
down on either side. The friction rollers e, e, work on axes e', e', carried by
the framing of the vessel, and may, if thought desirable, be carried by a frame
or curved rack f, capable of sliding in guides f¹, f, attached to the framing
of the vessel, and by means of the pinion 9 give motion thereto, if requisite, to
alter the inclination of the floats a, a, which when adjusted are all in a parallel
position to each other. It is intended that they shall generally work in a
vertical position, as shewn in the Drawing, but this may be varied.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner of performing the
same, I desire it to be understood that I do not intend to confine myself to
the precise details shewn by the Drawing, as they may be varied without
departing from my Invention; but what I claim is, the arrangement of the

page_text: wheels b, b, and floats a, a, to work with a rim or ring c and friction rollers
e, e, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Enoch Tayler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
FRED HARRIS.
ENOCH TAYLER. (L.S.)