IMPROVEMENTS IN IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said James Jeffs at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1882.
JAMES JEFFS, of Islington in the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN
IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER
"
The invention consists-in so arranging a clockwork, a system of drums or
pulleys and straps cords or chains or other suitable gearing set in motion by a
spring or weight, that the said clock work, drums pulleys or other gearing shall
set in motion one or more fans or bellows which in their turn blow or project air
against the vanes or pallets of one or more wind mills or paddle wheels causing the
saine to rotate. The motion of these windmills or paddle wheels is then trans-
mitted by straps, bands, cords, chains gearing or otherwise to the machinery or
other object to which it is intended to impart motion.
Any surplus power generated by the above mentioned arrangements. may be
employed to wind up the aforesaid clockwork, so as to keep the machinery or
apparatus at work continuously or as may be required.
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In the drawings figure 1 represents a plan of an arrangement constructed in
accordance with the invention and figure 2 an elevation of the blowing fan and
wind mill employed therein.
A represents an ordinary clock work driven by a spring in the barrel B, the
cord or chain C driving the fusee D which sets in motion the train of wheels E.
This train of wheels may be arranged in any convenient and suitable manner and
instead of toothed wheels a series of pulleys and straps cords or chains may be
employed to multiply the motion. To any one of the axles of this clockwork
according to the speed it is desired to obtain, is connected the spindle of a
centrifugal blowing fan F which may be of any ordinary and suitable construction
or instead of a fan, a bellows operated by a crank on one of the axles of the clock-
work may be employed. Opposite the outlet of this fan F is placed a wind mill G
of ordinary construction but preferably one in which the vanes run parallel to the
axis at the root but are twisted to an angle as they approach the circumference
somewhat like a screw propeller, H is a cord or band pulley fixed on the axis of
the windmill G by means of which motion can be imparted to any machine or
other object it is desired to set in motion. Instead of a cord or band pulley a

page_text: toothed wheel, a crank and connecting rod, a cam or other device may be
employed on the axis of the windmill according to the kind of work it is desired
to perform.
The action of the apparatus is as follows;-The clockwork A gives motion to
the fan F or bellows as the case may be and the air issuing from the outlet pipe or
nozzle of this fan or bellows sets the wind mill or paddlewheel G in motion which
in its turn drives the machinery or other object it is desired to set in motion.
When it is desired that the surplus power given out by the wind mill G shall be
utilized in winding up the clock work A the axis of the said wind mill is connected
to the winding square of the clockwork by means of toothed bevil or other
gearing I, J.
The object of the combination of mechanism above described is to obtain an
increase of power beyond that obtainable direct from the clockwork alone and the
invention is applicable to the driving of dynamo-electric or other machines for the
production of electric light or for other purposes, to the propulsion of boats or
vessels by any of the usual propellers, to the movement of vehicles of all kinds
whether on roads or railways and generally to all purposes requiring the application
of motive power.
Having now described the nature of the said invention and the manner in
which the same is to or may be carried into effect I would have it understood that
what I claim is ;-
First. The combination of clockwork or its equivalent driven by a spring or weight
such clockwork setting in motion a blowing fan or bellows the air from which
in its turn causes the rotation of a wind mill or paddle wheel which drives
the machine or other object it is desired to set in motion the whole combined
arranged and operating as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
drawings and for the purpose set forth.
:
Second. In combination with a clockwork or its equivalent a fan or bellows and
a windmill or paddlewheel arranged and operating together as hereinbefore
described, the employment of toothed bevil or other gearing connecting the
said wind mill or paddle wheel with the winding square of the clock work
or its equivalent for the purpose of winding up the said clockwork by means
of the surplus power generated in the apparatus substantially as hereinbefore
described.
In witness whereof I the said James Jeffs have hereunto set my hand
and seal this first day of July in the year of our Lord, One thousand