Improvements in Electric Road Vehicles Actuated by Electricity.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electric Road Vehicles Actuated by Electricity.
I, THOMAS MACHIN of No. 2 Woodside Terrace Ouchan, Isle of Man,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the application in the manner hereinafter described of
electricity to the propulsion of road vehicles such for example as a tramcar,
omnibus, or other road vehicles.
I will describe my invention as applied to the propulsion of a tram car.
At the rear and fore ends of the car I fix an electro-motor the shaft being
geared preferably by band gearing or I may arrange a train of toothed wheels in
such a way that the rotation of the shaft of the motor will communicate motion to
the wheels of the car. The electro-motors are driven by a number of suitably
constructed accumulators contained in boxes placed under the seats at the top and
bottom of the cars hereafter referred to. I construct a suitably shaped iron frame,
of a trough shape in section constituting a channel along which the wires pass
from the accumulators to the motors. The said frame forms the framework and
foundation of the car, and supports the motors and driving gear.
I construct a series of cradles which carry the accumulators for the purpose of
giving a freedom of motion to the rise and fall of gradiance and so constructed as
not to interfere with the connecting plates for conveying the current from one
accumulator to another. The said cradles are supported on a suitable frame or
carrier of a size to carry the accumulator and are properly balanced on trunnion
like arms placed central. I place a piece of wood at the bottom of each cradle
secured to ribs formed at the bottom thereof upon which the accumulator rests.
The iron frame herein before referred to consists of rectangular trough shaped
channels having four sides constituting channels one running horizontally across
the middle thereof, the whole constituting a continuous chamber along which the
wires pass. The wires conducting the electrical current from the accumulators to
the electro-motor at the fore and rear ends of the car. The first set conducting
the current from the accumulators at the top of the car will pass down one side and
one end and hence along the central channel to the motor at the fore end of the
car. The current from the accumulators under the seats placed inside the car is
conducted by the wires passing along the end and hence along the central channel
to the motor at the rear end of the car. I provide suitable switches by which the
electric current is put into or out of circuit with various parts as required.
I likewise provide mechanism for steering the vehicles and for a bogie when such
is used also lever or connections for starting, stopping, speed graduating and the
like. The said mechanism may be operated either by hand or foot.
1000
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, THOMAS MACHIN of No. 2, Woodside Terrace, Ouchan, Isle of Man,
Engineer 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 the application in the manner hereinafter described of
electricity to the propulsion of road vehicles such for example as a tram car,
omnibus and other road vehicles.
I will describe my invention as applied to the propulsion of a tram-car.
At the rear and fore ends of the car I fix an electro motor the shaft being
geared preferably by band gearing or I may arrange a train of toothed wheels in
such a way that the rotation of the shaft of the motor will communicate motion to
the wheels of the car.
The electro motors are driven by a number of suitably constructed accumulators
contained in boxes placed under the seats at the bottom of the cars hereinafter
referred to. I construct a suitable iron frame of a trough shape in section
constituting a channel along which the wires pass from accumulators to the motors
and from the motors back to the accumulators at the rear end of the car. The
said frame forms the framework and foundation of the car and supports the motors
and driving gear. I construct a series of cradles which carry the accumulators for
the purpose of giving a freedom of motion to the rise and fall of gradient and so
constructed as not to interfere with the connecting plates for conveying the current
from one accumulator to another. The said cradles are supported on a suitable
frame or carrier of a size to carry the accumulator and are properly balanced on
trunnion like arms placed central. I place a piece of wood at the bottom of each
cradle secured to ribs formed at the bottom thereof upon which the accumulator
rests. The iron frame herein before referred to consists of a rectangular trough
shaped channel having four sides constituting channels one running horizontally
along the sides of the car, the whole constituting a continuous chamber along which
the wires pass, the wires conducting the electrical current to and from the accumu-
lators to switch and from thence to the electro motor at the fore and rear ends of
the car. The current to aud from the accumulators, under the seats, placed inside
the car, is conducted by the wires passing along the end and hence along to the
motor at the rear end of the car. I provide suitable switches by which the electric
current is put into or out of circuit with various parts as required. I likewise
provide a bogie when such is used, also lever or connections for starting, stopping,
speed, graduating, and the like. The mechanism may be operated either by hand
or foot.
I will describe my invention by reference to the accompanying drawings the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figures 1 and 2 represent in horizontal section and plan respectively a tram car
fitted with my improvements.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 are detailed parts of my invention.
In Figures 1 and 2, A and B are the electro motors fitted at the fore and rear
ends of the car by which rotary motion is transmitted by means of the gearing C
and C to the wheels of the car. The electro motors A and B are driven by means
of a number of accumulators placed in the boxes D, D), under the seats at the
bottom of the car and are carried by the cradle E supported on the carriers F F.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 illustrate in side elevation, end elevation and plan, of a cradle
and of the carriers. The cradle consists of a frame provided with trunnions H, H,
which engage in the seats 1 of the carriers F F and balance the accumulators and

page_text: gives freedom of motion thereto to the rise and fall of gradients.
represents a
piece of wood at the bottom of the cradle E upon which the accumulator rests.
K represents a trough shaped channel along which the wires pass to and from the
accumulators also to and from the electro motors A and B at the fore and rear
ends of the car.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is
1. Improvements in electric road vehicles actuated by electricity consisting of
the cradles E for holding the accumulators and the trough or channel K for holding
the wires for conducting the current from the accumulator to the motor or motors,
substantially as above described and shown in the accompanying drawings and for
the purpose set forth.
2. The arrangement of the cradle E supported on the carriers F F by the
trunnions H, H, for the purpose of holding the accumulators and giving freedom
of motion thereto substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings and for the purpose set forth.
3. The arrangement of the trough shaped channel for holding the wires substan-
tially as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 28th day of July 1896.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.