AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR ORTAINING PERRETITAL MOTION
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Guillemot, 42, Rue du Moulin à Vent, à
Poitiers, Département de la Vienne, France, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MACHINE FOR ORTAINING PERRETITAL MOTION."
Sealed the 12th January 1864, and dated the 24th August 1863
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Guillemot at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
August 1863.
LOUIS GUILLEMOT, 42, Rue du Moulin à Vent, à Poitiers, Département 'de
la Vienne, France, I, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR OBTAINING PERPETUAL MOTION," to be as
follows:
Fig. 1, (front view, (scale of 163 millimétres to 1 métre.)-A, A, frame
supporting the motive machine; B, B, B, axis of the machine; C, C, C, C, C, C,
C, C, C, C, ten wheels or disks fixed at equal distance from one another upon
the axletree B, B, B, (Figs. 1), and forming a sort of cylinder; they are
destined to support 72 coupled levers which are placed between the wheels or
diskes by groups of 4 couples, and represented in the Fig. 11. D, D, D, D, D,
axletrees, upon which the coupled levers of the first group are fixed;
E, E, E, E, E, a fragment of circle which forms one of the chief parts of the
86 coupled levers. This appendix is disposed in such a manner that it
grapples itself without effort at F, E, (Fig. 11), with an articulated lever E, E,
F, M, Y, (Fig. 111), and at a certain moment the coupled lever placed inside
the motive cylinder and the lever placed outside make but one lever E, E, E, E,
which presses them with all its weight on one of the points of the circum-
ference of the motive cylinder in order to make it run over a little more than.

page_text: the 36th part of the circumference, as it is shown in the Fig. 111; F, F, F,
F, F, F, F, F, levers disposed inside the motive cylinder, amounting to the
number of 72, fixed at D, D, D, D, upon axletrees which support them, and
tied together by an articulation H, H, H, H, by means of which binding
junction is established between them.
Fig. 11 (scale of 0m 20 to 1 métre),. a cut of the motive cylinder repre-
senting a group of eight coupled levers in the position they have when the
machine is set in motion. F. The letter F placed outside the motive cylinder
designates the extremity of the articulated lever Y, M, F, E, E, (Fig. 111),
which grapples itself at F, E, (Fig. 11.) with coupled levers F, F, F, F, placed
inside the machine; G, G, G, &, weights of lead in order to increase the
force of levers; H, articulation, by means of which a. binding junction is
established between the two coupled levers F, F, F, F, (Fig. 11); I, I, I, I,
latches, retaining at any distance desired the levers F, F, F, F, and letting
them escape by passing before the point of resistance J of the Fig. 111;
K, K, K, &, traverses joining the diskes or wheels together and retaining the
levers at any distance desired; these traverses have not been marked at all
in the first Figure in order to avoid confusion.
Fig. 111, side view of the machine (scale of 0m 10 to 1 métre).-A, A, A, A, A,
'frame supporting the machine; C, C, diskes or wheels divided into 36 parts,
and serving to establish the inside levers E, E; D, D, axes of two coupled
inside levers E, E, when they are about to work, that is, when they are in
contact with the great outside lever E, E; E, E, E, E, grappled levers when
they are about to work; E', E', the same having worked; Y, M, F, dis-
position of the levers making the lever E, E, descend more backwards than
forwards, and consequently forcing the machine to run over a greater distance,
as it is shown in the Fig. 111; G, G, small wheels upon which the motive
cylinder turns.
N.B. The compound lever Y, M, F, E, E, is nine times repeated in the
machine and corresponds with the middle of each interval of the wheels or
diskes.
The support points of the 4 coupled levers.in the first interval of the wheels
or diskes correspond with the numbers 1, 4, 8, 13. The support points of the
levers of the second interval correspond with the numbers 2, 5, 9, 14, and so
in the same manner unto the number 36. The inside articulated levers and
diskes may be in as great a number as it is desired; and the force increases
with the number of the inside levers. The outside articulated levers may be.
in as great a number as the inside coupled levers. If, in the above-described
machine, there are but nine outside articulated levers E, E, (Fig. 111), it is,

page_text: because the same lever grapples itself four times in each revolution of the
wheel at F, E, (Fig. 11), with different inside coupled levers, whilst it would
grapple itself but one if there were as many outside articulated levers as there
are inside articulated levers. To the outside articulated levers and the wheels
may be substituted a fixed traverse or mere supporting pointer placed hori-
zontally and parallelly with the motive cylinder. Upon this horizontal traverse
the levers grapple themselves by means of latches. The coupled levers F, F,
F, F, (Fig. 11) established in a binding junction together by means of the
articulation H (Fig. 11) may be in a three-fold, four-fold number, as well as
they may be put singly round the wheel, but at an equal distance from one
another. The levers are by turns above or below the axis in consequence of
the curvity which exists in the levers at the point H of the Fig. 11. The
levers take again from themselves the position they had before working as
soon as they have passed the vertical line. To the appendixes E, E, E, E, of the
inside levers (Fig. 11) may be substituted a straight prolongation, which
should take its point of support on a horizontal traverse, so as to work and
move like an ordinary lever. The ten wheels or diskes C, C, C, C, of the
Fig. 1 are only necessary there as support points, and the same effect may be
obtained otherwise.
In the Fig. 111 the lever Y may be put at the place of the lever F, and
reciprocally the lever F at the place of the lever Y, and any desired length
may be given them. By this means the weight M may be dispensed with
(Fig. 111) The weights of lead C (Fig. 11) destined to increase the force
may be superseded and compensated by the proper mass of the lever, that
should be heavier.
I declare expressly that I wish to reserve myself the right concerning any
alterations, improvements, or additions to be afforded to the Patent.
I declare, also, that my Invention distinguishes itself from any one hitherto
known, in that neither compressed air, water, steam, nor wind is required to
set my machine into motion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Guillemot in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th February 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS.
GUILLEMOT, 42, Rue du Moulin à Vent, à Poitiers, Departement de la Vienne,
France, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her 'most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Guillemot, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Guillemot,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Guillemot, 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE
FOR OBTAINING PERPETUAL MOTION," upon the condition (amongst others) that I;
the said Louis Guillemot, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Louis Guillemot, 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:-
Figure 1. Front view.-A, A, frame supporting the motive machine;
B, B, B, axis of the machine; C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, ten wheels
or disks, fixed at equal distance from one another upon the axletree
B, B, B, (Fig. 1), and forming a sort of cylinder, they are destined to sup-
port 72 coupled levers, which are placed between the wheels or disks by
groups of 4 couples, and represented in Fig. 11; D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D,
axletrees upon which the coupled levers of the first group are fixed;
E, E, E, E, E, a fragment of circle, which forms one of the chief parts of
the 36 coupled levers. This appendix is disposed in such a manner
as to grapple without effort at F, E, (Fig. 11), with an articulated
lever E, E, F, M, Y, (Fig. 111), and at a certain moment the coupled
lever placed inside the motive cylinder, and the lever placed outside make
but one lever E, E, E, E, E, which then presses with all its weight on
one of the points of the circumference of the motive cylinder, in order to
make it run over a little more than the 36th part of the circumference, as
shown in Fig. 111; F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, levers disposed inside the motive
cylinder, amounting to the number of 72, fixed at D, D, D, upon axle-

page_text: trees, which support. them, and tied together by an articulation H, H, H,
by means of which a binding junction is established between them.
Figure 11, a cut of the motive cylinder representing a group of eight
coupled levers in the position they have when the machine is set in motion.
F. The letter F placed outside of the motive cylinder represents the extremity
of the articulated, lever Y, M, F, E, E, (Fig. 111) which grapples itself
at F, E, (Fig. 11) with coupled levers F, F, F, F, placed inside the machine;
G, G, G, G, G, G, G, G, weights of lead, in order to increase the force of the
levers; H, H, H, H, articulation, by means of which a binding junction
is established between the two coupled lovers F, F, F, F, (Fig. 11); I, I, I, I,
latches retaining at any distance desired the levers F, F, F, F, and letting
them loose by passing before the point of resistance J of the Figure 111;
K, K, K, K, K, traverses joining the disks or wheels together and retaining
the levers at any distance required, these supports have not been marked
at all in the first Figure in order to avoid confusion.
Figure 111 side view of the machine.-A, A, A, A, A, frame supporting
the machine; C, C, C, disks or wheels divided into 36 parts, and serving
to establish the inside levers E, E; D, D, axes of two coupled inside
levers E, E, when they are about to work, that is, when they are in contact
with the great outside lever E, E; E, E, E, E, grappled levers, when they
are about to work; E', E', the same having worked; Y, M, F, disposition of
the levers making the lever E, E, descend more backwards than forwards,
and consequently forcing the machine to run over a greater distance as it is
shown in the Fig. 111; G, G, shuffle boards, small wheels, upon which the
motive cylinder turns.
.
N.D. The compound lever Y, M, F, E, E, is nine times repeated in the
machine and corresponds with the middle of each interval of the wheels or
lisks.
The support points of the 4 coupled levers in the first interval of the
wheels or disks correspond with the numbers 1, 4, 8, 13. The support points
of the levers of the second interval correspond with the numbers 2, 5, 9, 14,
and so in the same manner unto the number 36. The inside articulated
levers and disks may be in as great a number as desired, and the force increases
with the number of the inside levers. The outside articulated levers may
be in as great a number as the inside coupled levers.
If in the above
described machine there are but nine outside articulated levers E, E, (Fig. 111)
it is because the same lever grapples itself four times in each revolution
of the wheel at F, E, (Fig. 11) with different inside coupled levers, whilst it
would grapple itself but once if there were as many outside articulated levers as

page_text: there are inside articulated levers. The coupled levers F, F, F, F, (Fig. 11)
established in a binding junction together by means of the articulation H,
(Fig. 11) may be in a three-fold, four-fold number, or more, as well as they
may be put singly round the wheel, but at an equal distance from one another.
The levers are by turns above or below the axis in consequence of the curvity
which exists in the levers at the point H of the Figure 11. The levers take
again from themselves the position they had before working as soon as they
have passed the vertical line. To the appendixes E, E, E, E, of the inside
levers (Fig. 11) may be substituted a straight prolongation, which should
take its point of support on an horizontal traverse, so as to work and move
like an ordinary lever. The ten wheels or disks C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C,
of the Fig. 1, are only necessary there as support points, and the same effect
may be obtained otherwise.
.In the Fig. 111 the lever Y may be put at the place of the lever F, and
reciprocally the fever F at the place of the lever Y, and any desired length
may be given them. By this means the weight M may be dispensed with
(Fig. 111). The weight of lead G (Fig. 11) destined to increase the force
may be suppressed and compensated by the proper mass of the lever, that
should be heavier.
Explanations on the additional Fig. 4, 5, 6, & 7, for greater intelligence of
the whole.
Figure 4. The Figure 4 represents a ball or wheel which rolls upon the
motive interior levers from B to A, and from A to B. When the lever is
ready to act it is placed obliquely, then the ball B, which is held at B by a
spring, which lets it go when the lever passes before the point of resistance
situated at B, descends rapidly in augmenting the speed. Its weight augments
and weighs with greater force upon the lever, which gives consequently a
great force to the wheel. The ball B arriving at A stops and returns to B,
when the lever has acted. The ball B can be placed in a box fixed upon the
lever from B to A or in a hollow cylinder fixed from B to A. The ball Ba
can be replaced by a wheel, which placed in a box would give the same
results. The box and the cylinder can be replaced by a slide, by means of
little wheels, which would insure the same results. This little machinery can
be made of any material desired.
Figure 5. A, part of the frame upon which is fixed the lever Y; Y, lever
bolding in equilibrium the lengthening of the lever E, E, by means of the
counterpoise M; E, E, external levers of the machine attached at F, E, to
the motive levers coupled, and interior E, E, E, E. These external motive
levers E, E, may be lengthened or shortened at pleasure.

page_text: Figure 6. E, E, one of the motive levers with its latch at D as in
Figure 111.
Figure 7. F, F, F,F, two motive levers coupled and interior, one of which
is continued from S to T, where it takes in passing a support under the latch
V pivoting round the point X, in order to be able to act, and make the wheel
and the machine turn round. The diameter of the wheels, or of the supports
from the great axle B, B, B, of the machine, to each axle of the motive
interior levers, can be made as large as desired. The number of the motive
interior levers F, F, F, F, is unlimited. By leaving from distance to distance
a space between the disks, one could put supports there to maintain the grand
axle B, B, B, always straight; there are as many exterior levers E, E, as
there are intervals between the disks; the number of these disks can be
augmented or diminished; the interior levers can be coupled or single. In
order to diminish the friction of the axle B, B, B, it can be made to turn
upon small wheels, the latches can be replaced by wheels with teeth placed
upon the cross beams or upon the supports, which will replace the cross beams.
The interior levers can be augmented or diminished, lengthened or shortened
at pleasure. The levers E, E, can be replaced by prolongments like those at
Fig. 7, upon the levers F, F, F, F, from S to T.
The undersigned positively declares he intends to maintain his right to any
alterations, additions, or improvements to he introduced to his Invention,
declaring likewise that his machine distinguishes itself from any other
hitherto known by its requiring neither compressed air, water, steam, nor
wind to be set in motion.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Guillemot, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of February 1864.
roitiers, 10th February, 1804,
LOUIS GUILLEMOT. (L.S.)
42, Rue du Moulin à Vent, Poitiers,
Dept. de la Vienne,
France.