A Beam Perpetual Motor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Beam Perpetual Motor.
EDWARD SCHOLEY of Acadia Mines in the County of Colchester and
Province of Nova Scotia Dominion of Canada Forgeman and Machinist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The beams are
A machine driven by beams which produces its own power.
one, two, three four or more in number and they are heavier at one end than at
the other. They work with a section motion.
The beam perpetual motor is built on a cast iron plate, there are one driving
wheel and one counter wheel runs on two horizontal axles, on the driving wheel
axle there are eight semi-cog sections geared at eight angles four at each side of
the driving wheel, on the counter wheel axle there are four cams geared at
four angles, there are four beams placed in the centre, two at each side of the
driving wheel and counter wheel each beam has a semi-section cog wheel to suit
the other sections on the driving shaft, the motor is balanced before the beams are
weighted, one stroke of each beam puts the counter wheel three fourths round so
each cam lifts the beam with one fourth of a revolution so there are three beams
drawing all the time at all points weighted equal to suit the power they are three
to one at all points.
Acadia Mines January 14th 1893.
EDWARD SCHOLEI.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Beam Perpetual Motor.
I EDWARD SCHOLEY of Acadia Mines Londonderry in the County of
Colchester and Province of Nova Scotia British North America Forgeman and
Machinist, 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 :-
:-
The beam perpetual motor is built on a cast iron plate three feet long by
two feet ten inches in width and seven eighths thick, with a wheel race in the
centre twelve inches deep and three and one half inches wide. There is one
driving wheel and one counter wheel runs on two horizontal axles. There are
four pedestals one at each end of the axles. The driving wheel axle pedestals
from the bed plate to the centre of the axle is eighteen inches, the counter wheel
axle pedestals from the bed plate to the centre of the axle is nine and one
quarter inches.
The full length of the driving and counter wheel axles is
two feet four and one half inches.

page_text: The necks of the axles are one inch long and five eighths of an inch in diameter.
The driving wheel W and the counter wheel C are geared at the centre of the
axles and run into each other, the driving wheel W is thirty inches in diameter
and seven eighths of an inch wide on the face and has two hundred and
eighty eight cogs, the counter wheel C is fifteen inches in diameter and the same
width as the driving wheel W and has one hundred and forty four cogs half the
number of the driving wheel W, on the counter axle there is a fly wheel close to
the counter wheel C thirty inches diameter, the driving wheel W, counter wheel C
and fly wheel are made in proportion. On the driving wheel axle there are eight
semi-cog sections geared at eight angles, four at each side of the driving wheel W,
that is two sections for each beam, each section is one fourth of a cog wheel
seven and one half inches in diameter with fifty six cogs, all the eight sections are
seven eighths wide on the face, the sections are fastened on plain cam wheels, they
are movable and can be made larger or smaller to suit stroke or
There are four cams on the counter shaft geared at four angles, the hob of the
power.
cams is three inches diameter, the cam is half of a circle seven and one half inches
diameter commencing from the face of the hob, the cam is one inch and one half
wide, from the axle to the height of the cam is seven and three eighths inches
when perpendicular and leaving the beam B.
The beam is eighteen and three quarter inches long.
From the centre of the beam cam wheel to the exte of the first cog in the
section of the beam is seventeen and one quarter inches. The centre of the cam
wheel, the centre of the beam axle to the centre of the first cog in the section is
parallel.
The distance from three fourths of the cam wheel forward is eighteen and
one half inches, from the centre to three fourths forward where the cam connects
is nine and one quarter inches, from the centre of the beam to the first cog in the
section of the beam is nine and one quarter inches, the beam is one inch thick.
There is two lips at the cam end of the beam B each three eighths of an inch thick
one inch and three quarters wide and three inches long, the space between the lips
is three quarters of an inch wide and three inches deep for the cam wheel to be
geared in. The cam wheel axle is seven sixteenths of an inch in diameter goes
through the two lips. The cam wheel is three inches and one half diameter,
round on the face. The cam wheel runs loose on the axle. From the beam axle
backward is two inches wide and three inches long tapered to the section, on the
back of the beam backwards there is a tapet to stay the beam B before coming in
contact with the cam, the tapet is three inches from the centre on the back, the
tapet is regulated and fastened by two bolts through the beam B, from the beam
axle to the beam cam N the beam forms a semicircle to free the cam, the section
at the beam end is five eighths wide, the beam section has fifteen cogs from a
segment of a wheel fifteen inches diameter, same pitch as the driving segment S,

page_text: the beam gives the angle of the driving segment S, the beam section has fifteen
cogs the driving section fourteen cogs to allow the driving section to clear itself
before the cam comes in contact with the beam cam N.
The centre for the frame from the face of the driving section is nine and
one quarter inches, from the bed plate to the centre of the beam axle the height is
seventeen and three quarter inches, there is four frames F, there is two frames
each side of the driving wheel W for the four beams B, the two frames F take a
space of ten inches each side of the driving wheel W, two frames F three inches
wide and twenty one inches high, there is two spaces between each frame for the
dies that the beam axle runs in, each die is fastened with twin keys, they are
movable to suit the section cam if made larger or smaller, to the centre of the
beam from the bed plate is seventeen and three quarter inches, the length of the
beam axle is two and one half inches with centre ends that work in the steel dies,
one inch from the top of the four frames there is a cross bar T fastened with set
screws for the beams tapet.
The driving section and the beam section will work made larger they are more
power. The beam motor will work with two or more beams each and coupled.
The beams can he made longer and sections larger to suit power.
It will work by putting the counter wheel back of the driving wheel and adding
a counter beam and connecting rod or lever to work underneath or top. It will
work with two machines with two or more levers each and coupled. The segments
can be made solid with hobs instead of cam wheels.
The beam motor will work with the axle of the beam moved forward and back-
ward to suit the stroke and power. The beam will work in pedestals like all
other beams.
The motor and the beams are balanced before weighted. The beams can be
cast heavier at the cam end or weighted one stroke of each beam puts the counter
wheel three fourths round, so each cam lifts the beam with one fourth of a
revolution, so there are three beams drawing all the time at all points, weighted
equal to suit the power they are three to one at all points.
. 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 I
claim is:
A beam perpetual motor that produces its own power.