Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
.I, WILLIAM PECK, F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E., Astronomer to the City of Edinburgh.
City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, 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:-
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My invention has for its object to provide an improved arrangement of motor-
propelled road vehicles the steering and propelling being effected from the front
pair of wheels whilst the electrical accumulators, in the case of electric motors.
and water and oil tanks in the case of oil motors, are supported by the hinder
wheels and connected to the motor by connections which will allow of the necessary
relative movements.
I will describe a vehicle constructed in accordance with my invention with refer-
ence to the accompanying drawings which illustrate it as applied to a vehicle
propelled by an electric motor from which its application to a vehicle propelled
by au oil motor, will also be understood. Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in
section. Figure 2 is a transverse section looking from the back towards the front
of the vehicle and Figure 3 is a plan.
The motor a is supported between springs 6 on a frame e capable of rotating in
an upper frame provided with slides capable of sliding vertically in guides d
carried by the forepart of the frame c upon which the body of tlie vehicle (which
is not shewn and which may be of any approved design) is mounted. The frame e
is preferably built of tubes and junction pieces, after the manner in which a
bicycle frame is made. The front part of this frame is made of pyramidal, or
arched, form and carries a guide el encircled by a spring f which constitutes a
yielding support for the vehicle-body. On a cross-bar of the frame e is pivotally
mounted a chain wheel around which passes a chuin passing also around a
chain wheel on a vertical shaft passing through the tubular post h and having
a handle at top, by which the speed can be altered by shifting clutches
connected together by a rod h moveable in relation to, and parallel with, the
front wheel axle, to put into operative connection with the motor, either the slow
speed wheels at or the quick wheels at k; the rod h is provided with a pin or
projection which engages with a slot in the chain-wheel c so that when the said
wheel is rotated the necessary movement will be imparted to the rod and adjust-
able portions of the clutches. The motor a drives the axle of the front wheels
by means of a worm i Fig. 2, engaging with a worm wheel on a countershaft
provided with toothed wheels gearing with the slow speed and quick speed
wheels j, on the wheel axle. The handle and lever at 7 is for steering, by turning,
by means of the rod 7, the lower frame c in either direction in the frame c².
The accumulators (or tanks as the case may be) are supported by a carrier m
suspended by springs at m³ Fig. 1. The hinder wheels have on their axes brake
pulleys with straps around them secured at one end to depending brackets n
and at the other end to levers on a rocking shaft p actuated by a foot lever p².

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In motor propelled road vehicles the arrangement of the motor and speed
regulating and steering devices and the bearings for the front wheels upon a frame
capable of moving vertically and of rotating; and of a spring support for the
accumulators or tanks supported by the hinder wheels and connected to the motor
all substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. A motor propelled road vehicle consisting of, or including, the arrangement
and combination of parts hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
1000