Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Motion from the Wheels of Moving Railway Vehicles to Machinery within such Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov.; 1893-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Motion from the
Wheels of Moving Railway Vehicles to Machinery within such
Vehicles.
I, MARIO CANINO, of No. 11 Via S. Pasquale Castelnuovo della Daunia,
Puglia, Italy, Music Master do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for object to transmit motion from the wheels of moving
railway vehicles to machinery within such vehicles and to thereby utilize in an
advantageous manner any motive power that may be generated by the locomotive
in excess of that necessary for drawing the train, or which may be available when
descending inclined portions of the track.
An arrangement of apparatus for this purpose
drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a section on the line A B of Fig. 2;
Fig. 2 a plan;
illustrated in the accompanying
Fig. 3 a similar view to Fig. 1, the parts being here shewn in the working
position; and
Fig. 4 an end elevation;
Fig. 5 is a detail view.
Upon an axle of the vehicle to which the machinery to be driven is applied are
mounted toothed pinions 1 which gear with toothed wheels 2 mounted on a movable
On this
shaft 2 that is suspended beneath the framing of the vehicle by links 7.
movable shaft is keyed a crown wheel 3 adapted to gear with a pinion 4 fixed upon
a vertical shaft 4ª mounted to rotate in bearings fixed to the framing of the vehicle
and to extend above the said framing this shaft being provided at its upper end
with a driving pulley 5.
To enable the apparatus to be readily thrown in and out of operation while the
vehicle is in motion the swinging shaft 2 is connected by links 6 to a hand lever 6ª
pivoted to a standard or holder 8 that is formed with a recess or catch at 9. As
will be seen the arrangement is such that when the lever is moved into the position
shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 in which it can be held by the recess or catch 9 the
wheels 2 will be moved into gear with the pinions 1 as shown in Fig. 3 and if the
vehicle be then in motion the apparatus will be set in operation and if the lever be
than disengaged and allowed to move into the position shown in full lines in
Fig. 5, the shaft 2° and toothed wheels 2 will move out of gear with the pinions 1
and into the position shown in Fig. 1 in which the apparatus will be inoperative.
Thus at any time during the movement of the train it will be possible to regulate
at will the operation of the vertical shaft 4" and thus of the shafting and machines
driven from the pulley 5 fixed thereon. Inside the vehicle there may be arranged
vertical and horizontal shafts according to requirement. The diameter of the
pinions 1 may be increased, and the diameter of the toothed wheels 2 diminished,
or vice versa, according to circumstances. Also each of the axles of the vehicle
may be provided with apparatus of the kind herein described so that power can
be transmitted from one or more or all of the axles of the vehicle according to the
amount of excess power of the train, and the motive force required in the vehicle
for any particular purpose..
A number of operations may be carried on in a vehicle provided with the above
5. described apparatus such.as spinning, printing milling &c. the power being obtained
at comparatively small expense. In this way each train may be provided with a
travelling workshop which would require the attention of a very small staff, or

page_text: even a single person to control the driving mechanism therefor. The vehicle
would of course, be properly closed in and provided with doors and windows.
The application of apparatus according to this invention to a mill would be very
useful for military purposes, say for the service of troops in the field.
The amount of the motive power thus obtained from the axle of the vehicle
should bear such a proportion to the power of the locomotive engine drawing the
train that it will not cause a slackening of the speed of the train in which case the
locomotive would require to exert a greater tractive power,
Dated this 23rd day of November 1892.
M. CANINO,
By L. W., per F, B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Motion from the
Wheels of Moving Railway Vehicles to Machinery within such
Vehicles.
I, MARIO CANINO, of No. 11 Via S. Pasquale Castelnuovo della Daunia,
Puglia, Italy, Music Master 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 has for object to transmit motion from the wheels of moving
railway vehicles to machinery within such vehicles and to thereby utilize in an
advantageous manner any motive power that may be generated by the locomotive
in excess of that necessary for drawing the train, or which may be available when
descending inclined portions of the track.
An arrangement of apparatus for this purpose is illustrated in the drawings filed
with my Provisional Specification, in which
Fig. 1 is a section on the line A B of Fig. 2;
Fig. 2 a plan;
Fig. 3 a similar view to Fig. 1, the parts being here shewn in the working
position; and
Fig. 4 an end elevation ;
Fig. 5 is a detail view.
On this
Upon an axle of the vehicle to which the machinery to be driven is applied are
mounted toothed pinions 1 which gear with toothed wheels 2 mounted on a movable
shaft 2 that is suspended beneath the framing of the vehicle by links 7.
movable shaft is keyed a crown wheel 3 adapted to gear with a pinion 4 fixed upon
a vertical shaft 4ª mounted to rotate in bearings fixed to the framing of the vehicle
and to extend above the said framing this shaft being provided at its upper end with
a driving pulley 5.
To enable the apparatus to be readily thrown in and out of operation while the
vehicle is in motion the swinging shaft 2ª is connected by links 6 to a hand lever 6"
pivoted to a standard or holder 8 that is formed with a recess or catch at 9. As
will be seen the arrangement is such that when the lever is moved into the position
shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 in which it can be held by the recess or catch 9 the
wheels 2 will be moved into gear with the pinions 1 as shown in Fig. 3 and if the
vehicle be then in motion the apparatus will be set in operation and if the lever be
then disengaged and allowed to move into the position shown in full lines in Fig. 5,
the shaft 2 and toothed wheels 2 will move out of gear with the pinions 1 and into
the position shown in Fig. 1 in which the apparatus will be inoperative. Thus at
any time during the movement of the train it will be possible to regulate at will the
operation of the vertical shaft 4" and thus of the shafting and machines driven from
the pulley 5 fixed thereon. Inside the vehicle there may be arranged vertical and
horizontal shafts according to requirement. The diameter of the pinions 1 may be
increased, and the diameter of the toothed wheels 2 diminished, or vice versa, according

page_text: to circumstances. Also each of the axles of the vehicle may be provided with
apparatus of the kind herein described so that power can be transmitted from
one or more or all of the axles of the vehicle according to the amount of excess
power of the train, and the motive force required in the vehicle for any particular
purpose.
A number of operations may be carried on in a vehicle provided with the above
described apparatus such as spinning, printing, milling &c. the power being
obtained at comparatively small expense. In this way each train may be provided
with a travelling workshop which would require the attention of a very small staff, or
even a single person to control the driving mechanism therefor. The vehicle would
of course, be properly closed in and provided with doors and windows.
The application of apparatus according to this invention to a mill would be very
useful for military purposes, say for the service of troops in the field.
The amount of the motive power thus obtained from the axle of the vehicle should
bear such a proportion to the power of the locomotive engine drawing the train
that it will not cause a slackening of the speed of the train in which case the
locomotive would require to exert a greater tractive power.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For transmitting motion from the wheels of a railway vehicle to machinery
within such vehicle apparatus comprising a shaft suspended below the framing of
the vehicle in such a manner that it can swing or oscillate and having fixed thereto
toothed wheels that are capable of being placed in and out of gear with toothed
wheels fixed upon a rotary axle of the vehicle and also a toothed wheel arranged to
gear with a toothed wheel fixed to a rotary shaft extending into the vehicles and
means for causing the shaft to move about the axis from which it is suspended
substantially as herein described for the purpose specified.
2. For transmitting motion from the wheels of a railway vehicle, apparatus
constructed arranged and operating substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 29th day of November 1892.
M. CANINO,
By L. W., per F. B.