A NEW MOTIVE APPARATUS, AND PROCESSES PROPER FOR GIVING TO IT A CONTINUOUS MOTION AND UNLIMITED STRENGTH
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henri Dembinski at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
February 1863.
I, HENRI DEMBINSKI, of Rue de l'Oratoire du Roule, No. 13, Paris, in the
Empire of France, General, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "A NEW MOTIVE APPARATUS, AND PROCESSES PROPER FOR GIVING TO IT A
CONTINUOUS MOTION AND UNLIMITED STRENGTH," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of certain arrangements of mechanism for obtaining
continuous motion with any amount of power according to the size and strength
of the parts, and in order that it may be better understood I annex the
accompanying 2 Sheets of Drawings, with letters of reference.
The apparatus is composed of a double toothed wheel without armis, having
one set of teeth on the outside of the rim and the other set in the inside, and
the exterior teeth are larger than the interior. This wheel is suspended on
the pinion or toothed wheel B, the toothed part of which corresponds with the
interior teeth of the wheel A, A, A, A. In order to keep the wheel in position
and give its rotating motion the necessary regularity, I place opposite the
pinion B the pinion B', exactly similar to the pinion B. The shafts or axes of
these two pinions are kept apart from each other by the strong bar c, c, c, c,
which causes the teeth of the pinions to press firmly against the interior of the
wheel A, A, A, A. The pinions B and B' move freely on their axes D and D'.
It is clear that if we would prove by what manner the axes D and D' move
one towards the right, the other towards the left, then the pinions B and B',
yielding to the traction exerted on their respective axes, will turn, the one

page_text: towards the right and the other towards the left, and will by this means com-
municate a uniform rotary motion to the wheel A, A, A, A, but in order that
this motion may be more easy, I add to the pinions B and B¹ other pinions of
greater diameter. The teeth of these pinions gear into pinions or wheels
placed outside the wheel A, A, A, A, so as to give it, by means of other
pinions acting on the exterior, a rotary motion conformable to that which it
receives from the pinions B, B¹, the arrows marking the direction of rotation.
The pinion B' is shewn without the additional pinion, in order that the Drawing
may be more easily understood. The toothed wheels E and E¹, fixed to the
axes F and F', are intended to receive and communicate the useful motion of
the whole machine; they may be smaller or larger than the wheel A, A, A, A,
from which they receive motion.
Having now explained the construction of the apparatus and the manner in
which motion may be communicated to it, I pass to the explanation of the
means of giving the whole system continuous motion.
The means consist in employing an elastic resistance on the axes of the
pinions B and B¹. The rounds G, G', are intended to represent springs of
elastic material, that is, springs made of steel, compressed air, or even caout-
chouc. These rounds serve as supports to the bars H and H', against which
the axes of the pinions recline and yield as much as is necessary, but they
should resist sufficiently to compel the pinions to turn.
In order to operate the apparatus it is necessary to make it work between
two iron plates or wooden planks; in this way the axes will have their points
of support at right angles with the plates, which should be placed parallel, one
opposite the other. Or instead of a single toothed wheel with double gearing,
I make use of two wheels, as shewn in Sheet 2, one marked A, A, A, A, of a
greater diameter, and the other marked B, B, B, B, of a smaller diameter. These
wheels have a double toothed gearing, are both without axles, and rest only on
the brackets C, C, C, C, with axles D, D, D, D, which axles rest on their ends in
a frame of iron E, E, E, E, which frame may be covered or lined outside with
another wooden frame F, F, F, F. These frames must be firmly fixed to a
bed, in order that the motion given to the apparatus may not cause it to
vibrate or shake.