IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAM CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES PROPELLED BY ELECTRICITY
Year: 1884

page_text: I ANTHONY RECKENZAUN of 8 Osborne Road, Forest Gate, in the County of
Essex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN TRAM CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES PROPELLED BY ELECTRICITY (Previously
included in Number 62758) to be as follows:
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby the gearing and motors
used for propelling vehicles by electricity are rendered self-contained and inde-
pendent of the body of the car or carriage; and, this is especially applicable to
tram cars where two or more electro-motors are employed, as referred to in the
Provisional Specification of my Invention Number 62758.
For the purpose of carrying out my present Invention, I employ either bogics or
radiating axles. The motors with the gearing are supported on frames attached to
the axles, and capable of moving with them.

page_text: I ANTHONY RECKENZAUN of 8 Osborne Road, Forest Gate, London, E. in the
County of Essex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAM CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES PROPELLED BY ELECTRICITY
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my present Invention is to provide means whereby the gearing
and motor used for propelling vehicles by Electricity are rendered independant of
the body of the Car or Carriage; and, this is especially applicable to tram or
railway cars where two or more Electro-motors are employed, as described in the
Complete Specification of my Invention N° 6275.
The advantages of bogies or radiating axles in combination with mechanically
driven cars travelling on rails having curves, are well known; but, apart from the
usefulness of a flexible wheel base, it is desirable that cars of a certain weight
should be supported upon more than two axles, in order to distribute the load more
evenly and render light rails or roads serviceable and durable. This distribution
of the load is particularly requisite with Electrically driven cars which carry
batteries within them, owing to their increased weight.
Now, according to my present Invention, I support the motor or motors and
gearing, upon frames attached to the axles of the car, so that the driving arrange-
ment is capable of adjusting itself to, or following, the movement of such axles.-
I may employ radiating axles, or I may prefer bogies, as shewn in the accom-
panying drawing, referring to which, Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a
tram car having my present Invention applied thereto; Figure 2 being a sectional
plan of the same. M, M¹ are the motors, imparting motion by means of the
worms W and worm wheels Y, to the driving axles b. Each motor with the
bearing c of its worm W is carried on a frame F, supported on the pair of axles b, b₁
of the bogie A, which is pivotted at a to the body B of the car, resting upon
girders D, and provided with the usual slides to keep it in position. The driving
mechanism is thus self-contained, no part of it being attached to the body of the
car. This arrangement not only simplifies the transmission of power to the axles,
but permits of the car body being detached and replaced.
Although I have represented in the accompanying drawing the use of a worm
and worm wheel for transmitting the driving axle, yet it is obvious that any other
kind of gearing may be employed for said purpose.
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
Firstly:-The employment of bogies or radiating axles in combination with an
Electro-motor or Electro-motors in such a manner that the bogie or radiating axles

page_text: may be utilised as driving axles, the driving mechanism adjusting itself to the
movement of the axles, substantially as herein described, and shewn in the accom-
panying drawing.
Secondly-The supporting of the motor or motors and gearing upon the axles
independant of the body of the body of the car or other vehicle, thus making the
whole of the driving mechanism self-contained, substantially as herein described,
and shown in the accompanying drawing.