Improvements in Horse Checking Devices for Vehicles, applicable to other Purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 12th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Checking Devices for Vehicles, applicable to
other Purposes.
I, SAMUEL WYATT, of 1726, Market Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,
Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an attachment for vehicles which is especially designed
for the purpose of holding the team when they are to be left, and also as a
convenient attachment for holding the reins in any case, and it may also be
employed for supporting a whip, or a lantern to be used at night. It may also
be employed to generate electricity to illuminate the lantern and said lantern
may be used for advertising purposes.
By my invention, the inner periphery of the hub of a vehicle wheel is formed
with cogs which are adapted to operate my attachment. The attachment com-
prises two revoluble standards, preferably supported by the axle, and united
adjacent to each other by suitable clips or like means. At their lower ends they
are fitted with intermeshing pinions, one of which, when in its normal position,
gears with the peripheral cogs of the wheel hub. The standard carrying this
pinion is made vertically reciprocable so that the gears can be disengaged when
desired to stop rotation of the standards. It can be retained elevated by any
suitable means, such as a screw which penetrates one standard and enters an
opening in the other standard. When in its lowest position it can be kept
from rising by a catch on the adjacent standard being turned so as to project
over its upper end. Both standards have vertical slots in their upper ends to
retain the reins when placed therein.
When a team is to be left, the reins are placed in the slots in one or both
standards, and the gears put in mesh. Movement of the team and vehicle causes
the reins to wind upon the standard and, being thereby drawn taut, check the
animals.
The socket in the upper end of the standards may be used to hold a lantern
which may have advertisements imprinted upon it; the lantern being caused to
rotate as the vehicle moves.
A small dynamo may be driven by the hub or pinions on the standards, to
generate electricity for the illumination of the lantern.
Dated this 10th day of May 1899
P. R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Checking Devices for Vehicles, applicable to
other Purposes.
1, SAMUEL WYATT, of 1726, Market Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,
Inventor, 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 relates to an attachment for vehicles which is especially designed
for the purpose of holding the team when they are left, and also as a convenient
attachment for holding the reins in any case, and it may also be employed for
the support of a whip, or a lantern to be used at night. It may also be employed
to generate electricity to illuminate the lantern, and said lantern may be used
for advertising purposes. It consists essentially in one or more vertical standards
supported from the axle, either or both of which may be turnable by means of
intermeshing gears and a driving gear fixed to the wheel or hub by which motion
is transmitted thereto.
Both the vertical shafts are slotted to receive the reins and one is movable to
disengage it from the wheel driving device, so that when desired it may remain
stationary. When the gears are engaged it revolves, and if the horse or team
should start when the reins are attached, the latter will be wound up and exert
a pull which will stop them.
Referring to the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a vertical elevation, shewing the part of the wheel and axle, and
the attachment. Fig. 2 shews the standards with a lamp and reins attached
thereto. Fig. is a plan view shewing the intermeshing gears.
A represents the axle of any vehicle or any other stationary part to which it
may be convenient to attach my device. B is the hub of a wheel, turnable upon
the axle and having a gearing C fixed to its inner periphery.
D and E are vertical standards supported from the axle or other stationary
part as shewn, and having gears F upon the lower ends which intermesh with
cach other.
One of these gears also engages the gear Cupon the wheel hub and through
this, motion it transmitted to rotate the two standards.
When the device is to be thrown out of operation, it is done by raising the
standard ) which has, made in it, a right-angled slot d.
A pine projects from the side of the standard E and its end enters the
slot d.
The vertical portion of the slot d is long enough to allow the standard D to
be raised, sliding upon the pin e until the gear upon the lower end has been
disengaged from the gear C of the wheel.
The standard D is then turned so that the pin enters the transverse portion of
the slot and it thus holds the standard D up with its gear F out of engagement
with the gear C of the wheel.
In this condition both standards will remain stationary..
When the standard D has been lowered, to bring the gears into engagement,
it may be held down, if desired by a stop G swivelled upon the standard E and
turnable so as to extend above the end of the standard D, ihus preventing it
from rising.
In the upper end of each of these standards are made slots as shewn at H, H₁,
and these are adapted to receive the bight of the reins which can be hooked
into either at will.

page_text: For an ordinary stop, when the standard D is raised and the gears disengage.
the reins may be dropped into siot H' of the standard E, but where the team
is to be left, the standard D will be lowered until the gears are in engagement
and the reins engaged with the slot H in its upper end, after which the stop G
may be turned above the upper end to prevent the reins from pulling out.
When arranged in this manner, any movement of the team will cause the
shaft to turn, and will wind the reins up on it whether the team moves backward
or forward, and in any case a pull will be exerted which will tend to stop their
movement.
When not in use for other purposes, the upper end of the socket E may be
used as a socket for a whip I, which will be in convenient position for use by
the driver, or for an alarm bell.
Either of the sockets at the top of the standards 1 or E may also be employed
to support a lantern which has a shank suitable to fit the sockets, and, if the
shafts are revoluble, the light may be displayed alternately through different
coloured glasses of which the sides may be formed, or advertising matter may
be imprinted upon the glass if desired.
By gearing the device so as to rotate one of the shafts at a sufficient rate of
speed, it could be made to drive a small dynamo to furnish an electric current
for an incandescent light in place of other kinds.
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) A vehicle attachment consisting of one or more vertically journalled
standards, gears upon the lower ends of the standards and upon the wheel hub
through which motion may be transmitted to rotate the standards..
(2) A vehicle attachment consisting of one or more vertical standards having
slots in the upper end for the attachment of reins, and means comprising inter-
meshing gears upon the standards and the wheel hub whereby the shafts may
be rotated by the movement of the vehicle.
(3) A vehicle attachment consisting of one or more standards, gears upon one
or both of said standards intermeshing with a corresponding gear upon the vehicle
hub, a means of disengaging the gears consisting of a right-angled slot made
in one of the standards, a pin projecting from the other standard into said
slot whereby the standard may be raised to disengage its gear from the wheel
hub and turned so that the pin will retain it in its raised position.
(4) A vehicle attachment consisting of one or more standards with gears by
which one or both are rotated from the wheel hub, sockets in the upper end
adapted to receive a lantern or other appurtenances of the vehicle.
1000
P. R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.