IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Noad of Hawthorne Cottage East Ham in the
County of Essex Engineer Henry Blackwell the younger of Stroud Green
Road Finsbury Park in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and Henry
Brocklesby Bunkell of Alexandra Villas, the said Finsbury Park Gentleman
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Noad, Henry
Blackwell the younger & Henry Brocklesby Bunkell at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1882.
JAMES NOAD of Hawthorne Cottage. East Ham in the County of Essex, Engineer,
HENRY BLACKWELL the Younger of Stroud Green Road Finsbury Park in the
County of Middlesex Gentleman, and Henry Brocklesby Bunkell, of Alexandra
Villas the said Finsbury Park Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
The object of the invention as applied to Velocipedes, is to obtain increased power
in the use of the feet on the treadles.
In the application of these improvements to velocipedes each treadle, in place of
being applied directly to the cranks, is applied to a separate bar and one end of
cach of these separate bars, is capable of sliding in, or on, the fork, or a projection
from the fork, or other suitable part, whilst each bar also receives the end of a
crank and towards its outer end each receives a treadle.
By these means, in the forward motions of the cranks, increased power is obtained
thereon, whilst relief is obtained in their return motions.
These means are applicable in the transmission of power to other uses.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
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the said James Noad, Henry Blackwell the younger & Henry Brocklesby
Bunkell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1883.
JAMES NOAD of Hawthorne Cottage East Ham in the County of Essex, Engineer,
HENRY BLACKWELL the Younger, of Stroud Green Road Finsbury Park in the
County of Middlesex Gentleman, and HENRY BROCKLESBY BUNKELL of Alexandra
Villas the said Finsbury Park, Gentleman IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
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The object of the invention as applied to Velocipedes is to obtain increased power 1
in the use of the feet on the treadles.
In the application of these improvements to Velocipedes each treadle, in place of
being applied directly to the cranks, is applied to a separate bar and one end of each
of these separate bars is capable of sliding in, or on the fork, or a projection from the
fork, or other suitable part whilst cach-bar also receives the end of a crank and. 1
towards its outer end each receives a treadle.
By these means, in the forward motions of the cranks increased power is obtained
thereon whilst relief is obtained in their return motions.
These means-are-applicable in the transmission-of-power-to.other_uses._
In witness-whereof_we_the_said_James Noad, Henry Blackwell the Younger
and Henry Brocklesby Bunkell have hereunto set our hands and-seals-this-
tenth day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
eighty three