Improved Circular Carriage Drive for Recreation.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Aug., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Circular Carriage Drive for Recreation.
I JOHN RICHARD FIELDING of 15 Cheetham Street Rochdale in the county of
Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
1 use a circular platform which is made plain or undulating, on this platform are
carriages, these carriages are mounted on two wheels, one in advance of the other, on
these wheels the carriages run round the platform. To these carriages are attached
rods or bars, the other end of these rods or bars are connected to a ring which revolves
round a pillar which is fixed in the centre of the platform, by these means the carriages
are kept at a uniform distance from the centre of the platform and are also kept from
being overturned-To these carriages are also connected rods or bars, which rods or
bars are also connected to a wheel or pulley which revolves horizontally round the
pillar in centre of the platform, these rods or bars push or pull the carriages round
the platform and allow them to rise and fall as required. This pulley or wheel may
be driven in any suitable manner, but so that it can be stopped and started as
required.
JOHN RICHARD FIELDING.

page_text: I JOHN RICHARD FIELDING of 48 Regent Street but formerly of 15 Cheetham
Street Rochdale in the county of Lancaster Machinist 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 :-
I use a circular platform which is made plain or undulating, on this platform are
carriages, these carriages are mounted on two wheels, one in advance of the other, on
these wheels the carriages run round the platform. To these carriages are attached
rods or bars, the other end of these rods or bars are connected to a ring which revolves
round a pillar which is fixed in the centre of the platform-by these means the
carriages are kept from being overturned. To these carriages are also connected rods
or bars which rods or bars are also connected to a wheel or pulley which revolves
horizontally round the pillar in the centre of the platform, these rods or bars push or
pull the carriages round the platform and allow them to rise and fall as required.
This pulley or wheel may be driven in any suitable manner but so that it can be
stopped and started as required. Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing is a plan and
Fig. 2 a sectional elevation of my Invention similar letters in both represent similar
parts. a is the circular platform which may be plain or undulating, but which is
shown undulating in Fig. 2. bare the carriages mounted on the two wheels c, one
in advance of the other, and on these wheels the carriages run round the platform, metal
plates or rails may be fixed to the platform for the wheels to run on. To these
carriages are attached the rods or bars d which also are attached to the ring e
which revolves round the pillar f. The rod or bars d are so connected to the ring e as
to allow the carriages b to follow the undulations of the platform by these means the
carriages are kept at a proper distance from the centre of the platform and are also
kept from being overturned-To these carriages are also connected one end of the
rods or bars g, the other ends of which are connected to the wheel or pulley h which
revolves horizontally round the pillar f in the centre of the platform. (The rods or
bars are so connected to the carriage band wheel or pulley as to allow the
carriages to rise and fall as required.) These rods or bars g push or pull the
carriages round the platform. This pulley or wheel is driven by means of the
band, which is driven by the pulley which is fast to the shaft on which are
the three pullies m, the two outside ones run loose on the shaft and are twice as wide
as the centre one which is fast to the shaft and as wide as either of the two belts n
and o which run in opposite directions so that when the belt o is on the centre
pulley m it will drive the carriages round the platform in the opposite direction to
what they would be driven if the belt n was on the centre pulley m.
Either belt can
be moved by means of a belt fork on to the fast pulley, and thus the carriages can be
made to run round in either direction or stopped or started as required.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. The general arrangement and construction of the improved circular carriage
drive substantially as hereinbefore described and represented.
2nd. Constructing the platform on which the carriages run with undulations.
3rd. Constructing the carriages with 2 wheels one in front of the other as shown
and described.
4th. The rods or bars d substantially as shown and described.
5th. The rods or bars g and wheel or pulley
Dated this 18th day of July 1888.
substantially as shown and described.
JOHN RICHARD FIELDING.