Year: 1894

page_text: Tricycle.
GEORGE WHYTE, Doctor of Medicine Beaucamp de Bas Câtel Guernsey, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
There is the usual axle with two wheels. I place the driving wheel behind this
axle & make it also the steering wheel in the following way. The driving wheel
is forked directly upwards, the union of the prongs being somewhat extended.
There are two stays attached to the two wheeled axle, at the inner side of the
wheels. These stays pass backwards for a short distance, they then curve inwards,
backwards & upwards to above the level of the driving wheel where they are
united & made continuous by a socket which receives the extension of the fork of
the driving wheel, in which it turns on ball bearings. Projecting forwards from
this extension is the support for the saddle. The driving wheel has another stay
fork which proceeds forwards to above the level of the two wheeled axle where it
ends in a bent knee & carries a grooved wheel. This wheel runs on a curved rail,
the centre of this curve being the centre of the driving wheel. This rail is
attached at its middle to the two wheeled axle, the ends being attached to the
curved side stays.
Attached to this stay fork is a stay which proceeds upwards to
support the saddle & below is another stay which supports the pedal wheel, the
pedal wheel being geared to the driving wheel in the usual way.
Above the bent
knee of the stay fork is a double guttered wheel placed horizontally round which
two cords are wound in opposite directions. The ends of these cords being
attached to short stanchions having their bases on the curved side stays. This
wheel is turned by cross handles placed at a convenient height for the rider.
When the wheel is turned one cord is wound up & the other is unwound, so that
the driving wheel may be turned to the right or left.
A brake may be put on the driving wheel or brakes may be put on the two
wheels & they may be made to act in combination, or, for quick turning they may
be made to act seperately.
Dated this 7th day of A vonot 1001
GEORGE WHYTE.
I, GEORGE WHYTE, of Beaucamp de Bas, Câtel, Guernsey, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved construction of tricycle, which is illustrated
by the accompanying drawing, in which;
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the machine.
I, GEORGE WHYTE, of Beaucamp de Bas, Câtel, Guernsey, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of tricycle, which is illustrated
by the accompanying drawing, in which;
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the machine.
Figure 2 is a view in plan thereof, and
Figure 3 is a broken view showing the construction of the steering head
or joint.
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page_text: My improved machine has a single driving wheel A which is placed centrally
behind two parallel and opposite wheels B, B, the driving wheel A being also the
steering wheel. The driving wheel A is mounted in a frame consisting of a
vertical or approximately vertical fork C carrying a steering post c, a horizontal or
approximately horizontal fork C', a horizontal member C extending forwards
from the top of the fork C, a vertical member C³ extending upwards from the
crown of the fork C' to the member C2-the said member being extended below
the fork C¹ to carry the pedal-crank axle bracket D-and a member C curving
upwards and forwards from the crown of the fork C¹ and terminates immediately
under the end of the member C. The wheels B, B, are mounted freely on the
ends of a fixed axle E forming part of a second frame, which consists essentially
of two curved members E', E', extending and curving rearwards and upwards
from the ends of the axle E until they meet and are braced together by means of
two bridges e, e, forming the head or socket to receive the steering post c carried by
the fork C.
Carried by the frame E', E¹, is a cross bar F adapted to form a path for a
roller G mounted in a fork c¹ fixed to or carried by the forward extremity of the
member C of the frame carrying the wheel A. On the end of the member C² of
the frame carrying the wheel A is a socket c² in which is mounted to turn freely
a steering post H carrying a transverse handle bar J, the lower end of the steering
post being supported in any suitable form of step-bearing in the forward end of the
member C. The steering pillar H carries Ly means of a suitable bracket a
quadrant K to each end of which is fixed a band L. The bands after being
carried over the face of the quadrant K in opposite directions are attached to the
ends of the axle E in any suitable manner. Thus when the transverse handle
bar is turned it operates to move the frame carrying the steering and driving
wheel A through the medium of the quadrant K and bands L as shown in dotted
lines by Figure 2.
Those parts of the machine to which no special reference has been made present
no novel features and may be of the usual or any other convenient type.
I wish it to be particularly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
details of construction hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings, but that I hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations
as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.
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: :-
(1.) The
improved tricycle, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
(2.) A tricycle having a single rear driving wheel adapted to act also as the
steering wheel and controlled as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1895
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.