Motor for Working, and Means for Starting and Stopping Vehicles and Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1897-Accepted, 22nd July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Motor for Working, and Means for Starting and Stopping
Vehicles and Machines.
I, WILLIAM FINNEY BOWER of 94, Upper Kennington Lane in the Parish of
Lambeth in the County of Surrey Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
An Invention for Automatic Motor, Cars, Bicycles, Tricycles, Cabs, Trams,
Carriages, Carts or any other Vehicles, either worked automatically or by horses or
mechanically electrically or by any motive power. This invention consists
of a series of springs fixed in cylinders or otherwise and wound up, drawn, or
compressed by hydraulic or screw pressure so that when so compressed drawn or wound
the power shall be set at liberty at the Will of the worker of the motor.
The springs or cylinders for holding the water shall be fixed inside, outside, top or
underneath the Car, or other vehicle, where most convenient.
I may hereby further state that it is my intention to use the Invention as a Brake
and a starter of trams or any other machines worked by horses or any other power as
an adjunct to any existing power and shall be adapted to any vehicle.
The Springs are wound up by click or other motion wheels under pressure of the
water which is pumped in by an arm or lever worked from a crank on the shaft or
otherwise. It may be done by hand or by a screw, in fact by any sufficient power to
get a pressure on the water in the Cylinder or Cylinders. The Speed is obtained by
increased motion wheels or vice-versa, as the case may be. The power for stopping
the break is obtained by taking off the pressure and diverting the motion the opposite
way or by aid of a click.
I claim that the method of compressing, winding, or drawing by hydraulic pressure
for the means of locomotion is entirely new.
Dated 09 190
WILLIAM FINNEY BOWER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Motor for Working and Means for Starting and Stopping
Vehicles and Machines.
I WILLIAM FINNEY BOWER, of 119 Brixton Road, London, S.W., formerly of
94 Upper Kennington Lane in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey Civil
Engineer, 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 a new or improved automatic motor for cars, bicycles,
tricycles, cabs, tramway cars, carriages carts or any other vehicles, or machines either

page_text: worked automatically or by horses or mechanically, electrically or by any motive
power or as an adjunct to other motive power.
This invention consists mainly in the adaptation and application of springs which
will be carried or fixed in cylinders or on blocks or beds encased or otherwise and
which said springs are wound up, drawn or compressed by hydraulic pressure or screw
and hydraulic pressure so that when so compressed,, drawn, or wound (put in tension)
the resilient force or power may be set at liberty at the will of the worker of the motor,
whatever may be the details of the parts connected with and operated by the
hydraulic pump.
In order that my said invention may be well understood there is appended hereto a
sheet of drawings which will be referred to in the following description by figures and
letters, like letters indicating similar parts; the drawings are of the character of
diagrams only.
Fig. 1, represents in plan an arrangement of parts such as may be used in a con-
struction according to this invention shown upon the wheel frame of a motor cart or
vehicle.
The wheels A, are carried upon axle B. C, indicates a framework which may be
carried upon blocks and springs supported on the axle and is to serve to carry the
upper carriage and the inechanism. D represents the fixed box or cylinder carrying
the motor spring or springs and the centre spindle E; said spindle E, is supported
below and above, respectively, in a footstep of the box D, and in a socket or bearing
above said box and passes through and is supported in a boss connected with the
frame C, or carried thereupon.
The spring or springs is or are at one end thereof connected with and to the centre
spindle E, whilst their other end or ends, is or are attached to the cylinder or box D.
Upon the outer end of spindle E, is carried the rachet or click winding wheel F, and
also the first motion wheel N which is capable of being thrown in or out of gear with
the pinion on the spindle o.
G represents the hydraulic cylinder in section. Water is forced into this cylinder
by any suitable means. That shewn constitutes an arrangement similar to an ordinary
hydraulic jack. The spring g, is applied inside the extension of the pump-cylinder,
and is attached to the cross-bar or web G¹ of the cylinder body.
The click pawl H, is hinged or jointed to an extension of the cylinder slideor piston g
above the spring g, the upper end of said spring g being attached to the slide g
The click pawl H, will be kept up to its work by a spring, such as h applied as
required.
The exertion of the power, that is the unwinding of the springs, will be controlled
by a stop pawl and wheel on shaft E, as will be well understood, and any required lever
or tappet inotion may be used to release or apply said stop-pawl for starting or stopping
the mechanism.
The winding-up action will proceed as follows: After the water of the pump has
raised the slide g¹ and has done its work and operated the pawl H, the spring g, having
been likewise put in tension will be free to act, and bring down the slide gl and the
pawl H again to its position for the next stroke and so on.
The discharge valve of the pump and the operating thereof is not shown, as the same
is well known and does not in itself form part of this invention. The exhaust valve
may be actuated from the shaft B or otherwise, as for example automatically when a
certain pressure has been reached.
As shown the pump is operated off the axle or driving shaft at I, at one side, by a
crank, or, as at K, by eccentric, (for convenience of illustration) through the rods and
links, i, . Again this motion for the pump may be worked from the gearing, shown,
as by a crank-pin, at M. This operating of the pump may however be done by hand
or by a screw, in fact by any sufficient power to get a pressure on the water in the
cylinder or cylinders, as for instance a treadle or a donkey engine, an hydraulic main
or otherwise.
The speed is obtained by increased motion wheels or vice versa as the case may be.
It is to be further stated that it is my intention to use the invention for actuating a

page_text: brake or a car-starter, for trams or any other machines worked by horses or any other
power as an adjunct to any existing power and shall be adapted to any vehicle, applied
at say the position occupied by the wheel R.
The speed is gained in the case shown by the drawings, by increased motion wheels
or gearing for frictional gearing or otherwise. N, indicates the first motion wheel,
gearing with the pinion O, which is carried upon a cross spindle mounted in bearings
of the framework C, said cross-spindle also carrying thereon the wheel P, shown as a
bevil wheel, gearing with M. This again is on the shaft carrying spur wheel Q
gearing up to the pinion R, fast on the driving-wheel shaft or axle B.
The mechanism may be arranged to work either vertically or horizontally.
A separate spring box and gearing may be used and wound independently for
purpose of working the pump.
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:-
In a motor or means for driving starting or stopping vehicles or machines the
combination of hydraulic pressure apparatus acting to and for the winding draw-
ing or putting in tension of springs operating intermediately of the hydraulic pump
device and the shaft of the apparatus to which the motion has to be imparted as
and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 22nd February 1907
WILLIAM FINNEY BOWER,
119 Brixton Road, S.W.