A NOVEL MEANS OF IMPARTING MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINES WITHOUT THE USE OF BELTS OR STRAPS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Dove Cole Leveritt, of the Firm of Brandon and
Leveritt, Civil Engineers and Patent Agents, of Mansion House Buildings,
Westgate Street, Ipswich, and 12, Vieille Halle aux Blés, Brussels, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, for the Invention of "A NOVEL MEANS OF IMPARTING
MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINES WITHOUT THE USE OF BELTS OR STRAPS."
A communication from abroad by Jonas André Klockhoff, of Antwerp, in the
Kingdom of Belgium
Sealed the 4th June 1878, and dated the 8th December 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Dove Cole Leveritt
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th December 1877.
THOMAS DOVE COLE LEVERITT, of the Firm of Brandon and Leveritt, Civil
Engineers and Patent Agents, of Mansion House Buildings, Westgate Street, Ipswich,
and 12, Vieille Halle aux Blés, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium. "A NOVEL
MEANS OF IMPARTING MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINES WITHOUT THE USE OF
BELTS OR STRAPS." [A communication from abroad by Jonas André Klockhoff, of
Antwerp, in the Kingdom of Belgium.]
The Invention relates to a novel means of working machinery of any description
without necessitating the ordinary transmissions and belts, and consists in making
use of the steam by conducting it through appropriate pipes or tubes in a motor
which imparts direct motive powers to the machine to be acted upon.
To this end I bolt or otherwise fix to the floor, in proximity with the machine to
be worked, my novel motor, consisting of a steam cylinder, into which I conduct the
steam supplied by an ordinary engine by means of a regulating slide set in motion
by a rod working in a hollow tube, and acting on the expansion slide.
On this same tube is fix the governor, in such a manner that the balls on raising
up cause a bar connected with a lever to rise also, and in so doing close one or more
openings through which the expanded steam passes. By these means the slides

page_text: work in a direct manner, according to the augmentation or the reduction of
expansion.
In order to regulate the number of strokes per minute of the piston, I put the
lower part of the governor in communication with a crank on which works a weight,
and by means of which I obtain more or less speed, as required, by approaching it 5
or removing it to or from the governor.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the "conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Thomas Dove Cole Leveritt
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd June 1878.
THOMAS DOVE COLE LEVERITT, of the Firm of Brandon and Leveritt, Civil ]
Engineers and Patent Agents, of Mansion House Chambers, Westgate Street, Ipswich,
and 12, Vieille Halle aux Bles, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium. "A NOVEL
MEANS OF IMPARTING MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINES WITHOUT THE USE
OF BELTS OR STRAPS." A communication from abroad by J. A. Klockhoff, of
Antwerp, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
This Invention relates to a novel means of working machinery of any description
without necessitating the ordinary transmissions and belts, and consists in making
use of the steam by conducting it through appropriate pipes or tubes in a motor
which imparts direct motive power to the machine to be acted on.
To this end I bolt or otherwise fix to the floor, in proximity with the machine to
be worked, my novel motor consisting of a steam cylinder, into which I conduct the
steam supplied by an ordinary engine by means of a regulating slide, set in motion
by a rod working in a hollow tube, and acting on the expansion slide.
On this same tube is fixed the governor, in such a manner that the balls on
raising up cause a bar connected with a lever to rise also, and in so doing close one
or more openings through which the expanded steam passes. By these means the
slides work in a direct manner, according to the augmentation or the reduction of
expansion.
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In order to regulate the number of strokes per minute of the piston, I put the
lower part of the governor in communication with a crank, on which works a weight, {
and by means of which I obtain more or less speed as required, by approaching or
removing it to or from the governor.
And in order that the said Invention may be thoroughly understood, I will
proceed to describe the same with reference to the annexed Drawings.
In the three Sheets of Drawings annexed, I have represented at Figures 1 and 2, :
a longitudinal and transversal section of my new motor, and at Figures 3, 4, and 5,
different views of an ordinary sawing machine to which any motor is applied.
In these views A is the sawing machine of any ordinary kind; B, the framework;
C, the bed plate; D, the bearings of main shaft; E, the fly wheels, placed contrarily
to the usual manner on the main shaft F; G, pulley; and H, the crank set in motion

page_text: by the main shaft a of the motor; b is the steam cylinder fitted with aspirator c; d, the
slide box; e, the steam bell; f, chamber of the valve g worked by the rod h; i, the
distributing regulator with openings in k, k, k, for the introduction of steam in the
cylinder, and the discharge openings L, L.
lator
The distributing regulator i is acted on by the hollow rod n in which works the
On the rod n is mounted the regu-
arm p which commands the expansion slide o.
as well as the cog wheel 8, which is itself regulated by the counter crank t.
In order to start the engine, steam is first introduced through the pipe of
admission u into the slide box which is surrounded by the steam bell e, and the
receiver f. The steam penetrating then by the valve g, enters first in the expansive
valve (which being in the position shewn in the Drawing) permits it to pass through
the openings K into the distributing regulator on its way to the cylinder.
If the speed of the machine surpasses its normal speed, that is to say, if the
number of revolutions exceeds the maximum, the balls of the regulator rise up, and
in so doing they raise the bar v connected to the lever x, and the conical sectors 2¹
pressing on the bar p which is in communication with the expansion valve, causes
one or more of the openings k to close. By this arrangement the slides are caused
to act directly, according to the augmentation or diminution of the expansion, but
not on the mass of the first pressure.
The steam having worked, escapes in the channels Z, Z, which conduct it into the
circular space ¹, surrounding the distributing regulator, and into the escape pipe 111.
In order to regulate the number of strokes of the piston per minute, the arm r¹ of
the regulator is connected with the crank v, on which is placed the moveable
weight 2. This weight being regulated, the machine will furnish the number of
strokes of the piston determined by the position of the regulator, but if the weight
be moved away from the regulator, the numberof strokes will be diminished; in like
manner they will be increased by approaching it near the regulator.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be carried out, I declare that what I claim and desire to be
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the creating a
separate motor, such as described, for each machine to be worked, instead of having
as at present, one engine to work several, and thereby doing away with all belting
and transmissions, substantially as herein-before described and shewn on Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Dove Cole Leveritt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
THOMAS DOVE COLE LEVERTTT. (L.S.)