Improvements in and relating to Motor and other Road Vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr.; 1900
Date of Application, 20th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr.; 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Motor and other Road Vehicles.
I, WILLY DEDERICH, of 1 and 2, Chiswell Street, in the City of London, Mer-
chant (a communication from Messrs. Heinle & Wegelin, of Augsburg, in the
Empire of Germany), do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be 'as.
follows:-
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This invention relates to motor and other vehicles, and more especially to
vehicles such as motor cars and motor cycles having secured thereto a trailing car.
The invention consists in dividing the floor of the vehicle in the shape of an
are having its centre at that point where the steering frame, steering wheels or
trailing car are pivoted, so that upon the movement of the steering frame, steer-
ing wheels or trailing car; due to any required curvilinear motion of the vehicle,
there shall always be a continuous surface upon the car or upon the trailing car.
In carrying the invention into effect in its application to a motor cycle, I pro-
vide a motor tricycle of any ordinary construction having a saddle or seat for the
driver of the vehicle arranged convenient for the steerage of the front wheel, and
upon the rear thereof I fixedly mount a seat immediately above the rear axle, the
seat facing rearwardly and preferably mounted upon springs. At the rear of the
vehicle a trailing car is provided which is preferably pivoted beneath the rear
axle of the tricycle and has its foot floor or platform continuous with that of the
rear seat previously referred to. This foot floor, however, has its edge of an are
shape and corresponding to an arc shape of the edge of the foot floor or platform.
of the rear seat, so that upon turning the cycle or vehicle round there shall
always be a continuous foot floor or platform.
The trailing car may be suitably mounted upon a two wheeled axle and springs
may be suitably interposed.
Thated this ocu 1
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Improvements in and relating to Motor and other Road Vehicles.
I, WILLY DEDERICH, of 1 and 2, Chiswell Street, in the City of London, Mer-
chant (a communication from Messrs. Heinle & Wegelin, of Augsburg, in the
Empire of Germany), do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
[Price 8d.]

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to motor and other vehicles, and more especially to
vehicles such as motor cars and motor cycles having secured thereto a trailing car.
The invention consists in dividing the floor of the vehicle in the shape of an
are having its centre at that point where the steering frame, steering wheels or
trailing car are pivoted, so that upon the movement of the steering frame, steer-
ing wheels or trailing car, due to any required curvilinear motion of the vehicle,
there shall always be a continuous surface upon the car or upon the trailing car.
The accompanying frawings illustrate the invention as applied to a motor
tricvclo, Figure 1 being an elevation and Figure 2 a plan.
In carrying the invention into effect in its application to a motor tricycle, I
provide a motor tricycle a of any ordinary construction having a saddle or seat a¹
for the driver of the vehicle arranged conveniently for the steerage of the front
wheel, and upon the rear thereof I fixedly mount a seat b immediately above the
rear axle the seat facing rearwardly and preferably mounted upon springs. At
the rear of the vehicle a trailing car e is provided which is preferably pivoted
beneath the rear axle of the tricycle and has its foot floor for platform con-
tinuous with that c of the rear seat 6 previously referred to. This foot floor f
however, has its edge of an arc shape and corresponding to an are shape of the
edge of the foot floor or platform c of the rear seat, so that upon turning the cycle
or vehicle round there shall always be a continuous foot floor or platform.
The trailing car may be suitably mounted upon two wheels dd and springs
may be suitably interposed.
The axle is connected by a bar g to the motor cycle, the bar being pivoted
thereto at a point below the centre of the cycle axle, this point fixing the
centre from which the arc is struck to give the necessary shape to the edges of the
floors or platforms ef. For convenience in attaching and detaching the bar
is made in two parts which are rigidly connected by a collar at i.
When the car turns a corner, the axle of the trailer will incline at an angle
with the axle of the motor cycle, but in every position of the parts with regard to
each other, the platforms will form a continuous surface in consequence of the
peculiar form of their edges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A trailer for motor cycles and other vehicles comprising a fixed seat carried
by the rear axle of the motor or other vehicle and an independent seat or car-
riage connected to the vehicle by a bar pivotted thereto the meeting edges of the
foot platforms of the two seats being formed as arcs of circles struck from the pivot
pin as centre with the object of forming a continuous surface between the plat-
forms in whatever positions the seats may be, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. A trailer for motor and other cycles constructed substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 20th day of March 1900.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.