Improvements in or relating to the Mode of Supporting Motors.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1891.
Complete Specification Left, 5th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Mode of Supporting Motors.
I, AUGUST RIEDINGER, of Augsburg, Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object to so support a steam or other motor that the
transmission therefrom of vibrations or shocks, due to its working, to a building or
other structure in or near which it is placed, shall be prevented, or rendered much
less than has heretofore been usual.
For this purpose I mount the motor upon or suspend it by an elastic or yielding
body as for examples india-rubber, metal springs, or cylinders with pistons or
flexible diaphragms, or mount it upon a floating vessel the arrangement in each
case being such that the yielding or elastic bodies or floating vessel will take the
weight of the motor and absorb the vibrations or shocks due to its working.
The transmission of power from the motor is effected by means of an elastic or
flexible coupling. An elastic or flexible pipe is employed to supply the motive
fluid to the motor.
In the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate in side elevation and sectional plan respectively one mode
of suspending the motor by springs.
a and b, b, are coiled springs in tension which support the weight of the motor
and take up the oscillations or vibrations thereof produced in a vertical direction.
c is a spring arranged to be either in tension or compression according as the motor
moves to the right or to the left and serving to take up the oscillations or
vibrations produced in a horizontal direction. In applying the springs, it is
immaterial whether the motor be suspended therefrom or be arranged to rest upon
the same.
Dated this 13th day of October 1891.
LOAKAN
PERTIYALRT
AUGUST RIEDINGER,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Mode of Supporting Motors.
I, AUGUST RIEDINGER, of Augsburg, Germany, Manufacturer, do bereby
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 has for object to so support a steam or other motor that the
transmission therefrom of vibrations or shocks, due to its working, to a building
or other structure in or near which it is placed, shall be prevented, or rendered
much less than has heretofore been usual.
For this purpose I mount the motor upon or suspend it by an elastic or yielding
body as for examples india rubber, metal springs, or cylinders with pistons or
flexible diaphragms, or mount it upon a floating vessel the arrangement in each
case being such that the yielding or elastic body or floating vessel will take the
weight of the motor and absorb the vibrations or shocks due to its working.
The transmission of power from the motor is effected by means of an elastic
or flexible coupling. An elastic or flexible pipe is employed to supply the motivo
Amid to the motor

page_text: In the drawings left with my Provisional Specification
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate in side elevation and sectional plan respectively one
mode of suspending the motor by springs.
a and b, 6, are coiled springs in tension which support the weight of the motor
and take up the oscillations or vibrations thereof produced in a vertical direction.
c is a spring arranged to be either in tension or compression according as the
motor moves to the right or to the left and serving to take up the oscillations or
vibrations produced in a horizontal direction. In applying the springs, it is
immaterial whether the motor be suspended therefrom or be arranged to rest upon
the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Mounting a motor upon or suspending it by an elastic or yielding body, or
mounting it upon a floating body substantially as hereinabove described, for the
purpose of obviating or reducing the transmission of vibratious or shocks therefrom
to a building or other structure in or near which it is placed.
2. Transmitting power generated by a motor mounted or suspended in the manner
referred to in the preceding claim by means of elastic or flexible couplings.
3. Supplying motive fluid to a motor mounted or suspended in the manner
referred to in Claim 1, by means of an elastic or flexible pipe.
Dated this 5th day of February 1892.
A. RIEDINGER,
By L. W., per F. B.,
46; Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.