An Apparatus for Transporting People. Through the Air.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left; 2nd Dec., 1895-Accepted, 4th Jan.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Transporting People. Through the Air.
I, HENRY BROOK, of 252, Portland Road, South Norwood, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to an apparatus for carrying people through the air from
one place to another for amusement purposes.
In carrying out my invention I employ a support of a suitable height on the
upper end of which is a horizontal shaft on which fulcrums a girder one arm being
longer than the other; the outer end of the longer arm carries a number of cars to
receive passengers; the other arm of the girder, the length of which is less than
the height of the support, is adjustably counterbalanced. An engine is provided
for revolving the girder on its shaft.
By this arrangement the end of the girder carrying the cars is brought near the
ground and the passengers having taken their seats, the engine is started so as to
move the girder through, half a revolution the cars being moved through a half
circle in the air, and the passengers having disembarked, the cars are ready to
carry back passengers in the opposite direction.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Transporting People Through the Air.
I, HENRY BROCK, of 252, Portland Road, South Norwood, in the County of
Surrey, 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 an apparatus for carrying people through the air from
one place to another for amusement purposes.
In carrying out my invention I employ a support of a suitable height on the
upper end of which is a horizontal shaft on which fulcrums a girder or light iron
frame, one arm being longer than the other; the outer end of the longer arm
carries a number of cars to receive passengers; the other arm of the girder, the
length of which is less than the height of the support, is adjustably counterbalanced.
An engine is provided for revolving the girder on its shaft.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus for transporting people through the
air constructed according to my invention:
Figure 2 is a plan; aud,
Figure 3 is a rear end elevation of the same.
a is the support or stand of my apparatus preferably consisting of two light iron
structures, each having the shape of half an octagonal pyramid ; bis the horizontal

page_text: shaft mounted in bearings in the upper end of the support or stand a, and c, c' is
the girder or light iron frame fulcrummed upon the shaft b and having the arm c
longer than the arm c³, the girder or frame being turned around the said shaft by
means of a shaft d on the ground actuated by a suitable engine (not. shewn) and
carrying two chain wheels e, e over which and over chain wheels on the shaft b
pass the driving chains g, 9; h, h, h are the cars suspended from the outer end of
the longer arm c for receiving passengers is the counter-weight with which the
shorter arm is provided in order to balance the girder or frame, such weight, in
order that it may be adjustable, being arranged to slide in ways or guides, by
turning, in one or the other direction, a screw-threaded shaft k passing through the
same and revolved through the medium of the bevel gear lm, chain wheels n, o
and chain p. The girder or frame c, d is strengthened by stays q, 9 extending from
the perpendicular arms r, r to various points along the girder or frame.
To make use of the apparatus, the end of the girder or frame carrying the
cars is brought near the ground and the passengers having taken their seats,, the..
engine is started so as to move the girder through, about half a revolution,, the cars
being moved through about; a-half circle in the air. The passengers having
disembarked the cars are ready to carry back passengers.in. the opposite direction....
It will be obvious that, instead of employing an adjustable weight on the shorter.
arme of the girder or frame, the latter may be balanced. by means of a number of
removable weights, such as sand bags, placed in the cars or in any suitable position
on the longer arm'c of the girder or frame and removed, therefrom as, required
according to the number of passengers in the cars.
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 :-
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1. An apparatus for transporting people through the air consisting essentially of
a girder or frame fulcrummed upon a horizontal shaft mounted in a support or
stand, ono
d, one arm of the said girder or frame being longer than the other, and the
longer arm carrying cars to receive passengers and the shorter arm being adjustably
counterweighted, the whole being arranged and operating substantially as, and for
the purpose, hereinbefore described.....
2. The improved apparatus for transporting people through the air hereiabefore
described and illustrated in, the accompanying drawing.
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Dated this 2nd day of December 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.