Improvements in and connected with Automobile Road Vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1899-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1900
[Communicated from abroad by JEAN-JACQUES HEILMANN, of 19, Rue Cambon,
Paris, in the French Republic, Engineer.]
Improvements in and connected with Automobile Road Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS, of 70, Market Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the application to any existing vehicle used on
common roads, of an automobile bogie which can be placed under any four
wheeled vehicle in substitution for its existing fore-carriage. This bogie may
have either three or four wheels any or all of which may be driving wheels,
and it may be operated by any known system as for example by a steam or
petroleum engine, or by a petroleum engine driving a dynamo employed to
feed an electro-motor or electro-motors, or by a storage battery and electro-
motor or electro-motors. The whole of the motive mechanism is carried by
the bogie to which there may be attached or upon which there may be sup-
ported any suitable vehicle or vehicle body, or, as herein before described, the
automobile bogie may substitute the fore-carriage of any ordinary road vehicle
having four wheels.
As an example of the construction and arrangement which may be adopted
in carrying this invention into effect, my foreign correspondent describes a
bogie platform carried on four wheels of which the two hind wheels are drivers
and the two front wheels are drivers and steerers. Each of the wheels is driven
by an electro-motor deriving current from a dynamio driven by a petroleum
engine carried by the bogie. The electro-motors may be in derivation, in
parallel series or in series, the latter grouping being useful for starting and for
climbing hills or inclines.
The control apparatus by means of which the arrangement of the motors in
series, parallel or derivation, may be varied and resistances intercalated in the
circuit or circuits is arranged near the driver's seat and is removably connected
with the bogie by means of flexible connections so that it may be changed from
one vehicle to another when required.
The engine may be stopped when the vehicle comes to rest and be restarted
by means of a small storage battery feeding one or more of the disconnected
motors. As soon as the engine is restarted, the battery is cut out, and the
motor or motors is or are reconnected.
Dated this 14th day of March A.D. 1899.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in and connected with Automobile Road Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS, of 70, Market Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 the application to any existing four-wheeled vehicle
used on
common roads, of an automobile bogie which can be placed under
any such vehicle in substitution for its existing fore-carriage. This dogic may
have either three or four wheels; any or all of which may be driving wheels,
and it may be operated by any known system, as for example by a steam or
petroleum engine, or by a petroleum engine driving a dynamo employed to
feed an electro-motor or electro-motors, or by a storage battery and an electro-
motor or electro-motors.
The whole of the motive mechanism is carried by the bogic, to which there
may be attached, or upon which there may be supported any suitable vehicle
or vehicle body; or, as herein before described, the automobile bogie may substitute
the fore-carriage of any ordinary road vehicle having four wheels.
As an example of the construction and arrangement which may be adopted
in carrying this invention into effect, the bogie may be constructed with a
platform carried on four wheels of which the two hind wheels are drivers and
the two front wheels drivers and steerers. Each of the wheels is driven by
an electro-motor which may derive current from a storage battery or from a
dynamo driven by a petroleum engine carried by the bogie. The electro-motors
may be in parallel, in parallel series, or in series, the latter grouping being
useful for starting and for climbing hills or inclines.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner this invention may
be carried into effect in a case in which it is arranged that the electro-motors
shall derive their current from a storage battery. In these drawings:-
Figure 1 shews a side elevation of the automobile bogie as substituted.. for
the fore-carriage of an ordinary road vehicle.
Figure 2 represents a front elevation of the same, and
Figure 3 a plan, the part of the vehicle having been removed from the
bogie.
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A frame c, resting upon the two axles ff, carries, in a casing b, the battery
of electric storage cells. Each of the four wheels of the bogie is put into
motion by an electric motor mm, with which it is connected by suitable toothed
or other gearing. The motors in front of the bogie are connected with the parts
which carry the axle journals, and they consequently follow the steering
wheels win their movements. The vehicle V, which is to be hauled, is applied
at k, by its working perch bolt, upon the upper part i, which is mounted upon
the springs r.
The fifth wheels, of the vehicle thus rests on the parts PP,
which are supported by the parts ii. The segmental parts pp are adjustable
horizontally in slides gg, which arrangement permits them to be separated
through any available distance so that they may be adapted to the diameter
of the fifth wheels, which is supported thereon.
The upper part ii of the hogie, which as already described, serves as a support
for the vehicle, is movable in the direction of the length of the bogie in two
slides. aa, one on each side of the bogie. Thus, vehicles of different lengths
may be attached to the bogie at different times, the requisite adjustment being
provided. In like manner, the fifth wheels of different vehicles being at dif-

page_text: ferent heights, the upper part ii, can be raised and lowered by the aid of screws
rotated by the hand wheels vv.
The handle for starting, stopping and controlling the speed is indicated at d.
and the apparatus itself, which may be of known construction is enclosed
at h. The steering wheel is indicated at e, and may act through any suitable
mechanism such as a tangent screw and worm wheel. It should be arranged
that the handle and steering wheel should come as nearly as convenient above
the perch bolt, so that their position is at all times about the same relatively
to the driver.
The control apparatus may be otherwise arranged in known ways.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. An automotor bogie constructed in such a manner as to be capable of
being placed under an ordinary road vehicle in substitution for the fore-
carriage, and in such a position that the weight of the fore part of the vehicle
is borne between the two axles of the bogic, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. In an automobile bogie to be substituted for the fore-carriage of a road
vehicle, a carrier i constructed to be adjustable horizontally and vertically,
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
3. In an automobile bogie to be substituted for the fore-carriage of a road
vehicle, the adjustable bearers pp capable of being adapted to fifth wheels of
different dimensions, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
4. In an automobile bogie to be substituted for the fore-carriage of a road
vehicle, the arrangement of the control devices such as de, in the neighbourhood
of a vertical line passing through the perch bolt of the attached vehicle, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein before described and as illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
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