A Combined Wheel and Self-laying Track for Bathing Saloons and like purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1891-Accepted, 4th July, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Wheel and Self-laying Track for Bathing Saloons and
like purposes.
I, RICHARD Cox of Park Foundry, Weymouth, 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 invection is specially designed for bathing saloons and similar vehicles,
which have often to traverse patches of wet or loose sand, shingle, or seaweed on
the seashore, in which the ordinary wheel sinks, or on which the wheel is apt to
slip when driven from the hub or axle. It is also applicable for other like
purposes.
It consists of a portable track or revolving series of planks or plates attached to
the wheel, and so arranged that as the wheel progresses, one of the planks or
plates falls on the ground before it and forms a firm platform for the wheel, while
correspondingly the back of the wheel lifts the plank over which it has just passed,
and carries it round with its own periphery, to fall again in its turn in front of
the wheel.
The number of planks or plates may be varied according to circumstances, but
for purposes of description and illustration, I have chosen four. They will of
course be wider than the periphery of the wheel, will have a much larger surface
for contact with the ground than the wheel possesses. The width of the planks
will be in great measure determined by the nature of the ground which they have
to traverse. These planks will be attached to the felloes of the wheel by means of
stotted link plates on each side of the wheel. These link plates are confined in
staples or guides attached to the felloes which staples are long enough to allow of
considerable play on the part of the plank as the wheel revolves. The link plates
have their outer ends firmly attached to the edges of the rotating planks, at or near
the centre of their length, and they thus permit the wheel to travel along each
plank in succession, and to lift the plank it has traversed, while it passes on to
the next.
In order to keep each plank in position a dog or catch or spring can be employed
on the outside of the felloe if desired.
I will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
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Fig. 1 shews an elevation of a wheel fitted with my portable track.
It will be seen that the felloc a has four studs on its side face, there being four
similar studs on its reverse face. On these studs the link plates e, work within the
field defined by the guiding staples g, and these plates have at their outer ends
segmental or crescent shaped cross-heads d, serving as guide plates to prevent the
planks e, to which they are swivelled at, from twisting out of the track of the
wheel.
The position taken by the rotating planks as the wheel revolves is shewn by
dotted lines.
It will thus be evident that the wheel will obtain a firm track on any kind of
ground or bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;
1. In a bathing saloon or similar vehicle, the combination of a wheel with a
evolving series of planks or plates forming a self-laying track, as herein described
and set forth.

page_text: 2. In a combined wheel and self. laying track, the link plates c, the staples g, the
planks or plates e, the studs or rivets b, f, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 29th day of May 1891.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.