Improvements in Motor Road Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 8th July, 1899
Improvements in Motor Road Vehicles.
I, HINSDALE SMITHI, of 99, Elliott Street, in the City of Springfield, County of
Hampden and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Mechanical
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 improvements in motor vehicles, and more particularly
to the manner of mounting the motor apparatus, and to the speed changing and
reversing mechanism, and the operating or controlling and gauging or indicating
devices therefor.
The object of the improved mode of mounting the motor, inclusive of all the
motor apparatus, movably and adjustably on the vehicle, independently of the
driving shaft for the vehicle which is driven by the motor, is principally to thereby
cause the adjustably mounted motor to become the tightener for the belt between
the motor pulley or drum, and the driving shaft for the vehicle which through the
belt is driven by said motor pulley.
The object of the improvements in the speed changing and reversing mechanism
is to provide by a practical, comparatively simple and light, and durable and
operative mechanism, means whereby at the will of the rider, while the motor is
running, the vehicle may remain immovable, or whereby it may be run forward
at a slow speed, at a more or less faster speed as provided for, or caused to run
backward; and one which moreover provided that of the two driven wheels of the
vehicle, one may run faster than the other, as required on rounding curves
corners, and all without interfering with the capabilities of the mechanism for
driving said wheels.
or
The invention consists in combinations and arrangements of devices and parts,
and in the construction of parts and mechanism, all substantially as will hereinafter
fully appear and be set forth in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings wherein this invention is
illustrated and in which
Figure 1 is a plan view showing the body and running gear of the motor vehicle
and comprising especially illustration of the movable support for the motor and
its conjunctive apparatus, the steering gear and the mechanism for effecting the
speed controlling, changing and reversing mechanism.
Figure 2 is substantially a side elevation of the same, enclosing portions of the
carriage body being understood as removed for disclosing the therewithin contained
mechanism.
Figure 2 is a perspective view illustrating the controlling devices for the speed
changing and reversing mechanism.
Figure 3 is a central sectional view on a larger scale of the mechanism through
means of which, in conjunction with the motor and shiftable devices the vehicle
may be stationary or run at slower or faster speeds forwardly, or propelled back-
wards at a very slow speed.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are cross sectional views on a scale smaller than Figure 3,

page_text: taken respectively on the lines 4, and 6 of said Figure 3, and as seen in the
directions indicated by the arrows respectively on the section lines.
Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the
views.
In the drawings A represents the body of the vehicle, comprising, as shown,
although not necessarily, a box-like enclosure a, and the sills or supports a²,
suitable supporting springs being understood as interposed as usual between the
body and the front and rear axles B, C.
1) represents the motor, the same being understood as advantageously a gasoline
motor having the double cylinders d d, the pistons thereof conjointly operating the
motor shaft 12 on which is the comparatively wide fixed drum or pulley e.
F represents the driving shaft for the vehicle, horizontally and transversely
supported in suitable journals 20 therefor secured to the sills a a of the vehicle
body, provided at its ends with the sprockets c, the rear vehicle wheels also having
sprockets operated by the chain from the shaft F.
The belt runs around the motor shaft pulley e and around the speed controlling
and changing mechanism, which, as a whole, is represented by the letter G, the
same being composed of certain sleeve-like and disk-like parts which will be
hereinafter particularly pointed out and described.
The motor is mounted to be adjustably moved on the body of the vehicle
independently of the vehicle-driving shaft by manner of means as follows:-
Substantially a motor-supporting frame is comprised by the two transverse
bars 22, 22, supported at their ends on the sills of the body, one thereof being
considerably in advance of, and parallel with the other, each, as shown, having
at its end a flat based casting or slide block 23, and furthermore by the longi-
tudinally ranging bars or members 24, 24, at opposite sides which are engaged or
connected with said transverse bars 22, 22.
Not only the motor, inclusive of its cylinders, motor shaft and the pulley, but
also conjunctive apparatus comprised as a part of the motor, such as the gasoline
storage, and vaporizing appliances and the muffler are supported on the motor
frame.
25, 25, represent duplicated screw shafts, screw-engaging through suitable
fixed members 26, 26, which are fixed on, or comprised in portions of the body, and
having forcing engagements with the motor-supporting frame whereby such frame
may be forced and held with the motor shaft properly distant from the vehicle-
driving shaft F, on which is the aforementioned cylindrical speed-controlling,
changing, and reversing mechanism G.
By moving the motor frame and motor, relatively to the shaft F, the driving
belt may be taken up or placed in any tension which may be considered most
advantageous.
The mechanism referred to generally by the letter G, around which the motor
driven belt runs, comprises means whereby, under a constant running of the belt
in the same direction, the vehicle-driving shaft F will remain either stationary or
be driven forwardly at either of two speeds, or be reversely driven, and this
mechanism will be now described in detail in conjunction with the controlling
devices therefor.
For the purposes of acquiring the compensating capability so that one of the
rear wheels may rotate slightly faster than the other, the vehicle-driving shaft
is made in the two sections or lengths 27, 28, as shown in Figure 3, and engaged by
means as follows:-Surrounding the section 27 of the shaft F is a loose sleeve J
having at one end a cup-shaped enlargement Ja, and having connected thereto as
by the bolts 32, the second sleeve section J3, with the cup-shaped enlargement J
endwise arranged relative to the cup-shaped enlargement J2 of the sleeve J, thus
constituting a case or enclosure for the bevel gears 29 and 30, respectively secured
on the shaft sections 27, 28, and for the paired bevel gears 33, 33, journaled on
the shaft which is located and transversely arranged between the adjacent, but
somewhat separated ends of the said shaft sections, the ends of said shaft i being

page_text: supported in sockets 34 therefor oppositely provided in the walls of the gear case
or enclosure constituted by the aforesaid cup-shaped sleeve sections, said bevel
gears 33, 33 meshing into said bevel gear, 29, 30.
The sleeve section J3 has its cup-shaped inner end portion radially extended in
the edge flanged disk, constituting the pulley k.
Rotation imparted to this pulley k directly causes the two united sleeve sections
to be correspondingly rotated; and the sleeve sections through their shaft i,
and gears 33, 33 thereon which are revolved bodily within and by the sleeve cups,
being in mesh with the shaft section gears 29, 30, ensure that both shaft
sections 27, 28, are rotated as one with the sleeve:-In short the rotation of the
pulley k causes the rotation of shaft F at the same rate of seed.
If the shaft sections 27 or 28 have rotating forces imparted thereto through the
sprocket and chain connection with the rear wheels of the vehicle unequally, as
by one wheel turning faster or on a greater radius than the other in rounding
curves or turning around, this becomes possible by the compensating gearing 28 29,
and 33, 33, all while the mechanism retains its capability for rotatably driving both
said shaft sections from the power transmitted through the pulley k, or otherwise
to the sleeve.
Compensating gearing between two shaft sections whereby both may be driven
together, and whereby one may have the faster or slower inotion relative to the
other, substantially as described, is not claimed as a new contrivance by me,
although the combination and arrangement thereof in a speed-controlling
mechanism as herein set forth embodies novelty.
The cup-shaped end portion J² of the sleeve which is widely surrounded by
the flange constituting the pulley k, is externally provided with or formed into a
spur gear m.
Next to the pulley k is a disk or spider L having a rim 37 circumferentially the
same size as the pulley k, the same being loose and rotatable on the sleeve J,
and having its rim rebated or formed with a groove or depression 38 within which
may be sunk the strap combined with which are operating devices whereby the
strap may be constricted about the rim, holding the said part L from turning,
or the strap may be rendered loose thereabout so that the said part L may
turn.
A journal stud or preferably two or more journal studs 39 are provided through
and endwise extending beyond the opposite faces of the spider L, between its rim
and axis, each journal stud carrying on its one end a pinion gear wheel o in mesh
with the sleeve gear m, and at its other end a larger gear wheel p.
Next to the disk or spider L is a pulley 9, which is circumferentially the same size
as pulley and disk L, the same being loosely mounted for rotation upon the
sleeve J, and this pulley 9 has formed on as a part thereof, or attached thereto,
at its hub portion, the gear wheel or pinion in mesh with which are the gear wheel
or wheels mounted on and bodily revoluble with the disk L, when the same is
permitted to turn.
Alongside the pulley 7 is another pulley t of equal size, the same having the
elongated sleeve-like hub, loosely surrounding the sleeve J having intermediately
of its length, mounted loosely thereon, the disk or spider u having a rim circum-
ferentially the same as the rims of the pulleys tg and k and the disk L,-the
extremity of the hub 2 of the pulley endwise beyond the part which is surrounded
by the said disk u being externally formed or provided with the pinion gear u².
The disk or spider carries the one, or preferably, two or more journal shafts
or studs 42 having rotatably mounted thereon the spur gears vv.
11.
The disk has its circular rim formed with a depression or rebate receiving
therein the strap combined with which are its strap-operating devices to be
hereinafter described whereby it may be constricted about the rim holding the
disk u from turning or he rendered loose thereabout so that said disk may turn.
Having already described how directly turning the pulley k rotates the shaft as
one therewith, it will now be pointed out that if the strap n is constricted to

page_text: hold disk L against being turned and the belt f is running about the pulley q,
rotating same, this pulley will, through the gear wheel r po m, rotate the sleeve,
but at a considerably reduced rate of speed accordingly as the pinions
smaller than the sleeve gear m, which they now are caused to drive.
o o are
If the belt is running upon the pulley and the strap n is loosened from its
constriction about the disk or spider L, whereby the latter is free for rotation,
the pinion at the hub of the pulley will cause the gear wheels p and o to be
rotated, and it being assumed that the resistance against rotation of the shaft F
and sleeve J, is considerable, the rotations of said wheels and will cause them,
instead of turning the sleeve J and shaft F, to have their revoluble movements
without further effect than to cause the spider disk L to turn,--the pinions o o
roving idly about the spur gear wheel n.
Again, if strap n is rendered loose and strap c constricted to hold disk u against
being turned, and the belt is shifted onto pulley t (the belt at all times running
in the same direction) the rotation of pulley t, through its pinion u² and the
intermediate disk-carried gear wheels rotates the disk M, and internal gear
which is a part thereof, in the reversed direction, correspondingly reversing the
sleeve and the driving shaft F,-the size the pinion relative to the internal
gear determining the extent of decrease in the speed which the vehicle-driving
shaft will have when reversely rotated.
And even while pulley t is rotated by the belt f, if the strap w is loosened,
the rotation of the pinion will cause the intermediate gears ev to revolve the
disk without overcoming the resistance afforded by the internal gear wheel M
around within which the said intermediate gears v rove, all without effect to
rotate the shaft F to drive the vehicle.
While my invention is not limited. in certain portions thereof to any special
mechanism for effecting the shifting of the belt from one of the positions mentioned
to another and for operating the disk-holding straps, I have provided new and
advantageous shifting and controlling means of extreme simplicity which are easy
of operation, and certain in result, and the manipulation of which may be apparent
or readily understood by any one having little or no knowledge of mechanical
matters.
In referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2, more especially, it will be
perceived that the belt shifter N is pivotally supported as at 50 upon a suitable
support or fixture therefor, preferably on the body of the vehicle, for transverse
shifting movements horizontally back and forth.
P represents a controlling lever pivotally mounted as at 52 at the forward
portion of the vehicle body, at one side thereof, upon an upwardly extending
crank-like arm or fork 53, of a horizontally and transversely arranged rock
shaft 54 mounted in a suitable journal bracket 55 therefor, seen in Figure 1.
The connecting rod 56 is attached at the lower end of the controlling lever and
to the belt shifter N.
The said connecting rod preferably is extended centrally through the rock shaft
which for this purpose is made tubular.
Adjacent the speed-changing mechanism, and parallel with the axis thereof,
is the rock shaft Q, provided with the lever or crank arm 60, which by connecting
rod 59 is secured to the crank arm 58 of the rock shaft 54.
The said rock shaft has opposite the disk or gear-carriers L and u, the variously
extended crank portions n2 n2 and 2 w2 with which the ends of the straps n and w
are respectively connected, as seen in Figures 2, 5 and 6, the arrangement of the
connection points for the straps being so opposed that the movement of the rock
shaft in one direction causes a tensioning or tightening of the one strap and
simultaneously causes the loosening of the other strap, and vice versa.
A forward swinging motion of the lever P will cause the rock shaft on which
it is mounted to tighten the strap n, whereupon the belt running on pulley
vehicle will be caused to be forwardly driven at the slow speed.
the
The swinging of the lever back into an upright position, whereby the strap n

page_text: becomes released, and swinging the upper end of the lever transversedly outward,
inwardly moving its lower member, which is below the pivotal support thereof on
the lower arm 53 of the rock shaft 54, causes the shifting of the belt onto pulley k,
whereby the vehicle will be driven at its highest speed; swinging the lever P
transversely in the opposite direction, that is, inwardly, in the proper extent,
causes through the swinging of the belt shifter, the belt to be brought onto the
pulley ; and upon next swinging the already inwardly shifted lever P rearwardly,
the strap w is tightened holding disk-carrier and ensuring the propulsion of the
vehicle backwardly at the very much reduced speed.
In order to render manifest and easily gauged, the proper positions and move-
ments of the controlling lever for the purposes variously as explained, a plate R
is provided which has a slot therein of peculiar conformation, upwardly through
which the lever is extended.
The slot comprises the transverse portion 62 at the middle of the plate, the forward
extension 63 having its line of forward extension within the outer end margin of
the said portion 62, and the rearward longitudinally extension 64 is in line with
the rear margin of the portion 62, and it will be understood that with the lever l'
upright and in the slot portion 62 opposite the slot extension 63, the belt will
be on pulley and neither of the straps tightened; the throwing of the lever
outward will place belt on pulley k, the straps both remaining loose; the swinging
of the lever inwardly slightly will replace the belt on pulley g, and then on
swinging the lever forward in slot portion 63 the strap n will be tightened causing
the driving at the reduced speed; bringing the lever back into central slot
portion 62 moving it transversely inward will carry belt over onto pulley t,
and then the rearward longitudinal swinging of the lever to the rear of the slot
extension 64 will cause tightening of the strap we ensuring the reversed driving
at the much reduced speed.
For the purposes of embodying in the motor vehicle, the compensating gear-
ing 29, 30, 33, 33, and combining the same in the speed-controlling and reversing
mechanism, in connection with the vehicle-driving shaft, substantially as described
and illustrated, it has been necessary to employ the sleeve J J³ in part to form and
to have mounted thereon, the speed-controlling gearing, but it will be apparent
that except for the compensating gearing, the united part J J2 might itself
directly constitute the vehicle-driving shaft, and could very properly be made
solid instead of annular or tubular.
The front wheels are mounted on journals which at 65 are pivoted to
the ends of the axle B in a manner already common in this class of vehicles, said
journals having the rigid rearwardly extending lever extensions 66, 66.
On a suitable supporting part of the vehicle, at or near the front of the seat
is the vertical steering shaft 67 having the leftward and rightward, diagonally
forwardly extended short members 68, 68, leftward one thereof being by rod 69
connected with the right hand axle journal lever extension 66, and the rightward
lever member 68 being by a similar rod 69 connected with the left hand axle
journal extension 66, the said rods 69, 69, crossing each other near their connec-
tions with the lever extensions of the steering shaft 67.
The said shaft 67 has on its upper end a suitable steering handle 70.
The motor support, hereinbefore referred to as composed in the longitudinal
members 24 and the transverse members 22, is advantageously constituted by
having these members constructed as tubes or receptacles connected together,
and having their interiors in communication the one with another.
Thus while a motor support of sufficient strength is acquired, and one which
has the capability of adjustment as and for the purposes explained, the motor
support may be utilized in the performance of a double duty, namely, to con-
stitute in addition to the support, also a receptacle or receiver usefully embodied
as a motor equipment appliance or adjunct.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, as an illustration of one mode of utilization of
the motor support, it will be pointed out that 80, 80, indicate the exhaust passages

page_text: of the motor cylinders, the same leading into the hollow motor support, so that the
latter becomes a muffler for minimizing, or practically overcoming, the puffing
noise usually heretofore attendant on the exhaust of the gasoline motor.
82 indicates a relief opening in the hollow motor support, to be provided when
the latter is utilized as the muffler.
The hollow support may, in lieu of constituting a muffler chamber, be employed
ás a receptacle for the gasoline or other fluid employed in the motor, or for holding
a motor cooling liquid.
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. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part having
wheel r,
a fixed gear wheel m, of a second rotatable part q, also having a fixed gear
a disk or gear carrier L, mounted to be rotated having united gears op thereon,
the one p adapted to be driven by the gear on said part q, and through its there-
with connected gear, driving the gear m on the first named rotatable part, shiftable
means for driving either of said rotatable parts, and means for permitting or
restraining the turning of the gear carrying disk q, substantially as described.
2. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part having
a fixed
wheel m,
gear
of a second rotatable part q, also having a fixed gear wheel r,
a disk or gear carrier L, mounted to be rotated between said two rotatable parts
having a depression 38 in its rim, and carrying united gears o and 2, the one ?
adapted to be driven by the gear wheel r on said rotatable part q, and through
its therewith connected gear o driving said gear wheel m on the first rotatable
part, a shiftable belt for driving either of said rotatable parts, and a strap
encircling said disk and located within the depression thereof, and having means
operative to render it loose or constricted about said disk for permitting or
restraining the turning of the disk, substantially as and for the purposes described.
3. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part having
a comparatively large fixed gear wheel m, of a second rotatable part q, having a
smaller gear wheel or pinion r, a disk or gear carrier L, with the united gear
wheels o and p rotatably mounted thereon, the one p adapted to be driven by the
said pinion, and through its therewith connected gear o, driving the larger
gear m on the first named rotatable part, shiftable means for driving either of
said rotatable parts, and means for permitting or restraining the turning of the
gear carrying disk, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part having
a fixed
wheel m,
gear
of a second rotatable part g also having a fixed gear wheel r,
a disk or gear carrier L, mounted to be rotated, having united gears o and p
thereon, the one adapted to be driven by the gear 7 on said second rotatable part,
- and through its therewith connected gear o driving the gear m on the first named
rotatable part, shiftable means as a shiftable belt for driving either of said rotatable
parts J or q, means for permitting or restraining the turning of the gear carrying
disk, a single movable hand-operated part, connections between same and said
shiftable driving means, and connections between same and said disk restraining
means whereby at pleasure, through said single hand-operated part, the driving
means may be caused to cooperate with either of said two rotatable parts, and the
said, restraining means either engaged with or free from the said gear carrying
disk L, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
:
5. The combination with an axially arranged rotatable part having a fixed
gear wheel m, and also having a fixed internal gear wheel M, of a second rotat-
able part q, also having a fixed gear wheel r, a third rotatable part t, having a
fixed gear u², a gear carrying disk L adapted to be rotated having two united
gears o and p thereon, the one adapted to be driven by the gear r," and through
its therewith connected gear driving the gear on the rotatable part J, a second
one
also rotatably mounted carrying
gear carrying disk
21.
or more

page_text: gears meshing as intermediates with both the gear and with
the internal gear of the rotatable part, shiftable means for rotatably
driving either of said three rotatable parts, and means for restraining or render-
ing free either of said disk carriers L'or u, substantially as and for the purposes
as set forth.
6. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part J
having a fixed gear wheel m, and a circumferentially extended portion to consti-
tute a pulley, of a second rotatable part q, also comprising a pulley and a
centrally arranged fixed gear wheel r, a disk or gear carrier L, mounted to be
rotated between said two pulleys having united gears o and p thereon, the one p
adapted to be driven by the gear on said pulley q, and through its therewith con-
nected gear o driving the gear m on the said rotatable part J,
a strap encircling
the gear carrying disk, a rock shaft having portions extended in different direc-
tions with which the ends of the strap are connected, a belt f shiftable from one
of said pulleys to the other, a belt shifter therefor, and a lever having operating
engagements with both the belt shifter and strap, substantially as and for the
purposes set forth.
7. The combination with an axially or centrally arranged rotatable part J,
having fixed thereon, an internal gear M, of a pulley t, rotatable about said
central part provided with a pinion a centrally thereof, a rotary gear carrier u
provided with one or more gear. wheels meshing as intermediates between the
said pulley pinion and the teeth of said internal gear, and means for temporarily
restraining the gear carrier against rotation whereby the rotations of the pulley t
will then ensure the reverse rotation of the said first named rotatable part J,
substantially as described.
8. The combination with a centrally arranged rotatable part J, provided with
a pulley or like rotating device k, and provided with an internal gear fixed
thereon, of a second pulley t provided with a centrally arranged pinion ², a
gear support u provided with one or more gear wheels meshing as intermediates
between said pinion and internal gear wheel M, means for permitting or
restraining the rotation of said support u for the intermediate gear wheels, and a
shiftable belt and shifting means whereby it may be in driving contact around
either of said pulleys kort, substantially as and for the purposes described.
9. The combination with a centrally arranged rotatable part provided with a
spur gear m and an internal gear M, of a wheel or pulley to be driven, pro-
vided centrally with a gear wheel or pinion ", a gear support rotatably mounted
and having the united gears pando in mesh with said pinion and spur gear rm,
a second wheel or pulley t to be driven provided with a gear wheel, a second gear
support provided with one or more gear wheels in mesh with both the gear
wheel on pulley t and said internal gear M, and means for restraining either one
of said gear supports, from being rotated at any given time, as desired, and
a shiftable driver for rotating either of said wheels or pulleys qt, substantially as
and for the purposes set forth.
.
10. The combination with a centrally arranged rotatable part provided with a
spur gear m, and an internal gear M, of a wheel or pulley g to be driven, pro-
vided centrally with a gear wheel or pinion r, a gear support rotatably mounted
and having the united gears p and o in mesh with said pinion and spur gear rm,
a second wheel or pulley t to be driven provided with a gear wheel, one or more
gear wheels in mesh with both the gear wheel on pulley t and said internal
gear M, a shiftable belt or driver for driving either of said pulleys according to
its position, straps encircling and adapted to be constricted around said gear
supports, means for shifting said belt, and a rock shaft having variously radially
extended engagement portions in connection with the ends of said straps, and
means for imparting a rocking motion whereby simultaneously, one of said straps
will be in binding engagement on one of the gear supports, the other being
rendered loose, and vice versa, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
11. The combination with a centrally arranged rotatable part pro

page_text: vided with a
spur gear m
and
a
wheel
internal gear M, of
an
or pulley q to be driven, provided centrally with a gear wheel or
pinion r, a gear support rotatably mounted and having the united
gears pando in mesh with said pinion and spur gear rm, a second wheel
or pulley t to be driven provided with a gear wheel, one or more gear wheels v
in mesh with both the gear wheel on pulley t and said internal gear, a shiftable
belt or driver for driving either of said pulleys according to its position, straps
encircling and adapted to be constricted around said gear supports, and a rock
shaft having variously radially extended engagement connections with the ends
of said straps, and means operative both for shifting said belt and for conjointly
imparting a rocking motion whereby one of said straps will be in binding
engagement on one of the gear supports, the other being rendered loose, and vice
versa, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
12. In combination, an axially arranged rotatable part having a fixed gear
wheel, and an enlarged pulley, and also having a fixed internal gear wheel, of
a second rotatable part or pulley also having, centrally, a fixed gear wheel, a
third rotatable part or pulley, of circumferentially the same size as the afore-
named pulleys having a fixed gear, a gear carrying disk adapted to be rotated
having two united gears thereon, the one adapted to be driven by the gear on
said second rotatable part and through its therewith connected gear driving the
gear on the first rotatable part, a second gear carrying disk also rotatably
mounted carrying gears meshing, as intermediates, with both the gear on the
said third rotatable part and with the internal gear of the first rotatable part,
said gear carrying disks being circumferentially similar to said pulleys and have
depressions in their rims, the straps n and w encircling them, the rock shaft
having the differentially radial strap engagement extensions, a belt shifter, and
means for shifting it, which is also connected for rocking said rock shaft whereby
the one strap may be tightened and the other simultaneously loosened and vice
versa, substantially as described.
13. In a motor vehicle, the combination with a traction wheel or wheels thereof,
of a motor adjustably mounted on the vehicle for a bodily movement and pro-
vided with a pulley, of a vehicle driving shaft having driving connection with
the vehicle wheels, and provided with changeable speed gearing comprising a
plurality of equal sized pulley-like members adapted to have, both directly and
through reducing and reversing gearing, connections with the vehicle driving
shaft, a belt running around the motor pulley, and also according to its shifted
position around one or the other of the pulley members of the aforesaid change-
able gearing, a belt shifter for said belt, and means for bodily moving the motor
and its pulley independently of the vehicle driving shaft, towards or from the
latter, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
14. In a motor vehicle, the combination with a vehicle driving shaft consist-
Eng of two shaft members having driving connections with separate traction
wheels of the vehicle, and having on their adjoining ends, fixed bevel gears, of a
sleeve-like part loosely surrounding the sectional vehicle driving shaft and com-
prising a spur gear m, a pulley or driver as k, having the journal shaft i with the
bevel gear wheels mounted thereon which are in mesh with the bevel gear wheels
of both the said shaft sections, a second rotatable drive wheel or pulley having
a hub-provided pinion or gear wheel r, the gear carrying support L, having the
united gears pando respectively in mesh with the pinion and sleeve gear m,
means for permitting or restraining from rotation the said gear carrying support,
and driving means shiftable to operate at pleasure either wheel k or wheel q,
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
15. In a motor vehicle, in combination, a vehicle driving shaft consisting of
two shaft members having driving connections with separate traction wheels of
the vehicle, and having on their adjoining ends, fixed bevel gears, a sectional and
united sleeve-like part loosely surrounding the sectional vehicle driving shaft,
and comprising a spur gear m, a pulley or driver as k, having the journal shaft i

page_text: with the bevel gear wheels mounted thereon which are in mesh with the bevel
gear wheels of both the said shaft sections and said sectional sleeve comprising
cupped members forming a casing for said several intermeshing bevel gears, a
second rotatable drive wheel or pulley having a hub-provided pinion or gear
wheel r, the gear carrying support L, having the united gears and o respec-
tively in mesh with the pinion r and sleeve gear m, means for permitting or
restraining from rotation the said gear carrying support, and driving means,
shiftable to operate at pleasure either wheel or wheel q, substantially as and
for the purposes set forth.
16. In a motor vehicle, in combination, the sectional vehicle driving shaft
having, on the adjacent ends of its sections, the bevel gear wheels 29, 30, the
sleeve-like part rotatably surrounding the sectional shaft carrying the journal
shaft provided with the bevel gear wheels 33, 33, in mesh with said first named
bevel gear wheel, and provided with the spur gear m, the pulley 9 provided with
a hub-like pinion r, the rotatable gear carrying disk L, surrounding the sleeve,
and provided with the gear wheels p and o which mesh into gears rm, means for
restraining said gear carrier at pleasure against rotation and means for rotating
pulley q, substantially as and for the purposes set forth
17. In a motor vehicle, in combination, the sectional vehicle driving shaft
having, on the adjacent ends of its sections, the bevel gear wheels 29, 30, the
sleeve-like part rotatably surrounding the sectional shaft, carrying transversely,
within the chambered portion thereof, the journal shaft provided with the bevel
gear wheels 33, 33, meshing into the bevel wheels 29, 30, and provided with the
fixed internal gear M, the pulley or drive wheel rotatable around, and inde-
pendently of the sleeve, and provided at its hub with a pinion, the rotatable
gear support provided with one or more spur gear wheels, meshing as inter-
mediates with both said pulley pinions and said internal gear of the sleeve, and
restraining mechanism for said gear support, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth.
18. In a motor vehicle, in combination, the sectional vehicle driving shaft
having on the adjacent ends of its sections, the bevel gear wheels 29, 30, the
sleeve-like part rotatably surrounding the sectional shaft, having journaled there-
within and bodily movable therewith, the bevel gear wheels 33, 33, in mesh with
said gears 29, 30, and also provided with the spur gear m, and the pulley exten-
sion, the pulley q, rotatable about the sleeve and having the hub-like pinion r
the rotatable gear-carrying disk L, loosely surrounding the sleeve, and provided
with the gear wheels and o which mesh into gears rm, means for restraining
said gear carrier at pleasure against rotation and shiftable means for rotating
either pulley or the sleeve through its part k, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth.
19. In a motor vehicle, in combination, the sectional vehicle driving shaft
having on the adjacent ends of its sections, the bevel gear wheels 29, 30, the
sleeve-like part rotatably surrounding the sectional shaft, carrying axially trans-
versely within the chambered portion thereof, which surrounds the ends of the
shaft sections, the suitably journaled bevel gear wheels 33, 33, meshing into the
bevel wheels 29, 30, and provided with the fixed internal gear M at its opposite
end, the pulley or drive wheel t rotatable around, and independently of the
sleeve, and having an elongated hub provided at its end with a pinion, the rotat-
able gear-supporting disk mounted on the extended hub of the said wheel t
between the body of said wheel and said internal gear, and provided with one or
more spur gear wheels, meshing as intermediates with both said pulley pinions
and said internal gear of the sleeve, and the strap for said disk, and operating
means therefor, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
20. In a motor vehicle, in combination, the vehicle driving shaft F, constituted
by the aligned sections 27, 28, having on their adjacent ends the bevel gear
wheels 29, 30, the two part sleeve formed with the cup-like end portions J2 J
fixed together constituting an internal chamber having journaled therein and

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bodily revoluble, the bevel gear wheels 33, 33, meshing said gears 29, 30, and one
of said sleeve sections provided with spur gear m and also being outwardly enlarged
to constitute the drive wheel or pulley, said sleeve moreover, being provided
suitably distant from said pulley with the fixed internal gear, the pulley rotatable
about the sleeve and provided with the hub-like pinion r, a third pulley along-
side pulley having the elongated hub provided at its end with the pinion gear u²,
the disk L rotatable about the sleeve between the pulleys and carrying one or
more sets of united gear wheels p and o meshing said pulley pinion and the
gear wheel m of the sleeve, the second disk rotatably mounted upon the
elongated hub of the pulley having one or more wheels in mesh with, and inter-
mediate between the pinion and the internal gear of the sleeve, the straps n
and w adapted for binding engagements respectively around disks L and w, means
for rendering them tight or loose as desired, a driving belt shiftable onto either
of the said three pulleys and driving connections between said shaft and
traction wheels of the vehicle, substantially as described and shown, and for the
purposes set forth.
21. In a motor vehicle, a speed governing mechanism, having a shiftable belt,
and having a strap encircling a cylindrical part which is comprised in said
mechanism, a belt shifter, a strap tightener, and a lever having connections with
the belt shifter, whereby, when swung in one plane of movement, it operates the
belt shifter and also has connections with the strap tightener, and whereby, when
swung in another plane, it operates the said tightener without affect on the belt
shifter, substantially as described.
22. The combination with the belt f and a strap, of the belt shifter N pivotally
mounted, and a rock shaft having differently extended radial members with
which are connected the ends of the strap, and having the arm 60, the rock
shaft 54 provided with an angular member having the lever P intermediately
pivoted thereon and having a lever arm 58, the connecting rod 59 joining arms 58
and 60, and the connecting rod 56 joining the lever P with the belt shifter, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes set forth.
23. In a motor vehicle, the combination with a speed controlling mechanism
comprising several rotatable pulleys and cylindrical members having respectively
encircling straps, of a rock shaft Q having variously and oppositely arranged
radial extension members, with which the ends of the said straps are connected,
a belt adapted to run around the said pulleys and to be shifted from one to the
other thereof, a belt shifter engaging the belt, a rock shaft 54 having a controll-
ing lever pivotally mounted thereon, so as to swing in one plane independently
of the rock shaft, and so that when swung in another plane, it will rock said shaft,
connections between this lever operated rock shaft and the first named rock shaft,
and connections between the lever and the belt shifter, substantially as described
and for the purposes set forth.
24. In the change speed mechanism, the combination with the shiftable belt f
and the disk restraining strap, of the belt shifter N pivotally mounted, and a rock
shaft Q having differently extended radial members with which are connected
the ends of the strap, and having the arm 60, the tubular rock shaft 54 provided
with an angular member having the lever Pintermediately pivoted thereon and
having a lever arm 58, the connecting rod 59 joining rock shaft arms 58 and 60,
and the connecting rod 56 joined to a member of the lever P, extending therefrom
through the said tubular rock shaft to connection with the belt shifter, substan-
tially as and for the purposes set forth.
25. A two speed forward driving and a reversing mechanism, comprising a
shiftable driving belt and two cylindrical members and restraining straps there-
for, substantially as described, of a lever mounted to swing fore and aft to operate
the straps and to swing transversely to effect the shifting of the belt from one to
another of its several positions, and the plate having a slot or opening therein com-
prising a central transverse portion 62, a forwardly extending portion 63 having
its position between the ends of the transverse portion and the rearward exten-

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stituting an indicator or gauge for the positions of the said controlling lever, sub-
stantially as described.
26. In a motor vehicle, the combination with a speed controlling and reversing
mechanism comprising the rotatable pulleys kq t and the disks Lu having respec-
tively the encircling straps n w, of a rock shaft Q having variously and oppositely
arranged radial extension members, with which the ends of the said strap are
connected, a belt f adapted to run around the said pulleys and to be shifted from
one to the other thereof, a belt shifter N engaging the belt, a rock shaft 54 having
a controlling lever l' pivotally mounted thereon, so as to swing in one plane
independently of the rock shaft, and so that when swung in another plane, it will
rock said shaft, connections between this lever-operated rock shaft and the rock
shaft Q, connections between the lever and the belt shifter, and the gauge and
guard plate, having the slot with the central transverse portion 62, the forward
extension 63 at one side and the rearward extension 64 arranged at the other side,
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
27. In a motor vehicle, the frame or support mounted on the vehicle, consisting
of transverse hollow members joined to, and interiorly in connection with, longi-
tudinal hollow members, and the motor bodily supported by said frame, and con-
nected to communicate with the interior thereof, substantially as described.
28. In a motor vehicle, a motor support consisting of transverse and longitu-
dinal hollow members joined to constitute a frame, the one member thereof being
internally in communication with another, the same being movably mounted on
the vehicle, and the motor supported on said hollow frame and movable there-
with, a part of the motor apparatus having a passage connection or communica-
tion with the hollow frame, substantially as set forth.
29. In a motor vehicle, a motor-supporting hollow frame, mounted on the
vehicle, the motor mounted on said hollow frame, and having the exhaust passage
or passages thereof connected to and communicating interiorly with said hollow
frame, whereby the latter, in addition to constituting the motor support, also con-
stitutes a muffler for the motor, substantially as described.
30. In a motor vehicle, a motor support consisting of transverse and longitudinal
hollow members joined to constitute a frame, the one member thereof being inter-
nally in communication with another, said frame being movably mounted on the
vehicle, the motor mounted on said hollow frame having communication interiorly
therewith, and bodily and adjustably movably therewith, a vehicle driving shaft
in fixed bearings on the vehicle having a pulley-like driving appliance, and a
belt driven by the motor and in contact around said pulley-like appliance, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dotod this 98th day of October 1808