Improvements in Round-abouts having Undulating Motion.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Round-abouts having Undulating Motion.
I, WALTER BRIERLEY, of Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, which invention has been
communicated to me from abroad by Heinrich Daut, of Nuremberg in the Empire
of Germany, Foreman 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 round-abouts in which boats are
employed, and to which boats an undulating motion is imparted in addition to the
circular or round about motion so that the boats when in operation have a forward
and rocking motion similar to that assumed by a boat riding on waves; the object
being to so construct and arrange the carriages for the boats that both carriages and
boats can rise and fall and follow the curves when moving on an undulating or
many curved and undulating line.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a
complete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a ground plan of the improved round-about.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line A, B of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, 4, 5 and 6 show the means for moving and operating the boat-carriages
by rod and guide pieces.
Fig. 7 is a plan view of the carriage on the railroad, the position of the boat
being indicated by dotted lines.
Fig. 8 is an elevation shewing the undulatory curves of the railroad with a boat
carriage and boat thereon.
Fig. 9 shews the carriage supported by balls or wheels revolving in a tube.
The improved round-about consists of a round tank, filled with water to its
upper edge.
In the middle of the tank there is a vertical axis a round which a wheel
consisting of the rim d and the spokes c revolves. The boats swim upon the
water and are connected by rod with a carriage i, the wheels of which carriage
run upon a railway k fixed at the bottom of the tank. This railway k has a double
curvature so that the carriages and boats have a zig-zag motion as well as the
undulating motion. The boats g are driven by the spokes c of the revolving wheel
and the carriage i follows the track of the double curved railway k. Instead of the
carriages i there may be used hemispheres, balls or wheels a (see Fig. 9) revolving
on axes at the bottom of the rods and carried in a tube w having a slit or slot y in
its upper side for the passage of the rod h.
This
In order to allow the boats, and carriages to follow the double curved railway E
a guide piece is attached which permits of an universal motion of the boats g.
guide piece consists of two crossing pipes and 2 (see Fig. 6) which are connected
one with the other. Through the pipe the round boat rod / passes; and through
the pipe the round spoke c passes, or two spokes c. c. may be employed said spokes
clipping loosely the rod h (see Figs. 3 & 4).
The action is as follows:-The wheel d is turned and by means of the guide
piece above described, the boat g is moved along the double curved railway k and
a serpentine, and undulating motion is imparted thereto.
The apparatus is driven by hand, or power, in the latter case the engine gears
with the toothed-wheel b. The boats of the inner circle are occupied by use of the
bridges e (see Fig. 2) while the boats of the exterior or outer circle are occupied
from the platforms f.

page_text: The boats in the inner circles as shewn in the drawings as only having the
undulating motion, the serpentine motion can of course be imparted to these.
Having now particalarly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner, the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
A round about having undulating serpentine guide road, for the boats, a guide
piece for the boats, consisting of two crossing pipes (1 and 2) in the one of which t
the guide rod of the boats is adjusted moveable, while the other pipe is mounted
moveable, upon the driving rod c so that the boat carriage i can follow all the turns
and curves of the guide road k as herein described and substantially as illustrated
by drawings annexed.
Dated this 12th day of September 1892.
WALTER BRIERLEY.