IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OB APPARATUS USED FOR APPLYING MOTIVE POWER DERIVED FROM BULLOCKS, HORSES, OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Platt, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanical Engineer, and William Richardson, of the same Place,
Mechanical Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OB APPARATUS USED FOR APPLYING MOTIVE POWER DERIVED FROM BULLOCKS,
HORSES, OR OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 25th September 1862, and dated the 1st April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Platt and William
Richardson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 1st April 1862.
We, JOHN PLATT, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical
Engineer, and WILLIAM RICHARDSON, of the same Place, Mechanical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS USED FOR APPLYING MOTIVE POWER DERIVED
FROM BULLOCKS, HORSES, OR OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in taking the power from two or more parts of the
wheel to which the animals are connected. Thus, we employ a toothed
wheel with internal or external teeth carried by a vertical axis, and in con-
nexion therewith are two or more pinions, connected by gearing to a shaft
by which the power is conveyed. The aforesaid wheel is provided with shafts
or levers, to which the animals are yoked, and beneath it are placed wheels or

page_text: pullies, upon which it may be supported. To the rim of the wheel are
connected beams, which extend to the central shaft, and these beams we strut
after the manner of roofing for buildings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Platt and William Richardson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
PLATT, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer, and
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, of the same Place, Mechanical Engineer, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said John Platt and William Richardson, Her special license that we,
the said John Platt and William Richardson, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Platt and William
Richardson, our executors, administrators, an assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for." IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS USED FOR APPLYING MOTIVE POWER DERIVED FROM BULLOCKS, HORSES,
ÓR OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others that we, the said
John Platt and William Richardson, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Richardson, do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention; and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say):-
Our Invention consists in taking the power from two or more parts of the
wheel to which the animals are connected. Thus, we employ a toothed wheel

page_text: with internal or external teeth carried by a vertical axis, and in connexion
therewith are two pinions connected by gearing to a shaft by which the power
is conveyed. The aforesaid wheel is provided with shafts or levers, to which
the animals are yoked, and beneath it are placed wheels or pulleys, upon which
it may be supported. To the rim of the wheel are connected beams, which
extend to the central shaft, and these beams we strut after the manner of
roofing for buildings.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 represents our improved arrange-
ment in sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 is a partial plan view. The foundation
is shewn at 1, upon which is mounted a stationary hollow pillar 2, having at its
upper end a projecting stud 3; upon this stud is placed a cap-piece 4, attached
to a tube 5, which extends downward, but clear of the pillar 2, excepting at
its lower part, which there runs in contact with the said pillar. Affixed to the
lower end of the tube 5 is a boss 7, which carries a series of struts 8, for
supporting a like number of beams 9, which beams are attached at one end to
the cap-piece 4, and at the other to a wheel 10, provided with internal teeth.
Upon the foundation are fixed standards 11, 12, furnished with bearings for
supporting upright shafts 13, 14, which shafts are provided with pinion 15, 15,
taking into the teeth of the wheel 10. The standards 11, 12, are supported
by rods 17, 18, which extend therefrom to the central pillar 2. At 19 are
foundation blocks, upon which a series of rollers 20 is mounted, such rollers
being beneath the wheel 10, and thus assisting in supporting it. Upon
the shafts 13, 14, are fixed bevil pinions 21, taking into other pinions 22,
carried by the line shaft 24, and through which the power is transmitted to
any desired situation. The levers to which the animals are yoked are at 25,
but a portion of them only is shewn in the Drawing; they may of course be.
of any desired number. The animals shewn in the Drawing are yoked after
the manner practised in India, but any ordinary method may be adopted.
It will be seen by the above description that as the animals exert their
power the wheel 10 will be caused to revolve upon the central pillar 2, sup-
ported partly thereby and partly by the rollers 20, and that motion will be
transmitted through the two sets of pinions 15, 21, 22, to the line shaft 24,
from two points of the circumference of the said wheel, whereby the strain upon
the centre of motion becomes equalised or lessened.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention, I
desire it to be understood that we claim as secured to us under the above in
part recited Letters Patent,-
Firstly, transmitting the power to a line shaft from two points of the main
wheel

page_text: Secondly, the general arrangement and construction of parts shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Richardson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON. (L.S.)