A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF IMPARTING INCREASED MOTIVE POWER TO MACHINERY
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Quare, Farmer, of Matching Green, near Harlow,
Essex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF IMPARTING
INCREASED MOTIVE POWER TO MACHINERY."
Sealed the 24th February 1880, and dated the 26th August 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Quare at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th August 1879.
DANIEL QUARE, Farmer, of Matching Green, near Harlow, Essex. "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF IMPARTING INCREASED MOTIVE POWER TO MACHINERY."
This Invention consists of a counterbalance lever to be used in lieu of the
ordinary fly wheels on certain portions of machinery, with the view of increasing
the motive power and facilitating the working, and may be applied to agricultural
machines generally, also coffee mills, sewing machines, bicycles, and in fact to all
machines where the maximum of speed is desired with the minimum of hand labor
or expenditure of steam power in their working. This lever may be described as
being an arm of wood or iron or other suitable material, having one end heavily
weighted (lead being most suitable) and a small counterbalance weight at the other
end, both weights being circular in form (but any suitable form may be adopted).
This lever is carefully poised or fixed so as to revolve upon the spindles of wheels
and other like parts of machinery. The length of the lever and size of weights may
be varied to suit the machine to which they are attached, it being found that the
application of a lever of this description greatly increases the speed and facilitates
the working of any machine to which it may be applied, and the form of the lever
thús indicated allows of its being attached to parts of a machine where the fly wheel
would be entirely inapplicable, and, further, that this lever is found to be far more
effective and powerful in working. They may be attached readily to existing
machinery, either driven by steain or hand power.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Daniel Quare in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th February
1880.
DANIEL QUARE, Farmer, of Matching Green, near Harlow, Essex. "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF IMPARTING INCREASED, MOTIVE MOWER TO MACHINERY."
The object of this Invention is to increase the motive power and to facilitate the
working of machines generally so as to obtain the maximum of speed and power
with the minimum of hand-labour or steam-power in their working when applied
thereto. This Invention consists of a lever or arm of wood, iron, or other suitable
material having one end, namely, the top, heavily weighted (lead being most
suitable for the purpose) and a small counter-balance weight at the other end or
bottom. This lever or arm is carefully poised, and fixed upon a suitable base or
frame of iron, wood, or other suitable material, so as to act upon the spindles
of wheels and other like parts of machinery. The length of the lever and size of
the weights may be varied to suit the machine to which they are attached. The
application of a lever of this description greatly increases the speed and facilitates
the working of any machine to which it may be applied, and its form allows of its
being attached to parts of a machine where the fly-wheel would be entirely
inapplicable, and, further, this Invention is far more effective and powerful in
working machinery than the fly-wheel.
For the better explanation of my said Invention I refer to the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
Fig. 2 is a view of the entire apparatus. B is the lever or arm; C is the counter-
balance, the weight of which is regulated by the amount of speed and force
required, it being a necessary consequence that the greater the weight of this counter-
balance is the greater will be the speed and power obtained; D is the shaft or axle
upon which the counter-balance revolves; E is a pinion-wheel attached to one end
of the axle so as to be acted upon by the spur-wheel F; G is a shaft or axle having
at one end the spur-wheel, and the other end of which is attached to the machine
'to which it is required to apply this Invention; H is a lever or arm, which assists
the working of the lever B; these levers are worked by men, each of whom stands
on a platform opposite to the other; I is a rod connecting the lever B with the
axle G. The lever B being moved acts upon the shaft or axle G, whereby the spur-
wheel at the end of G is set in motion, and in its turn sets in motion the pinion-
'wheel E, which consequently causes the axle D of the counter-balance to revolve.
The revolutions of this axle Dare increased by the process of working, and as a
necessary consequence increase the revolutions of the axle G, and impart increased
speed and power to the machine to which it is attached. Should it be desired to
obtain a greater amount of speed and power than can be derived from the Invention
as hereinbefore described another lever-arm, pinion-wheel, and spur-wheel can be
fixed on a shaft attached to the frame, as shown in Figure 2, and worked in the
same manner as the lever B, and in this case the counter-balance to this particular
portion of the apparatus may be fixed either on the outside of the spur-wheel, or
may be formed in the spur-wheel itself. Ordinarily the spur-wheel makes thirty
revolutions per minute, the pinion-wheel makes eight times that number, namely,
two hundred and forty revolutions per minute, and these revolutions may be
almost indefinitely increased by the action of the lever B, the consequence of such
increase being to cause a proportionate increment to the speed and force imparted
to the machine to which this Invention is applied. My Invention can be applied
to all kinds of agricultural-machinery, sewing-machines, and machinery in general
use, and also used on board of and in connection with the machinery and gear of
steam and other ships.

page_text: I claim the arrangement hereinbefore described of the lever and counter-balance
for the purpose of obtaining increased motive power, and facilitating the working
of machinery when applied thereto.
I further claim the application of the counter-balance, as herein before described,
to hand-mills and such like apparatus.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Quare, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Signed and sealed
in presence of
P. O'HALLORAN,
Patent Agent,
28, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C
DANIEL QUARE. (L.S.)