Improvements in connection with the Electrical Propulsion of Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left 22nd July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL DIMETUATION.
Improvements in connection with the Electrical Propulsion of
Vehicles.
Wo, ANTHONY GEorge New and Arthur James MayNE, both of Palace Chambers,
in the City of Westminster, Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates more particularly to cycles and other vehicles intended
for use on 1oadways Broadly stated the invention may be said to consist in
causing the rotating part of the motor o motors to be the direct traction wheel
or wheels of the vehicle, thus dispensing with intermediate gearing of any character.
The invention may be carried into effect in several ways, and as an example, it
may be stated that with a direct curient the internal amature may be rigidly
mounted upon a fixed axle upon which the rotating field would revolve, such field in
this case carrying the tyre or traction part of the wheel
It will be evident, however, that with less advantage perhaps, the parts may
be reversed.
With poly phase currents it will probably be preferable that the stator should be
fixed between aims carrying the rotor, and the current carried to the former by means
of suitablo conductors within the axle or hub
Dated the 22nd day of October 1895.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicants.
Improvements in connection with the Electrical Propulsion of
Vehicles.
We ANTHONY GEORGE NEW of Palace Chambers Westminster Electrical Engineer
and ARTHUR JAMES MAYNE of the same address 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 stateuient :-
This invention relates particularly to cycles and other vehicles intended for use
on roadways. The idea of the invention consists in arranging the rotating part of
the motor or motors as the direct traction wheel of the vehicle.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings to which reference is here made in order
that the nature of the invention may be the more thoroughly understood the idea is
shown practically carried out by the employ ment of a polyphase motor as this arrange-
ment 18 the more easily shown and under stood but other types of motor may also be
employed.
Fig. 1. represents a side view of a motor wheel thus constructed.
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page_text: The "stator" S of this polyphase motor is shown inside the "rotor" R the
perforations for the windings alone being indicated and is secured by the web W
to the fixed axlo of the vehicle A. This axle A 18 secured by the standards H to
the bottom board B or any other suitable portion of the vehicle The "rotor" R
is bolted to the arms F F, forming a second web and turning on the axle A in the
bearings L L.
The external rim K is the tyre of the wheel thus formed
The same arrangement may be adopted with a direct current motor S being in
that case the stationary part of the motor while the rotating part (which would in
that case be preferably the arinature) is arranged as is R in the drawings in which
case it will have to be connected with a commutator in the ordinary manner.
Having now described the nature of our said invention and in what manner tho
same is to be performed we declare that what we claim 19.
The employment of an electric motor for the propulsion of road cars or similar
vehicles arranged in the manner described so that the external rotating part of the
motor forms a diving wheel of the vehicle.
ANTHONY G NEW.
ARTHUR JAS. MAYNE.