US Patent: 277,784
|
| Traction-engine
|
|
Patentees:
|
| Ignatius G. Rider (exact or similar names) - Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA |
| Abraham O. Frick (exact or similar names) - Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA |
| William H. Snyder (exact or similar names) - Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA |
| Manufacturer: |
|
Frick Co. - Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA |
|
|
Patent Dates:
|
| Applied: |
Jan. 25, 1883 |
| Granted: |
May 15, 1883 |
|
Patent Pictures:
[
1 | 2
]
|
|
|
USPTO (New site tip)
Google Patents
Report data errors or omissions to steward
Joel Havens
Vintage Machinery entry for Frick Co.
|
|
Description: |
| Abstract:
In the use of traction or road engines it is very desirable to have it geared so that it can operate with great power and little speed, or can he run at a higher speed when not much power is required. Thus, for instance, in traveling in one direction the engine may be loaded, and when returning; from its destination it may be unloaded. In the first instance it should be geared for power, and in the latter, to economize time, it may be geared for speed. Again, some parts of the road may be heavy and the rest good, and in such ease an adaptation may be made of the gearing to suit these circumstances. Our invention consists in the combination, with the two wheels of a traction-engine, of a compensating-gear which derives motion from the driving machinery and transmits it independently to each of the two wheels, whereby either or both wheels may be driven, a locking mechanism for holding rigid one of the wheels of the compensating-gears which transmit motion to one of said traction-wheels, and an adjustment whereby that traction -wheel may be released and allowed to run freely or passively independent of its driving mechanism, whereby the value of a compensating- gear in this class of machines is preserved for turning corners, &c., and whereby, also, the desired result of attaining two speeds for the traction-engine may be made available with very little addition to the ordinary mechanism.
Claim:
In a traction-engine, the combination, with its two traction-wheels, of a compensating -gear for dividing and transmitting the power of the engine independently to each of the two traction-wheels, a locking device for holding one of the compensating-gears, and a releasing mechanism for disconnecting the traction-wheel tributary to that gear and permitting it to run passively, whereby the other traction-wheel is made to double its speed. |
|
){kind=link}
){kind=link}