US Patent: 708,949
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| Motor Vehicle
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Patentee:
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| Edgar A. Wright (exact or similar names) - Canton, Stark County, OH |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Dec. 13, 1900 |
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Sep. 09, 1902 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to improvements in motor-vehicles, the object being to provide mechanism by which the power can be applied more efficiently and economically than it can be in any vehicles of this class with which I am acquainted. I so construct and arrange the parts that I can apply power to each of the four ground-wheels, and thus make available the entire tractive efficiency of those wheels; secondly, apply the power to the wheels of the front pair equally at all times, though they are moving at different speeds and in paths of different radii, and, thirdly, apply the power to the rear wheels in such way that they also shall be furnished with an equal degree of power although moving with different peripheral speeds, and, fourthly and particularly, apply the power to the rear pair of wheels and to those of the front pair in such way that the two pairs can move in different curves without interference from cramping or binding and without requiring that any wheel should slip in relation to the others.
Claim:
The combination of the truck-frame, the steering -wheels, the pivoting devices con-fleeting the steering-wheels with the truck-frame, the power-transmitting devices at the axis of the said pivoting devices for actuating the steering-wheels, and a motor situated between the front and rear wheels operating in lines transverse to the vehicle and connected with said power-transmitting devices, substantially as set forth. In a motor-vehicle, the combination of rear traction-wheels, front traction-wheels, as motor situated between said front and rear wheels and operating in planes transverse to the vehicle, power-transmitting devices extending longitudinally of the vehicle for transmitting power to said rear traction-wheels and to said front traction-wheels and power connections between the motor and said power-transmitting devices to actuate the same. |
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