US Patent: 225,560
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| Traction Engine
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Patentees:
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| Edmund D. Brown (exact or similar names) - Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI |
| Andrew J. Hoag (exact or similar names) - Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 28, 1880 |
| Granted: |
Mar. 16, 1880 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Nichols & Shepard Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The invention relates to a novel arrangement of gearing interposed between the main driving or engine shaft and the traction-wheels, by means or through the adjustment of which the direction of movement of the machine or engine over the surface of the ground can be reversed without reversing the engine or the direction of rotation of the engine-shaft.
Claim:
In a traction-engine, the gears K' K2, mounted on adjustable shafts interposed between the main engine-shaft and the traction- wheels, said gears being always in mesh one with the other, and one of them, K', with a transmitting gear-wheel, around which said gears are adjustable, the arrangement being substantially as described, whereby either of said gears may be thrown into mesh with a gear on the engine-shaft, as desired, for changing the direction of travel without reversing the engine or the direction of rotation of the engine-shaft. |
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