US Patent: 429,746
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| Electric Railway Motor Truck
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Patentee:
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| Charles J. Van Depoele (exact or similar names) - Lynn, Essex County, MA |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 15, 1889 |
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Jun. 10, 1890 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Thomson-Houston Electric Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
My invention relates to electric-railway cars, and more especially to certain improvements in trucks supporting the motors for propelling said cars and in the means and mechanism for sustaining the motors upon the truck.
Claim:
In an electric-railway-motor truck., the combination, with the carrying-wheels and axles thereof and an electric motor or motors for propelling the same, said motor or motors being supported at their field-magnet end upon the said axle or axles and 1roviled with nose-plates uniting the free ends of their pole- pieces, of means for sustaining the free ends of the motor or motors, comprising longitudinal frames extending between the bearings of the carrying-wheels and a transverse truss frame or frames sustained at its end upon the longitudinal frames, and spring-connections between the nose-plates on the free ends of the motor or motors and the transverse truss frame or frames. |
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