US168645A - Improvement in mechanical devices - Google Patents

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I. F. KELLEY. Mechanical-Device.

Patented Oct. H, 1875. Fz'gzZ.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

JOSEPH F. KELLEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANICAL DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,645, dated October 11, 1875 application filed August 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OsEPH F. KELLEY, a resident of Washington city, District of Golumbia, have invented a new and Improved Mechanical Device; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which-.

Figure 1 represents a front view of the machine or mechanical device; Fig. 2, a rear view; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4, a detail view of the devices for gearing and ungearing the machinery from the fly-wheel at any time required. Fig. 5 represents the toggle-levers, two or more; and Fig. 6 shows the shape of such toggle-levers.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement and combination of the weighted guide-rods, incline planes, toggle-levers, and fly-wheel gearing, as hereinafter described.

The object of my invention is to apply this mechanical device to street-cars, vessels, and machinery. 7

A represents the square upright frame; B, the horizontal floor-frame or platform; (J O, the weights, as shown at Fig. 1; D D, the upper and lower incline planes and frictionrollers F F, operating the levers E E. G G are the cog-wheels that engage rack-bar J alternately on each side of the center vertical shaft H. The toggle-levers E E expand and contract during their movement. Each lever E (therebeing two or more) has a slot, M, at each end, that makes it adjustable upon the journal of the friction-roller F. The wheel Gr may be operated by a crank on the end of its axle, by hand or any other power. The center vertical shaft H revolves with the incline planes D D, and the bevel-gearing Y Y transmits motion to gearing on the car-wheel axle below, as shown at Figs. 1 and 3. The weights 0 0 move up and down alternately with their guide-rods and friction-rollers,which rise and descend upon the incline planes D D. The fiy-wheel P operates horizontally; it is located upon one end of the shaft It, and the bevel-wheel S is at the other end of the shaft 1t. The bevel-wheel T is movable upon the horizontal shaft U, and is geared into or ungeared with the bevel-Wheel N of shaft H by shifting the bevel'wheel T backward or forward by means of the horizontal lever V, and the horizontal lever W gears or nngears the bevel-wheel X with the bevel-wheel S, by which means the wheel G is stopped, as also that of the levers E. The fly-wheel P regulates the motion of shafts B, U, and H, and by this arrangement all the machinery can be easily geared or ungeared from the flywheel shaft, thongh under full speed the motion of the machinery will be retarded 0r checked, while the fly-wheel continues its rapid revolution for some minutes, when, by again gearing the bevel-wheels N, S, and T, the force of the revolving fly-wheel instantly starts and hastens the progress of the machine.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The vertical shaft H, with its incline planes D l), friction-rollers F F, weights 0 O, togglelevers E E, rack J, cog-wheel G, bevel-gearin g N, S, T, and Y, and fly-wheel P, all arranged, combined, and operating as herein described, and for the purposes set forth. 7

JOS. F. KELLEY.

Witnesses:

A. F. Fox, J. FRED. KELLEY.

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