US176947A - Improvement in devices for propelling boats - Google Patents

Description

H. FOX, DEVICE FOR PROPELLING BOATS.

Patented Ma yZ,1876;

fill 61215072 Z N- PETERS, FKOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C,

UNITED STATES,

AT NT -FFQE 'HENRY ox, OF WATERLOO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN D EVlCES FOR PROPELLING BOATS.

' Specification fdrming part of Letters Patent No. 176,947; dated May 2, 1876; application filed a 3 April 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRYFOX', of Waterloo, in tliecounty of Seneca and State of New York, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Propelling Boats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference. marked thereon, which-form a part of this specification,

vand in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a boat having my improved propelling device, Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of the propelling machinery, and Fig. 3 shows one of the paddlewheels removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.-

This invention relates to propelling devices for boats; and it consists in so constructing the'same as to render it specially adapted for hunting and fishing'purposes, substantially as hereinafter more ,fully shown and specified.

In the drawing, A is the body of the boat.

This may be constructed of wood, metal, or

any other suitable material, and of any suitable shape. It has. on the sides two recesses,

' covered with metallic boxes B B, in which the paddle-wheels G 0 work.

The axles c of the paddle wheels 0 have their hearings in the exterior plates 1) and interior plates d of the boxes 13', as shown in Fig. 1, or in plates band suitable intermediate 7 braces e, as in Fig. 2.

Between plates .band dare covering-plates f, and between theseand plates d is the gearing by which the paddle wheels are operated. This gearing I will nowproceed to describe:

Axle c has a pinion, E, engagingwith a cog-Wheel g, the axle .of which has its bearings in platesf and d. (Jog-wheel cg engages with a largercogrwheel, G, the axle of which, "6, projects beyond plate f, as does axle 0. Motion may be imparted to the machinery in any suitable manner, preferably by means of sprocket-wheels I- or reciprocating-levers L,

the former, adjusted upon axles 0, being the most advantageous when but low speed is to be attained, and the latter, when adjusted upon axles i, being preferable when great speed is desirable. The sprocket-wheelsland levers L being removable, their position may, of course, be reversed, at the option of the occupants of the boat.

-It will, from the foregoing description, be observed that the paddle-wheels 0, instead of,

as is usually the case, working in boxes extending from the sides of the boat, are incased by boxes formed by recesses in the sides.

Thisis partly in order to diminish the bulk of the boat, partly in order to facilitate its propulsion, (by decreasing its resistance to-the water,)- and partly to enable it to be propelled without disturbing the water, a feature of greatimportance on shooting expeditions. In

order to increase the efl'ectiveness of this latter feature the feathers o of thepaddles are placed slightly obliquely, so as to throw the water under the boat rather than to the sides. 1 1

From the foregoing description the operation and advantages of my device will be readily understood. When operated by-levers L, adjusted upon axles i, great speed may be attained partly on account of the great power which may be thus exerted, and partly on.

account of the shape of the boat, which of? fers no obstructions to its progress in the water.

When, as is frequently the case on shooting and fishing expeditions, it is desirable to probeing excluded by the plate f.

water cannot enter the boat threugh the bear- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ings provided for the axles :of the-gearing; it 'my'own, l'have'hereto'aflixed my signaturein presence of twowitnesses.

Having thus described'm y inventionJ claim 1 and desire to secure by Letters Patent'cfthe HENRY FOX. United States r The combination of' paddle-wheels" Ughav? Witnesses: ing axles c, pinion E, eogwheels 9 G, and WM. BAGGER, plates 01 f, substantially as ,and for the pur- LOUIS BAGGER.

pcse herein shown and-"specified;

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