US299A - Gideon brown - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GIDEON BROWN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MODE OF CONVEYING RAILROAD-CARS AND CANAL-BOATS UP AND DOWN INCLINED PLANES.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GIDEoN BRowN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful machine or apparatus, called Browns inclined plane, for the purpose of conveying up or down inclined planes canal-boats, trains of railroad cars, or other heavy burdens; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.`

The object of this invention is to convey up or down an inclined plane, wherever there is a small stream of water, or a canal, a train of cars, a canal boat or any other burden.

The nature of the invention consists in app-lying a downward stream of water to water wheels or paddles, upon whose axle trees pinions are attached, acting upon a rac-k running beside the rail, by which means, the paddles are turned in the direction of the stream, and the carriage, by means of the rack and pinion, carried up the ascent.

It is constructed in the 'following manner: A sluice or race is made upon the inclined plane, true and even in the sides and bottom, of depth and width suiicient to accommodate the paddles. Two sluices or one only may be made. When two sluices are made, as is most proper, the railway is laid between them, upon which there is a rack also between the rails which support the carriage, or two racks, if desirable, one upon the side of eaclnrail.

When this inclined plane is intended for conveying canal boats, a lock is made at each end of the plane, one at the bottom to raise the boat upon the carriage and one at the top to raise the boat to the level of the canal above. When it is intended for conveying a train of cars, no locks are necessary. The sluice runs so far beneath the railroad at the bottom that the cars can be run upon It is genpriate form and dimensions. E, E, the locks for placing` on and taking off a canal boat.

Then a burden is to be taken down the plane, it is put upon the carriage at the top and only enough water let upon the wheels to prevent the carriagerunning down too fas By the plan above described a canal boat or train ot' cars may be conveyed safely and expeditiously upor down an inclined plane of any length, and when the ascent is steep or the burden great, it is only requisite to diminish the size of the pinions and less speed and more power will be attained.

l/Vhat l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The means and method, above described, of applying a stream of water running down an inclined plane to paddle wheels to whose axle-trees pinions are attached running into racks, by which the burden placed upon the axles is carried up the ascent orretarded in its passage down.l

My claim is specifically to the application of thepaddle-wheels, pinions and racks to the purposes of conveying burdens upon an inclined plane.

GIDEON BROWN.

Witnesses:

OWEN G. WARREN, ELIZABETH BROWN.

Images