US400199A

US400199A - Car-starter

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Publication number: US400199A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-03-26
Anticipated expiration: 1906-03-26

Description

(No Model.)

M. E. FARNHAM.

OAR STARTER.

No. 400,199. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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PATENT CAR-STARTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,199, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filetlJime 12, 1888. Serial No. 277,158- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY ELIZABETH FARN- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Starters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in a car-starter in which sprocketwheels are made to operate in conjunction with spur-wheels by means of a car-handle, in which a leverage is given to an unusual degree, and the objects of my improvements are to provide a device that will enable a street-car to be readily started without disabling stock, and at same time I furnish a motor that will enable cars to be readily moved by means of my car-handle. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in'the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front View. View. Fig. 3 is a side view of handle. 4 is a bottom view of cap. Fig. 5 is a top view with cap disengaged.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In constructing my device I take a sprocketwheel, as shown by A, and adjust to pipe or rod K. I then place a larger sprocket-wheel, as shown by B, in close proximity to A, and which is held in position bya suitable attachment adjusted to floor of car N, sprocketwheel B being connected to A by means of chain C. At D, I place a spur-wheel, which operates in connection with E, F being carwheels,G axle of car-wheels, H a wheel for brake, I a chain, and L a rod, which is placed within K.

M is a cap which is adjusted to end of rod L, the under portion of said cap having slots or openings, as shown by X in Fig. 4, 0 being a brace which supports K, P being a car-handle, Q a pivot on handle, R a screw, and S and '1 are stay pieces or studs on the forward end of a lever, U, which form a connection with openings or slots X and IV, V being a barrel which is adjusted to L.

Fig. 2 is a side Y is a set-screw.

In order to facilitate the adjustment of wheels A, B, D, and E, I construct them in sections. On brace O, which supports K and L, I place a box of Babbitt metal, which can be readily replaced when worn. The lever U, which is pivoted at Q to the handle P and provided at its forward end with the studs S and T, is backed by a flat spring, a, so that when the said lever has been shifted to engage or disengage the slots IV in the barrel V it may be retained in such position by the assistance of the said spring, Z being an ordinary lever, which enables me to shift my device and which it is unnecessary to explain.

In operating my device I place my handle in position, as shown in Fig. 3, and as the car is desired to be propelled forward the driver simply presses slightly upon the car-handle, when, by means of sprocketwheels A B and spurwheel D,force is imparted to wheel E, which causes wheels F to revolve, thus throwing the car forward and preventing any strain upon the animals attached to car. Should it be desired to stop the car either on an upgrade, level, or a descending grade, driver simply moves handle to the right or left a few inches, when stay-pieces S and T form a connection with openings or slots 7 and X, which stops the car instantly, as an instantaneous brake is made by the action of stay-pieces S and T by a simple turn of handle only two or three inches, and by which with aid of wheel H and chain I a complete check is given a car within a space less than a foot, thereby enabling a driver to absolutely prevent loss of life of persons who. may be thrown upon the track. As heretofore, it would require a driver several minutes to turn the handle of his carbrake in order to stop his car, and at the same time require the adjustment of the pawl and ratchet on brake-rod to hold brake in a positiveposition. This I obviate entirely by my handle and enable a car to be propelled with ease by a slight pressure on my handle without even a revolution of the handle.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In a car-starter, the combination, with the axles and gearing, substzultinllyas described, with studs, as shown, and suitable belt-eonof thehollow post K, the gear A 11here0u,the rod ueetions, substantially as specified. 10 L, having a head, M, provided with apertures In, testimony whereof I affix mysiguz'tture in in its under side and passing through the said presence of two witnesses. 5 hollow post, the barrel V, adjusted to the up- MARY ELIZABETI l FARNHAM.

per end of the said post, the handle I, jour- \Vitnesses: lulled on the mid red, the lever U, pivated t0 HENRY J. RHODES, the handle and prm'ided at its forward end PERCY D. PARKS.