US494545A

US494545A - Horse-power

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Publication number: US494545A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-04-04
Anticipated expiration: 1910-04-04

Description

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No. 494,545. Patented Apr. 4, 1893.

f :FE-gea UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL W. BOWSER, WILLIAM H. SMAWLEY, AND PETER MULLIN, OF SOUTH ENGLISH, IOWA.

HORSE-POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,545, dated April 4, 1893.

Application filed September 12, 1892- Serial 110.445,68?. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MICHAEL W. BowsEE, WILLIAM H. SMAWLEY, and PETER MULLIN, citizens of the United States, residing at South English, in the county of Keokuk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Horse-Power,of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in horse powers; and the objects in view are to provide a horse power device of cheap and simple construction, adapted to be operated by one or more horses and so constructed that the driving mechanism may be thrown out of connection with the winding mechanism, whereby it is neither actuated by nor actuates said mechanism; and to provide means for automatically making connection between the driving and winding mechanism by the movement of the horse,wherebya single attendant located at some distant point at which the power generated is applied, may be enabled to control the horse power.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawingszv-Figure 1 is a plan view of a horse power constructed in accordance with ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspeotive of the shifting lever standard. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the master gear supporting standard or bridge. Fig. 6 is a detail in perspective of the clutch sleeve.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the sills of the framework and the same have their front ends rounded as at 2, whereby said sills may be employed as runners for transporting the machine. The sills are connected by a front cross bar 3 and in rear of the same by cross bars 4, 5, and 6, securely bolted to position. Below the cross bars a diagonal brace 7 is also employed.

The cross bar 4 has its upper side curved, and securely bolted to the front face of the same is an arched standard or bridge 8, the ends of which are outwardly disposed, perforated, and bolted to the upper sides and near the front ends of the sills. At its center the bridge is provided with a vertical bearing 9, and directly below the same there is bolted to the cross bar 3 a bearing block 10. A shaft 1l is stepped in the bearing block, and mounted for rotation in the bearing 9 of the arched standard 8. A washer l2 is mounted upon the shaft directly below the bearing 9, and directly below the washer a supporting pin 13 passes through the shaft, whereby the withdrawal of the shaft is rendered impossible.

Upon the upper end of the shaft 1l is a master gear 14, the under side of which is pro.- vided with an annular series of radial teeth 15 and the periphery of which is provided at intervals with radial pins 16. Upon its upper side the wheel is provided with an annular raised portion or center 17, and upon the edge of the same there is bolted an inverted L-shaped keeper 18. A similar but smaller keeper 19 is bolted to the wheel, diametrically opposite the keeper 18, and terminating in the latter and received by the former is a sweep 20, said sweep being reduced at its inner end to fit the keeper 19, and opposite the terminal of the keeper 18 being provided v with a Vertical groove 2l, which when the lever is in position registers with a perforation 22, formed in the base of the keeper 18. A pin 23 is passed into the perforation 22 and rests in the groove 2l. By removing this pin the sweep 20 may be removed from the keepers. A keeper 24 is located upon the master gear 14, and a perforation 25 is formed in said gear immediately in rear of the keeper. Through the keeper 24 is passeda leading bar 26, the same being provided with a perforation 27, through which and into the perforation 25 is passed a pin 28. In operation, a singletree is connected to the outer end of the sweep 20, while a leading string or strap is connected to the outer end of the bar 26.

Bearing boxes 30 are located upon the cross bars 5 and 6, and a bearing 31 in line with the bearings of the boxes is formed in the bridge 8. A drum shaft 32 is mounted for rotation in the bearings 30 and 3l and between the two former is provided with a drum 33 adapted to revolve with the shaft. Around this IOO the drum and the other end passed under either one of a pair of guide rollers 3G, journaled between the cross bars 5 and G near the ends of the same. Between the intermediate box 30 and the bearing in the cross bar 4 the shaft is provided with a rigid clutch member 37, and mounted for sliding upon the shaft beyond the clutch member is asleeve 38, carrying at its rear end the movable clutch member 39 and at its front end a pinion 40, engaged and driven by the teeth of the master gear. A washer 4l is located in front of and bears upon the pinion, and between the washer and the bearing 3l is interposed a coiled spring 42, which normally presses the sleeve to the rear and the movable clutch member into engagement with the xed member.

43 designates a standard, bolted between the cross bars 4 and 5, at one side of the shaft, and at its upper end said standard is provided with a forwardly disposed keeper 44, which overlaps the master gear and reta ins the same in its seat. A lever 45 is pivoted as at 4G to the inner face of the standard, and above its pivot has a friction roller 47, which engages the clutch between the pinion and the rear clutch member. To the upper end of the lever is connected one terminal of a U-shaped spring 4S, said spring embracing the standard and provided at its free end with an inwardly disposed shoulder' or catch 49, adapted to be sprung over the front edge of the standard. When thus sprung over the standard, the clutch is disengaged in that the sleeve is forced against the tension of the coiled spring to the front or toward the master gear, and when in such position the movable member of the clutch is withdrawn from the fixed member. 'Vhen in this position also, the end of the catch is directlyin the path of the pins with which the periphery of the master gear is studded, so that when said gear is actuated, said pins come in contact with and disengage the latch from the standard, so that the coiled spring will throw the clutch sleeve to the rear until the clutch is in operative position.

The under side of the cross bar 5 has secured thereto a pulley case and a rope 50 is passed between a pair of guide pulleys 5l mounted in the case and has its end connected to the lower end of the shifting lever. The opposite end of the rope is passed through a perforation formed in the sill 1, around the pulley of a sheave 52, anchored as at 53 to the ground some distance from the apparatus, and from thence passes to the point at which the attendant is engaged in connecting the hay fork or other elevating device to the elevating rope.

From opposite sides of the sills project anchoring rods 54, the same being located at suitable intervals and terminating at their outer ends in eyes, through which pass stakes 55, driven in the ground and serving as means for retaining the apparatus in position. A pair of draft rods 56 extend from the front ends of` the sills l and are loosely connected by a draft ring, to which may be attached an ordinary singletree, and thus the apparatus slid from point to point.

In operation the horse is started and the studs of the periphery of the master gear arriving in contact with the spring pressed latch 49, disengages the same from the standard and through the iniiuence of the coiled spring the sliding clutch sleeve is thrown to the rear and as its member engages with the fixed clutch of t-he shaft, motion is imparted from the master gear, to the pinion and from thence to the shaft. In this manner the rope is wound around the shaft and the object to be elevated is operated upon. After the object has been elevated the attendant stationed at the same draws upon the shifting rope and swings the shifting lever as before described, so that its spring pressedlatchis in engagement with the standard. The horse is stopped and the elevating rope nnwound from the shaft in the usual manner, which unwindin g of the shaft is not transmitted as will be observed, to the master gear. Anew load is now connected to the elevating rope, and the horse started, and as he does so the spring latch is disengaged by a stud extending from the periphery of the wheel, `and thus the shifting lever is released and the clutchthrown into operative position by means of the coiled spring, so that the movement of the gear will be transmitted to the winding shaft.

Having described our invention, whatwe claim is l. In a horse power, the combination with the frame-work, the vertical shaft,the master gear thereon, the drum shaft, the elevating rope leading therefrom, the iixed clutch member mounted on the shaft, the sleeve mounted on the shaft and provided at one end with a clutch member and at the opposite end with a pinion engaging the gear, of a standard lo cated at one side of the sleeve, a lever pivoted to the standard and loosely engaging the sleeve, a rope leading from the lower end of the lever and a spring pressed latch connected to the lever and adapted to be sprung over the edge of the standard, in which latter position it is in the path of and adapted to be liberated by studs located upon the periphery of the master gear, substantially as specified.

2. In a horse power, the combination with the frame-work, comprising the transverse bars 5 and 6, having the bearings longitudinally opposite each other, and the arched standard 8 provided with the vertical and horizontal bearings the latter being ink line with the bearings of the cross bars, of a vertical shaft monnted for rotation in the vertical bearings of the arched standard, the master gear thereon, and provided with draft appliances and a series of peripheral lugs or pins, a winding shaft mounted in the longitudinally opposite bearings of the cross bars and arched standard and provided with one member of a clutch, a sleeve mounted for re- IOO IIO

ciprocation upon the shaft, terminating at the pins of the master gear, Land. a cord or one end in a gear engaging the master gear, rope leading from the lower end of the lever, and at its rear end inthe other member of a substantially as specified. 15 clutch, a standard located at one side of the In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 5 sleeve and secured to the framework, a lever our own we have hereto affixed our signatures pivoted to the standard and provided above in presence of two witnesses.

its pivot with the pin engaging the sleeve be- MICHAEL W. BOWSER. tween its gear and clutch member, a U -shaped WILLIAM H. SMAWLEY. spring secured to the upper end of the clutch PETER MULLIN.

1o and embracing the standard, and having its Witnesses:

free'end terminating in a latch for engaging v J. L. LAWLER,

the standard and extending into the path of J. E. VAN AUKEN.