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Description

D. HUNT. Jr.

Veloeipede.

Patnted Sept. 22, 868.

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Letters Patent No. 82,319, dated September 22, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN VELOGIPEDES.

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That I, DAVID HUNT, Jr., of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Velocipedes; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which I Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved velocipede.

Figure 2 represents a section on line A-B on fig.;1.

To enable those skilled in the art to whichmy invention belongs to makeand use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

The nature of my invention'consists,first, in combining the seat with hinged supports and the crank-shaft, as will be hereafter explained; second, in the peculiar manner of making the frame, as will be hereafter explained.

In the drawings, A is ashaft, of iron or other metal, to the ends of which are fixed wheels B B, and in its centre is a crank, C.

On the shaft A is mounted a frame, D, which is, in this instance, made by bending a piece of wood ins. half circle, and carrying the ends forward, where they are brought together, and fastened into the metallic cap, E, as shown in the drawings. This frame D is hung upon the shaft A bymeansof the journal-boxes F F, at the inner sides of the wheels B B.

Upon the frame D is placed a chair or seat, G, supported by the standards H H, between which it can rock freely, being connected to the-upper ends'of said standards by pivotsl, which pass through ears a a, upon the metallic piece'P, fastened to the bottom of the chair i The forward part of the chair-seat G is connected to the crank, 0, upon the shaft A, by means of the hinged connecting-rod K and piece L, as fully indicated in fig. 2 of the drawings.

Through the metallic cap, E, passes the vertical standard M, provided at its lower end with a guide-wheel, N, and at the top with a cross-bar, 0, upon which to rest the feet, the ends 6 being flattened and curved suitably for that purpose.

, Operation.

The operator, sitting in the chair-seat G, places his feet upon the ends 6 b of the cross-bar O; Then, by rocking the body backward and forward, the crank, O, is operated by. the connecting-rod K, and the velooipede is thereby set in motion, and by pressing the feet on the ends 6 b of the cross-bar O with an even pressure, the velocipede will be guided in a straight line, while, if more pressure he applied to one end of the cross-bar 0 than to the other, the standard M and guide-wheel N will be turned either to the right or left, as the case may be, and the velocipede guided in'a corresponding direction.

In lieu of having the chair-seat G hinged to the top of the'standards H H, the standards may be reversed, and the forked ends of the standards fastened to the bottom of the chair-seat, while their other ends are pivoted to the frame D. I Again, in lieu of hinging the connecting-rod K to the piece L, an arm may be attached to the bottom of the chair, the lower end thereof extending downward to a point nearly on a line with the crank-shaft, to which it is to be attached by a connecting-rod. By this arrangement, a less motion of the chair is requiredto operate the crank. 1

It will be seen that the velocipede is propelled by a simple back-and-forth or rocking motion of the chair, thus enabling the operator to propel the velocipede without-using his hands.

The rocking-motionof the chair adds very much to the pleasure derived from the use of the velocipede, thus rendering my improvements very desirable, and of much practical value.

Having described my improved velocipede, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The combination of the seat G with the braces or standards Hand the crank or supporting-shaft A, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The peculiarly-constructed frame D, in combination with the cap, E, nxleA, and chair G, substantially as and for the purposes-set forth.

3. The combination of the standards H H and .piece P, having ears a a, with the chair-seat G and frame 1), substantially as and for the Qnr'poses set forth.

4. A velocipede, the parts of which are constructed and combined together substantially-as shown and described.

DAVID HUNT, J R.

Witnesses:

'lnos. H. DODGE, CHAS. H. BURLEIGH-

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