US837973A - Water-cycle. - Google Patents

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'PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906. A. L. STANDARD.

WATER GYGLE. APPIVLIUATION FILED SEPT.29,1905.

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WATER CYCLE. APPLIOATION 'IILED BEPT.29, 1906.

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ALLIE LEE STANDARD, OF TUSCOLA, TEXAS.

WATER-CYCLE.

No. 837,973. Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Dec. 11, 1906. Application filed September 29, 1905. Serial No. 280.647.

T wZZ wh m m y n braces 8, and an upper reach-bar 11 extends Be it known that I, ALLIE LEE STANDARD, between the upper portion of the steeringa citizen of the United States, residing at head4 and the seat-post 10. Asuitable seat Tuscola, in the county of Taylor and State of 12, preferably in the nature of a bicycle-seat, 6c exas, have invented a new and useful Wa is supported in any suitable manner upon the tor-Cycle, of which the following is a specifi top of the seat-post. Downwardly and rearcation. wardly diverged braces 13 extend from the This invention relates to water-cycles, and top of the seat-post to the tops of the rear has for its object to provide certain new and floats 2 and 3, to which they are connected in useful improvements in this class of devices any suitable manner in alinement with the whereby the same may be conveniently procross-bar 9. A suitable coupling 14, having pelled, steered, and otherwise handled. seats or sockets for the reception of the upper A further object of the invention is to so reach-bar 11, the seat-post members 10, and dispose the propeller-wheel as to have the the braces 13, is employed to connect these same exert a lifting tendency as well as a elements at their point of meeting. This driving force, thereby to add to the buoycoupling 14 also has an upright open-ended ancy of the device. seat for the reception of a seat-post 15, which With these and other objects in view the also has its lower end portion loosely received present invention consists in the combination in a clip 16, fixed to the members 10 and proand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinvided with a set-screw 17 to engage the seatafter more fully described, shown in the acpost and hold the cat at any adjusted elevacompanying drawings, and particularly pointtion. ed out in the appended claim, it being un- Within the fork 7 is a beveled gear 18, derstood that changes in the form, proporwhich is journaled in suitable brackets or tion, size, and minor details may be made hangers 19, carried by the fork members, the within the scope of the claim without departends of the shaft of the wheel being provided ing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the with suitable pedal-cranks 20 for manipulaadvantages of the invention. tion by the feet of the rider when mounted In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is upon the seat 12. Within the fork 7 and in 8 5 a side elevation, partly in section, of a watermesh with the gear 18 there is a beveled pincycle embodying the features of the present ion 21, carried upon the upper forward end of invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. a rearwardly and downwardly inclined drive- Fig.3 is a detail plan view of one of the floats. shaft 22, which has its upper end mounted in Like characters of reference designate cora bearing 23, carried by the lower ends of the responding parts in each figure of the drawmembers 10. The drive-shaft 22 extends i slightly in rear of the cross-bar 9 and is For the support of the framework of the mounted in a bearing 24, carried by said present device there is a front cylindrical float cross-bar, there being a suitable propeller- I, having a conical forward end, and two rear wheel 25, carried by the rear end of the drive- 5 floats 2 and 3, located equally at opposite shaft in a plane at right angles to the latter sides of the front float and also provided with. and inclined upwardly and rearwardly. conical front ends. A steering head or bar When the device is in use, the operator 4 rises from the front float lsubstantially mounts upon the seat 12 and operates the midway of its ends and is provided at its uppropeller by means of the pedal-cranks 20, per end with a handle-bar 5. A downwhereby the device is propelled forwardly wardly and rearwardly inclined reach-bar 6 and is steered by means of the handle-bar 5. extends from the steering-head at a suitable To increase the control of the device in steerheight above the float 1. This reach-bar is ing, a depending fin 26, in the nature of a lonprovided with a fork 7 of suitable length, gitudinally-disposed blade, is carried by the which has the ends of its side members diunder side of the forward float 1, so as to 0bverged rearwardly to form braces 8, which tain a sufficient purchase upon the water to are connected to a cross-bar 9, extending beeffectually guide the device. tween and connecting the rear floats 2 and 3. The advantage of setting the propeller at A seat-post composed of upwardly-converged an angle to the vertical is to impart a lifting I 10 bar members 10 rises from the points of interpower upon the device, which adds materially section between the fork members 7 and the to its buoyancy, and therefore tends to reduce the power necessary to propel the del upon which the front float is pivotallymountvice. ed, a propeller-shaft journaled in the sup ort- In addition to having the forward end of ing-frame and having its free end inc ined each float substantially conical I propose to downwardly between the rear floats, a pro have the under side thereof inclined or flared peller carried by said shaft and disposed subupwardly and forwardly, as clearly indicated stantially in alinement with the front float, in Fig. 1 of the drawings, whereby the float the side and bottom walls of the rear floats has a tendency to raise or lift itself rather being smooth and unobstructed, and a longithan to bury itself in the water. Furthertudinally-disposed fin depending from the more, the rear end of each float is tapered or bottom of the front float between the pointed reduced in Width, as best indicated in Fig. 3, l terminal and inclined end walls thereof and thereby to ermit of the float leaving the wal having its free end extended below and dister with a c ear run. posed in alinement with the apex of the in- Having thus described the invention, What clined end walls of said float. is claimed is In testimony that I claim the foregoing as A water-cycle including a plurality of submy own I have hereto aflixed my signature in stantiailly cylindlrifrial floats arranged in trianthe presence of two witnesses. gular orm, saic oats being each rovic ed with a ointed terminal and having parallel ALLIE STANDARD top, si e and bottom walls and inclined end Witnesses:

.walls, a frame connecting said floats, a steer- W. A. MCCORMICK,

ing-head forming a part of the frame and I R. L. FLIPPo.

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