US881095A - Pleasure-wheel. - Google Patents

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No; 881,095. PATBNTED MAR. 3, 1908. E. F. OHUBBUGK.

PLEASURE WHEEL.

APPLICATION IiLBD 00T.15, 1907.

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To all whom it may concern: and I also suitably journal through support- Be it known that I, ELTON F. CiIUBBUoK, ing brackets 11 extending from one of the a citizen of the United States, residing at supporting side frames 7 ,-an upright driven Hornell, in the county of Steuben and State shaft 12 having a worm 13 formed upon its of New York, have invented certain new and upper end and in engagement with the worm useful Improvements in Pleasure-Wheels, of gear 10. The shaft 12 being driven from a which the following is a specification. suitable source of power will cause rotation My invention relates to pleasure devices of the wheel shaft 2 by means of the gears 13 and particularly contemplates the provision and and will therefore rotate the pleasure 65 10 in a novel and simple construction of pleaswheel 1.

ure wheels, which will be useful and durable, Any suitable car 14 may be employed without danger to the pleasure seekers. adapted to seat a number of people capable My invention further and specifically reof correctly balancing the same and is prosides in the following features of construcvided with a yoke frame 15 universally con- 70 15 tion, arrangement and operation which will nected thereto at 16, said yoke frame carrybe hereinafter described with reference to ing rotatably mounted in its ends flange the accompanying drawings, forming a part wheels 17 straddling the rim 4 of the pleasure of this specification, in which like numerals Wheel 1 and adapted to freely travel upon are used to designate like parts throughout the extending flanges of the T-rail forming 75 20 the several figures, and in which, said rim 4.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved In the practical operation of my invention, apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a central vertical the wheel 1 is rotated at such speed that the sectional view taken therethrough. car 14 .will roll by gravity upon the flat por- In the practical embodiment of my intions of the rim 4 and will be carried in the g vention I provide a pleasure device comdirection of rotation of said wheel by the prising a wheel 1 having a central shaft 2 rounded corners to again roll, at the same provided with hubs 3 adjacent the ends time receiving an up and down movement thereof. The peripheral rim of the wheel 1 and a shaking movement which are the deis composed of a T-shaped rail 4 bent in an sired ones in a device of this character. 5

irregular form about theshaft 2 and having Having thus fully described my invention,

, A its central rib extending inwardly therefrom I claim:

'' and secured by radially extending spokes 5 1. In a pleasure device of the character through the hubs 3. To stren then the described, the combination of a supporting structure just described, I preferab y arrange stand, a freely rotating wheel having its 90 circular braces 6 against and attached to shaft journaled upon said stand, the peripheach of the spokes 5 between the shaft 2 and eral rim of said wheel being formed in an irthe rim 4. The T-rail, forming the rim 4 is, regular shape about said shaft and constitutaccording to my invention, bent and secured ing a rail, and a car adapted to be actuated around the shaft 2 in a form other than that upon the rotation of said wheel, having 95 of a true circle, and, while I have shown in wheels rotatably ournaled within a portion the accompanying drawing said rim 4 as thereof and straddling said rim and freely bent to a rectangular shape having rounded rolling by gravity thereupon, substantially corners, as a preferred form, it will be under as described. stood that I may as readily and with the 2. Inapleasure device of the character de- 100 same purpose in view form th sa val 0r scribed, the combination of a supporting any other irregular shape. stand, a freely rotating wheel having its The wheel 1 is supported above the shaft suitably journaled upon said stand and ground to be freely rotated, upon a supportprovided with hubs mounted thereon adj aing frame comprising triangular side frames cent its ends, the peripheral rim of said wheel 105 7, the upright members of which are 0011- being formed in a substantial rectangular nected by braces 8, and which have bearings shape about said shaft and connected thereto '9. secured upon their upper ends in which the 1 by radial spokes, said rim having continuous projecting ends of the shaft 2 are journaled. outstanding flanges, and a car having oppo- To rotate the wheel 1 I preferably secure sitely disposed rollers rotatably journaled in 110 upon the shaft 2 between one of its hubs 3 a portion thereof and adapted to straddle and the adjacent bearing 9,, a worm gear 10, the flanges of said rim and to freely roll, by

Specification of Letters Patent.

PLEASURE-WHEEL.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed October 15, 1907. Serial No. 397,584.

ELTON F. CIIUBBUCK.

gravity thereupon, as their rail, substantially as described.

3. In a pleasure wheel of the character de scribed, the combination of a supporting stand, a freely rotating wheel having lts shaft journaled. upon said stand, the peripheral rim of said wheel being formed 111 an lrregular shape about said shaft and constituting a rail, and 'a hanging car adapted to be actu- Witnesses MARK L. GRAWGER, FRED W. 000K.

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