US921933A - Engine-starter. - Google Patents

Description

D. G. WILGUS.

ENGINE STARTER.

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Patented May 18, 1909.

will prevent ,the startinglever from the engine shaft and DANIEL (I. WILGUS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1909.

f 1 Application filed Kay 29, 1907-. Serial No. 876,350:

T e all whom' it may concern;

tem of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and have invented new and which the followin is a specification.

My invention re ates to an engine starter which is adapted to be attached to motor cars provided with explosion motors which have to be started by some outside source of power.

The prime object of my invention is to rovide an engine starter for automobiles w iich' may be operated from the driving seat of the 'car.

A further ob'ect is to rovide means whereby a large feverage is o )tained so as to render the starting of the engine easy,v

A further object is to provide means whereby the starting mechanism is automaticall thrown out of connection with the engine s aft while the engine is running.

-A further object is to provide a starter which may be attached to any car without making any alterations in the mechanism of the car.

A further object is to provide means which the accidental displacement of thereby cause damage to the car or the operator.

I accomplish these objects by means of the. device described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 1 Figure 1- is an elevation of the rear portion of a motor car equipped with my improved starter. Fig. 2-1S an elevation of the starting mechanism, the casing being removed. Fig. 3- is a vertical section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2 with the casing in place. Fig. 4 is a detail of the holding clip for the starting lever and showing the lock attached thereto.

Referring to "the drawings, 5 designates an automobile provided with body 6, under frame 7, driving wheels 8 and engine 9. Engine 9 is mounted underneath the under frame on transverse drive shaft 10 (see Figs 3) which is connected to drive wheels 8 by sprocket chain 11. Shaft 10 is provided with a pin 12 with which a ratchet clutch sleeve 13 is adapted to engage, being pressed into engagement by Mail spring 14 at the outer end of sleeve 13. Sleeve 13 is mountwith a hardened flange 30 ed partly on shaft 10 and artliy on stud 15 forming a continuation of t litt s iaft and provided witl a hexagon end 16 which projects throu h casing 17 and provides means Where y shaft It) may be turned to start the engine should the starting mechanism become disabled.

Clutch sleeve 13 carries a gear 18 which is adapted to mesh with a sector ear 1 19 mounted on stud 20 secured to p ate 31 which is in turn bolted to the under frame 7 of the car. Lever 22 is bolted to sector 1!),

projecting upwardly through a slot 23 in ,casing 17 and being provided with a handle 24 on its upper end which is situated corn veniently for manipulation of the lever'from the driving seat. Stud 20 is rigidly attached at its outer end to a bar 25, in the lower end of which stud 15 is journaled and which serves to rigidly connect the two studs 13 is also provided against which a flat spring 31 attached to sector 19 is adapted to presswhen the starting mechanism is in its normal position as shown in the drawings. Spring 31 is stronger than spring 14 so that when spring 31 contacts with flange clutch sleeve 13 is forced outwardly and out of ongagement with pin 12 on shaft 10 so that together. Clutch sleeve shaft 10 may rotate without the pin rubbing 5 over the ratcl et teeth on the clutch sleeve. \l'hen lever 22 is moved forwardly, spring 31 moves out of engagement with flange 30 and spring 14 forces sleeve 13 into engagement with pin 12 and the mechanism is in position to start the engine.

The operation of my device is as follows: Lever 22 is moved forwardl until it contacts with stop 32 on plate 21 w on clutch sleeve 13 will be in operative engagement with pin 12. Lever 22 is then moved rearwardly as indicated by the arrow in Fig. .3 and sleeve 13 is thereby rotated in the direction shown by the arrow in the same figure, rotating shaft 10 in the same direction. It will be observed from the general arrangement in Fig. 1 that this direction of rotation is the one required for the starting of the engine, and, being started, the engine will rotate the shaft in that same direction. Meanwhile lever 22 has been moved back to its original position and spring 31 has contacted with 35 is provided with I same by originally on the car or one especially fitted clip 35 is provided on the side of the body of theear into which lever 2:2 is slipped when in itsnormal position so as to provide against 1 any accidental. displacement thereof. Clip I a lock 36 with its spring bolt 37 projectin across 0 ening 38 into which lever 22 is p aced.

eans for opening a lock and releasing the By the means above 1 described no one the owner of the ear may start the same as it is impossible for any one else to unlock the starting lever so as to start the engine;

-It will be observed that I have provided a starter for automobile en ines which is adaptable to any automobi e whether that automobile be provided with a transverse drive shaft or not, as it is only necessary to put in a transverse shaft and connect the bevel gearing or the like with the longitudinal shaft with whiclp all automo-, biles are provided when not provided with a transverse guide shaft. The transverse shaft hereinbei'ore referred to may be either one yer from the (118.

to the car forthe purposes of my starter.

It will further be observed that my starter is extremely simple in construction and operation and enables the driver to start the car with very little effort.

it will further be observed that the starting mechanism is automatically thrown out of engagement withthe engine shaft at all times except when the engine is being started, so that no accidental injury is liable to occur to thestarting mechanism 1) contact with the pin on the engine shaft w lile the engine i is running.

Havin described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is ev 1. In an automobile engine starter, engag- A :ey 39 provides silient means mounted on d on the engine ing means rigidly'mounte mounted on shaft, a ratchet sleeve loose y said shaft and spring: pressu into engagement with said en lglng means. a pinion forming an inteigra part of said chet sleeve, a manna y o eluted sector ad ted to engage. with sai pinion, and resiient moans secured to said seetor, whereby said ratchet sleeve is forced out at engagement withsaidengaging means. i

.2. In an, automobile engine starter, a clutch mounted on the en ine shaft, one member of said clutch being oosely mounted thereon the other 'memberbeing rigidly secured thereto, resilient means to force said members. into engagement with each other, means to rotate the loose member, and resaid rotating means to engage with the looseclutchmemher and to ioree said members out of engagement with each other.

3. In an automobile engine starter, a in rigidly mounted on the engine shaft, 9. rate et sleeve loosely mounted on i said shaft adapted to engage with said pin, resillent means to force said ratchet sleeve intoengagement with said pin, a pinion on said, ratchet sleeve, a sector provided with an operating lever and adapted toengage with said pinion, said sector bein piv'otally mounted on the under frame of t e automobile, a flange on said ratchetsleeve, and a sprin on said sector adapted to contact with said ange and to force said ratchet sleeve with said pin.

I claim the fore oing I- t iis 21st out of engagement In witness that have hereunto subscribed my name day olMay, 1907. V DANIEL C. WILGUS. Witnesses:

TRIMBLE BARKELEW, Emnmn A. SIR'AUSE.

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