US583076A - Horse powee apparatus - Google Patents

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HORSE POWER APPARATUS.

Patented May 25,1897.

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F. NOGUES. HORSE POWER APPARATUS.

No. 583,076. Patented May 25,1897.

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Patented May 25,1897.

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FRANCIS NOGUES, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

HORSE-POWER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,076, dated May 25, 1897. Application filed January 18, 1897. Serial No. 619,634. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS NOGUES, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Power Apparatus, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appert-ains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to horse-power apparatus such as is usually employed to furnish power for running various forms of machinery; and the object thereof is to provide an improved apparatus of this class which is provided with two separate power-transmitting shafts which revolve in opposite directions and by means of which separate machinery on the opposite sides of the power apparatus may be operated, a further object being to provide a power apparatus of the class herein specified in which the powertransmitting shafts and the machinery operated thereby will keep in motion and gradually come to a stop after the horses have been stopped and without revolving that part of the power apparatus to which the horses are hitched; and with these and other objects in View the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The inventionis fully. disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is a rear end view of my improved power apparatus; Fig. 2, a centrally vertical section on the lines 2 2 of Figs. 1 and 3; Fig. 3, a plan view of the apparatus; and Fig. elis a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1, only half of the bottom portion of the apparatus being shown.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views, and in the practice of my invention I provide a truckframe which consists of two horizontal bars 5, which are connected by cross-plates 6 and 6, secured to the bottom thereof, and corresponding cross-plates '7 and 7 which are secured to the top thereof, and the extreme ends of the horizontal bars 5 are provided with legs or feet 8, which are intended to support the apparatus when in operation, and mounted beneath the horizontal bars 5 are axles 9, on the ends of which are mounted the usual truck-wheels 10, by means of which the apparatus may be transported from one point to another, and secured in one end of the truck-frame or between the horizontal bars 5 thereof is a cross-head 11, which is provided with a forwardly-directed shoulder or projection 12, in which is pivoted a tongue or pole 13, by which the apparatus maybe drawn, as will be readily understood.

The cross-plates 7 and 6" of the truckframeare located directly back of the forward truck-wheels 10, and passing vertically through the cross-plate 7 and resting on the cross-plate 6 is a shaft 14, which is inclosed in a tubular shaft 15, which rests on said cross-plate 7 and mounted on the lower end of the tubular shaft is a gear-wheel 16, which is provided in the upper side thereof with a plurality of radial sockets 17, which are designed to receive levers 18, by which the appartus is operated in the usual manner, and any desired number of said levers may be employed.

The shaft 14 is provided at its lower end with a pinion 19, which is mounted between the cross-plates 7 and 6 and said pinion is designed to operate a gear-wheel 20, which is mounted between the cross-plates 7 and G on a shaft 21, which passes through said crossplates, and the upper end of said shaft is provided with a pinion 22, which is operated by the gear-wheel 16, and in the operation of the device the gear-wheel 16, which is revoluble on the tubular shaft 15, operates the pinion 22, and said pinion operates the gear-wheel 20,which in turn operates the pinion 19, which revolves the shaft 14.

The tubular shaft 15 is provided at its upper end with a flange or head 23, to which are secured upwardly-directed side arms 24, each of which is provided at its upper end with horizontal bearings 25, in each of which is mounted a shaft 26, the inner ends of each of which is provided with a gear-wheel 27 and the outer ends with a power-transmitting wheel 28, and mounted on the flange or head 23 is a circular plate 29, above which is mounted on the shaft 14 a sleeve 30, which is provided with four radial arms or shafts 3], which are arranged at equal distances apart thereon, and each of said radial arms or shafts is provided with a loosely-mounted roller 32, and the sleeve 30 and the rollers 32 rest on the plate 29 and are free to turn thereon, the said sleeve being adapted to turn on the shaft 14, as will be readily understood.

Resting on the sleeve 30 and on the rollers 32 is a beveled gear-wheel 33, the gear of which is directed upwardly, and the beveled gear-wheel 33 operates the beveled gearwheels 27 on the shafts 26, on which the power-transmitting wheels or pulleys 28 are mounted, and the said beveled gear-wheel is free to revolve on the shaft 1t.

The beveled gear-wheel 33 is provided with an upwardly-directed tubular hub 34:, and that part of the shaft 1t above said tubular hub is angular in cross-section, as shown at 35, and mounted on and vertically movable on the angular portion of the shaft 11 is a clutch-head 36.

The upper end of the hub 3% of the gearwheel 33 is provided with triangular notches or recesses in the perimeter thereof, and the lower end of the clutch-head 36 is provided with similar notches or recesses, whereby triangular teeth or projections are formed on both the hub and the clutch-head, and the triangular teeth or projections on the clutchhead project to the left, while those on the hub project to the right, as shown in Fig. 1.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the following statement thereof: Vhen the shaft 14: is resolved to the right, as hereinbefore described, by means of the gearwheel 16, the clutch-head 36 will revolve the beveled gear-wheel 33 and said beveled gearwheel will revolve the gear-wheels 27 in opposite directions, and these gear-wheels, being keyed to their respective shafts 26, will revolve said shaft-s in the same manner, and the power-transmitting wheels or pulleys 28 will therefore be turned in opposite directions. hen the gear-wheel 16 is revolved to the left, the clutch-head 36 will move up and down over the hub 3t of the wheel 33, and said wheel and the gear-wheels 27 will not be operated and the shafts 26 and powertransmitting pulleys or wheels 28 will therefore remain stationary.

The gear-wheel 33 rests upon and revolves on the rollers 32, and said rollers revolve on the plate 29 and constitute an antifrictionbearing for the wheel 33, and the entire device is simple in construction and operation, and it is apparent that changes in and modifications of the construction herein described may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

\Vhen the horses which are hitched to the levers 18 are stopped, the gear-wheel 16 and that part of the apparatus connected there with and with the truck will also immediately stop, but the machinery by which the power pulleys or wheel 28 are operated will keep on moving and gradually come to a stop, and the said power wheels or pulleys and the shafts on which they are mounted, the gear wheels 27, and the beveled gear-wheel 33 will also keep on moving in the same direction exactly as they did before the horses were stopped, this operation being accomplished by reason of the fact that the beveled gearwheel 33 is loosely mounted and the further fact that the cluch-head 36 is free to rise and fall on the angular extension 35 of the shaft 1t. This feature of the construction constitutes a great advantage over horse-power apparatus as heretofore constructed, in which that part of the machinery with which the levers 16 are connected would keep 011 moving after the horses are stopped, thus rendering it very difficult to bring the latter to a stop or to stop the apparatus, for the reason that the horses were compelled to be brought gradually to a standstill.

My invention is also not limited to the method herein described for connecting the levers 18 with the gear-wheel 16, as it will be apparent that this connection may be made in a number of ways, and it will also be apparent that other means may be employed for revolving the wheel 16 without the use of the levers 18, said gear-wheel being capable of being operated by gear-wheels connected with an ordinarysteam-engine or other source of power-supply.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The herein-described horse-power apparatus comprising a truck-frame consisting of two horizontal bars connected by cross-plates secured to the bottom, and cross-plates secured to the top thereof, the extreme ends of said bars being provided with legs or feet, said frame being mounted on the usual trucks and provided with a pole, the cross-plates at the forward end of said bars being mounted thereon justback of the front truck-wheels, a shaft passing through said uppercross-plate and resting on said lower cross-plate, said shaft being inclosed in a tubular shaft which rests on said upper cross-plates, the lower end of said tubular shaft being provided with a gear-wheel which is provided with a plurality of radial sockets on the upper side thereof, said sockets being designed to receive levers, or operatingarms, said shaft being provided at the lower end with a pinion mounted between said cross-plates, said pinion being designed to operate a gear-wheel mounted between said cross-plates on a shaft which passes therethrough, and is provided at the upper end thereof with a pinion which is operated by the gear-wheel on the lower end of said tubular shaft, said tubular shaft being provided at the upper end thereof with a flange or head having upwardly-directed side arms secured thereto, each of which is provided at the upper end thereof with horizontal bearings in each of which is mounted a shaft, the inner end being provided with a beveled gear, and the outer end with apower-transmitting wheel, said head being provided with a cir cular plate above which is mounted a sleeve having four radial arms or shafts arranged at equal distances apart, each of said arms being provided with a loosely-mounted roller, a beveled gear revolubly mounted on said upright shaft and adapted to rest on the said sleeve and roller, and adapted to operate the beveled gears mounted in the upwardly-directed arms, said beveled gear being provided with an upwardly-directed tubular hub and that part of said shaft being angular in crossseotion and having a vertically movable FRANCIS NOGUES.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES S. ROGERS, O. GERsT.

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