US Patent: 17,970
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| Steering Apparatus for Steam Carriages
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Patentee:
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| Edward C. Jones (exact or similar names) - Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 11, 1857 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The nature of my improvement consists in arranging the steering apparatus of a three wheeled steam carriage in such a manner, that the same parts, by which the steering wheel is operated, communicate with, and act by a lever arrangement on clutches, set on the driving wheel shaft, and gripping into the hubs of the driving wheels ;-the action being such, that, when the steering wheel is turned either to the left or to the right; the clutch either on the left or the right driving wheel is thrown out of connection with its wheel, whereby only one of the driving wheels acts propelling, causing the carriage to readily turn, either to the left or right, as the case may be; and my improvement further consists in the peculiar lever arrangement (which will hereafter be described) by which the parts, operating the steering wheel, communicate with, and act on the aforesaid clutches ; and further in the mode, of turning the steering wheel with its axle to the right or left, on a pivot which passes through the axle, near or in the center of the steering wheel.
Claim:
Operating the clutches J, J', of the driving wheels, by the same parts, by which the steering wheel is operated, in such a manner, as to disengage (by operating the said clutches) the one or the other of the driving~ wheels. simultaneously with the turning of the steering wheel, to the right or left. |
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