(No Model.) T. HUMBER, 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. r . No. 305,690. Patented Sept. 23, 1884.

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(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. T. HUMBER, VELOCIPEDE, No. 305,690. Patented Sept. 23, 1884,

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THOMAS HUMBER, OF QUEENS ROAD, BEESTON, COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, . . . . ENGLAND. i VELOCIPEDE.

...' 3:33 A.ON forming part of Letters Patent INo. 305,690, dated September 23, 1884. Application filed May 26, 1884. (No model.) Patented in England November 30, 1883, No. 5,583. To ?till it hon, it Tinay concern: ion or chain or cord; but in some cases I use Be it known that I, THOMAS HUMBER, a such appliances to the steering-. In this subject of the Queen of Great Britian, resid form of my invention there are four on ing at Queens Road, Beeston, in the county of the ground, and therefore I add an extra joint, 55 5 Nottingham, England, manufacturer, have in to allow of vertical action on uneven ground, vented certain new and useful Improvements and which joint is so placed as to allow verti in , (for which I have obtained a cal play to either the front or back wheel, in patent in Great Britain, No. 5,583, bearing order that all four wheels may at all times date 30th November, 1883,) of which the fol fairly rest on the ground; and in order that 6o IO lowing is a specification. my said invention may be clearly understood This invention relates more especially, reference is hereby made to the accompanying though not exclusively, to that form of tricycle drawings, in which similar letters of reference which is known as the “Humber; and the indicate corresponding parts in the Several object of my invention is to make sueh modi figures. f5 fications and additions to that and analogous Figure 1 is an elevation of the tricycle tricycles as to render them capable of accom known as the “Humber.' Fig. 2 is an ele modating two or more persons without the ne vation of the additional frame and wheel cessity of increasing the width for that pur shown detached. Fig. 3 is an elevation show p0Se. ing the combination of Figs. 1 and 2, where- 7o 2O In carrying out one form of my invention, I by the Humber in Fig. 1 is converted into a attach a suitable frame-work to the front part tandem , in which it will be seen of the tricycle, to which an extra seat or seats to be still a tricycle as, although it has four and pedals are fixed, and to the lower part of wheels, three only are bearers. The hind which a small wheel is attached, which wheel wheel is the steering-wheel. Fig. 4 is an ele- 75 . 25 is usually about two inches above the ground, vation of a front steering tricycle, and Fig. 5 but is so placed to prevent the tricycle from is an elevation of the additional portion de overbalancing longitudinally. This arrange tached, which is designed to convert the front ment transforms the tricycle into a tandem “so steerer into a tandem sociable velocipede. ciable.' The steering in this arrangement is Fig. 6 is an elevation of the latter combina- 8) 30 effected by means of the head known as the tion, the front wheel being the steering-wheel. “Stanley head, by which the rear rider has The hind wheel is so fitted as to be free to foll complete control in steering and applying the low the course steered. In Fig. 7 a slight vari power; and my invention also consists in ation is shown, the long backbone being di applying the Stanley head form of steering with vided at n, where the joint for horizontal 85 along backbone and with spring and saddle at play is formed, instead of such play taking 35 tached for the extra rider to any front or rear place at 0, as in the other figures. steering tricycle, thus embodying a combina The tricycle shown in Figs. 1 and 3 is fitted tion of the two machines. In arranging the with a block, a, and bolt a, and attachments b driving-gear I affix two wheels on the driving and b for connecting the frame shown in Fig. 9o axle and connect the same with the two pedal 2 to the tricycle, Fig.1. The rear rider on the axles by means of steel chains, thus forming seat c has the control of the steering-handled. one continuous central combination of driving The handlese are for the front rider to use as Oea. . . - - a support for the hands and to steady himself. applying my invention to front-steering The front wheel, f, is kept a little above the 95 45 tricycles, I fix a spring to the front steering ground, and is intended as a safeguard against wheel. I usually steer by means of a rod or overbalancing. This wheel is provided with tube fixed in a diagonal line, in which case I a spring, g, and annular cam h. The wheel fix an annular cam, which by its action tends f is thereby kept in a straight line, but is to keep the steering-wheel in a straight line capable of momentarily locking on taking the IOC SO without the use of the hands, such steering be ground, and immediately after leaving the ing effected without using either rack or pin ground the wheel resumes a straightline from

2 305, 690 the prompt action of the spring and cam. certained the nature of my said invention The two riders drive the two crank-axles i and in what manner the same is to be per k, and these simultaneously actuate the main formed, I declare that what I claim is axle by means of belts, chains, or straps. The 1. The combination of a framing or back rear rider has complete control of the steer bone, a saddle supported thereon at one end, ing and the application of the brake. a wheel at the other end thereof, a pulley, a Fig. 4 represents a front-steering tricycle, set of pedals upon a shaft thereof, and means, with my improved direct steering rod or tube, as described, for readily attaching the same to 55 which is placed diagonally, as shown. This a tricycle, the whole forming a complete Or IO steering-rod is fitted with a spring, g, and an ganism for attachment to a tricycle without nular cam h, which operate in such a manner alteration or change of the latter, whereby the as to tend to keep the steering-wheel in a same may be readily converted into a double straight line. The separate frame shown in seated tandem velocipede, substantially as de- 6o Fig. 5 is made to fit this tricycle, and Fig. 6 Scribed. . shows the combination which transforms the 2. In a renovable frame-work for three Or front-steering tricycle into a tandem sociable, more wheeled velocipedes, the combination, with four wheels bearing on the ground. In with the extra wheel and its supports, of the this form of my invention, I make a joint, a spring 9 and camh, substantially as described. 65 m, which allows the hind wheel to rise and 3. The combination, in a three or more fall to accommodate the wheels to any uneven wheeled velocipede, of two frame-works, each ness of the ground. carrying a seat or saddle, pedals, and a driv I am aware that it is not new to provide for ing-pulley and brackets, one for each frame the rise and fall of the hind wheel, and I do work, one bracket being journaled on the not seek to claim all methods of providing for main shaft, while the other bracket is jour 25 such rise and fall. My improved joint is naled on shoulders on the first bracket, sub shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, and on an en stantially as described. larged scale in Figs. 10 and 11, in which lat 4. The combination, in a three or more ter figures r is the axle. S S are sockets in wheeled velocipede, of the standards t t, 75 which the standards t t are secured. s is the bracket s', having shoulders u, u, and jour front bracket, which has short sleeves at u, u, naled on main shaft r, and brackets, jour upon which sleeves the brackets" is secured, naled on the shoulders u, u, substantially as and upon which center the vertical motion of described. the brackets' takes place. 5. In a three or more wheeled velocipede, In Fig. 7 the lateral play of the hind wheel having two or more frame-works, and adapt 35 is provided for at n, the long backbone being ed for two riders, tandem, a backbone di divided as shown. In the previous figures vided and jointed to permit lateral movement this lateral play takes place at 0. of the non-steering wheel, substantially as de Fig. 8 is an enlarged view of the camh, and scribed. Fig. 9 explains its operation. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my The arrangement of the spring g and annu hand this 29th day of April, 1884. lar cam his capable of application in an ob vious manner to the third wheels of other tri THOMAS HUMBER. cycles now commonly in use, whether such Witnesses: wheels are steering-wheels or only support JAMES I. HORN, a 45 ing-wheels, and will be found to be a very 6 Ossington Villas, Nottingham. useful adjunct to such machines. WALTER. R. PENDLETON, Having now particularly described and as High St. Beeston, Notts.