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ANOTHER CONVERTIBLE VEHICLE.

21st November 1922
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A Résumé of Recently Published Patents.

HERRING, in specification No. J • 186,820, describes a vehicle which is rapidly and easily convertible from a goods-carrying vehicle to a passenger conveyance, or vice versa, and which may also be employed as a composite machine for carrying both goods and passengers at one and the same time.

Various devices with the same object ia view are already on the market, but the is sufficient originality in the de sigt and construction of this particular example to make it well worthy of ClUr especial attention this week.

The seats of the passenger-carrying vehicle are designed to hinge on their front edges, so that they Irma be turned completely over towards the 'middle of the. body. When in that position, the back edges of the setae tonen. -their -undersides form a fiat platform-'which runs right across the lorry, and the seatbacks, now under the seats, rest upon the floor of the van and support the seats in the inverted .poaition.

A collapsable :hood is part. of the equipment. Along the edge of the body door-space; which coincides, as to its height, with the underside of the invertible seat, runs a rail, which is designed to receive the lower ends of the IT-shaped hood sticks. This hood is extensible and collapsable longitudinally by the simple process of sliding the hood sticks along the rails provided .for them. In its fully extended position it entirely covers the floor-space of the body, and is kx) extended and used when the vehicle is employed for the conveyance of passengers. When goods are carried, and Mien it is not necessary for the goods to be covered, the hoed is collapsed into

receptacle, or shelter, which is mounted at the back of the driver's cab. .

Other Patents of Interest.

A neat and simple type of magneto impulse starter is described in No. 186,848 by the M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd. It is of the type in which a pair of coupling members are employed, one of which is connected to the driving shaft, 'the other being similarly attached to the armature shaft. That which is Connected to the armature .shaft is momentarily held 'while the other is rotating, and when released is caused to .impart a rapid or impulsive movement to the B46

magneto armature under the action of a spring. In the design which is covered by the particular invention which we have under review, the catch which temporarily holds the armature shaft Coupling is, a magnetic one, and the invention comprises, M. particular, the use of a permanent magnet in the construction of the catch or for effecting the operation of the catch.

Visitors to the-recent 3lotor Exhibition will, no doubt, recollect an iligenions little cyclecar, the E.T.D., in the construction of which were`ambodied.many ingenious features. That 'machine is recalled by specification NO. 186,858, by Eerie Toncleur, for it :describes in princirle the type of suspension which was employed in that car. In this construelion a full cantilever spring is employed as the main shock absorber. It is of the fiat-leaf type, anchored at one end to the frame arid at the other to the axle, the 'attachment in the former case being a pivotal one and in the latter a rigid one. On the top of this spring, practically in the middle of its length, is impused ci light, sensitive coil spring in compression

spring, the main spring and the underside of a bracket attached to the maul sido• member of t h e chassis frame. It is claimed ,t hat minor Shocks are entirely absorbed by the small spring, which has no frictional effect such as is provided by the main leaf spring, which only Ilexes when the. auxiliary coil spring is metal-to-metal—that i2 to say, fully compressed.

Everyone is familiar with the Daimler type of bonnet, having two side walls, hinged at the lower edges, and designed to open and close separately, and a roof, which is more or lass flat and is hinged at the rear end and arranged to open upwardly and independently of the sides. In an invention which is described by the Daimler Co., Ltd„ in specification No. 186,752, simple means are .provided whereby, when the .bonnet is cloSed, all the parts ma' be-sinaultaneciusly locked by the movement of two levers, the said locking device being particularly designed

to prevent rattle. On each side of the bonnet are two sliding bolts, one of which engages a socket in the radiator, the other a socket in the dashboard. Both these bolts are geared, by means of suitable racks, to a common pinion, which is operated by a single lever, so that both bolts are shot, or slid out of their sockets, by a movement of this one lever. The roof of the bonnet carries .a pair of Looks,: which are adapted to engage. with pins or levers, which are also controlled as to their movement by the same lever which controls the movement of the bolt, as that, as the bolts are shot, the hooks in the. roof arc also engaged, and as the bolts are slid out of their sockets the hooks are disengaged.

A neat type of oil pomp, designed for fitting to any motorcycle engine, is described by E: -Showell and Sons, Ltd., in "No. 186,747. The pump inlet and outlet are inverted on .opposite sides, and near opposite ends, of a cylindrical casing, in which is mounted a screw. The screw is engine revolved and kets as a pump.

A simple method of employing a grease gun for lubricating wheel hubs is described in No. 186,860, by H. Senn. The principal feature of the invention is the bayonet-typo joint for the grease-gun delivery tube and the socket on the 1b. No. 186,774, by T. Owen, refers to that type of lanniditier in which a pipe inserted into the top of the 'radiator conveys moisture to the induction pipe, and describes a method of arresting excess moisture 'by Means of Ail absorbent pad. A device for securing petrol calls upon the running board, of a car has been patented by J.'1\farShall and aanther, in No. 186;754. • It is of the type in which there is a .fixerlbase, havinga fixed lug on one side and a movable ono on the other.

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