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Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction
by
Gardner D. Hiscox, M.E.
Norman W. Henley Publ. Co.
1927

The Inventor's Paradox - Desaguliers' Demonstration
The Prevailing Wheel Type
Marquis Of Worcester Wheel
Rolling Balls
Folding Arms
Chain Wheel
Most Common Idea
Magnetism And Gravity
Pick-up Ball
Ball-Carrying Belt
Ferguson's Type
French, 1858
Revolving Tubes And Balls
Geared Motive Power
Differential Hydrostatic Wheel
Lever Type
Double Cone
Rocking Beam
Titling Tray And Ball
Rolling Ring
Differential Water Wheel
Multiple Water Wheel
Gear Problem
Mercurial Wheel
Water Wheel
Air-Bag Wheel
Water Wheel
Air Transfer In Submerged Wheel
Extending Weights And Water Transfer
Chain Buckets
Congreve's Sponges
Transfer Of Air
Differential Weight of Balls
Inclined Disk And Balls
Self-Moving Water Power
Chain Pump, 1618
Archimedean Screw
Differential Weight By Flotation
Floatation Problem
Liquid Transfer Wheel
Chain-Pump
Mercurial Displacement
Air-Buoyed Wheel
Magnetic Resistance
Overbalanced Cylinder
Hydrostatic Weight
Capillary Attraction
Magnetic Pendulum
Magnetic Wheel
Magnetic Mill
Regenerating Pendulum
Magnetic Wheel
Alternate Magnet Type
Electro-magnetic Type
Electrical Generation
Perpetual-Motion Puzzle



23. Perpetual Motion
Folding Arm Type

     The lever, A, is represented in the act of falling from the periphery of the wheel into a right line. The lever is composed of a series of flat rods, connected by ruler joints, which said ruler joints are provided with a stop or joggle, to prevent their collapsing at any time more than will bring anyone of the rods which compose the levers at a right angle with the rod next to it.

Perpetual Motion Machine: 918-FoldingArms

     This lever is attached to the periphery of the wheel by the hinge joint, B, provided with the shoulder, to prevent its falling into any other than a right line from the center of the circumference of the wheel. The levers are furnished at their outer extremities with a bucket or receiver, the bottom of which is sufficiently broad to retain the ball C. The balls remain in the buckets till the buckets come into the position of the lever, D, when they are expected to roll out of the buckets on to the inclined plane, and by their own gravity roll to the other end of the inclined plane, ready to be again taken into the buckets. Patented in 1821.

(Subsection 918, from p.367)


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