Show k S n To Run By P Petroleum Of all the new inventions inventions' an and andi i Improvements in the vcr ver very latest is the petroleum bicycle WHan With WH an oil can strap strapped ed on at precisely the same same point where the tool tool- ba bag ordinarily ordin i is carried it will willbe be possible possible possible ble for the cycler to ride from tom Maine Main to California at a speed of fifteen miles an hour hoot or so much slower ashe a ahe as ashe he pleases without ar n r particle of o of effort save the slight one of balancing balanc c ng i-ng r Should he tire the of r pow power r it will ill be but a moments V work worl to fo discontinue the motor and use use his Ius hi Iusi i legs The invention has been f full fully I II j worked out and there is at least on one wheel in existence with the tIn petroleum petro leum equipment Scores of inventors inventors' have been struggling for months with th the mechanical power bicycle and fo forr for r r the he most part art unsuccessfully The rhe difficult part patt of the problem has hass hasi ha has s i been to get a motor and equipment W that would not make the chine machine too 00 heavy Nearly all ll the electrical wheels that have been devised have weighed from eighty to a hundred pounds ds r The The The- interesting feature of this A. A petroleum bicycle is that the motor and its parts weigh only twenty-five twenty pounds making a total weight when adjusted to a two twenty-two pound wheel of only seven forty pounds When fined filled the little oil tank or reservoir will wm if it is said last for an ordinary run of ten hours liours or one onehundred onehundred I hundred and and- fifty miles By keeping keeping keeping keep keep- ing in the saddle addle ten hours a day a a- wheelman could cross the continent in fn twenty venly days clays at a cost of for oil Alongside of the hand handte e bars baTs of the machine is set a thin lever or regulating bar which communicates with what is Js called a vibrator just below belo the thc oil tank and connecting connect ing ng with it b by bya a small tube This handle bar when when jerked jerked- fulfills a double duble purpose It lets a certain quantity of the oil 1 run down Wn into a acan acan acan can placed ov over r the front wheeland wheel known as the exploder der derand and an instant n later it it- startS a lIttle battery having four lir dry cells The spark from rom this battery drops drops- down into the he oil below betow and antI ignites it and t t Sets the motor in motion To the motor is attached a chain or a sprocket t wheel geared to the pedals The wheel is stopped by shutting Off the supply of p petroleum which can be done very quickly The apparatus is of about half a horse p power er which is ample mple for fot one loan man at the rate of of speed e mentioned I |