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Show HYDRAULIC AUTO TRANSMISSIOM INVENTION OF SALT LAKE MAN Device Designed to Eliminate Both Gear Set and Clutch; New Compact. Unit Operated With Fluid Oil; Acts as Break or Drives Car-; Company Com-pany Plans to Start Factory in This City. For years, in fact ever since the perfection per-fection of the i n tenia combustion engine, en-gine, automotive, engineers hao been confronted with the fact that they have provided the most inefficient mechanical mechani-cal u nits of 1 he car assembly in I he clutch and. transmission gear sot. Attempts At-tempts to improve- this unit have been made, from time tn time, but no concentrated concen-trated effort of tiie groat designers nf motordom has ever been given the subject since the development oi: ')e tjcleetive typo of gears. 1 1, remained for a citizen of Salt Lake. Peter IT. Peterson, who has been a resident since UHH-, to i n vent a mechanical me-chanical unit that en I i rely elimiuat es the obi ten ami t lie gea r set. and replaces re-places them with a com pa ''t hydra u lie unit in which oil and air pressure u re tlie combined force;; - of motive power and brake-resist aueo. M r. Peterson 's i n vent ion has pa ssod t)i rough all the. preliminary development develop-ment usual to perfecting a mechanical device and getting a patent thereon and actually placing it in service. To-dav To-dav he is demonstrating a large tonrinu car on tlie streets of the oily, which is equipped with a large type of his" hydraulic hy-draulic flu'd clutch, and N daily being inspected bv hundreds of automobile owners and meehanics. Company Formed. The Peterson nev ice iias b-Tn designated desig-nated as a fluid, clutch, ;-nd a corn-pan-', 'o lie known as tlie Peterson 5. 1 1 a rd on Fluid I .'In ten coin pa ny. formed here to promote and e-ventualir liianu-taeture liianu-taeture tiie dovh-e in Salt I..;i";n. Mr. Peterson is president of the company, and has associated with him a officers and directors Howard M. Harden, Marv K. Peterson. Ivina P. Harden, .lames M. Xeal, .1. Vernon Jarrett ami LvJ wai d .. Holland. Tho now flubl transmis'-ion and i-lufh iie'ico provides for any number of speeds, forward or reverse. 'I" lie com - I pa ny an u ounces that the in von t.ion of ' M r. P..'torou is eovo'x-l by five pi i-n.arv i-n.arv patents, ail of '.vhieh are ynon to issue from t lie patent office at Washington. Wash-ington. ". '. I One of the grcates: features of the I new .Peterson fluid clutch and trn.ns-I trn.ns-I mis-ion unit, according to the inveutc'. is the unlimited variation of speed obtainable ob-tainable and T.he o v t i'o : n e e a - o w i J h wldch :1 i-. nuuiipulatc.i. '';e .-oiilnd rod di spons.'-'d with when rlie etui - -h j issem bly r; ml the t rain o'' gears a re , rein oa cd from tiie c;r, and a si in pie j (eve-, sbii'Mai to tiie rhroiib1 lever. ;. nd 1 working on a quadrant, is allaehod fn f he s t o o rin g pos t . A slight movement nf this lever up or down, forward or back, according to the posHiun it. N placed in with rcTeronoo to the steering post, conlrols the speed of tho car. Mechanical Operation. How this is accomplished is b; iof ly told by .Mr. T'eierson as follows: ''In our ie-i,-n there are Ion pi.-tons six inches long and one and one-halt inches in. diameter, in the larger types; they lie longitudinally of the de ice and have a three-inch stroke; t-hey are fastened at one end with ,i ball and soekel joint connected to tlie easing of a f la n g et ro1 ar, 1 Ids flange bei ng on an incline lo the piano of the rotar; the action of 1 lie 'fltnge when the, rotar is revolved, is what makes the pislons move forward and back in their respective re-spective chambers. There is a alvp in the bottom of each piston chamber 1 h rough whioli oil is sucked when the pi.it on niovos away from the :t!ve ; w h e u it re turns the alvo closes and the oil is forced nut through a conduit cut in the spoke-.-haped j arts at light angle to each pi -don chamber, into the main valve, and uhen ihe main alve chamhei- i ido.--cd 1 ho oil canuot, mo'e, hence I lie piston is held stationary and tho rnlar is also scourelv held." The mtar being altu'-Jied dire-'d to the rear drive a.-scmblv and the mil i1 r easing of Hie fluid clut'ch traveling at, the same --peed as tho engine, the car will be dri en in high gear but at mv speed desired. To' stop the car the main alve is pulled wide open and 'he oil allowed lo fiuw fre.dy. The car will come to u standstill, but the interna I workings of the device will sliil continue con-tinue In turn with the e ngino and at tin1 suni" speed. To Hi.- Jay mind this technical explanation ex-planation uf the working1- oi' tip- de ice will me-i n little or nothing; but. the fa. t remains that t he car equipped v. i 111 th- iVlerso-i jbiid clutch runs like nny olher car and seemingly performs better on slow speed than any equipped with the usual tear set. All noise is eliminated elimi-nated and stalling is done en high! gea r, as the action of the oil on the pistons nnd rot a r is raid to perm i t of a gradual seeding 11 P e,f thr car until it aitabis the i-'ir'-'M-t speed in ratio to the relation per minute of the engine. It, is t he hope of' the i n voul of a ml tie- men a-sor ia 1 cd with him in the promotion of Hue pel erson flubl Hutch, to bo able seo.i to manufacture tiie device- in Salt 1 ,ako, tentative plans having been made 1o supply the .Ionian. of the i nt o no em ula t u .-cd ion f nun th it ' iia t e ver huunr mav come lo i-'aU Lake because of the fad that one nf h-r citizens ha--. ei.ci,tly. .diminated t .-. of the Ind eVi'icjeat moidia a i;-a I units of the jire-eu t -ila v motor -(liic!e, the future v.iil unfohL ', pe-nL il is the de-ire of ihe iir- .-..tor and hi associates as-sociates to get. the tinid "ii'Tch poifect. v babuiced and median ic.-.tl v perfert. This dedce will -oon be phn-'ed nu the market, ami. it is understood, will be made in a raui'C id' d.-s for all model-of model-of e i -,; i ng cr; r-. |
