Miner’s Patent B

Illustration of Accelerating Wheel Head from the Archive of Useful Knowledge, October 1811.

Line drawing with title “Accelerating wheel head” at top shows an accelerating wheel with grooves on right held by two small posts set into a round rod with threaded screws under them. A spindle is held by bearings. That rod held by a post set between two posts. Part of a band goes around the grooves of the accelerating wheel, and another goes around the outside of the wheel to a whorl on the spindle.