New from Austin,Tx

[gettyupgo]

Hello,
Honestly I am on a fact finding mission. Hopefully I will find my answer here.
Been around motorcycles for 40+ yrs. and worked on offshore drilling rigs for 30 yrs. The last 6 yrs. I spend my time messing around with old, odd out of the main stream gizmo's. I recently found a electric motor/generator/dc to ac (I think) that has me completely stumped. Ive already been on the net and spent countless hrs. and have found nothing like it. Found a few items similar but not the exact thing.
Ive had a Professor in Electrical Eng. to Mech. Eng. look at it and they speculated as to what it is but no hard answers.
So here we go,
Item, made by Crocker/Wheeler, Pat.Date May 5 1891(no pat.# on it),
Size 1 (I believe this means 1 horse power),
Amps. 8, 115v.
It has a input side and output side.
There is no means to attach anything to the ends of it.
I have found a number of things that look like half of what I have but they were motors (1/6hp) that ran a small fan.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Terry

 

[HOTFR8]

Welcome to the GJ. You may get a better response to that question in General discussion or even the Electric section.

 

[N0tt0N]

Hard to tell the scale. Are the name plates large or is this look pretty small?

Do the clamps look like they attached to arms that might reciprocate counter to each other?

It looks to be what is described here as a Bi-Polar Motor. Some neat company background here. There's a neat YouTube video here that shows a fan using half of what you have.

Looks like you have a pretty rare piece there! BTW it appears to be quite dangerous Congratulations!

 

[N0tt0N]

BTW, there are several patents for May 5 granted to Schuyler S. Wheeler for "The Crocker" company. Looks like his inventions led to reforming as Crocker/Wheeler shortly after this!

The first, found here, was for " is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and accurate mode of forming and fitting together the several parts composing the field-magnet and its support, and especially to enable this to be done in the case where parts of the field consist of wrought-iron forgings or parts more or less roughly formed, and in such a way as to require the least possible amount of machineshaping."

The second, found here, was for "certain improvements in this kind of armature especially applicable to the Gramme-ring form, the object of-the invention being to increase as much as possible the amount of conductor or winding, to present as large a tooth-surface as possible to the field, to have the openings of the slots so narrow, compared with the iron portions or teeth lying between them, that the pole-pieces can be brought close to the armature-core without the production of eddy or Foucault currents "in the pole-pieces, and to provide a better means of mechanically mounting the armature upon its shaft."

He had many more around that time as well.

 

[gettyupgo]

I'll take it to general discussion. Thx's.