“The invention consists in the general combination of parts, whereby two persons may be accommodated on the vehicle, and also in the aforementioned arrangement of the fly-wheel.
“When the fly-wheel is thrown into gear, as aforesaid, it will serve to gather power, to facilitate the riding up-hill, and to steady the motion down-hill.
“2. The fly-wheel K, mounted on a separate shaft, J, the sliding pinion f, in combination with the lever g, substantially as herein shown and described, for the purpose specified.
“The above specification of my invention signed by me, this ninth day of June, 1869.
“Simon Wortmann.”
You will have to make that front man do some work, Simon, or you will fall behind the band-wagon in spite of your fly-wheel.
S. H. Sawhill, of Cambridge, Ohio. Velocipede. No. 93,751. Patented August 17, 1869.
SAWHILL SPECIFICATION.
“This invention relates to a new two- or three-wheeled velocipede, which is to be propelled by hand, and which is so constructed that it can be easily operated, and that the body will be sustained in the most advantageous position.