The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-04-21
Paper Car whosls.

Our attention is called to . new
ear wheel, which We have examined
as thoroughly as possible without
taking the work to pieces. The
wheel-that is, TIE body its EsdS
of paper, and Messrs R. n. Al'eR
and 5. W. Kimball, of Brandon, Vt
have secured a patent thereof
Two trucks of six wheels each
we're made at BrandOn-fOr q trial
After running nearly year on East
ern roads they we're transferred to .
car of Pullman's Palace Car Cos
line, under which they have been
used several months, and show no
signs of wear, Their constructions
is difficult to describe in detail with
out drawings and diagrams. They
consist, however, mainly Of q tight
filing between tire and hub, of press-
cl paper-paper Of the best n5fe,
subjected to pressure Of 9 ton aad
halfto the square inch.
But few, we suppose, are convsrs-
ant with the capabilities of com
pressed paper. The very best. -
endar rOIls"-used in All
'sized" paper, and for some
purposes, are made Of pressed pspsr
in preference to ivory, bone, steel or
other material. The reasons are that
it is not almost wholly inelastic hat
Yields nothing to climate changes.
Hot or cold, wet or dry, paper thus
treated remains the same. When
sufficiently pressed, it may be treated
as hard wood is; it may be turned in
lathe; it is susceptible Of = high
degree of polish, etc. In short, il 10
unlike anything and everything but
itself. The inventor conceived the
idea of using pressed paper in the
construction Of car wheels, because
wood and all other substances thus
far tried have been found objection
able in one point or another. Paper
would seem to answer the purpose
admirably because it is noisless and
does not swell or shrink with the
weather; it affords q stay TO the tire
and laternal support IN turning
curves; and at the same time adapts
itself to any tri6ing inequality oS
the inner surface of the surround
ing tire which wood and iron fail to
do; and, finally, it seems to be
stronger than any other material
many times stronger than any other
material of the same Weight-of
which a wheel can be made. Wood
has been tried, not altogether with
success, and the objections to steel
"skeleton," or corrugated, or "pat-
tent-sDokes" wheels are well under.
stood. E---as aas
In the wheel. the usual steel tire
with its "rail 6ange" is used. Upon
the axle as a center, two heavy, cast
iron hanges are fastened parallel TO
each other at right angles with the
axle, and in the plane of the diane
ter. The inside one has an s-insh
radius; the outside one completely
covering e outer dis, and over.
tipping the tire inch. Through
the compressed paper, from h4nge,
to aange, are passed strong bolts Of
the best iron, secured by nuts
screwed home" firmly, aud near
enough together to hold the paper
in its place, without unnecessary
cutting away Of its fibre or weaken
ing its fanges. And it 10 worthy
IF note that it has never been nee
essary to tighten them from the hrst
lay of operation to the present time.
The paper forms a solid wall be-
tween the axle and the tire; she
aanges doing nothing but keep the
paper in proper position. The
-train comes on the psper-the tire,
of course, doing its duty as in sVeEY
other wheel.-Railroa6 ROvIss.