Improvement in the. Manufacture of Carriage Wheels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896.
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improvement in the. Manufacture of Carriage Wheels.
HARRIETTE KEARSLEY Married Woman 58 Chesterton Road North Kensington
London W. I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce wheels without wood felloes. The
spokes are shouldered down and a round tongue left in the centre. A complete
sound hoop is prepared with holes in it to suit the tongues of the spokes, the hoop,
is then shrunk on until it takes a firm bearing on the spoke shoulders they can
be wedged if necessary, and a screw with a large head to cover the top of spoke.
The strength and shape may be as required.
I also make another hoop a skeleton or shell shaped it is prepared and put on
same as the above hoop.
The hoop may be strengthened if necessary by soldering ferrules round the holes or
side lips to support the spokes. The groove in the hoop, may be shaped to suit the
various substances fitted into it to form noiseless and elastic tyres, including all
sorts of solid and pneumatic india rubber tyres or compound substitutes or fibrous
material.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1896
HARRIETTE KEARSLEY.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Carriage Wheels.
I, HARRIETTE KEARSLEY late of 58 but now of 105 Chesterton Road Notting Hill,
London, W., Married Lady, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is, to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to manufacture wheels without felloes, but instead
thereof to utilize the rims as the combined felloe and rim.
According to this invention, the rim is formed as a hoop which is perforated to receive
the tongues of the spokes, the hoop being attached to the spokes by shrinking the
former on to the latter until the shoulders on the spokes abut against the inner surface
of the hoop, or by shrinking and wedging, the ends of the spokes being protected by
washer and screws or nails or by large headed screws or nails.
And in order that the said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a section of a rim illustrating its position on the spokes.
Fig. 2 is a section of a rim formed to take a rubber tyre.
Fig. 3 is a section of a rim formed to take a tyre made of wood.
Fig. 4 is a modification of Fig. 3.
Fig 5 choing the anali

page_text: Fig. 6 shows the application of the rim to a metal shielded rubber tyre fitted with
a running surface or tread of wood.
a is the rim which in Fig. 1 is intended to act as the ordinary felloe and rim or tyre
the rim being in all cases shrunk on to the spokes b up to the shoulder c. But in order
that the method of building the wheel may be used when applied to what are known
as silent tyres it is necessary to alter the shape of the rim. In Fig. 2 the rim a is
shown formed with turned over edges d, under which the rubber tyre e is forced. The
rim is equally applicable for tyres made of wood or sections of wood f, as shown in
Figs. 3 and 4 and also in Fig. 6 which latter figure illustrates a combination of a
metal shielded rubber tyre fitted with a tread of wood f, the metal shield h being
formed as shown by which means the whole is securely held in place.
In Fig. 5 a metal shielded rubber tyre is shown applied to the improved rim a, the
corners or edges of the metal shield being in some cases formed as shown in.
dotted lines.
It will be understood that all wheels do not require the same properties, for instance,
.a wheel that is to be driven must have a tyre and rim that does not yield to the
propelling power, while a trailing or free running wheel should have cushioning
properties as the yielding does not interfere with the propulsion of the vehicle but on
the other hand tends to assist the propelling power. The former are shown in Figs. 1,
3 and 4, and the latter in Figs. 2 and 5, Fig. 6 being equally applicable for either
driving or running free.
The treads of the wheels are in some cases corrugated, roughened or otherwise
treated to prevent slipping.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvement in the manufacture of wheels for road carriages, substantially
as described.
2. In wheels for road carriages, the application and use of the rim a adapted to be
shrunk on to the spokes, without the intervention of a felloe, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. In wheels for road carriages, the several combinations with the rim a of the
rubber or wood tyres, or of the metal shielded rubber tyres, or of the metal shielded
rubber tyres with a wood tread, each substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated 22nd March 1897.
GEORGE DOWNING & SONS,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agents.