An Improved Method of Constructing Wheels of Bicycles, Tricycles, Perambulators, or Vehicular Machines, so as to Reduce Friction.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1894-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Constructing Wheels of Bicycles,
Tricycles, Perambulators, or Vehicular Machines, so as to
Reduce Friction.
JOHN ASTON STOKES 12 Richmond Road Handsworth near Birmingham in the
County of Staffordshire Jeweller and WILLIAM EDWARDS 32 Upper Gough Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwickshire Engineer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the formation or construction of wheels, and is so
arranged to minimise friction.
For the purpose of describing our invention we propose dealing with an ordinary
cycle wheel.
Although various devices and appliances are resorted to, in order to reduce or
minimise friction in the nave or axle of the wheel, the point of contact with the
base of the wheel and roadway has not (we believe) yet been attempted or taken
notice of, we therefore construct our wheels so as to have a rotary or revolving tyre
or tyres, i.e. we so construct it or them, as to place another tyre outside, inside or
intermediate to the ordinary tyre or tyres & to facilitate this rotary action we may
cause them to revolve by means of ball, roller wheel or other convenient bearings,
and we may also use simply a flat, oval, oblong or other shaped disc or discs being
guided between two or more other plates or discs.
As the object of this invention is to reduce friction more particularly at the point
of contact between the base of the wheel and the roadway, it is obvious that
modifications may be made, without departing in any way from the nature of our
invention, for instance we may construct a series of wheels, balls, rollers &c.
externally or partially so, around the tyre or tyres & so arrange for them to take
bearings on springs rubbers ordinary bearings or in fact any suitable substance or
material capable of forming a bearing and imparting elasticity.
Dated this 19th day of April 1893.
JOHN ASTON STOKES.
WILLIAM EDWARDS.
CONT LEID DE MULTIATION.
as to
An Improved Method of Constructing Wheels of Bicycles,
Tricycles, Perambulators, or Vehicular Machines, so
Reduce Friction.
We JOHN ASTON STOKES, Jeweller, of 12 Richmond Road, Handsworth, near
Birmingham in the County of Stafford, and WILLIAM EDWARDS, Engineer of
32 Upper Gough Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our said invention relates to wheels for bicycles tricycles etc. and consists in the
combination of two three or more tyres or rims with spheres or their equivalents or
in lieu of the spheres, discs and has for its object the reduction of friction on
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page_text: In order that our invention may be fully understood we shall now proceed to more
particularly describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several figures
on the annexed sheet of drawings.
Figure 1 represents a segment of a wheel showing one end in section.
A is the pneumatic or other tyre. B is an outer rim to which is affixed the
pneumatic or other tyre. C is an inner rim or the tyre or rim of the wheel proper
and from which the spokes F spring. E. are a series of balls between the two
rims B. C. which form a bearing to allow of the outer rim B and tyre A to move
round the rim C.
According to Figure 2 we have shown bearing surfaces between the outer and
inner rims B and C as consisting of rollers E.
Figure 3 shows an outer rim B fitting in a channel shaped rim C which has play
for circumferential motion.
Figure 4 shows an inner rim C of tee iron shape with its mid-feather entering a
channel of the outer rim B in which it has circumferential motion.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is :-
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1. As our improvement in the combination B, C between which balls or rollers E
are arranged for permitting independent circumferential movement between the
tyre A and inner rim C as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
2. The modified arrangement shown in Figures 3 and 4 by which the outer rim B
has independent circumferential movement as set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1894.
JOHN ASTON STOKES.
WILLIAM EDWARDS.