IMPROVE- MENTS IN WHEELS AND AXLES FOR PIT TUBS, MINERAL OR BALLAST WAGGONS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wilkes, of the Pelsall Foundry, near
Walsall, in the County of Stafford, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WHEELS AND AXLES FOR PIT TUBS, MINERAL OR BALLAST
WAGGONS."
Sealed the 25th August 1871, and dated the 4th March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wilkes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th March 1871.
I, JOSEPH WILKES, of the Pelsall Foundry, near Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS AND AXLES FOR PIT TUBS, MINERAL OR. BALLAST
WAGGONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists substantially in casting, forging, or otherwise
permanently attaching to the axles of the rolling stock specified in the
title a taper collar or belt, which is by preference either octagon,
hexagon, or square in shape, and which said collar or belt is to receivo

page_text: the wheel which is made with a corresponding aperture or recess. The
said collar or belt reaches partly through the nave or boss of the wheel,
so preventing it from turning on the axle when placed in position. For
greater security the wheel may be kept in its proper position on the axle
by a peg or split collar being passed through the axle or through the 5
wheel and axle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Wilkes in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 25th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Joseph
WILKES, of the Pelsall Foundry, near Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
.cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Wilkes, Her special
licence that I, the said Joseph Wilkes, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Wilkes, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WHEELS AND AXLES FOR PIT TUBS, MINERAL OR BALLAST WAGGONS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Wilkes, my
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner tho
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in thic Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Wilkes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
This Invention consists substantially in casting, forging, or otherwise
permanently attaching to the axles of the rolling stock specified in the
title a collar or belt, which is by preference either octagon, hexagon, or
square in shape, and which said collar or belt is to receive the wheel,
which is made with a corresponding aperture or recess. The said collar
or belt reaches partly through the nave or boss of the wheel, so prevent-
ing it from turning on the axle when placed in position. For greater
security the wheel may be kept in its proper position on the axle by a
peg or split cottar being passed through the axle or through the wheel
and axle.
That my Invention may be fully understood, I have provided the
Drawings hereunto annexed, which I now procced to describe.
Fig. 1 represents an axle made according to my Invention. A is the
body of the axle having two collars or bosses B, which are either cast,
forged, or otherwise permanently attached to it. Each collar B is by
preference made to taper slightly from C to D, and is also by preference
made either octagonal, hexagonal, or square in its transverse section.
Fig. 2 shews an end elevation of an axle having hexagonal collars or
bosses.
Fig. 3 represents an axle with a pair of wheels secured thercon.
The wheel E is shewn in external elevation and the wheel F in section.
The nave or boss G (see also Fig. 4) has a recess H formed in it of an
octagonal, hexagonal, or square shape internally, and the collar or boss
B fits therein, so that each wheel is compelled to revolve with the axle.
The said recess I reaches partly through the said nave or boss G of the
wheel, the remaining portion of the nave or boss being made to fit the
cylindrical portion of the axle A. Each wheel may be additionally
secured in its proper position upon the axle by means of a peg or split
cottar I which passes either through the axle only or through both the
wheel and the axle.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be understood
that without limiting myself to the precise details herein-before described,
as these may be varied or modified to some extent without departing
from the nature of my said Invention, what I claim as the Invention to

page_text: be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
improvements in wheels and axles for mineral or other waggons or
carriages, as herein-before explained and illustrated in the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and which consists substantially in casting, shrinking,
forging, or otherwise permanently attaching to the axles of such rolling
stock collars or belts as herein-before specified, and which are by
preference either octagonal, hexagonal, or square in transverse section,
the naves or bosses of the wheels to be fitted thereon having corre.
sponding recesses, and being in case of need additionally secured in
their proper positions on their axles by means of pegs or split cottars,
substantially as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Wilkes, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-fourth day of August in the year
of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.
JOSEPH WILKES. (L.S.)