Improvements in Protectors for the Spoke Wires of Velocipedes and the like.
Year: 1885

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors for the Spoke Wires of Velocipedes
and the like.
We GEORGE JOHN STEVENS of 128, Great Suffolk Street, in the county of
Surrey, Engineer and HENRY WHITTINGHAM TURNER of Great Suffolk Street
aforesaid, Secretary to the Surrey Machinist Company Limited do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN PROTECTORS FOR THE
SPOKE WIRES OF VELOCIPEDES AND THE LIKE to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to the manufacture of a cheap, simple, and effective means
of strengthening and protecting the screwed ends of spoke wires of velocipede and
other wheels and for other similar purposes.
Hitherto such protecting devices have been constructed out of solid metal and
drilled, the head forming a nut being tapped to receive the screwed ends of the
spoke wires, necessitating much labour and the article produced being com-
paratively heavy and expensive.
According to our invention we manufacture the protecting devices separate from
the tapped nut or head by stamping or otherwise forming them out of thin drawn
metal tubing or suitable sheet metal such as steel or brass whereby we obtain a
protector more efficient than those hitherto in use and very light and at the same
time one with a certain amount of spring or flexibility.

page_text: We GEORGE JOHN STEVENS, of 128, Great Suffolk Street in the county of
Surrey, Engineer and HENRY WHITTINGHAM TURNER, of Great Suffolk Street,
aforesaid, Secretary to the Surrey Machinist Company, Limited, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of a cheap, simple, and effective means
of strengthening and protecting the screwed ends of spoke wires of velocipede and
other wheels and for other similar purposes.
Hitherto such protecting devices have been constructed out of solid metal and
drilled, the head forming a nut being tapped to receive the screwed ends of the
spoke wires, necessitating much labour and the article produced being com-
paratively heavy and expensive.
According to our invention we manufacture the protecting devices separate from
the tapped nut or head by stamping or otherwise forming them out of thin drawn
metal tubing or suitable sheet metal such as steel or brass whereby we obtain a
protector more efficient than those hitherto in use and very light and at the same
time one with a certain amount of spring or flexibility.
In the accompanying drawing figure 1 represents an elevation of part of the rim
or felloe of a velocipede wheel provided with protectors for the spoke wires thereof
manufactured according to this invention from sheet metal; figure 2 is a cross
section of the same; figure 3 represents an elevation and plan of our improved
protector and figure 4, similar views of the nut used with the protector. Similar
letters in all the figures refer to similar parts.
a, a, represent our improved spoke protectors formed in any suitable manner
from sheet metal; b, b, are the nuts which are made separate therefrom and which
are applied to the ends of the spokes for tightening up the same; the lower ends
of the nuts b, are made conical as shewn so as to fit in the eup-shaped ends of the
protectors and whereby the latter are retained in position; c, c, are washers of
suitable material between the said cup-shaped ends and the metal of the rim or
felloe d.
Although in the drawing we have shewn our protectors as made from sheet
metal it will be obvious that they may be made from drawn tubing in which case
they would not be split as shewn in figure 3.

page_text: 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
The manufacture and use of the improved protectors for the spoke wires of
velocipedes and the like substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in
the accompanying drawing.