Improvements in Elastic Wheels for Carriages, Cycles, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Elastic Wheels for Carriages, Cycles, and the like.
I, ALPHONSO ANTHONY VEREL, of 179, West George Street, in the County of
Glasgow, North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object the constructing of elastic wheels for
carriages, cycles, and the like, in an improved manner.
In carrying out my invention I interpose metal springs or other elastic devices
between the hub or nave of a wheel and an outer rigid ring, felloe, or rim. In
some modifications arrange an intermediate rigid ring with less or greater
annular spaces between it and the outer ring and between it and the centre of the
wheel. I fix the intermediate ring to the outer ring by spokes, and I fix to the
hub spokes which extend through openings in the intermediate ring, such openings
being sufficiently enlarged in directions around the ring to accommodate the
eccentricity of the hub due to its depression by the weight it carries. The hub
spokes whilst free to move through the openings in the intermediate ring have
springs applied in connection with that ring either outside or inside of it, such
springs being either helical springs of metal, or balls or blocks of rubber, or
inflated rubber balls. Or the ends of the hub spokes may be connected by metal
or rubber springs to the outer rigid ring or felloe.
In other modifications I employ two intermediate rigid rings one fixed to the
hub by spokes extending through openings in the other one, and the one fixed to
the external rigid ring or felloe by spokes passing through openings in one of the
intermediate rings and fixed to the other. Springs may be interposed between
the two intermediate rings or otherwise, or these rings may be connected by a
pair of flat rings of rubber; or an inflated rubber tube may be interposed between
them. When the two intermediate rings are thus connected by flat rubber rings
the spokes need not extend across between the two rings, but may be fixed, the hub
In this
spokes in the inner intermediate ring and the others in the outer one.
case provision may be made to prevent lateral displacement between the two
intermediate rings, by flanges or projections engaging with each other laterally
but allowing the necessary slight relative movements in the circular direction.
The spokes and other parts or some of them may be made of wood or of solid or
tubular metal.
1907

page_text: Im rovements in Elastic Wheels for Carriages, Cycles, and the like.
I, ALPHONSO ANTHONY VEREL, of 179, West George Street, in the County of
Glasgow, North Britain, Merchant, 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, that is to say:-
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My said invention has for its object the constructing of elastic wheels for car-
riages, cycles, and the like in an improved manner.
In carrying out my invention I interpose metal springs or other elastic devices.
between the hub or nave of a wheel and an outer rigid ring, felloe, or rim.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood, I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to in describing my improvements.
Figures, 1, 2, and 3, on the accompanying drawings are side elevations of wheels
as made with my improvements. In these drawings the same reference letters and
numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In some modifications of my improvements as shown in Figure 1, I arrange an
intermediate ring, A, so that the annular space between it and the outer ring, B,
shall be smaller than the space between the intermediate ring and the hub, C,
of the wheel, or vice versa I fix the intermediate ring, A, to the outer ring B,
by spokes, A 1, and I fix to the hub, C, spokes, C 1, which extend through open-
ings C2 in the intermediate ring, such openings being sufficiently enlarged in
directions around the ring to accomodate the eccentricity of the hub, C, due to its
depression by the weight it carries. The hub spokes, C1, whilst free to move
through the openings, C2, in the intermediate ring, A, have helical metal
springs D, applied in connection with that ring on its inner side, so that each
spring acts between the ring and a collar, D1, fxed or formed on each hub
spoke, C1, or the springs may be applied on the outside of the ring, A. Instead
of employing helical springs, D, as shown by way of example on four spokes, blocks
or balls of rubber, E, may be employed, or inflated rubber balls. Or the ends of
the hub spokes, C1, may be connected by helical metal springs, F, or rubber
springs, to the outer: rigid ring or felloe, B.
In other modifications shown in Figure, 2, I employ two intermediate rigid
rings G, H, the ring, G, being fixed to the hub, C, by spokes, G 1, extending
through openings, G2, in the ring, H; the ring, H, being fixed to the external
rigid ring or felloe, B, by spokes, H 1, passing through openings, H2, in the
ring, G. Helical metal springs, H3, or other suitable types of springs are inter-
posed between the two intermediate rings G, H, or as in the example of wheel
shown in Figure, 3, these rings may be connected by a pair of flat rubber rings, J,
or an inflated rubber tube may be interposed between them.
The method of connecting the rings, G, and H, by a pair of flat rubber rings, J,
is the same as that fully shown and described in my earlier Specification
No. 24,340 of 1897, for connecting similar rings. When the two intermediate
rings, G, H, are thus connected by flat rubber rings, J, the spokes
need not extend
two rings but
fixed, the
hub spokes, G1, in the inner intermediate ring, H, and the other spokes, H 1, in
the outer ring, G. The spokes and other parts or some of them may be made of
solid or tubular metal or of wood.
across
between
the
are
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In elastic wheels for carriages, cycles, and the like, employing an inter-

page_text: mediate ring fixed to the external rigid ring or felloe by spokes, combined with
hub spokes extending freely through openings in the intermediate ring, springs
being applied in connection with that ring, and acting inside or outside of it
between the ring, and collars on the hub spokes substantially as herein before
described with reference to Figure, 1, of the accompanying drawings.
2. In elastic wheels for carriages, cycles, and the like, employing two inter-
mediate rigid rings the outer intermediate ring being fixed to the hub by spokes
passing freely through openings in the inner one, and the inner intermediate ring
being fixed to the external rigid ring or felloe by spokes passing freely through
openings in the outer one, springs or an inflated rubber tube being interposed
between them, or instead connecting the intermediate rings by a pair of flat rings
of rubber, substantially as herein before described with reference to Figures, 2,
and 3, of the accompanying drawings.