An Improved Method of and Means for Securing the Spokes to the Hubs of Bicycle and other Wheels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Securing the Spokes to the
Hubs of Bicycle and other Wheels.
We WALTER RADERMACHER and RICHARD BEESLEY both of the Man-
chester Cycle Manufacturing Company Limited of New Bridge Street, Strange-
ways Manchester do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a means of more perfectly securing the
ends of the spokes to the hub and especially to that class of hub constructed of
steel all in one piece and which being hardened in the ball bearing races has
hitherto had a tendency to cut the screw threaded ends of the spokes when screwed
direct into the usual and more or less hardened flanges. And consists in forming
the hub with recessed flanges and drilling the periphery of such flange to receive
suitable screw sockets or nipples which can be placed in position in each of the
drilled holes from the inner side of the flanges.
These nipples form screw nuts for effectually securing each spoke in position in
the hub and are prevented turning by one side of the head of each nipple being
squared to abut against the inner web of the flange.
Dated this 29th day of July 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Securing the Spokes to the
Hubs of Bicycle and other Wheels.
We, WALTER RADERMACHER and RICHARD BEESLEY both of the Man-
chester Cycle Manufacturing Coy. Limited, Clayton Lane, Clayton, Manchester
in the County of Lancaster, 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 invention relates to wheels for velocipedes and other vehicles and is
designed to provide an improved method of securing the spokes in the hubs of
the said wheels.
It has been found in practice, more especially in wheels having elongated flanged
steel hubs formed in one piece and hardened in the ball-bearing races, that there is
a tendency to the screw-threaded ends of the spokes when screwed directly into
the said flanges being cut or damaged, and the screw-threads being stripped
therefrom.
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The object of our said invention is to obviate the above objections and to
provide an improved method of firmly securing the screw-threaded extremities
of the spokes in the hub or hubs of the wheel without screwing them directly into
the said hub or hubs or into the flange or flanges thereon as heretofore.
A wheel constructed according to our said invention is moreover more rigid and
stronger than when made in the usual manner, and admits of the said spokes being
more readily removed and replaced by fresh ones in the event of breakage or
injury thereto.
In applying our said invention to an elongated flanged steel hub hardened in
the ball bearing races we form suitable recesses in the said flanges and suitable
radial holes in the peripheries thereof, into which holes are inserted sleeve nipples
sockets or nuts having internally screw threaded holes adapted to receive the

page_text: screw-threaded extremities of the said spokes. These sleeve nipples sockets or
nuts are placed in position in the said holes in the flanges from the above mentioned
recesses, and are provided. with square or other suitably shaped heads or collars
to retain them in position in the said flanges, and to prevent their turning therein.
The above mentioned recesses are preferably formed on the inside of the said
flanges.
In the accompanying drawing we have shown how our said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a wheel constructed according to our said
.invention.
Figure 2 is a front elevation partly in vertical section and
Figure 3 a vertical transverse section the rim of the wheel, and a portion of the
spokes thereof being removed and both drawn to an enlarged scale showing details
of construction.
Figure 4 is a side elevation and
Figure 5 a plan both drawn to the same scale as Figures 2 and 3 showing our
improved sleeve nipple socket or mut for securing the spokes in the hub or hubs of
the wheel.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing.
A is the rim of the wheel, B B are the spokes, and C is the hub thereof which
,latter is provided with flanges C'.
In each of the flanges C' we form a circular groove or recess C and radial
holes C communicating with the latter. DD are sleeve nipples sockets or nuts
having internally screw-threaded holes D' and heads or collars D2. The sleeve
nipples sockets or nuts D are arranged to fit easily in the holes C³ as shown more
clearly in Figures 2 and 3, and when the spokes B are placed in position and
tightened as shown in Figure 1 the said sleeve nipples sockets or nuts D are held
firmly in position and are prevented from turning by the heads or collars D2 bearing
against the bottoms and sides of the grooves or recesses C².
One of the sides of the square head or collar D² on each of the sockets or nuts D
is cut away (as shown in Figures 4 and 5) to admit of the insertion of the said
sleeve nipple socket or nut in one of the holes C³ and so as to bear against the
bottom of the groove or recess C². We sometimes moreover arrange each of the
sides of the head or collar D at a varying distance from the axis of the latter
thereby enabling either of the four faces to be turned inwards, or so as to bear
against the bottom of the recess C in the flange C, in accordance with the
depth of the said groove or recess C³, and the position of the holes C³ relatively
thereto.
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In some instances we form the said heads or collars D2 circular or of other
suitable shape and provide flats thereon adapted to bear against the bottom of the
recess C in the hereinbefore mentioned flanges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
First. The herein described improved method of securing the spokes to the hub
or hubs of a velocipede or other wheel.
Second. The combination with the hub of a wheel, of separate sleeve nipples,
sockets or nuts held in the said hub and adapted to receive the spokes, substantially
as, and for the purposes, above specified.
Third. A wheel for a velocipede or other vehicle, constructed with our improved
devices for connecting the spokes to, the hub, substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawing.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
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45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.