Year: 1886

page_text: I, WALDO ALLEN LOUD of Springfield County of Hampden, State of Massa-
chusetts United States of America, 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 improvements in traction wheels for vehicles, the object
being to provide a wheel of this class of improved simplified construction, and the
invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of
the wheel, as hereinafter fully described and set forth in the claims.
In the drawing forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a perspective view,
Figure 2, an end elevation, and Figure 3, a side elevation of a traction wheel,
constructed according to this invention.
The improved traction wheel herein shown and described may consist of a single
wheel 2, or of several of said wheels secured on a shaft side by side, as shown in
Figure 1, according to the service which the wheel is to perform, that is to say
whether the wheel is to be connected with the mechanism of a heavy machine, such
as a harvester or similar device for operating the mechanism thereof, or whether
the wheel is to be connected with a lighter machine for operating the same, such
as a lawn mower, and if employed to operate a machine of the latter class in many
instances the single wheel, hereinafter described, possesses sufficient traction-power
for the operation thereof.
In the drawing, 21, is the hub of the wheel from which several arms radiate and
connect with a rim, 22, and the latter is provided with a series of bars, 23, projecting
from one or both sides of the latter at right angles to the side of the wheel, as
shown. The above described wheel is made, preferably by casting it entire with
all of its said parts in one piece, of iron or other suitable metal, and it is made,
preferably with its rim 22 united to the hub, 21 by connecting arms, as shown, but
it may be made if desired, with a continuous web between the hub and rim. Also
said wheel may be constructed by casting a suitable wheel, and securing the
bars 23 in the rim or felloe thereof in a transverse position relative to the latter
shown in the drawing, but the preferable construction is to cast said bars integral
with the rim of the wheel, and upon both sides of the latter.
In constructing a wheel for use on a heavy machine, as above described, several
of the traction wheels, 2 are secured on a suitable shaft, 24, by set screws or other

page_text: suitable means to construct a wheel of greater or less length, substantially such as
is shown in Figure 1. In said Figure, the wheels 2 are arranged in such relative
positions on shaft 24 as brings the ends of the bars, 23 between the ends of the
bars on the adjoining wheel, but such relative arrangement may be varied so as to
bring the ends of said bars opposite each other if desired.
The traction wheel constructed as herein described, and shown, when rolling
over the ground presents a contact surface which is peculiarly adapted to engage
with the latter, consisting as it does of the comparatively narrow rim 22, of the
wheel, and the transverse cross-bars, 23.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is;
1. A traction-wheel consisting of a rim and a hub united one to the other
substantially as described and a series of bars, projecting from said rim at right
angles, to the side of the wheel substantially as set forth.
2. A traction wheel consisting of a rim and a hub, united one to the other
substantially as described, and a series of bars projecting from the opposite sides
thereof at right angles to the sides of the wheel, substantially as set forth.
3. A traction wheel consisting of several separate wheels, secured on a shaft side
by side each of which separate wheels consists of a rim aud a hub united one to
the other, substantially as described, and a series of bars projecting from one or
both sides of the latter at right angles to the side of the wheel, substantially as set
forth.
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