AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING THE SPOKES AND FELLOES OF WHEELS FOR COMMON ROADS
Year: 1885

page_text: Wheels for Common Roads.
I JOHN POWELL of Fair Street St Columb in the County of Cornwall, Carriage
Builder do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF CONNECTING THE SPOKES AND FELLOES OF WHEELS FOR COMMON
ROADS" to be as follows:-
I use metal sockets of the same shape and size as the spokes, into which the tops
of the spokes are driven, from the tops of the said sockets there extend flaps on
either side parallel with the periphery of the wheel, the felloes being fastened to
the said flaps by means of bolts, screws rivets, or any other method I may think
fit to use.
What I claim is the invention of the socket, by the means of which wheels may
be made without tongues to the tops of the spokes, or holes in the felloes for the
said tongues, thereby greatly strengthening both the spokes and the felloes at the
place where the said spokes and felloes are connected.
W. POWELL,
Pro John Powell.
W OF COmmon Roads.
I JOHN POWELL of Fair Street St Columb in the County of Cornwall, Carriage
Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF CONNECTING THE SPOKES AND FELLOES OF WHEELS FOR COMMON ROADS and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists in the making using & fixing of a Socket enclosing the
end of the Spoke nearest to the Felloe and fitting closely on the same, the end of
the Spoke resting on the bottom of the Socket, On each side of the Socket, which

page_text: is of shape & size suitable to the Spoke is an arm or tab having a boss on the outer
or upper side and a hole through the same, through which hole or holes Nails or
Screws are inserted and fixed into the felloe of the wheel and on the under side
thereof. Each Socket when fixed lies parallel with the Felloe The forenamed
Sockets I make of iron or other suitable materials and of such size and shape as
best adapted to the particular wheels for which they are intended.
In arranging the Spokes of a wheel to the Felloes, by preference I bring
(though not necessarily so) one of the above named Sockets to bear centrally on
rach joint between Felloe and Felloe, so that the Nail or Screw of one arm of each
such Socket is fixed into one Felloe and that of the other arm into the adjoining
Felloe, thus giving greater stability to the ring of the wheel.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate my Invention Fig. 1 shews the method
of arranging and fixing the Sockets to the Felloes of a wheel carrying the Spokes
as fixed. Fig. 2, shews a plan of the Sockets with the Arms or Tabs.
In Fig. 1. (a. a) shews a portion of one Felloe (b. b) a portion of a second one
adjoining (g. g.) being the joint and (h.) the Dowel. (c. c) shows a longitudinal
section of the Sockets with the arms, carrying the ends of the Spokes at (d. d.)
The Screws or Nails for fixing the Sockets to the Felloes, are shewn and lettered
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, the invention of the Socket, by the use of which the following
advantages are gained.
1. Wheels may be made without tangs at the upper ends of the Spokes and
without holes in the Felloes for the said tangs, Each joint in the Felloes can be
supported by a spoke, Each Felloe has three supports instead of two without
increasing the number of spokes in the wheel.
2. Wheels may be made much lighter and with increased stability by the use of
my Invention than they can be by the ordinary method.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1885.
WILLIAM J. POWELL,
For John Powell.