Improvements in or relating to Hubs for Cycle, Motor Car, and other Vehicle Wheels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
Improvements in or relating to Hubs for Cycle, Motor Car, and
other Vehicle Wheels.
I, JOSEPH ROBINSON ARKLE, of Meldon Park Farm, Morpeth, in the County of
Northumberland, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in hubs for cycle, motor car, and other
vehicle wheels.
The improvements comprise the providing in one piece with the hub or firmly
fixed to it of a rim for holding a solid or hollow india rubber ring or rings or
pneumatic tube or tubes, and a separate rim in one or more pieces embracing the
outer part of the india rubber ring or tube. to which rim the spokes of the wheel
are attached to lugs on said rim, this attachment being on the opposite side of the
centre of the wheel to that of the attachment of the respective spoke to the wheel rim.
Instead of having lugs for attaching the spokes, the rim may be made wider to
take the spokes, and spaces, notches, or holes cut away or made to allow the inter-
secting spokes to pass. The width of the hub inner rim permits the spokes to pass
it, but in some cases I make it wider and provide sawcuts or notches in which the
spokes lie, or holes to pass the spokes through, and thus lock the hub to the hub
outer rim, and therefore to the wheel rim so far as relates to circumferential motion.
Doted this 1st day of June 1897
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.
Improvements in or relating to Hubs for Cycle, Motor Car, and
other Vehicle Wheels.
I, JOSEPH ROBINSON ARKLE, of Meldon Park Farm, Morpeth, in the County of
Northumberland, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
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The improvements comprise the providing in one piece with the hub or firmly
fixed to it of a rim for holding a solid or hollow india rubber ring or rings or
pneumatic tube or tubes and a separate rim in one or more pieces embracing the
outer part of the india rubber ring or tube, to which rim the spokes of the wheel
are attached by means of lugs on said rim, these attachments
attachments of some of the spokes being on the opposite side of the
centre of the wheel to that of the attachment of the respective spoke to the wheel rim.
Instead of having lugs for attaching the spokes, the rim may be made wider to
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page_text: take the spokes, and spaces, notches, or holes cut away or made to allow the inter-
secting spokes to pass. The width of the hub inner rim permits the spokes to pass
it, but in some cases I make it wider and provide sawcuts or notches in which the
spokes lie or holes to pass the spokes through and thus lock the hub to the hub
outer rim and therefore to the wheel rim so far as relates to circumferential motion.
This invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing; in which Figs. 1, 2
and 3 are side elevations of the improved hub showing also parts of the spokes
which are arranged in these figures in three different ways. Fig. 4 is sectional
view in a plane containing the the axis of the wheel. To or with the hub H is
attached or made integral the part that I have termed the inner hub rim A which
is of any suitable shape to receive and afford bearing for the ring B which is here
shown as a pneumatic annular cushion. The part termed the outer hub rim C
is annular and made with the middle part to lie upon or outside of the ring B
and with its edges in the form of flanges or lugs C₁ to receive the spokes S. In
Fig. 1 each spoke S passes through a hole in the one part of flange C¹ and has
attachment or bearing for its butted head in or on that part of the flange which lies
more remote from its point of attachment to the wheel rim. In Figs. 2 and 3
some only of the spokes S are so attached while the remainder have attachment or
bearing on the nearer part of the flange.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The improvements relating to hubs for cycle, motor car and other vehicle
wheels, wherein the hub proper carries an inner hub rim serving as bearing and
holder for a pneumatic or other ring or cushion or cushions, the latter being sur-
rounded by an outer hub rim in one or more parts having a flange or lugs for
passage attachments or bearing of the spokes which or some of which have bearing
or attachment on or in the part of said outer hub rim remote from their respective
points of attachment to the wheel rim substantially as herein described.
Dated this 25th day of February 1898.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.