Improvements in the Hubs of Wheels for Motor Carriages, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1898
Comalada Cunniffention Loft 45th Cont 4007 Accented 20th Nov 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Hubs of Wheels for Motor Carriages,
Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
(a communication to me from the Société Lyonnaise des Vélocipédes et Automo-
biles Rochet-Schneider of 202 Rue Paul Bert, Lyons, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturers of velocipedes and motor carriages) to be as follows:-
The invention is applicable to tangent spoke wheels, that is to say to wheels in
which the spokes, which are generally of steel wire are directed tangentially to
the hub.
These spokes are at present bent at their ends attached to the hub, and hooked
into holes formed in the hub flanges. This defective arrangement does not enable
the ready replacing of an injured or defective spoke and often results in breakage
of the bent part; it is above ali incapable of use in wheels employed for motor
carriages the strength of which should be well secured.
The mode of mounting which the communicators have devised for these spokes,
ensures on the contrary a perfect solidity, at the same time facilitating adjustment
and repairs.
The accompanying drawing represents this arrangement. Fig. 1 is an end view
of the hub and Fig. 2 is a side view thereof and Fig. 3 is a section of part of the
rim showing a spoke fixed therein.
The flanges B B which on each end of the hub A receive the spokes, can be
forged or cast in one piece with the hub A; in either case they are provided on
their circumference and on both faces with blocks or projections C˚C made in
one with the flanges.
These blocks or projections of like number to that of the spokes to which they
serve as means of attachment, can be cast or forged in one with the flanges, or
formed from the mass of metal by a circular milling tool or other suitable apparatus.
Their axes will be, either parallel with the axis of the hub or inclined thereto as
shown at Fig. 2. Each of them has formed therein a hole directed in line with
the axis of the spoke which it is to receive, and this spoke is held therein either
by a conical enlargement at its end, the hole being in such case also conical as
represented at F Fig. 1; or by a head of any suitable form, the hole being
cylindrical with or without countersink.
The opposite end of the spoke may be fixed to the rim in any suitable manner,
for example by a nut D, Fig. 1 the head of which is held in the interior of the
rim E, whilst the body thereof passes through the rim so as to enable it to be
screwed up or unscrewed to tighten or loosen the spoke.
This arrangement facilitates the removal and replacement of the spokes, it has

page_text: above all the advantage of great strength, due to the rectilinear tension of the
spokes and to their insertion in the blocks or projections C.
Dated December 23rd 1896.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in the Hubs of Wheels for Motor Carriages,
Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
(a communication to me from the Société Lyonnaise des Vélocipédes et Automo-
biles Rochet-Schneider of 202 Rue Paul Bert, Lyons, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturers of Velocipedes and Motor Carriages) and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The invention is applicable to tangent spoke wheels, that is to say to wheels in
which the spokes, which are generally of steel wire are directed tangentially to
the hub.
These spokes are at present bent at their ends attached to the hub, and hooked
into holes formed in the hub flanges. This defective arrangement does not. enable
the ready replacing of an injured or defective spoke and often results in breakage
of the bent part; it is above all incapable of use in wheels employed for motor
carriages the strength of which should be well secured.
The mode of mounting which the communicators have devised for these spokes,
ensures on the contrary a perfect solidity, at the same time facilitating adjustment
and repairs.
The drawing accompanying my provisional specification represents this arrange-
ment. Fig. 1 is an end view of the hub and Fig. 2 is a side view thereof and
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of part of the rim.
The flanges B B which on each end of the hub A receive the spokes, can he
forged or cast in one piece with the hub A; in either case they are provided on
their circumference and on both faces with blocks or projections CC made in
one with the flanges.
These blocks or projections of like number to that of the spokes to which they
serve as means of attachment, can be cast or forged in one with the flanges; or
formed from the mass of metal by a circular milling tool or other suitable apparatus.
Their axes will be, either parallel with the axis of the hub or inclined thereto as
shown at Fig. 2. Each of them has formed therein a hole directed in line with
the axis of the spoke which it is to receive, and this spoke is held therein either
by a conical enlargement at its end, the hole being in such case also conical as
represented at F Fig. 1; or by a head of any suitable form, the hole being
cylindrical with or without countersink.
The opposite end of the spoke may be fixed to the rim in any suitable manner,
for example by a nut D, Fig. 3 the head of which is held in the interior of the
rim E, whilst the body thereof passes through the rim so as to enable it to be
screwed up or unscrewed to tighten or loosen the spoke.
This arrangement facilitates the removal and replacement of the spokes, it has
above all the advantage of great strength, due to the rectilinear tension of the
spokes and to their insertion in the blocks or projections C.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A new hub for tangent spoke wheels, applicable to motor carriages, velocipedes
and other vehicles, in which the flanges serving as means of attachment for the
spokes, are forged, cast or worked in a single piece with blocks or projections
of suitable form provided with holes in line with the spokes, which latter are
there held by a head or enlargement without being bent, substantially as herein
set forth.
2. The improvements in the hubs of tangent spoke wheels substantially as
herein shown and described.
Dated September 15th 1897
HARRIS & MILLIS,
23 Southampton Buildings London, W.C., Agents.