Improvements in Axles for Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Axles for Wheeled Vehicles.
We GEORGE LAMB SCOTT of 18 Nelson Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, CHARLES HENRY NEVILL of Bramhall Hall, Cheshire,
Calico Printer, and SAMUEL JONES REDFERN of The Meadows, Urmston, near
Manchester, aforesaid, Print Buyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to the axles of wheeled vehicles and has for its
principal object to obviate or lessen the jar and vibration which takes place in
ordinary metal axles, as is well known.
According to our invention we interrupt the continuity of the axle and interpose
material calculated to absorb and minimise the jar or vibration in such a manner
that the said jar or vibration is not communicated or is communicated in a much
less degree to the body of the vehicle. This effect we obtain by cutting or
stopping the axle short off, on the inner side of each collar leaving sufficient of
the axle to afford a secure connection. We then take two plates of sufficient
thickness and of equal depth with the axle bar and connect the two isolated axle
ends by means of these plates, bolting, rivetting or otherwise suitably securing
the plates to the axle in such a manner as to compose an axle of the requisite
strength.
At the joints between the said plates and the axle ends we interpose packings of
rubber, wood, asbestos or other suitable material which will absorb jars and
vibration. The parts are where necessary, secured together by bolts or other
fastenings and the said bolts or fastenings might if desired be sheathed with rubber
or otherwise applied so as to obviate the actual contact of two metal faces or parts
at any points in the axle likely to transmit vibration.
The two metal plates might be simply two straight flat plates or they might be
made of a channel or girder section or deeper in the middle than at the sides or in
any other manner calculated to secure the proper strength and stiffness. In
conjunction with such an axle we might if we thought fit use rubber packed axle
blocks.
The journal or bearing portion of the axle might be bored in the direction of its
axis for a certain distance so as to form a central chamber the outer end of which
would be closed by a screwed stopper. One or more holes or conduits is or are
bored in the journal to penetrate to this central chamber. The chamber is filled
with solid lubricant which melts as the bearing becomes heated and flows through
the communicating hole or holes to the bearing.
Thus the bearing is always kept sufficiently lubricated.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Axies lor wheeled venicies.
We GEORGE LAMB SCOTT of 18 Nelson Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, CHARLES HENRY NEVILL of Bramall Hall, Cheshire,
Calico Printer, and SAMUEL JONES REDFERN of The Meadows, Urmston, near
Manchester, aforesaid, Print Buyer, 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 and accompanying drawings:
Our said invention relates to the axles of wheeled vehicles and has for its
principal object to obviate or lessen the jar and vibration which takes place in
ordinary metal axles as is well known.
According to our invention we interrupt the continuity of the axle and interpose
material calculated to absorb and minimise the jar or vibration in such a manner
that the said jar or vibration is not communicated or is communicated in a much
less degree to the body of the vehicle.
To render our invention more fully understood we will here refer to the annexed
sheet of drawings the figs. of which clearly illustrate our invention.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of our improved axle.
Fig. 2 is a side view.
Fig. 3 is a section at the line A, B Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a section of the self lubricating journal.
As clearly shown in the drawing we cut or stop the axle a short off, on the inner
side of each collar a¹ leaving sufficient of the axle to afford a secure connection.
We then take two plates 6 of sufficient thickness and of equal depth with the axle
bar a and connect the two isolated axle ends a, a by means of these plates b,
bolting, rivetting or otherwise suitably securing the plates to the axle, for example
by the bolts c, in such a manner as to compose an axle of the requisite strength.
In the space between the said plates and between the axle ends we interpose
packings d of wood, or other suitable material or composition which will absorb
shocks and prevent jars and vibration.
The joints between the plates b and the axle ends a might also have interposed
rubber or other packing so as to lessen the possibility of transmitting vibration.
The bolts c or fastenings might if desired be sheathed with rubber or otherwise
applied so as to obviate the actual contact of two metal faces or parts at any points
in the axle likely to transmit vibration.
The two metal plates 6 might be simply two straight flat plates as shown in
Fig. 2 or they might be made of a channel or girder section, or deeper in the
middle than at the ends or in any other manner calculated to secure the proper
strength and stiffness.
In conjunction with such an axle we might if we thought fit use rubber packed
axle blocks which would be connected to the spring or pedestal brackets or
clamps e.
The journal or bearing portion a² of the axle might be bored in the direction of
its axis for a certain distance as clearly shown in Fig. 4 so as to form a central
chamber, the outer end of which would be closed by a screwed stopper f.
One or more holes or conduits g is or are bored in the journal to penetrate to
this central chamber.
The chamber is filled with solid lubricant which melts as the bearing becomes
heated and flows through the communicating hole or holes g to the bearing.
Thus the bearing is always kept sufficiently lubricated.

page_text: 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.
1. The general arrangement and combination of parts comprising the improved
axle substantially as described and shown.
2. An axle for wheeled vehicles in which the continuity of the axle bar proper,
is interrupted and the stopped-off ends connected by plates or connecting parts,
the intervening space being filled up by a suitable vibration absorbing material,
substantially as described and as illustrated in the drawings.
Dad thin 92nd dor of July 1894
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.