Improvements in or in connection with Velocipede and other Bearings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1892'
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Velocipede and other
Bearings.
I, DAVID PEACH of No. 1 Blowers Green Road, Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Manager of Cycle Works, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to velocipede bracket, wheel centre, and other vehicular
bearings, and the accessory parts of them, to wit, the ball bearings, spindles and
the caps or adjustable cone parts of them, and my said invention has for its object,
the prohibition or exclusion of dust or dirt, from the bearings or anti-friction parts,
employed in connection with the said bearings.
Thus, my said invention consists primarily, in making the ends of the bearings
dust proof in manner following:-
For an outside dust proof end, I take an ordinary bracket, wheel centre, or other
vehicular bearing, and I provide the head ends of the same with the usual bearing
shrouds or ball races, sunken within the ends of the said heads, and with a clearance
spindle hole made axially through the waist of the bearing, and end sinkings
within its ends, within which latter, the balls of the bearings roll, as races.
The spindle carries upon one end, a tight cone, or, as hereinafter described, a
combined cup and cone.
The other and outer end of the spindle is left hand wormed, upon which screws a
cap or closure, in the form of a combined cup and cone.
The coned part forms the adjustable bearing for the balls or anti-friction
spheres, whilst the outer walls of the cup form projecting rims or hooding flanges,
which take circumferentially upon the outside parts of the heads.
Thus the combined cone and cup, consists of a cap or nut, having an inner coned
and concaved facing, with a deep annular ridge sinking at the outward termination
of it, and which sinking is terminated outwardly, by an inwardly directed or pro-
jecting flange, ring or wall, which comes upon, and fits within, an annular rabate,
formed out of the outside circumferential edge of the head.
The inner walls of the sinking within the head, are also slightly rabated or
reduced in diameter, hence the formation of an inside annular groove at the starting
of the shroud, or before the commencement of the bearing race.
The screwing up of the cap from left to right, makes the cone approach the
curved inside part of the race, with the anti-friction balls or spheres between, and
with the annular circumferential flange or ring of the cap, closing over the top side
edge of that end of the head or termination of the bracket, wheel centre or other
vehicular bearings, hence the prohibition or exclusion of dust or dirt from the
anti-friction parts, consequent upon the overlapping of the parts, and the inward
location of the shaped outer part of the head, taking the annular ridge sinking.
The tight combined cone and cup on the non-adjusting end of the spindle, is
exactly alike in construction to the adjustable cone or cap as described, and further,
the head end of the bracket, wheel centre, or other vehicular bearing, is alike in
construction to that of the other end as set forth.
In addition to the ends of the bracket, wheel centre or other vehicular bearing,
being dust proof, the bearing balls are easily introduced, and adjustment simply
effected.
In carrying out another form of my invention, the exclusion or prohibition of dust
is accomplished, by means directed on the inside of the mouth entrances of the
beads or bearings, instead of on the outsides. With the bracket, wheel centre or

page_text: other vehicular bearing parts inside of the waist and heads of the parts having ball
races as usual, I make the entrances or mouths to the bearing races in the said
heads, contracted, in manner that the entrances, have an annular screen or flange,
directed from the inside walls of the shrouded parts, and which flange or inwardly
contracted ring part, comes upon a circumferential plane part of an adjustable cone
or nut.
The spindle which passes through the bracket, wheel centre, or other vehicular
bearing, has a left hand worm at the adjustable cone end, whilst the other end of
the spindle carries a tight 'cone, alike in construction to that of the adjustable one,
and which plane part of the cone, is embraced by 'an inwardly directed flange or
ring, at the entrance of the ball race of the head at the other end of the bearing,
so that by screwing up the adjustable cone, the balls are brought up to their
bearings, and the said bearings made dust proof, by the depending entrances of the
bearings coming upon the circumferential plane parts or ridges of the adjustable
and tight cone.
Dated this 15th dow of Wah 1900
DAVID PEACH,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in 'connection with Velocipede 'and other
Bearings.
I, DAVID PEACH 65 Wellington Road formerly of 1 Blowers Green Road
Dudley Worcester Manager of Cycle Works 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 bracket, wheel centre, & other vehicular bearings & the
accessory parts of them, to wit, the ball bearings, spindles and the caps or adjustable
cone parts of them, & my said invention has for its object, the prohibition.or
exclusion of dirt or dust, from the bearings or anti-friction parts employed in con-
nection the said bearings. Thus, my said invention consists primarily, in making the
ends of the bearings dust proof in manner following.
Referring to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of velocipede bearing fitted with my dust
proof cap.
Figure 2 is a sectional side elevation of a modified arrangement..
d is the spindle with screw thread g upon which the cap a having groove b is
screwed.
This groove b in the cap a fits over a projection c on the hube thus enclosing
the balls between the ball bearing on the hub e & cap a.
Referring to Figure 2. In this case the bearing, surface is formed in a
separate piece from the hub e. A ring h_engages with recesses. 6 & 6¹upon the
cap a & hub e. Locknuts are employed to retain the caps a in position. It
will be understood that the other end of the spindle carries a similar bearing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said "inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be "performed I déclare that what I
claim is.
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(1) In bearings of the class herein described. The combination of the parts
substantially as described.
(2) In bearings of the class herein described; the cap a having an annular
groove 6 which fits into a corresponding projection
body, substantially as described.
'formed upon the hub or

page_text: (3) In bearings of the class herein described in combination the cap a with an
annular groove b, the hub e, having an annular groove 6' in which a ring his
fitted, the bearing surface i being formed by a removable cup which is fitted into
the hub and upon which the balls bear, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1892.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.