Improvements in Non-vibrating Wheels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Non-vibrating Wheels.
I ARTHUR CASTELLINNO HAYNES, of 3, Church Terrace, Queens Road, South
Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This Invention relates principally to wheels of Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and
such like, but is also applicable to the wheels of any kind of vehicles.
In the Urim of a cycle I fix firmly a short tube to take or receive each spoke
required for the proper building up of the wheel, this Hollow Tube I make to project
about 2 inches beyond the riu on the inside, this hollow tube is secured to the rim
under the Rubber Tyre, and is about of an inch across outside diameter. The
spoke is passed through this tube and secured to the Hub in the ordinary manner,
the rim being pierced to receive the aforementioned hollow tube-Inside this hollow
tube is placed a spiral spring in compression which together with spoke about com-
fortably fills in the Hollow Tube. This spoke has the ordinary butt head which is
secured to a metal plate in top of tube, below which I fix a good stout leather washer
against which the spiral spring bears on the lip inside. The end of the nearest the
Hub is closed except a hole in centre allowing spoke to pass through and move up
and down easily-A leather washer is again provided at this end of the tube for the
spiral spring to bear against-Rubber or caoutchouc may be used instead of this spiral
spring before referred to.
By these means a spring movement is obtained to the centre or Hub of the wheel,
and the hollow tube before referred to prevents the wheel from being strained from
side to side.
As my improvements are capable of various modifications without departing from
the principle thereof, I do not restrict myself to materials, dimensions, or to the precise
form or placement of the several parts thereof.
Dated this 1st day of February 1889.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
43, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Non-vibrating Wheels.
I, ARTHUR CASTELLINNO HAYNES, of 3 Church Terrace Queens Road South
Lambeth, in the county of Surrey "Engineer," 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 principally to wheels used in Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes
and the like but is also applicable to the wheels of any other vehicles.
In the case of Bicycles and the like I propose to use a U rim in connection with
my invention. I bore holes in this rim equal to the number of spokes in the wheel.
These holes are sufficiently large to receive and take a short steel tube the head of
which is turned over to prevent it entirely passing through the said rim. The other
end is partially drawn together so as to just allow the easy passage through it of the
spoke of the wheel.
In each tube is placed a short spiral spring, bearing upon the bottom end of the
tube and between this end of the tube and the end of the spiral spring, I place a
leather washer or a washer of some similar material to act as a buffer between the
bottom of the spring and the end of the tube for preference I make this washer in
three thicknesses.

page_text: The spiral spring aforementioned is so formed as to fit easily within the tube und
also to allow of a spoke passing through it. I use an ordinary spoke having a head
at one end and a screw formed upon the other and this head bears upon the spiral
spring in the tube.
This tube is of just sufficient diameter to take the spiral spring and the spoke and
to allow the spring to move easily.
In the case of a large wheel of about 50 inches in diameter or thereabouts 1 propose
to use a tube about 21 (two and a half) inches long, and for a 30 inch wheel my tube
will be about 2 inches.
For preference I construct my tube in "seamless cold drawn steel."
I construct my wheel as follows:-
Having bored the holes in the rim I drop in a tube, in this tube I place the washer,
then the spiral spring, and finally the spoke, the head of which bears upon the said
spring. I now screw the spoke into the hub and thus it will be seen that the spring
in the tube becomes gradually compressed and so on with the whole of the spokes until
the wheel is properly trued.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood I will now proceed to
discribe the figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, the said figures being
marked with the like letters of reference throughout.
Figure 1 is a section taken through a Urim showing the rim and tube in section
and the spiral spring and spoke, in elevation, the washer is also shewn here in
section.
Figure 2 shews a portion of the wheel at the rim, shewing the tube and spoke.
Figure 3. is a perspective sketch of the tube.
In Figure 1. the rims A and A¹ form the U rim. B is the steel tube, C the spiral
spring, Ď the spoke and E the washer, the dotted lines marked F shew the usual
rubber tyre.
In Figure 2, F is the rubber tyre A the U rim, B the tube and D the spoke.
In Figure 3 the tube is marked B.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in what
manner the said is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
A tube containing a spiral spring through which passos a spoke all as before set
forth in this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings substantially
for the purpose of forming a non-vibrating wheel for vehicles.
Dated this 25th day of September 1889.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.