Iм- PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR ENGINES, CARRIAGES, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Skewis, of 2, Norfolk Place, Northbrook
Street, Dudley Road, Birmingham, and Richard Henry Ryland, of
No. 46, Monument Lane, Birmingham, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR ENGINES, CARRIAGES,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Skewis and
Richard Henry Ryland at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th March 1875.
We, SAMUEL SKEWIS, of No. 2, Norfolk Place, Northbrook Street,
Dudley Road, Birmingham, and RICHARD HENRY RYLAND, of No. 46,
Monument Lane, Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR ENGINES,
CARRIAGES, WAGONS, OR OTHER VEHICLES USED ON RAILWAYS," to be as
follows:-

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for engines, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles used on railways, the
object being to prevent a tyre or any part of it getting away from the
wheel centre in the event of the tyre breaking or becoming loose from
any cause while the vehicle to which our wheel may be affixed is
travelling. It also prevents a separation of parts should a tyre split
while running.
Our Invention consists in forming by rolling or otherwise a flange or
web of ring shape or a series of flange projections on the inner periphery
of the tyre and from the outside face thereof, which ring, flange, or
segmental flanges or projections bear against the outer face of the rim
of the wheel, and to which one is held in close contact with the other by
a bolt which passes through them.
We employ a ring plate or plates which in one form has a right
angled lip projecting from the outer edge, and this fits into a corre-
sponding ring groove in the outer face of the tyre within which the lip
is held, and also the plate against the inner face of the rim by the bolt
before referred to, the nuts on which press against the plato or plates.
According to another form we recess the inner periphery of the tyre
and fit a ring plate partly into the recess, that part of the ring having a
coned or angled face against which after the bolt is in place a bezel lip
of the tyre can be rolled or hammered as desired. An additional bolt
can be arranged through the rim and tyre between the spokes, in which
case the first-named bolt can be dispensed with if necessary. In both
forms the tyre has the outside face and inward formed flauge or flanges.
to bear against the outside face of the rim.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Skewis and Richard Henry Ryland in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th September 1875.

page_text: mingham, and RICHARD HENRY RYLAND, of 46, Monument Lane,
Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Skewis and Richard
Henry Ryland, Her special licence that we, the said Samuel Skewis
and Richard Henry Ryland, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Samuel Skewis and Richard Henry
Ryland, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR ENGINES, CARRIAGES,
WAGONS, OR OTHER VEHICLES USED ON RAILWAYS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Skewis and Richard Henry
Ryland, or one of us, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters

page_text: travelling. It also prevents a separation of parts should a tyre split
while running.
Our Invention consists in forming by rolling or otherwise a deep
flange or web A of ring shape, as in Figure 1, or a series of deep flange
projections on. the inner periphery of the tire B and from the outside
face thereof, which ring, flange, or segmental flanges or projections A
bear against the outer face C of the rim D of the wheel, and to which
one is held in close contact with the other by bolts or rivets.
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We employ a ring plate E or plates, which in one form has a right
angled lip F projecting from the outer edge, and this fits into a corrc- ]
sponding ring groove G in the face of the tyre within which the lip is
held, and also the plate E against the inner face H of the rim by
bolts I, I, the nuts J, J, on which press against the plate E or plates.
According to another form we recess the inner periphery of the tyre,
as in Figure 2, and fit a ring plate E partly into the recess, that part of 1
the ring having a coned or angled face K, against which after the bolts
or rivets are in place a bezel lip L of the tyre can be rolled or hammered
as desired. The bolts or rivets may be arranged through the "glut"
portion, as in Figure 3, or additional bolts or rivets N can be arranged
through the rim D, and the flanges between the spokes M, as in 2
Figure 4, in which case the first-named bolts or rivets can be dispensed
with if necessary.
In both forms the tyre has the outside face and
inward deep formed flange or flanges to bear against the outside face of
the rim.

page_text: inner periphery, web, or flange on outer side thereof, as shown at A,
Figures 1 and 2.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Skewis and Richard
Henry Ryland, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-fourth day of September, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
SAMUEL SKEWIS.
(L.S.)
RICHARD HENRY RYLAND. (L.S.)