IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexandre André Victor Sarrazin de Mont-
ferrier, of Paris, France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS FOR
VEHICLES ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexandre André
Victor Sarrazin de Montferrier at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th November 1853.
I, ALEXANDRE ANDRÉ VICTOR SARRAZIN DE MONTFERRIER, of Paris,
France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WHEELS FOR VEHICLES ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS" to be as fol-
lows:-
My Invention consists in an improved mode of constructing the
wheels of vehicles for facilitating their progress on common roads and
railroads.
I construct the wheels of two separate parts; one part is fixed to the

page_text: vehicle in the ordinary manner, and moves the second part, which is
a circular rim, and forms the felloes, which move in contact with the
surface over which the carriage is progressing.
The circular rim is represented in Figure 1, of the accompanying
Drawing, and consists of a plate pierced with four circular openings, of
equal dimensions and equidistant from the centre.
The part of the wheel fixed to the vehicle is represented at Figure 2,
and consists of a nave provided with four double spokes. Axes pro-
vided with small rollers unite the spokes, as seen at Figure 3. The
circular rim, Figure 1, is fitted into the spokes in such manner as to
make the collers bear exactly on the edges of the circular openings,
and the nave be left free in the centre space, as seen at Figure 4.
By this means the vehicle is supported and moves on the edges of
the circular openings, which, as also the number of the rollers, may be
varied if required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexandre André Victor Sarrazin de Montferrier
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ALEXANDRE ANDRE VICTOR SARRAZIN DE MONTFERRIER, of Paris,
France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the. Twenty-fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One. thousand eight hundred and, fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexandre André Victor
Sarrazin de Montferrier, Her special license that I, the said Alexandre
André Victor Sarrazin de Montferrier, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexandre André Victor
Sarrazin de Montferrier, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and

page_text: at all-times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES ON
COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I the said Alexandre André Victor Sarrazin de Montferrier; by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Patents
NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said Alexandre André.Victor 'Sarrazin
de Montferrier, do hereby declare the nature of my said. Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly.described
and ascertained, in and by, the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say:
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My Invention consists in an improved mode of constructing the
wheels of land carriages for common roads and railroads, so as to facili-
tate their progress and reduce the wear and tear.
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was the wheels of two separate parts; one part is fixed to the
I construct
vehicle in the ordinary manner and moves within the second part, which
consists of a circular plate put in contact with the common road or
railroad.
Figure 1, elevation of the circular plate forming the external wheel;
Figure 2, elevation of the internal wheel; Figure 3, section of the
same; Figure 4, elevation of the wheel with all its parts; Figure 5,
section of the same.
The circular plate, Figure 1, is provided with four equal circular
openings A, equidistant from the centre.
The part, Figure 2, fixed to the vehicle, consists of a nave B, pro-
vided with four spokes C. These spokes are double, and are united by
means of axes provided with small rollers D. The circular plate,
Figure 1, is fitted into the spokes, so that the rollers D, may bear pre-
cisely on the edges of the circular openings A, and the nave may play

page_text: freely in the circular space E, as seen at Figure 4. By this means
the vehicle is supported and made to move on the inner edges of the
circular openings. The number of circular openings in the plate may
be varied according to circumstances.
The advantages in this. new construction of wheel consists in con-
siderably reducing the draught of vehicles either on common roads or
railroads.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim as new, and desire to be protected by the said Letters Patent, is,
the peculiar construction of wheels of land carriages, as herein-before
described and referred to in the Figures of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexandre André Victor Sarrazin
de Montferrier, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
H* GILBEE.
A. A. V. S. DE MONTFERRIER. (L.S.)