Improvements in Carriage and other Wheels and Axle Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1888
Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
Improvements in Carriage and other Wheels and Axle Boxes.
I REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents, of 18,
Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London in the county of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me
from abroad by Emilio Batlle of Barcelona in the Kingdom of Spain, Manufacturer,
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 the wheels and axle boxes of carriages and other vehicles,
and the object thereof is to construct wholly or partly of metal, wheels similar to those
of wood at present employed, being however lighter and stronger and more durable
in construction and cheaper in manufacture.
Referring to the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a part section through the
improved wheel. Fig. 2 is a part elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of
wheel and axle box. Figs. 4 to 13 show sundry parts and details of construction.
The centre or hub of the wheel consists of two rings A B the one A being more
or less plano concave and the other B being more or less plano-convex, the concave
& convex surfaces being of conical form to adapt the rings to the inner ends of the
spokes C fixed between them, so that the wheel is dished similarly to wheels in present
use. The inner ends of the spokes are adapted to meet in the manner shown to form
an annulus and are fixed by the screw bolts D traversing the ring A and screwed into
the ring B. The screws are preferably placed one at the meeting line of each two
spokes so that the said screws prevent withdrawal or inward thrust of the spokes
without substantially weakening the latter. The felly may be formed according to
any system, it may be of bent wood in one piece or in two semicircular pieces, or
in several pieces as usually made or in two or more superposed circles, it being
surrounded by an iron tire. For fixing the spokes to the felly, the outer ends of the
spokes are each provided with a metallic plate E let in flush with the surface of the
spoke, and fixed thereto by screws or rivets, after its outer end F has been caused to
penetrate the felly.
The axle box comprises the axle box proper J, of dimensions corresponding to the
axle spindle as seen in Figs. 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 and having a lubricator as shown
with tube t and channel u, the oil chamber of said lubricator being closed by cap z.

page_text: Also the nut T (Figs. 3 & 6) having the three wings U and adapted to screw upon
the exterior of the box J to abut against the hub of the wheel fixed over said box.
The annulus G (Figs. 3 and 7) carrying within three flat or plane surfaces X adapted
to the wings U of the nut T and the rim of which carries at P a pin or tenon adapted
to penetrate into a corresponding mortise or socket in the ring B (Figs. 3 and 5) so
that the nut T is restrained from turning after the screw H. has been fixed through the
rim of the annulus G into one of the wings of the nut T.
The axle box is completed
by the sleeve I fixed thereto by a screw R having the shape shown in Fig. 3 or
Fig. 13 as most convenient.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is -
1. The combination with spokes C of rings A & B and screws D connecting said
rings substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination with a wheel hub, axle box J, nut T having wings U, annulus G
having plane surfaces X and tenoned to said wheel hub.
3. The combination with spokes and felly of metallic bolts E extending into or
through said felly and fixed to said spokes, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 31st day of January 1888.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.