Improved Means for Preventing or Diminishing the Vibration of Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Preventing or Diminishing the Vibration
of Wheeled Vehicles.
I, ODELL WILSON, of No. 3202 Pine Street, in the City and County of Saint
Louis, in the State of Missouri, one of the United States of America, Salesman,
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 improved means for preventing or diminishing the
vibration of wheeled vehicles, and consists in the combination, with the wheels and
axles of vehicles, of pneumatic or cushion wheels operating in conjunction with the
running gear, in such a manner that the vehicle shall have the principal advantages
and benefits derived from the use of pneumatic or cushioned tires, without being
subject to the dangers or liabilities of such tires as they are now used on the rims
or fellies of carriage or wagon wheels.
The invention comprises the improvements substantially as hereinafter described
and pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the running gear of a buggy or wagon having my
invention embodied therein.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a rear end elevation of the same.
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are modified forms of construction and adaptation of my
invention.
A, A represent the axles and W, W the wheels of the common running gear of
such vehicles.
B, B are super axles supported above the axles A, A by interposed elliptic or
other suitable springs C, C, and may also be provided with depending arms D, D,
having forked ends which straddle the axles A, A, as seen in Figure 4, and serve
as guides to aid in maintaining the axles B B perpendicularly over the axles A, A.
F, Fare pneumatic wheels having hubs and mounted on the ends of the
axles B, B, over the hubs of the wheels W, W.
E, E are pneumatic or cushion wheels or small tires which are fixed upon the
inner ends of the hubs of the wheels W, W, and rotate with them, as indicated in
Figure 5, and the wheels F F ride upon the said tires E, E.
The bolster and fifth wheel are fixed on the forward upper axle B. The rear
axle may be supported by two elliptic springs C, C, or any other suitable form of
springs.
The inner ends of the hubs of the wheels W, W might be made with solid bands
and the wheels F, F ride on their plain peripheries, as seen in Figure 6, or the
pneumatic or cushion wheels E might be fixed on the hubs of the wheels W, W,
and the wheels or rollers F, F, on the upper axles be plain, as shown in
Figure 7.
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 :-
The combination, with the wheels and the axle or axles of a wheeled vehicle, of

page_text: one or more super axles supporting the body of the vehicle and mounted on springs,
and pneumatic or cushion wheels mounted on the ends of the super axle or axles or
on the hubs of the wheels, or both, substantially as described and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 11th day of February 1896.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.