IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WHEELS OF VEHICLES AND FAKE MÁ MONID AVIDO " IN BUT MODE OF ME IN THE MODE OR MEANS OF CONNECTING THE SAME TO THEIR AXLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arnold Souhour, of Seraing, Belgium, Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WHEELS OF VEHICLES AND
FAKE MÁ MONID AVIDO "
IN BUT MODE OF MEANS OF CONSID
Scaled the 3rd March 1876, and dated the 24th December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arnold Souheur at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th December 1875.
I, ARNOLD SOUHEUR, of Seraing, Belgium, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
WHEELS OF VEHICLES AND IN THE MODE OR MEANS OF CONNECTING THE SAME TO
THEIR AXLES," to be as follows :—
This Invention relates more particularly to trucks and trollies employed
in mining operations, and consists in attaching the loose wheel to the
axle journal by simple and inexpensive means, whilst at the same time
providing a close box for containing the grease or other lubricating
material, and thus protecting the journal from coal dust or other
extraneous substance,

page_text: In carrying out this Invention the hub or nave of the wheel is pro-
vided with an annular cavity in which the lubricating material is to bo
contained, and two holes are formed opposite to each other through the
hub at right angles to the direction of the journal at the part where the
cavity is situate, which holes serve for the introduction and removal of
the linch pin employed for retaining the axle journal in the nave of the
wheel, and which is thus located in the grease box. The journal does
not pass completely through the hub, the outer end of the bearings being
closed, so as to exclude coal dust and other extraneous materials.
When the truck or trolly is in use the holes provided for the passage
of the linch pin are closed by screwed metal or wooden plugs, or other
suitable means.
▲ segment or covering of steel may be welded or otherwise secured
to the lower part of the journal, and subsequently hardened by tem-
pering for the purpose of increasing the wearing durability of the
journal; or the journal itself may be subjected to a cementation process,
whereby a similar result will be obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arnold Souheur in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARNOLD
SOUHEUR, of Scraing, Belgium, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the 39th year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arnold Souheur, Her special license,
that I, the said Arnold Souheur, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Arnold Souleur, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter 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

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WHEELS
OF VEHICLES AND IN THE MODE OR MEANS OF CONNECTING THE SAME TO THEIR
AXLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arnold
Soulicur, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my
hand and scal, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arnold Souleur, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:
My said Invention relates more particularly to trucks and trollies
employed in mining operations, and consists in attaching the loose
wheel to the axle journal by simple and inexpensive means, whilst at
the same time providing a close box for containing the grease or other
lubricating material, and thus protecting the journal from coal dust or
other extraneous substance.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating like parts in both
Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a vertical section of a wheel
having my Invention applied thereto; and Figure 2 is an end elevation
drawn to a reduced scale of a truck fitted with axles and wheels arranged
and connected in the manner shewn in Figure 1.
According to my Invention the hub or nave A of the wheel is pro-
vided with an annular cavity E, in which the lubricating material is to
be contained, and two holes are formed at B, B, opposite to each other,
through the hub A at right angles to the direction of the journal O of
the axle D at the part where the cavity E is situate, which holes serve for
the introduction and removal of the linch pin B' employed for retaining

page_text: the axle journal C in the nave A of the wheel, and which is thus located
in the grease box. The journal C does not pass completely through the
hub A, the outer end F of the bearings being closed so as to exclude
coal dust and other extraneous materials.
When the truck or trolly is in use the holes provided for the passage
of the linch pin are closed by screwed metal or wooden plugs A¹, or by
other suitable means.
A segment or covering of steel may be welded or otherwise secured to
the lower part of the journal, and subsequently hardened by tempering
for the purpose of of increasing the wearing durability of the journal;
or the journal itself may be subjected to a cementation process, whereby
a similar result will be obtained.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, constructing
the hub or nave of the wheel with a close chamber or cavity for con-
taining lubricating material, and connecting the wheel to the axle
journal by means of a pin contained within such chamber or cavity,
substantially as and for the purpose herein-before described and as illus-
trated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arnold Souheur, have to this my
Suscifection cat my hand and seal this Thirty-first day of Max: