IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO VELOCIPEDES, PERAMBULATORS, AND INVALID CHAIRS, PART OF WHICH MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER VEHICLES" PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Capewell Hughes, of Saint Stephens Street
Works, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO VELOCIPEDES, PERAMBULATORS, AND
INVALID CHAIRS, PART OF WHICH MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER VEHICLES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Capewell
Hughes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th October
1882.
GEORGE HENRY CAPEWELL HUGHES, of Saint Stephen's Street Works, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO
VELOCIPEDES, PERAMBULATORS, AND INVALID CHAIRS, PART OF WHICH MAY BE
APPLIED TO OTHER VEHICLES
"
The objects of this Invention, which has reference to certain improvements in or
relating to velocipedes, perambulators, and invalid chairs, and part of which
improvements are also applicable to other wheeled vehicles, are to provide improved
means of lubricating the wheels of perambulators, perambucotts, invalid chairs,
carriages, tricycles, bicycles, and of other wheeled vehicles, made upon the suspen-
sion, tension, or bicycle wheel principle; and of preventing the shifting of the
rubber tyre upon such wheels; and to retard the wear of the heads of the spokes of
such wheels.
In the carrying out of my Invention I cast a reservoir or oil box on and in one
piece with the barrel or hub of the tension, suspension, or other wheel, or braze or
solder the same thereto, and I drill a passage or oil way from the oil box through
the barrel of the hub into the cylinder thereof so as to provide a direct passage of
the oil from the oil box on to the axle so as to admit a flow of oil at each revolution
of the wheel.
One modification of this part of my Invention is illustrated on the accoin-
panying sheet of sketches in Fig. 1. which represents an entire piece cast with an
il bala

page_text: According to this improved system of lubricating the wheel and axle, the oil
receptacle is not liable to breakage from accident, or to get out of repair, it
considerably strengthens the barrel of the wheel, and affords a larger capacity for
storing oil for lubrication.
With the object of retarding the wear upon the heads of the spokes of the wheel,
I form the wheel with a circumferential groove having projecting flanges which
receive the wear and protect the heads of the spokes which terminate within and
at the bottom of the groove.
One modification of this improvement is illustrated in Fig 2 which represents a
section of such a circumferential groove in the wheel to receive either a tyre or to
afford the desired protection to each spoke head around the entire circumference of
the wheel.
With the object of preventing the shifting of the rubber or other yielding tyre
sprung into a circumferential groove in such wheels and to cause it to fixedly
adhere therein at all parts when the wheel is in motion, I form such tyre at the
part which fits into such groove or its whole surface with serrations or a series of
shallow depressions.
&
One modification of this improvement is illustrated in Fig 3 which illustrates
section of such a tyre having shallow channels continuously around part of its
surface or it may be the whole of it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Henry Capewell Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th April 1883.
GEORGE HENRY CAPEWELL HUGHES of Saint Stephen's Street Works Birminghain
in the County of Warwick Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO
VELOCIPEDES, PERAMBULATORS, AND INVALID CHAIRS PART OF WHICH MAY BE
APPLIED TO OTHER VEHICLES
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This Invention has reference to certain Improvements in or relating to
velocipedes, perambulators, and invalid chairs, and part of which Improvements
are also applicable to other wheeled vehicles, and the objects of the improvements
are to provide improved means of lubricating the wheels of perambulators,
perambucots, invalid chairs, carriages, tricycles, bicycles, and of other wheeled
vehicles made upon the suspension, tension or bicycle wheel principle; and of
preventing the shifting of the rubber tyre upon such wheels, and to retard the wear
of the heads of the spokes of such wheels.
In carrying out the Improvements relating to the lubrication of the wheels, I
cast a reservoir or oil-box 1 on and in one piece with the barrel or hub 2 of the
tension, suspension, or other wheel, or I braze, solder, or otherwise suitably adapt
the same thereto, and I drill a passage or oil-way 3 from the oil-box through the
barrel of the hub into the cylindrical interior thereof, so as to provide a direct
passage of the oil from the oil-box onto the axle within the hub and admit a flow
of oil at each revolution of the wheel.
One modification of applying this part of iny Invention is illustrated on the
accompanying drawings in Figure 1, which represents a barrel or hub cast entire
with an oil receptacle having a screw cap 4. The shape of the oil-box may be
other than that shown in Figure 1: it may be cylindrical, globular, oblong, oval
or of other convenient shape, and the lid, cap, or cover thereof, may be made as a
spring lid, or may be otherwise suitably fitted.
According to this improved system of lubricating the wheel and axle, the oil
receptacle is not liable to breakage from accident or to get out of repair, the
connection of the parts is strengthened and simplified, and there is afforded a larger
capacity for storing oil for lubrication
With the object of retarding the wear upon the heads of the spokes of iron
tension Wheels not fitted with rubber or other such tyres, I form the rim 5, of the
wheel with a shallow circumferential groove 6, having outwardly projecting
Banges 7, which receive the wear and protect the heads 8, of the spokes 9, which
terminate within and at the bottom of the groove.
One modification of this Improvement is illustrated in Figure 2 which represents
a section of such a circumferential groove in the rim of the wheel as will afford the
desired protection to all the spoke heads around the circumference of the wheel.
The circumferential groove 6, may be of other sections than that shewn, for instance
it may have a flat bottom
With the object of preventing the shifting of rubber or other yielding tyres
sprung into circumferentially grooved rims of such wheels, and to cause the same
to fixedly adhere therein at all parts when the wheel is in motion, I form such
tyres at the part which fits into such groove with serrations or a series of projecting
ridges or shallow depressions 10 arranged transversely or otherwise of the tyre
One modification of this improvement is illustrated in Figure 3 which illus-
trates a section of such a tyre having shallow channels formed around that
part of its surface which fits into the groove of the wheel.

page_text: In other modifications, the grooves or ridges may take other forms or directions
than that shewn in Figure 3.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature and objects of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original and therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to
me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent ; is,—
1. The formation of the oil or lubricating reservoir or box, with the barrel or
hub of suspension, tension, bicycle, or other such wheels, by casting, brazing,
soldering, or otherwise forming the parts in one piece, or together, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes bereinbefore described.
2. The formation of the rim of such wheels with a circumferential groove having
outwardly projecting Hanges, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein before described.
3. The formation of rubber or other yielding tyres intended to be sprung into 1
circumferential grooves in such wheels, with serrations or series of projecting
ridges or shallow depressions arranged transversely or otherwise of the tyre at that
part of its surface which is sprung into the said Groove, substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof I the said George Henry Capewell Hughes have hereunto
set my hand and seal this twenty third day of April in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three
Witness
JOHN KENDRICK
GEORGE HENRY CAPEWELL-HUGHES (L.S.)