Improvements in Wheels for Carriages, Omnibuses, and other like Vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left. 10th Sept.. 1900-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wheels for Carriages, Omnibuses, and other like
Vehicles.
I, JANE BROAD-SMITH, of 394, Uxbridge Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;
My invention relates to improvements in wheels for carriages, omnibuses and
other like vehicles, which consists principly in the construction of the hub to
receive the ends of wood spokes with wedge shaped ends.
In carrying my invention into practice, I construct the hub with a metal axle
tined on the outside with wood which I insert in the main part of the metal hub,
this is tormed up to the centre with a tube and a flange with spikes on the inside
face, these said spikes embed themselves in the wedge shaped ends of the wood
spokes on one side. On the said tube I place a loose collar or flange with spikes
on its inner face to correspond with flange and spikes on the tube. The ends of
the wood spokes are placed between the aforesaid flanges and secured together by
the spikes when the hub is rigidly formed. Near the end of the tube is a right
hand male thread to receive a tightening screwed collar and at the extreme end
of the tube is a left hand male thread to receive a hub hoop.
The flanges are flat in inside faces and have sharp projections of any shape.
The hub may be made hollow for any sized axle box, or it may be reduced in
size and bored out to exact shape of axle, or the spoke ends may be rounded and
fit in concave spaces between the flanges, these said concave spaces (or any other
shape) may be cast on the hub or a collar may be passed over the tube.
The object of the concave spaces and the projections is to prevent the spoke
ends from creeping round the hub.
When the whole of the wedge shaped spoke ends are fitted between the flanges
and the hub screwed up together, the spaces between the spokes in the hub or
between the flanges are rigidly closed up in a solid mass.
Dated this 8th day of December 1899.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wheels for Carriages, Omnibuses, and other like
Vehicles.
I, JANE BROAD-SMITH, of 394, Uxbridge Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
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page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in wheels for carriages, omnibuses and
other like vehicles, which consists principally in the construction of the hub to
receive the ends of wood spokes with wedge-shaped ends and spiked flanges.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which corresponding letters of
reference indicate like parts in each of the several figures.
Fig. 1, is an elevation of the hub shewing the spikes on the flanges.
Fig. 2, is a section of the hub shewing three of the spokes fitted together.
Fig. 3, is an alternate section shewing the centre of the hub made with hollows
to receive rounded spoke ends, and projections or spikes e cast on the edge or
rim of each of the flanges or collars e¹.
In carrying my invention into practice, I construct as a lining for the hub a
metal tube lined on a part of the outside with wood a¹ which I insert in the
main part of the metal hub; this is formed up to the centre with a twelve sided
tube and a flange d with spikes c on the inside face, these said spikes c embed
themselves in the wedge shaped ends b of the wood spokes a on one side. On the
other side of the tube y I place a loose collar or flange f with spikes c on its inner
face to correspond with the flange d and spikes c on the tube b¹ lined with wood a'.
The ends of the wood spokes a are placed between the aforesaid flanges d and f,
and are secured together by the spikes c when the hub is rigidly formed. Near the
end of the tube is a right hand male thread to receive a tightening screwed
collar and at the extreme end of the tube is a left hand male thread to receive
a hub-hoop a, this is fully described in my Specification No. 8619 bearing date
April 13th, 1898.
The flanges d and f are flat in the inside faces and have sharp projections of
any shape.
The hub or tube g may be made hollow for any sized axle box, or it may be
reduced in size and bored out to exact shape of axle, or the spoke ends may be
rounded and fit in concave spaces between the flanges, these said concave spaces
(or any other shape) may be cast on the hub or tube g or a collar may be passed
over the tube.
The object of the concave spaces f¹ and the projections e as in Fig. 3, are to
prevent the spoke ends from creeping round the hub g'.
When the whole of the wedge shaped spoke ends are fitted between the flanges
and the hub screwed up together, the spaces between the spokes in the hub or
between the flanges are rigidly closed up in a solid mass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. The wheel hub with wedge shaped spokes and spikes substantially as fully
described in the above specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
2. In wheels, the combination of the spokes a wedge shaped ends 6 spikes
flanges and the whole being rigidly screwed up together, substantially as
herein described and according to Fig's. 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawing.
3. In hubs for wheels to receive spokes with wedge shaped ends rounded, the
combination of the spikes e flanges or collars el hub g and the concave spaces f',
substantially as herein described and according to Fig. 3, of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 10th day of Sentembar 1900
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.