Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Cycles and like Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug.,
1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1895-Accepted, 22nd June. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Cycles and like
Vehicles.
1, BENJAMIN LUKE WATKINSON, of 39, Earl's Court Road, Kensington, in
the County of Middlesex, Cycle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of driving wheel for cycles
and like vehicles, and it consists in mounting the flanges adapted to receive the
spokes of the wheel loosely on the barrel or sleeve of the hub so that they are
free to rotate with respect thereto but not to move laterally, and in attaching to
the centre of the barrel or sleeve of the hub four radial arms or studs which are
connected with the rim of the wheel by tangential spring spokes of any approved
construction, the object being to obtain a certain amount of spring or elasticity in
the driving, at the same time retaining the lateral rigidity of the wheel.
The loose flanges to which the ordinary spokes of the wheel are attached are
preferably mounted on ball bearings. I do not limit myself to the use of eight
spring or elastic driving spokes as either more or less may be used.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1894
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Cycles and like
Vehicles.
I, BENJAMIN LUKE WATKINSON, 39, Earl's Court Road, Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Cycle Maker, 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 an improved construction of driving wheel for cycles
and other vehicles, and it consists in mounting the flanges for the spokes loosely
on the barrel or sleeve of the hub so that they are free to rotate with respect
thereto but not to move laterally thereon, and in attaching to the centre of the
barrel or sleeve of the hub four or more radial arms or studs which are connected
with the rim of the wheel by spring spokes preferably arranged tangentially, the
object being to obtain a certain amount of spring or elasticity in the driving, at
the same time retaining the lateral rigidity of the wheel.
In the accompanying drawing which shows-by way of illustration-a chain
driven wheel :-
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved wheel, and
Figure 2 is a view in front elevation-partly in section-on an enlarged scale of
the hub the wheel.
In bot views similar parts refer to like letters of reference.

page_text: The flanges A, A, of the húb of the wheel adapted to receive the spokes,
instead of being formed on or fixed to the sleeve or barrel B of the hub, are
mounted loosely thereon as shown by Figure 2 preferably having ball bearings
between them. To adjust the flanges to compensate for the wear on the bearings
small transverse screws C connect the two flanges A, A, as shown in the upper
part of Figure 2.
On the sleeve or barrel B are formed or mounted radial arms or studs D, D, etc.—
preferably eight in number-the ends of which are adapted to receive the spring
spokes F, F, etc. by which they are connected to the wheel rim E, the ends of the
said spokes being preferably attached to the arms or studs D and to the wheel
rim E by ball and socket connections. The spokes are made adjustable in length
in any suitable manner and the springs are formed on or attached to them in
any convenient manner, that shown by the drawings being by way of illustration
only.
I do not confine myself to the use of eight radial arms or studs or of an equal
number of spring spokes as more or less may be used without departing from the
principle of my invention.
The sleeve or barrel B of the hub is mounted on an axle G in the usual
manner.
It will be seen that with a wheel of this construction the driving power is
transmitted from the hub to the wheel rim through the spring spokes F, F, etc.,
and that the ordinary spokes of the wheel are relieved of all the strain of driving
and merely serve to support the hub and rim in their relative positions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
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(1.) The improved driving wheel for cycles, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
(2.) In a velocipede driving wheel, mounting the flanges of the hub to receive
the ordinary spokes loosely thereon but capable of adjustment laterally one with
respect to the other, and transmitting the driving power from the sleeve or barrel
of the hub to the rim by means of tangential spring spokes, as and for the purpose
set forth.
(3.) In a wheel for velocipedes, the combination with the ordinary rim and
spokes, of a hub consisting of a sleeve or barrel such as B, of two flanges such
as A, A, mounted loosely on the sleeve or barrel B, of radial arms or studs such
as D formed or mounted on the sleeve or barrel B, and of spring spokes such as F
connecting the arms or studs D with the rim E, all combined, arranged and adapted
to operate as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th day of May 1805
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.