IMPROVEMENTS IN VELO CIPEDES, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR THE SAME, AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Goodman, of Blackfriars Road, in the County
of Surrey, Mechanician, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELO
CIPEDES, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR THE SAME, AND OTHER
CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 6th November 1863, and dated the 21st May 1863.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Goodman at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st May 1863.
I, JOSEPH GOODMAN, of Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Mecha-
nician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN VELOCIPEDES, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR THE SAME, AND OTHER
CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
My improvements in velocipedes consist in connecting treadles and hand
levers to the cranked axle to which the main wheels of the carriage are fixed,
and in arranging handles to the hand levers, which through chains or cords
communicate with the fore carriage in which the guide wheel is fitted, and turn
it in any direction required for guiding the carriage.
My improvements also consist in mounting the axle of the guide wheel in a
groove or slot made in or applied to the sides of the fore carriage.
My improvements in wheels consist in the following arrangements :-I.

page_text: introduce the outer ends of the spokes in the felloe, where felloes are used,
or directly in the tyre. I form the hub or nave in two parts, one consisting
of a ring or collar, or flange carrying an inclined ring; which is inserted under
the inner ends of the spokes, and of an outer ring or flange. The driving in
of the inclined or conical ring tightens up the spokes, and the parts of the
nave are secured by screws or bolts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Goodman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
GOODMAN, of Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Mechanician, "send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Goodman, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Goodman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Goodman, my executors, administrators, and 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 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
VELOCIPEDES, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR THE SAME, AND OTHER
CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Goodman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Joseph Goodman, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-

page_text: My improvements in velocipedes consist in connecting treadles and hand
levers to the cranked axle to which the main wheels of the carriage are fixed,
and in arranging handles to the hand levers, which through chains or cords
communicate with the fore carriage in which the guide wheel is fitted, and
turn it in any direction required for guiding the carriage.
My improvements also consist in mounting the axle of the guide wheel in
a groove or slot made in or applied to the sides of the fore carriage.
My improvements in wheels consist in the following arrangements: -I
introduce the outer ends of the spokes in the felloe, where felloes are used, or
directly in the tyre. I form the hub or nave in two parts, one consisting of
a ring or collar, or flange carrying an inclined ring, which is inserted under
the inner ends of the spokes, and of an outer ring or flange. The driving in
of the inclined or conical ring tightens up the spokes, and the parts of the
nave are secured by screws or bolts.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a
plan, of a velocipede constructed according to my Invention.
A, A, are treadles, and B, B, hand levers, all connected to the cranked axle C
of the main wheels, as shewn; D, D, are handles fitted to the hand levers, and
communicating through a chain or cord E, E, with the fore carriage in which
the guide wheel F is fitted, one end of the chain or cord is connected to one end
of the axle G of the guide wheel, it then passes under a small wheel b, up
over a pulley c at the top of one of the hand levers, down round a roller d
attached to the framing, up again over a pulley e at the top of the other hand
lever, down under a small roller, and thence to the other end of the axle. By
turning either of the handles to the right or left as required, the guide wheel
is turned in the desired direction; by holding the handles parallel to the hand
levers the guide wheel will proceed in a straight line, notwithstanding any
slight obstacles that may come in its way. The axle G of the guide wheel F
is mounted in a groove or slot H applied to the fore carriage, as shewn ; the
wheel F is fitted loosely on its axle.
My improvements in wheels for velocipedes and other carriages will be
fully understood on reference to Figures 3 and 4. The hub or nave is formed
in two parts. Figure 3 shews two views of one part, which consists of a ring
or flange I carrying a conical or inclined ring J; Figure 4 represents two
views of the inner face of the other part, which consists of a flange or ring K
formed with spaces L, into which the spokes are placed. The inner ends of
the spokes are tapered to fit into the spaces in the inner face of the ring. By
driving the inclined ring J into the ring K, the spokes are forced out and

page_text: tightened up in the felloe, or, where no felloes are used, in the tyre. The
.parts of the nave are then secured by screws M.,
And having now described the nature of my, said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed,, I declare that I claim
First, connecting treadles, and hand levers to the cranked axle, to which the i
main wheels, of velocipedes are fixed, substantially, as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, fitting to the hand levers handles which communicate through chains
or, cords with the fore carriage in which the guide wheel is fitted, and turn it
in any direction required for guiding the carriage, as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Third; mounting the axle of the guide wheel in a groove or slot made in
or applied to the sides of the fore carriage, as herein-before described, and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth, constructing wheels for velocipedes and other carriages, sub-
stantially as herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying Drawings...
. In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Goodman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth-day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.