improvements in Fly Wheels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1898
improvements in Fly Wheels.
We, HERBERT WILLIAM MORLEY, of Prospect Foundry, in the City of Brad-
ford, Engineer, and CHARLES DAY, of 2, Parkfield Avenue, Bowling Park, near
Bradford, aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
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This invention relates to improvements in that type of fly wheels in which
the hub and rim are connected together by metal plates or discs, and its object
is to give lateral rigidity to the wheel.
For this purpose we dish the said connecting plates that is to say we make
them in the form of a truncated obtuse cone and we place the concave sides to-
wards each other. By this construction the plates are considerably wider apart
where they are connected to the hub than where they are connected to the rim
consequently increased lateral rigidity is obtained.
The plates and rim may be made in sections and internal annular grooves
are preferably made round the rim at each side of the spacing piece fitting
between the plates to receive and enclose the ends, or outer peripheries of the
plates.
Dated this 10th day of November 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in Fly Wheels.
We, HERBERT WILLIAM MORLEY, of Prospect Foundry, in the City of Brad-
ford, Engineer, and CHARLES DAY, of Parkfield Avenue, Bowling Park, near
Bradford, aforesaid, Engineer, 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 improvements in that type of fly wheel in which
the hub and rim are connected together by metal plates or discs, and its object
is to give lateral rigidity to the wheel.
For this purpose we dish the said connecting plates that is to say we make
them in the form of a truncated obtuse cone and we place the concave sides to-
wards each other. By this construction the plates are considerably wider apart
where they are connected to the hub than where they are connected to the rim
consequently increased lateral rigidity is obtained.
D

page_text: The plates and rim may be made in sections and internal annular grooves
are preferably made round the rim at each side of the spacing piece fitting
between the plates to receive and enclose the ends, or outer peripheries of the
plates.
To fully describe our invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.
Figure 1, represents a diametrical section of a wheel made in accordance with
our improvements.
Figure 2, is a side view of a portion of the wheel with the plates on the
near side of the upper portion removed so as to show the interior.
The rim 2 is made in any convenient number of sections and is connected to
the flanges 3 on the hub 4 by the plates 5 radially connected together on each
side by the butt straps 6 or in any other convenient way. The plates 5 on
each side converge towards each other as they pass from the hub to the rim.
The rim is made with a spacing piece 8 to pass between the plates and also
with radial annular grooves 9, 9 to receive and enclose the outer peripheries
of the plates on each side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A built up fly wheel having converging side plates connecting the hub to
the rim, substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. A built up fly wheel having converging side plates connecting the hub to
the rim, and having annular grooves 9 in the rim to receive and enclose the
peripheries of the said plates, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 10th day of August 1899.