Improvements in Wheels for Road Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan.,
1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wheels for Road Vehicles.
We, ALFRED EDWARD MORGANS, of Broad Street House, New Broad Street,
in the City of London. Engineer, and CHARLES HEYLAND FOX, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A wheel for a road vehicle according to this invention comprises a nave, hub or
boss, a tyre and light connecting plates of suitable metal such as steel (they may be
plain flat plates, or plates with ribs or dishes extending radially from the centre of
wheel) attached to the nave, hub or boss and to the rim so as to form a wheel body,
the plates forming the respective sides of this wheel body being wider apart at the
boss than at the rim.
According to one construction of such a wheel the nave, hub or boss is formed
with a couple of annular projections, the rim is of approximately T-section or other
section and the plates at the respective sides are in the form of discs slightly coned
so that, when in position, the plates forming the respective sides of the wheel will
form approximately two sides of a triangle but the inner and outer portions that
overlap respectively the internal web of the tyre and the annular projections on the
nave, hub or boss will be parallel so as to fit the corresponding side faces of the rim
web and nave, hub or boss to which the plates are connected by rivets.
Dated this 8th day of January 1894.
Improvements in Wheels for Road Vehicles.
We, ALFRED EDWARD MORGANS, of Broad Street House, New Broad Street,
in the City of London, Engineer, and CHARLES HEYLAND FOx, of the same place,
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:-
A wheel for a road vehicle according to this invention comprises a nave, hub or
boss, a tyre or rim, and light connecting plates of suitable metal such as steel (they
may be plain flat plates, or plates with ribs or dishes extending radially from the
centre of wheel), attached to the nave, hub or boss and to the rim so as to form a
wheel body, the plates forming the respective sides of this wheel body being wider
apart at the base than at the rim.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shows partly in end elevation and partly in cross section, and Fig. 2 in side
elevation, a wheel constructed according to this invention.
a is the nave, hub or boss formed with a couple of annular projections a' ; b is the
rim of approximately T-section; and c are the plates forming the respective sides
of the wheel, these plates being in the form of discs slightly coned as shown, so
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page_text: that when in position, they will, as seen in cross section, form approximately two
sides of a triangle, but the inner and outer portions and respectively that
overlap respectively the internal web b of the rim or tyre and the annular projections a¹
on the nave, hub or boss, will be parallel so as to fit the corresponding side faces of
the web of the rim and the nave, hub or boss to which the plates are connected by
rivets d d respectively; there are or may be rings or washers e between the rivet
heads and the body plates.
Instead of the nave being formed with a couple of annular projections a², one
projection of suitable width may be employed; also it will be obvious that the rim
may be of other than T section. An additional tyre f may in some cases be secured
around the rim b of the wheel by means of rivets g as indicated in Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. A wheel for a road vehicle, comprising a nave, hub or boss, a rim or tyre, and
light metal plates (plain or ribbed or dished) which form the wheel body, the plates
forming the respective sides of the said body being wider apart at the boss than at
the rim, and secured to both boss and rim, substantially as herein described.
2. A wheel for a road vehicle, comprising a nave hub or boss formed with an
annular projection or projections, a tyre or rim of Ţ or other section, and a body
composed of metallic discs slightly coned, arranged base to base, and attached to
said aunular projection or projections, and tyre or rim substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to and shown in the drawings aunexed.
Dated this 9th day of October 1894
W. Lloyd Wise,
A. E. MORGANS.
CHAS. H. FOX.
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Applicants' Agent.