IMPROVEMENT IN CART, CARRIAGE, VAN, WAGON, AND OTHER WHEELS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Brown, Glue and Size Manufacturer, of Verney
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Road, and 529, Old Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of
AN IMPROVEMENT IN CART, CARRIAGE, VAN, WAGON, AND OTHER WHEELS."
Sealed the 17th May 1878, and dated the 28th November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Brown at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th November 1877.
PETER BROWN, Glue and Size Manufacturer, of Verney Road, and 529, Old Kent
Road, in the County of Surrey. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CART, CARRIAGE, VAN,
WAGON, AND OTHER WHEELS.”
A substitution of metal spokes (wrought iron, galvanized, with collars or shoulders
welded on at suitable distances from the ends preferred) provided with metal collars
or shoulders at suitable distances from the ends, to press upon the stock, and felloes,
so as to take or bear the strain and pressure in place of the wooden spokes now
generally in use.
By this Invention the stock and felloes are greatly strengthened, in consequence
of the metal spokes being smaller and requiring less substance to be taken from the
stock and felloes to admit the metal spokes than is required to admit the wooden
ones, and greater durability is obtained, and less liability to accident or break down
incurred.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th May
1878.
PETER BROWN, Glue and Size Manufacturer, of Verney Road, and 529, Old Kent
Road, in the County of Surrey. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CART, CARRIAGE, VAN,
WAGON, AND OTHER WHEELS."
My Invention or discovery consists in the substitution and use of metal spokes in
By these means
place of wooden spokes now generally used in making wheels.
greater strength is retained in the felloes and stock or nave of the wheel, in con-
sequence of the metal spokes being of smaller circumference than the ordinary
wooden ones, and less wood having to be removed from these parts of the wheel for
their adjustment.
In carrying out this Invention I prefer that the metal used in making the spokes
should be wrought iron, and that a collar or shoulder to bear the ordinary weight
and pressure should be welded on at a suitable distance from each end of the iron
used in making the spokes. My method of fixing these spokes in the wooden stock
or nave of the wheel is to bore holes suitable in size for the insertion of the ends
of the spokes, which are driven in up to their shoulders or collars. These holes are
bored at a suitable angle in the stock or nave so as to cause each spoke to form a
strut and to give a greater resistance to the external pressure to which the wheel is
subjected.
The holes in the felloes are bored in the usual way, and the ends of the spokes set
at convenient angles to allow the felloes to be driven on. The wheel is then tyred
in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which it is to be carried out, I would have it clearly
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein set forth, and I
would further have it observed that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as my Invention, is the substitution and use of metal spokes, with
wooden stocks or naves and felloes, in place of wooden spokes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Brown, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1878.
Aמחת
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