Year: 1897

page_text: I, JOSEPH CASTLE HALL, 6 Grays Inn Road, London, E.C., Chartered Accountant.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of my invention is to provide a noiseless and resilient periphery.to
wheels for road vehicles of all kinds.
In carrying into effect my invention and for example in applying the same to
an ordinary omnibus, I affix, an approximately, annular discs or a disc of rubber
or other flexible material, around the periphery of each wheel in any suitable
manner or position but so that the said flexible material extends beyond the said
periphery any suitable distance which distance is governed by the flexibility of the
said material and by the weight to be carried. The said flexible material may be
extended from the said periphery in any desired direction but by preference I
make such extension to form a saucer shape so that when the weight is applied
the extended portion of the material aforesaid, is always indented inwards, that is,
towards the centre of the wheel beneath that part over which the outer-edge of
the said saucer-shaped material overhangs.
Where it is practicable to use smaller wheels than are usual in the ordinary
two-wheeled handsom cab for example-I do not require to make the wheels with
spokes, as I can, by extending the said flexible material a suitable distance from
the nave or hub of a wheel, form or construct a wheel by means of such nave and
extended flexible material.
I, JOSEPH CASTLE HALL, 6.Grays Inn Road, London, E.C., Chartered Accountant.
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 follow-
ing statement:-
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The object of my invention is to provide a noiseless and resilient periphery to
wheels for road vehicles of all kinds.
In carrying into effect my invention, and, for example, in applying the same to
an ordinary omnibus, I affix approximately annular discs or a disc of rubber or
other flexible material around the periphery of each wheel in any suitable manner
or position but so that the said flexible material extends beyond the said periphery
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page_text: any suitable distance which distance is governed by the flexibility of the said
material and by the weight to be carried. The said flexible material may be
extended from the said periphery in any desired direction, but by preference, I
make such extension to form a saucer shape so that when, the weight is applied
the extended portion of the material aforesaid is always indented inwards, that is,
towards the centre of the wheel beneath that part over which the outer edge of
the said saucer shaped material overhangs.
Where it is practical to use smaller wheels than are usual in the ordinary two-
wheeled hansom cab for example, I do not require to make the wheels with spokes,
as I can by extending the said flexible material a suitable distance from the nave
or hub of a wheel, form or construct, a wheel by means of such nave and extended
flexible material.
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Referring to the drawing annexed hereto Fig. 1. illustrates in section the lower
half of a wheel A being an ordinary hub or nave, B the flexible material, C in
Fig. 1a support thereto, and D, also in Fig. 1, a nut or other fastening. O is the
ground line.
Between these viz C and D the said flexible material B is held.
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The dotted linės X and Y respectively indicate the position of the flexible
material and the ground line when the wheel is carrying a weight.
Fig. 2. shows a like portion of a wheel where tension spokes are used; A is the
hub, F the spokes, G the rim and B the flexible material.H is the wire or other
suitable material which grasps the latter into an indented part of the rim."
Fig. 3. represents a like section of a wheel when ordinary spokes' are used. A is
the hub or nave; K the spokes, L the felloe or ordinary tyre, B the flexible material
and M the wire or other material which grasps the latter to the tyre L. O is the
ground line.
My invention relates to wheels for road vehicles including cycles and like
vehicles such as trolleys sack barrows and perambulators and the said flexible
material may consist of leather or combinations of rubber and canvas.
Having now 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
1. A wheel for road vehicles (including cycles and like vehicles such as trolleys
sack barrows and perambulators) consisting of a hub or nave and annular saucer
or other shaped flexible discs or a disc reaching from such hub or nave, or there-
abouts, to the ground, yielding silence and resilience and affixed to the said
said hub
or nave without ordinary spokes or rim in any suitable manner substantially as
herein before described and set forth. in Fig. 1.
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2. A wheel for road vehicles including cycles and like vehicles such as trolleys,
sack-barrows and perambulators consisting of an ordinary hub or nave, and rim or
felloe and with one or more annular discs or a disc of flexible material, such as
leather or combinations of rubber and canvas extending from such rim or felloe and
fastened thereon, in any suitable manner, so as to yield silence and resilience sub-
stantially as herein before described and set forth in Fig. 2.
3. A wheel for the purposes aforesaid depending for its silence and resiliency
on annular discs or a disc of flexible material extending from the periphery thereof
and by means of such discs or disc working on the "bend or spring of the said
flexible material substantially as herein before described and set forth in Fig. 3:
Dated this 30th day of June 1807