Year: 1889

page_text: I, GEORGE WILLIAM HERBERT, of Dean Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Manu-
facturer, 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 has reference to wheels and wire axles for toy carriages and other
toys the object being to render the axle steady in its bearings and to afford a cheap
and effective method of securing the wheels to the axle.
Heretofore when the said
wheels have been secured on their axles this has usually been done by soldering
which is comparatively expensive and there has been a difficulty in so soldering the
wheels to the axles that they will run perfectly true.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 represents in part sectional elevation an axle constructed according to my
invention with a pair of wheels secured thereon, Fig. 2 is an end view of the same,
Fig. 3 shews the axle of the same partly in section and Fig. 4 shews the picce of
wire from which the said axle is formed; Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a method of forming
the said axle from the piece of wire illustrated by Fig. 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
« is the wire axle which according to my invention is provided near each end
with a collar a these collars being formed in a piece with the axle by upsetting or
bulging out part of the wire near each end thereof so as to leave a short projecting
piece at each end beyond the collars, on to these short projecting ends the wheels
are respectively threaded. The ends of the axle are then riveted over by suitable
tools worked in a press or by other means thus firmly securing the wheels to the
axle. The sides of the collars a' which are next to the wheels are perfectly true so
that when the wheels are riveted on the axle they will run true also and the
said collars also prevent the axle moving endwise in its bearings.
The collars can readily be formed out of the piece of wire (illustrated by Fig. 4)
for forming the axle, by gripping the said piece of wire between a pair of suitable
lies or tools marked c, as shewn by Fig. 5, these tools being countersunk at each

page_text: end c² of a shape and size corresponding with the collars a'. Two headding tools d
cach provided with a recess d' corresponding in diameter and length with that part
of the axle which projects beyond the collars then advance and squeeze the ends of
the piece of wire nearer together (see Fig. 6) thus causing the wire to bulge out
and fill the recesses c¹ and form the collars.
I wish it to be understood that I make no claim to the method of upsetting or
bulging out the wire to form a collar thereon as illustrated by Figs. 5 and
but
Having now particularly 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. The improvements in securing a pair of toy wheels on to a wire axle herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, that is to say,
forming a collar near each end of the wire axle by bulging out or upsetting the
same then threading the wheels on to the ends of the axle and riveting the said ends
substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. A wire axle having a collar near each end formed by bulging out or upsetting
the body of the wire for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of March 1889.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.