Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
I WILLIAM FISH, of High Street, Wellingborough, in the County of
Northampton Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of metal rims for
wheels such as the wheels of cycles, road vehicles, railway or tram-way vehicles, or
any wheels having a metal rim.
The metal is first drawn into wire of proper thickness according to the size of
the rim required, a thicker wire being preferable for larger rims and a proportionally
thinner wire for smaller rims. Repeated layers of this wire are coiled into a circle
somewhat smaller in diameter that the required rim, the thickness of the coil being
proportioned to the required thickness of the rim to be made. The coil of wire is
then heated to welding heat and passed, while in that state, between rollers
suitably shaped and arranged to give to the rim the required section and circular
form. I also provide a lever or other device for applying sufficient pressure to the
rollers to press or weld the coil of wire into a solid rim of the required shape.
the rims are made of steel wire they may be afterwards tempered by any of the
approved methods now in use.
Dated this 12th day of October 1894.
If
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
I WILLIAM FISH, of High Street, Wellingborough, in the County of
Northampton, 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 following statement :--
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of metal rims for
wheels such as the wheels of cycles, road vehicles, railway or tram-way vehicles or
any wheels having a metal rim.
The metal is first drawn into wire of proper thickness according to the size of
the rim required, a thicker wire being preferable for larger rims and a proportionally
thinner wire for smaller rims. Repeated layers of this wire are coiled into a circle
somewhat smaller in diameter than the required rim, the thickness of the coil being
proportioned to the required thickness of the rim to be made. The coil of wire is
then heated to welding heat and passed, while in that state, between rollers suitably
shaped and arranged to give to the rim the required section and circular form.
I also provide a lever or other device for applying sufficient pressure to the rollers
to press or weld the coil of wire into a solid rim of the required shape. If the
rims are made of steel wire they may be afterwards tempered by any of the
approved methods now in use.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The method of manufacturing metal rims for wheels consisting in coiling the
wire into a ring of several layers, in heating the said ring to welding heat and in
rolling the said heated ring to the desired shape and so as to weld the different
convolutions of wire together substantially as described.
2. A wheel rim substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of August 1895
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.