Improvements in connection with Ball Bearings.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1993
4000
hanantad 21th Oct
1806
Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1993
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept.,
4000
7050
Accepted, 24th Oct
1806
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Ball Bearings.
We, CHARLES ALBERT MILLER and FREDERICK JOHN MILLER trading
as H. Miller and Company of Miller Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has relation to the ball bearings of wheel hubs, bottom brackets
and other ball-bearing parts of cycles, and has for its object, the locking of the
adjustable cones to the spindles, which, in the case of hubs, remain stationary, and
in bottom brackets and the like, rotate together.
In carrying out our improvements in connection with a cycle back wheel hub the
spindle of which is required to be kept stationary with the adjustment cones so as
-We take a hub
to allow the hub to rotate around them, we proceed as follows:-
of the usual construction with the ends formed with cupped ball races and the
waist having flanges for the spokes and carrying a chain wheel on one side,
and we pass axially from end to end through the hub, a spindle right hand
screwed at its one outer end and left hand screwed at the other, and with
ball raced cones taking upon the said ends and with the flanges of them
taking into the mouths of the cupped ends of the hub. The adjustable coned
bearings have outwardly extending barrels or sleeves made integral with them,
conoidally shaped at their ends and respectively outside right and left hand screwed
to correspond with the spindles, and with the coned ends, which are plain,
longitudinally slit and capable of being closed upon the ends of the spindle and
there locked.
Thus, the sleeves of the adjustable cones, outwards of the flanges, have opposite
facets, which are embraced by the forked chain adjustment ends of the back stays
and whereby the said cones are prevented from rotating.
A washer nut may be threaded upon the right and left hand screwed sleeves and
upon their ends caps or box nuts, having inside coned plain ends which when
screwed up impinge upon the plain and coned ends of the sleeve, take and close the
split ends of the sleeves onto the ends of the spindle thereby making fast or locking
the adjustment cones (around which the hubs rotate) to the spindle.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1895.
Improvements in connection with Dall Bearin
We, CHARLES ALBERT MILLER and FREDERICK JOHN MILLER, trading
as H. Miller and Company of Miller Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 bas relation to the ball bearings of wheel hubs, bottom brackets,

page_text: cycle pedals and other ball-bearing parts of cycles, and has for its object, the
locking or making fast of the adjustable cones to the spindles, which, in the case of
hubs, remain stationary, and in bottom brackets and the like, rotate together.
In carrying out our improvements in connection with a cycle back wheel hub the
spindle of which is required to be kept stationary with the adjustment cones so as
to allow the hub to rotate around them, wetproceed as follows:- -We take a hub of
the usual construction with the ends formed with cupped ball races and the waist
having flanges for the spokes and carrying a chain wheel on one side, and we pass
axially from end to end through the hub, a spindle right hand screwed at its one
outer end and left hand screwed at the other, and with hall raced cones taking
upon the said ends and with the flanges of them taking into the mouths of the
cupped ends of the hub. The adjustable coned bearings have outwardly extending
barrels or sleeves made integral with them, tapered or conoidally shaped at their
ends and respectively outside right and left hand screwed to correspond with the
spindles, and with the coned ends, which are plain, longitudinally slit and capable
of being closed upon the ends of the spindle and there locked.
The eleeves of the adjustable cones, outwards of the flanges, have opposite facets,
which are embraced by the forked chain adjustment ends of the back stays and
whereby the spindle and cones locked thereto are prevented from rotating
together.
Washer nuts may be threaded upon the right and left hand screwed sleeves
between which and the outer faces of the cones the fork ends may be clamped, and
upon the said spindle ends caps or box nuts, having inside coned plain ends which
when screwed up impinge upon the plain and split coned ends of the sleeve, take
and close the split ends of the sleeves onto the ends of the spindle, thereby
making fast or locking the adjustment cones (around which the hubs rotate) to the
spindle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a cycle back wheel hub
provided with means for locking the cones in their adjusted positions constructed
and arranged according to our invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.
Figure 3 is an end elevation of the hub, fitted to the fork end of the back stay.
Figure 4 is the body part of the hub separately.
Figure 5 represents separate views of the spindle, and the several component
parts of the hub taking upon the ends of the same, some of them being in section
and some in elevation.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the body of the hub, consisting of a waist a', spoke flanges a², heads a³, chain
wheel as made fast on the left-hand head, and ball races or cups a', wherein ball
bearings b, come and work between the said cups and the semi ball races c¹, of the
adjustable cones c, screwing upon the respectively right and left hand screwed
ends A and B, of the spindle d. The cone on the A end of the spindle, which is
wormed with a right haud thread, has an extended sleeve c, both outside and
inside wormed with a right hand thread, whilst its extreme end c³, is formed
conoidally and is longitudinally split at c, so as to admit of the said cone being
made rigid to the spindle after the same has been adjusted thereon.
The sleeve c² on the cone on the B end of the spindle is inside and outside
left-hand screwed and is split and conoidally nosed like the other, and both sleeves
have flats c, which are embraced by the branches e', of the forked ends e³, of the
chain stays e, which said forks are clamped against the adjustable cones c, by
☐ washer or ring nuts, screwing upon the sleeves of the cones.
The operation of closing the cones upon the spindle ends is performed by box'
nuts or caps g, having inside screwed entrances g', and inclined or conoidally
formed inside ends or crowns g³. The box nut at the A end of the spindle is right
hand screwed and that on the B end is left hand wormed, whilst the conoidally
formed crowns impinge on the inclined split ends c, of the coue sleeves c³, and by

page_text: the traversing inwards of the nuts, the parts of small diameter contract the split
parts of the sleeve onto the spindle ends and thus lock the cones in their adjusted
position to the spindle.
Instead of employing two adjustable cones, we may only employ one, the other
cone being made integral with the spindle.
The application of our invention to cycle pedal and other analogous bearings for
cycles differs in no essential respect from its application to a cycle wheel hub as
herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
First-In the hubs of cycle and other wheels, locking or making fast the
adjustable cones in their adjusted positions on the spindles, by closing or laterally
clamping split parts or extensions of them around the said spindles, substantially as
described and set forth.
Secondly -In the hubs of cycle and other wheels, locking or making fast the
adjustable cones in their adjusted positions on the spindles by closing or laterally
clamping the coned and split ends of parts or extensions of them around the said
spindle by means of interually plain coned and wormed nuts or caps, substantially
as described and set forth.
Thirdly-In the bearings of hubs, pedals and other analogous parts of cycles
and the like, the general construction, arrangement and combination of the parts,
substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 27th day of September 1896.
CHARLES ALBERT MILLER,
FREDERICK JOHN MILLER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.