Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
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I JOHN KEMP STARLEY of the Meteor Works Coventry in the county of Warwick
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in the construction of wheels for
carriages and like vehicles and relates to a class of wheel made by brazing the spokes
to the felloe or rim and if desired to the hub.
It has been proposed to strengthen the junction of the spokes with the felloe or
rim by means of flanges or flanged sockets forming extended surfaces for brazing on
the underside of the felloc or rim.
Such joints as at present made are unsightly and clumsy.
My invention is designed to provide symetrical felloes or rims by brazing or fitting
the end of the spoke within the felloe or rim by spread or extended joints whereby
not only conceal the joint so formed but I strengthen the felloe or rim. If I use
hollow oval spokes as described in an application for letters patent made by me dated
29 November 1885 No. 14632 I prefer to make a joint block in halves to nip each
side of the spoke such halves each having flanges to braze to the sides and bottom of
the felloe or rim thus all is firmly held together by the brazing action.
Or I may use a solid joint block which may carry an extension or plug to braze
into or around the spoke end and with a flange or flanges to braze to the sides of the
felloe or rim or tyre or both.
Or I may braze or affix in other suitable manner thickening pieces at intervals
inside the bottom of the felloe or rim through which the spokes or extensions thereof
are passed and their ends secured to the thickening pieces by brazing them thereto or
by lugs or projections fitting into or on the spokes and into which screws or bolts
may be passed to clamp the spokes to the thickening pieces or by forming eyes on
the lugs or projections carried by the spoke and putting cottar pins in the eye. If
desired these eye pieces may be screwed into the spoke ends instead of being brazed
n or on the saine.

page_text: In making such wheels I use rims of U or like section and after brazing the spokes
therein or otherwise fitting them as above I put on a tyre preferably formed with a
central thickened portion to take ground wear and with side flanges fitting inside the
felloe or rim or outside the same to take curb wear and 1 braze this tyre on to the
felloe or rim. 1 can so form the periphery of the tyre as to be capable of running
on or in rails if desired. The joint pieces before referred to may be of cast wrought
or sheet metal and the details of my invention must vary according to the kind of
wheel required.
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POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Construction of Wheels for Carriages and
like Vehicles.
I JOHN KEMP STARLEY of the Meteor Works, Coventry in the county of Warwick
Engineer 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 :-
My Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of wheels for
carriages and the like vehicles and relates to a class of wheel made by brazing the
spokes to the felloe or rim, and if desired to the hub.
It has been proposed to strengthen the junction of the spokes with the felloe or
rim, by means of flanges or flanged sockets forming extended surfaces for brazing
on the under side of the felloe or rim. Such joints as at present made are unsightly
and clumsy.
My Invention is designed to provide symetrical felloes or rims by brazing or fitting
the end of the spoke within the felloe or rim by spread or extended joints whereby I
not only conceal the joint so formed but I strengthen the felloe or rim.
If I use hollow oval spokes as described in an application for letters patent made
by me dated 29th November 1885 No. 14632, I prefer to make a joint block in halves
to nip each side of the spoke, such halves each having flanges to braze to the sides
and bottom of the felloe or rim, thus all is firmly held together by the brazing action.
Or I may use a solid joint block which may carry an extension or flange to braze
into or around the spoke end and with a flange or flanges to braze to the sides of the
felloe or rim or tyre or both. Or I may braze or affix in other suitable manner

page_text: thickening pieces at intervals to the bottom of the felloe or rim through which the
spokes or extentions thereof are passed or are attached and their ends secured to the
thickening pieces by brazing them thereto or by lugs or projections carried by
the spoke and putting cottar pins through the eye. If desired these eye pieces may
be screwed into the spoke ends instead of being brazed in or on the same.
In making such wheels I use rims of V or like section and after brazing the
spokes therein or otherwise fitting them as above I put on a tyre preferably formed
with a central thickened portion to take ground wear and with side flanges fitting
inside the felloe or rim or outside the same to take curb wear and I braze this tyre
on to the felloe or rim. I can so form the periphery of the tyre as to be capable of
running on or in rails if desired.
The joint pieces before referred to may be of cast, wrought, or sheet metal and the
details of my invention must vary according to the kind of wheel required.
Referring to the accompanying drawings and proceeding to describe the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
I will explain the several modifications of my invention in consecutive order.
Figure 1 shows a central sectional elevation of a felloe fitted with an oval spoke as
referred to in my before recited Letters Patent, and Figure represents a plan of
the same.
In both these figures the tyre is absent A is the before mentioned spoke though of
course a spoke of other section or construction may be used.
C is the hollow felloe, DD' are the two halves of the joint block nipping each side
of the spoke such halves having the flanges E, E to braze to the sides and bottom of
the felloe or rim and so holding all firmly together.
Figure 3 shows a side elevation and Figure 4 a vertical transverse section on the
line a. b. of another modification of my invention. The joint block F is brazed to
the spoke A and has side and bottom flanges G G G to braze to the sides of the
felloe or rim. G³ is a web to strengthen the sides of the joint block which may be a
casting. His the plug or extention thereof to fit the spoke, being either entered into
the spoke or fitted to the same by brazing or otherwise.
Another modification of my Invention is shown in the following figures to which
I severally refer, wherein I use thickening pieces brazed or suitably affixed to the
bottom of the felloe or rim and to which the spoke ends or extentions thereof are
attached.
Figure 5 shows a sectional elevation of a felloe with a thickening piece I brazed
thereto and J is a plug or extention thereof and which enters and is brazed or
otherwise secured to the spoke A.
This spoke may be solid in which case a cavity must be formed in the tyre to make
the joint evenly.
In Figure 6 I show a similar arrangement but with a bulged felloe where the joint
is made. The same letters of reference apply. In Figure 7 I show a sectional
elevation of a form of felloe or rim having a thickening piece I brazed outside its
bottom and carrying flanges J through which screws or bolts K pass between cor-
responding flanges L carried by lugs or projections M fitting into or on the spokes
so that the lugs or projections M carrying the spokes are clamped to the thickening
pieces I, or I may braze the thickening pieces I' inside the felloe or rim and let its
flanges J protrude through the same.
Figure 8 shows a sectional elevation of another form of my invention wherein
through the thickening pieces I brazed inside the felloe (or it might be outside the
same) I pass a screw N inside or through the felloe or rim into a plug lug or pro-
jection fitting the spoke end, so holding the spoke to the felloe or rin. Figure 9
shews a sectional elevation of a further modification of my invention, is the
thickening piece, N' a screw, fitting the plug lug or projection O in or on the spoke
end and carrying an eye P inside or within the felloe or rim and through which a
cottar is passed to secure the eye to the thickening piece. In Figure 10, an
elevation of a part of a rim or felloe, I make the thickening piece I with a dove-
tailed recess I to receive a corresponding dovetailed projection 1' carried by the

page_text: spoke end, or I may reverse the arrangement, and may make such joint within the
felloe or rim. The dovetailed joint surfaces are brazed together.
Figure 11 shows a transverse section of a felloe or rim and tyre constructed with
reference to figures 3 and 4 but shows a tyre R with a central thickened portion and
with side flanges R¹ R2 brazed 'outside the sides of the felloe or rim to take curb
wear and the said flanges could go inside the felloe or rim if the same be hollow. If
not hollow the flanges on the tyre go outside.
The tyre before referred to is brazed to the felloe or rim.
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 —
First. In metallic wheels in which the spokes are united to a hollow felloe or rim
by a brazing action, I claim the employment of a spread or extended joint surface
placed within or inside such felloe or rim serving to unite the said spoke and felloe
whereby I make a strong and concealed joint substantially as described.
Second. In metallic wheels in which the spokes are secured inside the felloe or rim
by a brazing action, I claim the employment of a divided or sectional block to nip
and hold the spokes within the felloe or rim when brazed together substantially as
described.
Third. In metallic wheels as herein before described I claim the use of thickening
pieces brazed or suitably affixed at intervals to the felloes or rims of the same and
to which said thickening pieces the spokes are connected substantially as described.
Fourth. The employment in metallic wheels of a tyre having outside flanges to
take curb wear substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 11 of the accom-
panying drawings.
Fifth. The several modifications of constructing carriage and like metallic wheels
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.