Improvements in Wheels for Cycles and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wheels for Cycles and the like.
FRANCIS MURR KETTON and GEORGE GOULDING 3 Station Street Nottingham
Cycle Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to a better and more simple method of fastening the
spokes or wires to the boss of the wheel, for which means we employ a number of
studs or screws at any distance apart to suit our convenience These are screw'd on
to the outside of the boss. We then wrap the wire or spokes around the studs or
screws and the ends we attach to the rim of the wheel in the usual way.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1893.
FRANCIS MURR KETTON.
GEORGE GOULDING.
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FRANCIS MURR KETTON and GEORGE GOULDING 3 Station Street Nottingham
Cycle 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 relates to an improved construction of wheel as used for cycles
and light vehicles, the improvement relating to what are known as tangent wheels.
At the present time the spokes used with this class of wheel are made with a head
at one end and are screwed at the other, the wire being heated to enable the head
to be made.
Now the object of this invention is the construction of a tangent wheel in which
the spokes are made from wire without the necessity of heating the same, and in
which two spokes are formed from the same piece of wire.
According to this invention the wheel hub instead of having the usual deep flanges
with holes for receiving the spokes, has very shallow flanges which are fitted with
an even number of pins or screws, the total number of which in each hub is equal to
half the number of spokes in the wheel. The pins or screws in one end of the hub
are placed opposite the spaces between the pins.or screws in the other end of the
hub. The spokes are made from pieces of wire which are attached to the hub by
bending the centre of the wire round the pins or screws in the same. The ends of
the wires or spokes are connected to the wheel rim by screw nipples of any
ordinary construction.
In the accompanying drawing this invention is illustrated by a front elevation of
one end of a wheel hub and the attached spokes. The hub a of the usual internal
construction has on its outer surface near each end the pins or screws numbered 1
to 10, round which the centres of the spokes bare wrapped and the ends then
taken to the rim of the wheel. The spokes are wrapped upon alternate pins in
opposite directions, the drawing showing the odd numbered pins with spokes
wrapped from the outside, and the even numbered pins with the spokes wrapped
from the inside. The spokes may be tied together at the crossings if desired.

page_text: The number of pins in the hub may be varied, and the direction in which the
spokes run from the hub to the rim depends upon the number of pins in the hub
and the diameter of the rim. The spokes are equally spaced at the rim.
With this arrangement it will be seen that a spoke at one side of the wheel is
made from the same piece of wire as a corresponding spoke at the other side of the
wheel, and that the heating of the wire with the liability of destroying the nature
of the same is dispensed with.
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:
:-
1. In'a tangent wheel for cycles and light vehicles, attaching the spokes to the
hub, by bending them round pins screws or other projections in the latter, in such
a manner that two spokes are made from the same piece of wire substantially as
shown and described in the accompanying drawings and Specification.
2. A tangent wheel for cycles and light vehicles constructed substantially as
shown and described in the accompanying drawings and Specification.
Dated this 4th day of May 194
W. H. POTTER, M.I. Mech. E.,
Newcastle Chambers, Nottingham, Agent for the Applicants.