IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS FOR CARRIAGES
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ATKINSON, of Manchester Street, Gray's Inn Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Turner, sending.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of March, in the seventh year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Atkinson, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Samuel Atkinson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Atkinson, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHEELS
FOR CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that
I, the said Samuel Atkinson, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the sand
Samuel Atkinson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say-
My Invention consists of means of constructing wheels for carriages, whereby
iron or other metal spokes are combined with naves and felloes of wood. And
in order that my Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION TO THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a wheel having only three of the spokes introduced;
Figure 2 is a section.
a, a, are the felloes or ring of wood, on which the proper tyre b is placed; c is
the nave of wood; d, d, are the spokes of iron, which enter mortices in the
nave and the felloes, the iron spokes being properly shaped at the ends for
that purpose, as shewn; and the shape of the spokes is similar to that of
ordinary wood spokes; but this may be varied, and the ends which enter the
holes or mortices in the wood nave and wood felloes may be varied, as will be
seen at Figure 3, where two different shaped spokes are shown with the same
mode of fixing them, the ends which enter the nave being jagged, as is shown;
and in some cases I employ screws to fix them into the nave, as is shewn at
Figure 4 at e, e; and in some cases I use screws and nuts to fix the spokes in
the felloes, as shewn at f, f, in Figure 4. In some cases I form the spokes of
tubes of iron filled with wood. Figure 5 shows a wheel with part of the spokes
drawn in their places, and Figure 6 shows a section of such a wheel; g, g,
being the hollow spokes, and h, h, the fillings of wood. In fixing these
spokes in the nave and in the felloes, I use wedges to open out the ends,
so that when driving the end of a spoke into the nave I introduce the
sharp end of the wedge, and as the spoke is driven in, the wedge enters
and expands the end of the spoke; and when the end of the spoke has been
driven into a felloe, I drive a wedge into the end to open and expand that
end, and to facilitate this expending of the ends of the spokes I split the tube,
as is shown.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means
I am acquainted with for performing the same, I would wish it to be under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details so long as the peculiar

page_text: character of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is, the means of
manufacturing wheels for carriages whereby iron or other metal spokes are
combined with wood felloes and wood naves, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Atkinson, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord 1844, the aforesaid Samuel Atkinson came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fourth day of September in the rear of our Lord One