Perambulators, Bath Chairs, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles, and for other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Perambulators, Bath Chairs, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles,
and for other Purposes.
I WILLIAM HENRY DUNKLEY of Jamaica Row Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Perambulator and Carriage Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE SPOKED
WHEELS FOR PERAMBULATORS BATH CHAIRS VELOCIPEDES AND OTHER VEHICLES
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES to be as follows:-
"
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in making
wire spoked wheels for perambulators Bath chairs velocipedes and other vehicles
and for other purposes my said improvements having reference to making the wire
spokes and connecting them to the hub of the wheel as herein after explained.
The metallic spokes of wheels are ordinarily connected to the hub by screwing
their inner ends into fixed collars on the hub. According to my invention I make
by bending on the inner end of the wire spoke a circular eye and after the outer
ends of the several spokes have been passed through the rim of the wheel and
heads made upon them the circular eyes at the inner ends of the several spokes
are strung or passed upon a tubular axis or hub and firmly bound between collars
at the ends of the said tubular axis or hub.
Or two spokes may be made from a single piece of wire by making a semi-
circular bend or a circular eye at the middle of the wire the part of the wire on
each side the semi-circular bend or circular eye forming a spoke. These double
spokes are engaged with or strung upon the hub at their middle bends or eyes the
bends or eyes of one set of spokes being situated at one end of the hub and
the bends or eyes of the other set of spokes being situated at the other end of
the hub.
In order to prevent the rattling of the spokes upon the hub and to put the
required tension upon them each set of bends or eyes is bound together and the
two sets separated from one another the separation of the two sets of spokes
putting the required tension upon them. The separation of the two sets of spokes
at the hub may be effected by a screwing arrangement. For example the hub may

page_text: be provided with two end collars and two adjustable middle collars the said
adjustable middle collars being simultaneously separated by means of a right and
left handed screw. By the separation of the adjustable middle collars the inner
ends of the two sets of spokes are separated and bound between their respective
fixed and adjustable collars. But I do not limit myself to any particular 5
arrangement of parts for separating and binding together the spokes at the hub.
I, WILLIAM HENRY DUNKLEY of Jamaica Row, Birmingham, in the County of.
Warwick, Perambulator and Carriage Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature 1
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 :-
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My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in making
wire spoked wheels for perambulators, Bath chairs, velocipedes and other vehicles
and for other purposes, my said improvements having reference to making the
wire spokes and connecting them to the hub of the wheel as herein after
explained.
;
The metallic spokes of wheels are ordinarily connected to the hub by screwing
their inner ends into fixed collars on the hub. According to my invention I make
by bending on the inner end of the wire spoke, a circular eye and after the outer.?
ends of the several spokes have been passed through the rim of the wheel and
heads made upon them, the circular eyes at the inner ends of the several spokes
are strung or passed upon a tubular axis or hub and firmly bound between collars
at the ends of the said tubular axis or hub.
Or two spokes may be made from a single piece of wire by making a semi-circular
bend or a circular eye at the middle of the wire, the part of the wire on each side.
of the semi-circular bend or circular eye forming a spoke. These double-spokes
are engaged with or strung upon the hub at their middle bends or eyes, the bends
or eyes of one set of spokes being situated at one end of the hub and the bends
or eyes of the other set of spokes being situated at the other end of the hub..
In order to prevent the rattling of the spokes upon the hub and to put the
required tension upon them, each set of bends or eyes is bound together and the
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page_text: two sets separated from one another, the separation of the two sets putting
the required tension upon them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation, a wire
spoked wheel, made according to one of the arrangements of my invention;
Figure 2 represents a front elevation of the same; Figure 3 represents one of the
wire spokes detached; Figures 4 and 5 represent the tubular axis or hub of the
wheel before and after its ends have been expanded.
a, a are the wire spokes, the inner end of each of the said spokes being bent
into a circular eye a; b is the tubular axis or hub upon which the eye ends a³, aª
of the several wire spokes a, a are strung or passed: c is the metallic rim of the
wheel and d is the india rubber tyre fitted in the said rim as usual. The fixing of
the wire spokes a, a to the hub b is effected by first passing the outer ends of the
several spokes a a through the metallic rim o and making heads on the said outer
ends. The circular eyes a² at the inner ends of the several spokes are next strung
or passed upon the tubular axis or hub b in the manner represented in Figure 2,
the said eyes a² being packed or arranged side by side and in close contact. The
ends of the tubular axis or hub b are finally expanded so as to retain the spokes
in their places on the said axis or hub. By thus arranging and fixing the eye ends
of the wire spokes upon the axis or hub, the several wire spokes have the required
tension put upon them.
Instead of expanding the ends of the axis or hub b for confining the eye ends
of the spokes in. their places, collars rivetted or screwed on the ends of the hub
may be employed.
Figure 6 represents in side elevation and Figure 7 in front elevation, a wire
spoked wheel made according to another arrangement of my invention; Figure 8
represents one of the double wire spokes detached, and Figure 9 represents in
elevation and Figure 10 in section the tubular hub of the wheel and the lubricator
situated on the said hub.
In this arrangement, two spokes e, e are made from a single piece of wire by
making a nearly semi-circular bend e³ at the middle of the wire, each of the branches
of the bent wire forming a spoke as represented. Or instead of a semi-circular
bende, a circular eye may be bent at the middle of the wire as represented in the
diagrams Figure 12. In the diagram both branches of the double spoke are
situated on the same side of the circular eye and in the diagrams i and k the two
branches are situated at opposite sides of the circular eye, the branches in one case
being in the same line and in the other case inclined to one another. The double
spokes e, e are engaged with or strung upon the hub b at their middle bends e²
(or eyes) in the following way. The outer ends of the several double spokes
having been passed through the metallic rim c and rivetted as before described,
the bends or eyes of one set of the spokes e, e are strung upon one end of the hub b
and the bends or eyes of the other set of spokes e, e are strung upon the other end
of the hub b so as to put the required tension on the said spokes. By now rivetting
the collars 6, 62 upon the ends of the hub b, the eyes or bends of the spokes are
firmly bound between the lubricator and the collars b³, 6ª as represented in the
drawing.
Instead of rivetting the collars 63, 6³ to the ends of the hub, the said collars may
be screwed to the hub as represented in Figure 11.
Instead of separating the two sets of spokes at the hub by the arrangement
represented, the separation may be effected by a screwing arrangement. For
example, the hub may be provided with two end collars and two adjustable middle
collars, the said adjustable middle collars being simultaneously separated by means
of a right and left handed screw. By the separation of the adjustable middle
collars, the inner ends of the two sets of spokes are separated and bound between
their respective fixed and adjustable collars. But I do not limit myself to any
particular arrangement of parts for separating and binding together the spokes at
the hub.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of wire spoked wheels
for perambulators, Bath chairs, velocipedes, and other vehicles and for other
purposes
First. Making the wire spokes of the said wheels by forming on the inner end
of the spoke wire, a circular eye and connecting the eye ends of the several spokes
to the tubular axis or hub of the wheel substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. Making two spokes from a single piece of wire by forming a semi-
circular bend or a circular eye at the middle of the wire and connecting the several
double spokes to the hub of the wheel at their semi-circular bends or eyes substan-
tially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this twenty sixth day of July 1886.