Improvements in Axle Boxes for Vehicle Wheels.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 4th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Axle Boxes for Vehicle Wheels.
I, DANIEL ALBONE, of the Ivcl Cycle Works, Biggleswade, in the County of.
Bedfordshire, Cycle Manufacturor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of axle box for an anti-friction
ball bearing for vehiclo wheels having wooden naves and spokes.
The axle box consists essentially of a hollow metal cylinder preferably slightly
tapered on the outside to adapt it to be driven and wedged into the wooden oave,
and having one or more feathers adapted to fit in slots or recesses in the said navo
to prevent the metallic axle box rotating with respect thereto.
In each end of the metallic axle box is fitted a steel cup formning parts of the
race for the balls, the other part of each of the said races being formed by a cup
or cone mounted on the axic, the one cup or cone being fixed thereto and the other
being capable of adjustment thereon by means of the well-known methods, and
fitted with any suitable form of locking nut or equivalent device. The outer end
of the inetallic axle box is threaded internally to receive a suitable cap closing in
the end of the axle.
1, DANIEL ALBONE, of the Ivel Cycle Works, Biggleswade, in the County of
Bedfordshire, Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what mannor 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 axle box for the application
of ball bearings to vehicle wheels having wooden naves.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates this invention;
Figure 1 is a view in section,
Figure 2 is a view in transverse section on line x, z, Figure 1, and
Figure 3 is a view in transverse section on line y, y, Figure 1.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of referenco.
The axle box consists essentially of a metal cylinder A preferably alightly
tapered on the outside to adapt it to be driven and wedged into the wooden nave
of the wheel, and having one or more feathers a or their equivalents adapted to
wedge in slots or recesses in the said nave to proveut the axle box rotating with
respect thereto.
The ends a' and a³ of the axle box A are recessed to receive steel cups B, B
forming parts of the races for the balls C, the other part of each of the said races

page_text: being formed by cups or cones D, D' mounted on the axle E. The cup or cone D¹
is fixed on the axle up against a shoulder e thereon and the other cup or cone D is
threaded on the axle to provide for adjustment. The adjustable cup or cone D is
locked by means of a lock nut d' noting against an interposed washer d having a
D-shaped hole to fit over the axle which has a flat cut on it. The outer and a of
the axle box A is threaded internally to receivo a suitable cap F adapted to close
e said box and cover in the end of the axle.
Instead of forming the cup B independent of the axle box A, they may be made
all in one piece either out of a steel stamping or by being pressed or formed up
out of a piece of steel tube in which case the feathers a would be either pressed up
out of the thickness of the metal or they would take the form of dowel pins or
the like.
By this construction of axle box, ball bearings can readily be applied to wheels
having wooden naves and also to wheels having metal naves bushed or lined
with wood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what I
claim is :-
(1) The improvements in axle boxes whereby ball bearings can be applied to
vehicle wheels having naves made wholly or partially of wood, as set forth.
(2) An axle box, for vehicle wheels the naves of which are either made of wood
or are bushed or lined with wood, having feathers or their equivalents such as a on
its exterior surface and recesses at its euds adapted to receive or form cups such
as B, as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 30th day of November 1905
ted thia 30th day of November 1905
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.