IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY WHEELS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LOSE, of Little Benton, in the County of Northumberland, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters. Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Losh, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Losh, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Losh, my exors, admors, 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 MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY
WHEELS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the
said William Losh, 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, I, the said
William Losh, 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 relates to the application of wood, felt, rope, or such like
flexible and yielding material between the iron tyer and the ring or felloe or
bearings produced by the prolongation of the bars of iron employed to make
the wrought-iron spokes, with or without the intervention of a ring of malleable
iron between such bearings and such flexible or yielding materials, by which
means wrought-iron railway wheels will be less liable to be prejudicially acted
on by the vibrations to which such wheels are liable when in use than if they
were composed of iron alone.
And in order that the Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will describe the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the
figures and letters marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a side view of a railway wheel constructed according to
part of my Invention, the spokes and felloes being produced by bending bars
of iron in such manner that the two ends of each bar are made fast in the
nave, and produce two spokes, the middle portion producing a part of the ring or
felloe. A, A, represent two spokes, and A³ is part of the felloe or ring; the
bar of iron constituting the spokes A1, A2, and the part of a felloe A³, is bent at
the points, angles, or curves A', A*; and it may be desirable to remark that
although I prefer so to bend the bars of iron of which the spokes and felloes
are composed, as to produce nearly a complete ring or concentric bearing, as
shewn at A3, A3, yet the bending of the points, angles, or curves A', 'A', may
vary, provided there are sufficient portions of a complete ring or of concentric
bearing produced to give the requisite support to the railway tyer when
applied to the wheel; or in place of making the parts A¹, A2, A3, out of a
single bar of iron, the parts A1, A2, may be welded to a suitable portion of the
felloe A³. B, B, is a ring of wood composed of one piece (or of several pieces,
as is shewn in Figure 4, and the number of parts may be varied); D is the
railway tyer, which is fastened by rivets on to the wood and the felloe of the
wheel, as is shewn; and in order to facilitate the getting on of the tyer, and to
retain the wood correctly whilst doing so, I first drive on a light iron hoop
from one side of the wheel for a short distance, and thus bold the wood

page_text: correctly, I then drive on the railway tyer from the other side, which will
force off the previous hoop; and in order to get the iron tyer on readily, I
heat it so as to expand the ring, as is well understood.
Figure 2 shews another arrangement of wheel, having rope applied between
the felloes or ring (produced by the bending and continuation of the parts or
bars constituting the spokes) and the railway tyer. In this wheel, the felloe is
composed of the parts A³ which are continuations of the parts A¹ constituting
the spokes; and it will be seen that in this case the parts A³ have each only
one spoke continued therewith, either by being a part of the same bar of iron
or welded thereto. B, B, is a ring of rope, and D is the railway tyer affixed
by rivets, as represented in the Drawing. When felt or other flexible and
yielding materials are used, after they are sufficiently compressed, I place them
between an outer and an inner rim of iron, and when thus placed I fix them
around the felloes or bearings proceeding from the curved prolongations of the
bars of iron, beyond the bends A*, A', at the outer end of the spokes A¹, A², in
Figure 1, and A' in Figure 2, by shrinking on the tyer in the usual way.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would remark that the
constructions of the iron portions of the wheels are similar to some of those for
which a Patent was granted to me on the Thirty-first day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and thirty. I do not therefore claim the same when
separately considered; neither do I claim the application of wood under railway
tyer when the iron parts of the wheels are not constructed according to one of
the modes above described; and, as above stated, I do not confine myself to
the forms of the spokes and parts of the felloes A', A2, A3, in Figure 1, A¹, A³,
in Figure 2, and A1, A2, A", in Figure 3, so long as the continuations A³ of the
spokes produce a ring or a sufficient number of circular or concentric bearings
for receiving and supporting the wood, rope, felt, or other flexible and yielding
materials so placed as before described, and upon which the tyer has to be fixed.
And I would have it understood that what I claim are, the modes of con-
structing railway wheels by applying wood, rope, felt, or other flexible and
yielding materials (whether or not confined between an outer and an inner
rim of iron as before described), between a hoop of railway tyer and the rings,
felloes, or bearings produced by the parts A3, which are continuations of the
spokes as above described in respect to Figures 1, 2, and 3.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Losh, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-one.
WILLIAM (L.S.) LOSII.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of
December, in the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid William Losh, Esq',
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was 5
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.