Improved Wheels and Axles having Adjustable Bearings for Bassinettes, Mail Carts and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Wheels and Axles having Adjustable Bearings for
Bassinettes, Mail Carts and the like.
ALBERT HUMPAGE, 8, Cannon Hill Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham,
Bassinette Mail Cart Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows;-
Section A steel axle finished at both ends with a thread or screw.
B is a tapered bearing through which A is screwed finished at the largest end
similar to a nut of a bolt.
C. Bearing similar to A with the exception of the nut on the end being un-
nessary as C, is made a fixture on to A; D is the hub of wheel cut in two, or
half, so that the inside may be seen. D being bevelled outward in the exact
degree as C&B is inwardly, and upon which D revolves. E, part of spring, F,
locknut which holds all the parts together, when wheels need adjusting unloose
F, or locknut, screw bearing B a little tighter then refasten F, when wheels will
revolve easy and without noise, & springs always kept in proper position.
Dated this 9th day of September 1898.
Improved Wheels and Axles having Adjustable Bearings for
Bassinettes, Mail Carts and the like.
ALBERT HUMPAGE, No. 8, Cannon Hill Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham,
Bassinette and Mail Cart Maker, 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:-
The invention as described in drawings those left with Provisional Specification,
being a section of axle having a thread on the end, on to which are two tapered
bearings which are tapered inwardly, the narrowest ends facing, which can be
adjusted at will, the hub of wheels are made to fit bearings, & are tapered outward
(at the same angle as bearings), so that practically wheels revolve on the bear-
ings, & do not touch the axle but leaving a very narrow margin between hub &
axle, this being a description in detail which can be made in size & strength as
necessary, but will quote this size as an example so that an understanding may be
effected. Axle as in drawing A, being 7 inches, between bearings marked C
these being a fixture & are turned out of ½ inch x 3, steel, being tapered down
from to inches, leaving 3½ inches of axle A, of which 2 inches has a

page_text: turned thread on both ends of A. Part B being a bearing similar to C only it
is adjustable & not a fixture, being bored & tapped to screw on to A, finished at
the thickest end the same as a nut to admit of a nut spanner being used in
adjusting D, being hub of wheel showing countersink necessary to admit bear-
ings B&C. E, part of spring which supports body, &, is attached between
bearings C, in the large wheels, but in the small wheels the same as shown in
drawing, F, ordinary nut which lock & keeps all the parts together.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is:
A novel method for mounting mail carts & bassinettes & the like upon wheels &
axles having adjustable tapered bearings.
Dated this 2nd day. 1
1000