An Improved Wheel or Roller, more especially applicable to Roller Skates.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Wheel or Roller, more especially applicable to
Roller Skates.
I HECTOR GERMAN of High Street Lindfield Sussex Surveyor do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an improved wheel or roller more especially
applicable to roller skates whereby the vibration and noise occasioned by such
skates is obviated.
The invention consists in constructing the hub or sleeve of the wheel or roller of
metal in preference brass and surrounding said hub with a ring or sleeve of
vulcanised india rubber or other yielding material or substance of any suitable
thickness, the whole is then inserted and secured in the eye of the ordinary box
wood or other wheel or roller. The hole or eye in such wheel (through which the
axle passes being enlarged to the required size.
It will be evident from the foregoing description that my invention may be
applied to other wheels than the wheels or rollers of roller skates.
Dated the 2nd December 1892.
HECTOR GERMAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Wheel or Roller, more especially applicable to
Roller Skates.
I, HECTOR GERMAN of High Street Lindfield in the County of Sussex
Surveyor, de hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an improved wheel or roller more especially
applicable to roller skates whereby the vibration and noise occasioned by such
skates is olviated.
In order that the invention may be properly understood and more readily carried
into effect I have appended hereto a sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 is a side or face view of a wheel or roller constructed according to my
invention and
Figure 2 is section of the same.
The invention consists in constructing of box wood in the usual manner or of any
other desired material a roller a the hub or sleeve b of which is of metal and such
sleeve may if desired be constructed so as to form the cones for ball bearings.
Surrounding the said hub or sleeve is a ring c of vulcanised india-rubber or
other yielding material or substance and of any desired thickness.
A recess or groove d of suitable shape is formed in the inner periphery of the
wheel to keep the hub and ring of india rubber or other yielding material in their
normal positions within said wheel or roller, or other means may be employed such
for instance as cement.
It will be evident from the foregoing description that my invention may be
applied to other wheels than the wheels of roller skates with equally good
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The construction of a wheel or roller for roller skates having a yielding substance,
such as india rubber, interposed between the hub or sleeve and the periphery of
such wheel substantially as and for the purpose herein described and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of August. 1893
HECTOR GERMAN.