Improvements in Axleboxes of Road Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1889 -Accepted, 15th Jane, 1889
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Axleboxes of Road Vehicles.
I THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN of Bramhope near Leeds in the county of York land
agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The oil stopper for the lubricating passage of an axlebox may be formed of a stout
washer of non metallic material as of leather. The said washer is cut the size of the
said passage and made fast on a metal screw or pin so that it cannot turn or move
thereon, and secured by a smaller metal washer riveted on the end of the screw or pin.
Also an axlebox may be secured to the nave of a wheel of a road vehicle by a metal
collar which is chased to screw on the end of the bush thereof. The said collar may
he of malleable or cast iron, and it serves as a base for the flange or collar formed on
the oil cup. The two said collars are united by screws or bolts. Key notches are
provided on the rim of the chased collar and key notches, or studs are provided on
the rim of an axlebox, whereby the axlebox if without a chased collar, and whereby
the axlebox and its chased collar may be screwed on or off by means of an adjustable
spanner key.
Dated this 1st dow of Wo 1400
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Axleboxes of Road Vehicles.
I THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN of Bramhope near Leeds in the county of York land
agent 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 oil stopper for the lubricating passage of an axlebox, may be formed of a stout
washer of nonmetallic material as of leather. The said washer is cut the size of the
said passage, and made fast on a metal screw or pin so that it cannot turn or move
thereon, and secured by a smaller metal washer riveted on the end of the screw or
pin. Also an axlebox may be secured to the nave of the wheel of a road vehicle by
a metal collar which is chased to screw to the bush thereof. The said collar may be
of malleable or cast iron, and it serves as a base for the oil cup. The said metal
collar and the axlebox are united by screws or bolts. Key notches are provided on
the rim of the chased collar, and key notches or studs are provided on the rim of the
axlebox, whereby the axlebox if without a chased collar, and whereby the axlebox and
its chased collar may be screwed on or off by means of an adjustable spanner key.
The nature of the said invention is explained by the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 represents a stopper for the lubricating passage of an axlebox: figure 2 an
axlebox for a wheel of a road vehicle with a metal collar and figure 3 an axlebox
without a metal collar.
The stopper for the lubricating passage of an axlebox may be formed of a washer a,
in combination with a metal pin or screw b. The washer, ring or cover a is cut to fit
the said passage, and may be of leather or any suitable material different from the
metal pin or screw b. The washer a is made fast on a metal pin or screw b, so that it
cannot turn or move thereon. The stem of the pin is formed with edges which key
into the washer a. The said edges may be provided by a three sided stem shewn in
figure 1 by dotted lines, or by having a screwlike thread on the stem of the metal pin.
"A metal washer c is riveted on the end of the screw or pin b to keep the washer a
thereon. The washer has a smaller diameter than the washer a so that the latter
may tighten when screwed down on the countersunk seat of the lubricating passage
of an axlebox.

page_text: In figure 2 d is an axlebox for a wheel, and is a metal collar attached to the axle
box d. The collar fis chased to screw on or into the bush of a wheel. The metal
collar of an axlebox may likewise be attached to the nave of a wheel by screws or
bolts. The collar serves as a base for the axlebox d, and as a connection between
the axlebox d, and the nave of the wheel. The axlebox d is secured to the collar by
screws k, or.by bolts. Two key notches g opposite each other are formed in the rim
of the collar, and two like key notches may also be provided in the flange of the
axlebox . By means of the key notches the collar may be screwed on or off by
the use of a spanner and by means of the key notches, and the collar and the
axlebox d may be jointly dealt with in like manner by the said spanner. If the
spanner be an adjustable key, one key will serve all sizes of axleboxes: moreover
the aforesaid metal collar may easily be modified to suit any pattern of axlebox for
road vehicles.
Figure 3 represents an axlebox d¹ without a metal collar as shewn in figure 2. The
axlebox.d may have two opposite key notches m in its flange, or if without a flange
two opposite keystuds n on its rim. The keystuds n are shewn in figure 3 by dotted
lines. The axlebox by means of the key notches m in its flange, or by means of
the key studs upon its rim, if without a flange, may be screwed on or off by the
use of a spanner. If the said spanner be adjustable it will serve for all sizes of axle-
boxes of road vehicles.
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
For improvements of axleboxes of road vehicles :
(1.) A stopper formed of a screw or, a screwheaded metal pin having edges upon
its stem and also of a ring or washer of suitable material different from the material
of the said pin; the said washer being made fast on the said pin and riveted thereon:
substantially as and for the purposes described.
(2.) A metal collar between the axlebox and the bush or nave of a wheel as a
connection of the axlebox to the said bush or nave: substantially as & for the purposes
described.
(3.) A metal collar screwed to the bush, or otherwise affixed to the bush or to the
nave of a wheel, and connected to the axlebox by screws or otherwise substantially
as and for the purposes described.
(4.) Key notches in a metal collar of an axlebox and like key notches in the
flange of an axlebox; whereby the metal collar alone, or the metal collar and the
axlebox jointly may be screwed on or off: substantially as and for the purposes
described.
(5.) Key notches in the flanges of axleboxes, or key studs upon the rims thereof,
whereby axleboxes of different sizes may be screwed on or off by an adjustable spanner :
substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 13th day of May 1889.
THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN.