US111511A

US111511A - Improvement in apparatus for oiling fellies, spokes

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Publication number: US111511A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 1888-02-07

Description

PRISCUS E. BOMBY, OF ESPY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR OILING FELLIES., SPOKES, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l1 1,5 ll, dated February 7, 1871.

I, Perseus E. BoMBY, of Espy, Columbia county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Oiliug Fellies, Spokes, and Hubs, of which the following is a speciiication:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

The first part of my invention consists in so constructing a machine or apparatus as by means ot' it to oil fellies, spokes, and hubs of wagons, carriages, carts, and similar vehicles, without reference to the length of the diameter ofthe wheels.

The object is to so permeate the wood with heated oil or any composition used for such purposes as to efectually exclude wet, whereby fellies are strengthened and prevented from shrinking and working in the tire; the spokes from shrinking in the fellies and hubs; the hubs from shrinking and cracking, thus causing the spokes to become loosened.

The second part of' my invention consists in so adjusting the wheel to the machine or apparatus as to avoid scorching or charring the wood of the wheel.

The third part of my invention consists in Soapplying the oil as to accomplish the end in view in the most thorough manner and in the shortest space of time.

Description ofthe Accompanying Drawing.

Figure l is a perspective view of the apparatusor machine in Working attltude. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

` General Description.

ward to throw the tire ott' from the wheel. It is constructed of any thin cheap metal, as Russia iron, brass, copper, or lcomposition of like kind, irm enough to endure heating, its

width varying according to use, Whether one or several wheels are to be acted on at one time.

To the center of the side or sides, as may be required, which curves upward from two and one-half to fourinches from the main line,

is attached the iron post E, through the top of which passes the iron spindle D, Working up and down in the long slot F commencing at the upper edge of the trough A and continuing suftieien tl y high to receive and revolve Wheel of the longest diameter.

rlhe wheel is held upon the spindle by the iron pin g, as seen in Fig. 2, passingthrough the outer extremity of the spindle, and by the shoulder h, also seen in Fig. 2, fitted to the opposite end of the spindle, and made to hug the iron post E immovably by means of the thumb-screw C.

.A section of the fellies, tenons, and spokes being immersed in the heated oil, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, the Wheel B is slowly revolved, whereby the oil drips over the remaining portion of the spokes, the tenons on the hub ends, and the hubs themselves.

By suspending the Wheel the Wood is not subjected to the danger of char'ring by coming in contact with the sides or bottom ot' the heated trough, and, by alternately revolving through the oil and air, the wet is more thoroughly expelled than by soaking, and in less time.

Claim.

I claim- The trough,constructed with the upright iron post slotted for the adjusting ot' the wheel, for oiling fellies, spokes, and hubs, as specified.

PRISGUS E. BOMBY.

I/Vitnesses:

ISAAC M. KARNEY, S. J. FAUX.