US315242A

US315242A - Vehicle-hub

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Publication number: US315242A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1902-04-07

Description

F. P. CIRCLE. VEHICLE HUB.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN P. CIRCLE, OF SPRINGFIELE OHIO. Y

VEHlCLE-HUB.

SPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,242, dated April 7, 1885.

' Application fiefi necemter 29, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concerm- Be it known that I, FRANKLIN P. CIRCLE, of the city of Springfield, county of Clark, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hubs for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hubs for vehicles, &c., the object of the invention being to construct a metallic hub having a spoke-flange in one piece, and to provide the same with an elastic filling or core extending from a point near one end to and flush With the opposite end of the hub, the said filling having a tapered opening corresponding to the taper of the boxi7 for the axle'spindle. Another object of the invention is'to extend the spokereceiving mortises, or a portion of them, en tirely through the hub metal, whereby all or a portion of the said spokes may bear against the elastic filling of the hub.

The invention consists in a metallic hub 'for vehicles,constructed in one piece and having a central spoke-receiving fiange, the mortises of which have slightly-beveled edges, the said hub being provided with an elastic filling or core extending from a point near one end to and flush with the opposite end of said hub, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter described.

It also consists in certain details of construction, hereinafter described.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents in central longitudinal section a vehicle-hub as coustructed in accordance with ny invention; and Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section on dotted line x x, Fig. 1, of the same.

The hub A, which may be of any usual shape and metal, will be cast in one piece With the fiange B, which extends entirely around it, the said fiange projecting from the main body of the hub, as usual with patent hubs77 having a central fiange for receiving the spokes. The fiange B is provided with mortises to receive the spokes C, said mortises being slightly beveled at their upper end, as shown at a, Fig. 2, to obviate the entrance of water, and, as shown, some of said spoke-receiving mortises extend entirely through the metal to allow one or more of the spokes tobe driven through and into an-elastic filling, D. This filling,which is made of rubber, is in one piece,and extends from the forward shoulder sol;

of the hub back to and flush with the oppo-` 1 site end, the said filling being provided With f i a central hole oorresponding to the shape of v the box E, in which the spindle of the axle revolves. practice made slightly of larger diameter than the internal diameter of the hub, thesaid filling being forced into the hub by any suitable The box E for the axle-spindle is and may be of any usual construction.

By driving a portion of the spokes C into the elastic filling D it prevents any possbility of the filling turning.

I claim- The metallic hub A, cast in one piece and provided with the fianges B, having bevely edged mortises, as described, a portion of said i mortisespreferablyexteuding entirely through the metal of the hub, in combination With therubber filling D, (provided with the axle-box and extending substantially from one to the other end of the hub, substantially as and for the purpose described. l' i In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Springfield, Ohio, this lst day of December, A. D. 188l.

FRANKLIN P. CIRCLE. [In s.]

In presence of- N. E. G. WHITNEY, P. J. GLEVENGER.

opening,) located upon the inside of the hub, f l

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The rubber filling D will be in i l-