US484675A

US484675A - Arthur wellesley robinson

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Publication number: US484675A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 1909-10-18

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A. W. ROBINSON.

VEHICLE OR OTHER WHEEL. No. 484,675. Patented Oct. 18, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT ARTHUR WELLESLEY ROBINSON, OF SHELDON, ENGLAND.

VEHICLE OR OTHER WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,675, dated October 18, 1892. Application filed April 9, 1892. Serial No. 428,479. (No model.) Patented in India May 20, 1889, No. 14/ 1,048.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR WELLESLEY ROBINSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Sheldon, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in .Wheels, (for which I have received a patent in India, dated May 20, 1889, Reg. No. I I/1,048,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wheels the peripheries of which are subjected to considerable wear or frictionsuch, for instance, as the wheels of vehicles or velocipedes the object of my invention being to provide a practically-noiseless wearing-surface which possesses a certain amount of elasticity, which is extremely durable and cheap, and which can be readily renewed when desired. According to my invention the wearing-surfaces of such wheels are composed of a number of pieces of leather or other similar or suitable material placed side by side and so that the grain of such pieces is radial with the axis of the wheels. Each of said pieces is perforated, and an elastic core is made to engage the perforations of all of said pieces. In practice I fiX such pieces of material in grooved or channeled bars or rims having undercut sides or flanges, the said pieces of material being shaped at one part in order to fit the grooves or channels.

To enable my invention to be fully understood, I will describe thesame by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure represents a sectional View of a portion of wheel constructed according to my inven tion.

it represents the rim of my improved Wheel, which is preferably channeled or grooved, so as to provide the flanges 6, between which the sections or pieces of the tire are held.

0 0 indicate the pieces of material constituting the surface of the wheel, the said pieces being shaped, as shown, so as to fit tightly into the groove and over the edges of the channeled or grooved bar or rim, as shown, and being placed side by side in close contact, so that their combined ends or edges will form a continuous surface.

I sometimes find it advantageous to connect the Various pieces together by means of cement as they are placed in the channelor groove.

In each of the pieces a is formed a circular hole, and as the said pieces are placed in position in the channel or groove of the rim, I thread them over an india-rubber core consisting in this instance of a tube having closed ends, which tube when all the pieces 0 c are in place can be inflated.

In the drawing, e indicates the flexible tube, over which the pieces 0 c are threaded, and f indicates a valve having a nozzle upon one side, to which an air-pump can be attached for inflating the tube.

It indicates the Valve proper, by means of which the communication between the atmosphere and the flexible tube can be out off before the air-pump is removed from the nozzle 9.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is I. In a wheel, the combination, with the rim, of aseries of perforated radially-disposed sections of elastic material secured to said rim and an elastic core engaging the perforations of all of said sections, substantially as described.

2. In a wheel, the combination, with the rim, of a series of perforated radially-disposed sections of elastic material secured to said rim, a hollow elastic core for engaging the apertures of all of said sections, and a pipe connected with said hollow core for inflating the same, substantially as described.

ARTHUR WELLESLEY ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

A. S. ALBUTT, G. F. TYSON, Clerks to G. F. Redfern d2 00., Patent Agents, Sguth Street, Finsbury, London, Eng-