US838630A

US838630A - Metal vehicle-wheel.

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Publication number: US838630A
Application number: US26685405A
Authority: US
Inventors: Robert T Lewis Jr
Original assignee: AMERICAN TUBE AND STAMPING Co
Current assignee: AMERICAN TUBE AND STAMPING Co
Priority date: 1905-06-24
Filing date: 1905-06-24
Publication date: 1906-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1923-12-18

Description

PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906.

RM1?. LEWIS, JB. METAL' VEHICLE WHEEL.

PPLITION FILED JUNE 24. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT T. LEVIS, JR., OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN TUBE AND STAMPING COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

METAL VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application led June 24, 1905. Serial No. 266,854,

T0 all whom, it may concern:

* Be it known that I, ROBERT T. LEWIS, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and -useful Metal Vehicle-l/Vheel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more especially to the construction ot what are termed the hubflanges7 of vehicle-wheels made entirely of metal and using return-bend spokes; and my invention has for its obj ect to produce a hublange ot this character which shall be simple and inexpensive to produce, neat and attra'ctive in appearance, in which the spokes shall be so firmly locked in the flange as to render movement in any direction impossible, thus insuring the greatest possible strength and rigidity to the wheel, which shall be so constructed as to provide an effective oilguard, thus wholly preventing soiling of the clothing by contact with the hub, and which shall be adapted without change to either small or barrel hubs and for use upon either nut or nutless axles.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain parts, improvements, and combinations, which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a barrel-hub complete, illustrating the use of my novel flanges in connection with a nutless axle. Fig. 2 is an enlarged outer 'face view of an outer flange detached. Fig. 8 is an inner face view of either an inner or outer flange detached. Fig, 4 is a tace view of the inner or grooved disk detached, showing a special form of bend ot the spokes and the manner in which the bends are socketed in the grooves. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the outer disk in its assembled form, but detached. Fig. 6 is a vertical section ot an' inner disk with the sleeve turned outward. Fig. 7 is a similar view with the sleeve turned inward. Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. l, illustrating the use of my novel flanges in connection with a nutaxle. Fig. 9 is a cross-section showing the wheel in place upon an axle, the axle-box and hub-barrel being in section and the outer disk partly in section at the bend ot the tongues; and Fig. 10 is an outer face view, partly broken away, ot either an inner orf'outer flange detached, showing the use of my novel grooved inner disk in connection with the ordinary form of return-bendfspokes.

Adenotes an axle; B, an axle-box; C, ahubbarrel; D, outer iianges as a whole, and E inner flanges as a whole. It should be understood that I use the term inner and outerH as applied to the flanges merely as a distinguishing term. The outer iianges are provided with`oil-guards; the inner flanges are not; but ilanges with or without oilguards maybe used, if preferred, at either end of the axle-box.

The anges consist, essentially, of an inner disk 20 and an outer disk 21. The aXle-boX is provided near each end with a circumferential rib 22, against which the inner disk of the corresponding iange bears. Each inner disk is provided with an integral sleeve 23, which forms the bearing of the iange upon the axle-box. This sleeve may be turned outward, as in Fig. 6, or inward, as in Fig. 7.

In all of the forms the inner disk is provided in its face with a recess 36, which receives -one end or' a hub-barrel, as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 8, and 9. It an ordinary small hub is required, the hub-barrel is not used. It a barrel-hub is required, the barrel is simply placed between the iianges of the wheel, its ends engaging the depressions 36, and is rigidly locked in place in assembling by upsetting the ends of the axle-box, as at 31.

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the inner disks is that each is provided with grooves which receive the bends of the spokes. In the form illustrated in Fig. 4 the inner disk is provided 'with a circumferentialv groove 24 and a series of radial grooves 25, leading into the circumferential groove. The spokes 27 lie in these grooves, the walls ot the grooves supporting them and retaining them rigidly in place.

The spokes are of the return-bend typel IOO This construction of the inner disk and spokes gives the greatest possible strength and rigidity to the flange, as it is impossible for the spokes to slip or move in any direction when the liange is assembled. The outer disk is provided with a series of notches 29, which receive the spokes, leaving between the notches tongues 30, which are curved over the edge of the inner disk between the hubs, thereby looking the spokes and inner and outer disks rigidly and securely together and making the flange as a whole very inueh stronger than when made in the ordinary way. The fianges are locked to the axlebox by upsetting the ends of the axle-box against the ends of the sleeves of the flanges, asat 31, as clearly shown in Figs. l and 8, each flange being securely locked between a rib on the axle-box' and the upset end of the axle-box.

Each of the outer disks is provided with a central opening 32, whether formed with or without an oil-guard. In what I have termed inner f flanges the outer face of the inner disk lies substantially at right angles to the axis of the axle-box, and in what I have termed outer7 fianges the outer face of the outer disk is provided with an oilguard 33, formed by stamping the metal outward in the form of a frustum of a cone, as clearly shown in Figs, l and 8. This conical guard insures that oil that may escape at the end of the axle-box will drop within the flange and be retained. there, the outer face of the guard being always clean and free from oil, even when no cap is used, thus removing all danger of soiling the clothing by contact with the outer iiange of the wheel. In Fig. 1 I have shown the opening in the guard as closed by a rubber cap 34, and in i Fig. 5 I have shown .it as closed by a meta cap 35.

The form illustrated in Fig. l0 differs from the other form in that the ordinary style of return-bend spokes is used-that is to say, the mid-length of the piece of wire from which a pair of spokes is formed is simply a returnbend that is an outward or convex curve, as at 37. In this form the circumferential groove is used as before; but instead of radial grooves to receive the spokes the inner ends of the spokes lie in curved grooves 38, which correspond with the curvature of the return-bendv of the spoke and which .intersect the circumferential grooves, the ends of the curved grooves extending to the edge of the disk, as clearly shown.

In Fig. l I have shown an assembled barrelhub in connection with what is termed a fnutless axle. The inner end of the axlebox is extended inward and. has rigid y secured thereto a flanged sleeve 39, the iiange of which is engaged by a spring-catch 40 to retain the wheel in place upon the axle.

In Fig. 8 I have shown an assembled barrel-hub in connection with what is termed a nut-axle. In this form the forward end of the axle is extended and. provided. with a thread All, which is engaged by a nut 42, which ljust passes within the central opening 32 in the outer flange. It will thus be seen that either the inner or outer flanges are adapted without change to be used either with or without hub-barrels to make what are termed barrel-hubs and upon either nut or nutless axles. As already stated, what I have terme( outer7 flanges may be used at either end of the hub, if preferred, and if an oil-guard is not required inner flanges may be used at either end of the hub.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. A- hub-flange comprising an inner disk having a recess in its face to receive the end of a hub-barrel and an outer disk having tongues curved over the edge of the inner disk to lock the disks and the spokes in place.

2. A hub-flange consisting of an inner disk having grooves which receive and support the inner ends of return-bend spokes and an outer disk having notches to receive the spokes and tongues which curve over the edge of the inner disk to lock the disks and the spokes in place.

3. A hub-flange consisting of an inner disk having in one side a recess to receive the end of a hub-barrel and in the other side grooves to receive the inner ends of return-bend spokes and an outer disk having notches which receive the spokes and tongues which curve over the edge of the inner disk to lock the disks and spokes in place.

4. A hub-flange consisting of an inner disk having a circumferential groove and leading therefrom radial grooves which receive the inner ends of return-bend spokes, the walls of the grooves supporting the spokes, and an outer disk having tongues between which the spokes pass and which curve over the edge of the inner disk to lock the disks and spokes in place.

5. In a hub-flange the combination with an inner disk having a circumferential groove and radial grooves leading therefrom, and return-bend spokes having inward curves corresponding with the circumferential groove, of an outer disk having tongues between which the spokes lie and which curve over the edge of the inner disk to lock the spokes and disks in place.

6. A hub-flange consisting of an inner disk having a sleeve, in one side a recess to receive the end of a hub-barrel and in the other side grooves to receive return-bend spokes and an outer disk having a central opening, an outwardly turned conical oilguard, tongues which receive the spokes between them and curve over the edge of the inner disk and a cap closing the opening in the oil-guard` 7. A hub-flange consisting of an inner disk IOO IIU

having a sleeve with e recess in one side to In testimony whereof I a'HiX my signature receive the end of a hub-barrel, and an outer in 'presence of tWo Witnesses.

disk having a central opening, an outwardlyturned conical oil-guard, tongues Which receive the spokes between them and curve over the edge of the inner disk and a cap closing the opening in the oil-guard.

ROBERT T. LEWS, JR.

Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, S. WV. ATHERTON.