US873048A

US873048A - Wheel.

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Publication number: US873048A
Application number: US36667407A
Authority: US
Inventors: George B Hurlburt
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-04-06
Filing date: 1907-04-06
Publication date: 1907-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 1924-12-10

Description

PATENTBD DEG. '10, 1907.

G. B. HURLBURT.

WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 1907;

THE mmms PETERS cu.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

GEORGE B. HURLBURT, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

W'I-IEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

Application filed April 6, 1907I Serial No. 366,674-

' ence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in wheels, and refers more particularly to steering wheels for launches and other small vessels; its object being to provide a simple and compact device which will be strong and durable, neat and pleasing in appearance, and can be readily assembled.

To these, and other ends, my invention consists in the wheel having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference designate like parts in the several figures; Figure 1 is a transverse sectional elevation of my improved device; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the base plate; and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the hub of the wheel looking from the left of Fig. 1.

In the practice of my invention I provide a wheel 1 having a central hub 2; integral radiating arms 3 and posts 4 projecting radially outside of the rim of said wheel, and to which the handles 5 are secured. Fixed to the hub of said wheel is the drum 6. In the drawings the means shown for securing said hub and drum are the pins 7 which project laterally from the hub 2 into one end of said drum. The wheel and drum are rotatable upon a pin 8 which has a solid head 9 lying within a recess in the face of said hub and removably secured at its other end in a plate 10 by a pin 11, which lies in a groove 12 in the back of said plate and passes diametrically through a hole in said pin near the end thereof. The plate 10, as shown herein, has parallel side edges, but it may be circular or any other shape that would be most convenient, and is preferably secured to a fixed part by screws which pass through holes '13 provided to receive them. Integral with said plate is a boss 14 which is designed to support the inner end of the drum 6.

The devices of this character in common use have a bolt which is first threaded into the plate and then secured against rotation either by a nut or other means, after which the wheel is then mounted on the bolt and held against accidental displacement by a nut which is threaded thereon against a shoulder. This method of construction is highly undesirable, because to take down the wheel and drum necessitates the dismantling of all of the mechanism, that is, the nut must first be taken off, after which the wheel and drum are separately dismounted and then the plate removed. A further objection arises from the exposed nut in that it frequently tears the clothing and body of a person who accidentally is brought in contact therewith, and at times it becomes loosened and drops off. In my improved construction, herein described, the wheel and drum are inseparably secured together and the mechanism is assembled by first passing the pin through the wheel and drum and afterwards the plate where it is secured by means of a fastening pin. The whole mechanism is then permanently secured by the attachment of the plate 10. Thus, it will be noted, that the pin, plate, wheel and drum are all operatively connected with each other before the wheel is mounted and there are no exposed parts liable to become separated, or sharp edges to injure anything brought in contact therewith.

There are minor changes andalterations that can be made within my invention, aside from those herein suggested, and I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction herein shown and described, but claim all that falls fairly within -the spirit and scope of m invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a wheel having laterally projecting pins upon the hub thereof; a drum connected with said wheel and secured by said pins; a plate; a headed bolt passing through the hub of said wheel and said drum, and separably secured to said plate.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a wheel having pins connected with the hub thereof; a drum secured to said hub by said pins; a plate; a headed pin passing through said hub and drum with the head thereof engaging the exposed side of said hub; and a fastening pin for separably securing the aforesaid pin to a head 9 thereon; and means, as a pin 11, 10 said plate. for separably securing said pin to said plate.

3. In a device of the character described, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature all?) combination wlvlith thehwheel 1 haxf ing the in presence of two witnesses.

u 2 integral t erewit pins 7 orming T part of said hub and projecting laterally GEORGE HURLBLRT' therefrom; a drum 6 mounted on said pins; Witnesses: a plate 10 having a boss 14 thereon upon S. FRED HURLBURT, which said drum is rotatable; a pin 8 having 1 EDWIN S. KELSEY.