US902127A - Hub-securing device. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. WEITZEL.

HUB SBGUBIHG DEVICE.

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Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. WEITZEL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

HUB-SECURING DEVICE skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in hub-securing devices.

It has for its object to provide for securing the simple, expeditious and effective locking of the hub in place in connection with the axle skein; also to recover waste lubricant for its reutilization upon the hearing.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrange ment of parts as will be described and particularly pointed out in the appended F claims.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a like sectional view produced upon the line 44of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a detailed vertical sectional view disclosing more especially the stressed locking pawl employed herein. Fig. 6 is a sectional perspective view of the outer end of the axle.

In carrying out my invention I provide the axle-skein, 1, with a pocket or chamber, 2. Said pocket or chamber is provided in its lateral wall with recesses, 3, 4-, one at its inner end and the other near its outer end, said recesses having their relatively outer surfaces or walls produced upon oppositely inclined or spiral lines, as disclosed, the purpose of which will presently appear. Said pocket has also in its lateral wall, at its entrance, a rectangular, lateral extension or enlargement, 5, in communication with the outer lateral recess or enlargement, 4. Said socket has also in its lateral wall a longitudinal or axial recess or passage, 6, intersecting the angular recesses or extensions, 3, 4.

A locking key, 7, having extending from diagonally opposite portions thereof lugs, 8, 9, is adapted to be inserted into the pocket Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

1908. Serial No. 435,462.

of the axle-skein, said lu s engaging the lateral recess therein and a so the spiral faces of the shoulders thereof, and whereby, as it is turned to its final position, said key is retained in locked position in said axle-skein.

An annular locking washer member, 10, fits against the outer end of the axle-skein and has a tubular, axial projection, 11, entering the pocket, 2, of the axle-skein, said extension or projection, 11, having a lateral lug or extension, 12, received by the socket extension, 5. Said lug or extension 12 has its upper surface recessed or rounded out to form a drain passage, and in the outer end of the axle-skein, 1, opposite the entranceend recess, 5, thereof, is a depression or recess, 13, forming a passa e for draining the otherwise waste liquid ubricant into the waste lubricant passage formed by the recessed lug or projection, 12, the lubricant passing from the latter down into the bottom of the pocket or chamber, 2, of the axleskein, and finally, out through an opening, 14, in said axle-skein bottom lnto the hub or thus being prevented from wasting.

A nut, 15, is adapted to be placed upon the projecting end of the locking key, 7, and has its coincident apertures, 16, therein adapted to receive a pin, 17, insertible therethrough, and a registering aperture or passage, 18, in said locking key for the retention of said nut thereon. Said nut is eguipped with a spring stressed pawl, 19, a apted to engage a clrcular arrangement of ratchet teeth in an annular portion of the washer,- 10, for the retention of said nut with the key-lockin pin against rotation or displacement, the latter being common in a former patent of mine.

It will be seen from the fore oing that a two-fold locking action is obtained for the washer and nut-locking key. Therefore, a more effective means of fastening is obtained thereby, as will be readily appreciated, and that means is provided for preventing the waste of lubricant, and returning the same to dthe bearing upon which it was originally fe From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Var1ous changes in the. form, proportion and the minor details of construction may bearing for reusing the lubricant, the latter be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

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

l. A device of the class described, enibracing an axle-skein having a pocket provided with shoulders therein, a locking key having diagonally opposed lugs effective for engagement with said shoulders, and means for the retention of said key in locked position.

2. A device of the character described, embracing an axl'e -skei'n having a pocket provided with a plurality of houlders having spiral surfaces, a locking key having diagonally opposed lugs adapted for engagement with said surfaces, and locking means for said key. v

a A device of the character described, embracing an aXle-skein having a pocket provided with inner and outer end annular recesses, a locking key having diagonally opposed lugs engaging said recesses, and looking means for said key. 4

4:. A device of the class describedcomprising an aXle-skein having a pocket provided with spaced apart annular recesses, the walls thereof having spiral or inclined surfaces, a l'ocking key havin diagonally opposed ln s engaging said wal s, and lockin means or said key.

a. A device of the character described embracing an aXle-s'kein provided with a pocket having inner and outer end annular recesses with their Walls formed on spiral lines, alockin key having diagonally opposed lu s e ective for enga'ement with said Walls, and locking means or said key,

6. A device of the character described embracing an axle s'kei'n having annular recesses' therein, a locking key havin j diagonally opposed lugs adapted for lockin'g action with said recesses, and locking means for said key embracing a locked nut and a retaining pin passing through said nut and a registering opening. in sai foc'king ke 7. A device of the chaacte'r descri'ed, embracin an aXle-s'kein 'aving a "ticket and provided with spaced apart annu r recesses, a locking key hav in diagonal y opposed lugs adapted for locl ting' action with said recesses, a washer member, a nut member arranged upon said lockin' key, and locking means for said nut an Washer in connection With said ke a 8. A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein having a pocket provi-ded with spaced apart recesses, said axleskein' also having at lts entrance an extended recess, a locking key having diagonally opposed lugs adapted for locking action with said recess and insertible through said extended entrance opening, and locking means for said key.

, 9. A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein having spaced apart annular recesses, said recesses being connected together at their bottoms by a longitudinal recess 01' passage, and said axle having its pocket provided at the entrance end with an extended 0 ening communicating with the outer one oi said annular recesses, a locking key having lugs for engagement with said recesses and passing through said longitudinal passage and said extended opening, and locking means for said key.

10'. A device of the class described embracing an axle-skein having a pocket, said pocket having at its entrance end an extended opening, a locking key effective for engagement wlth said pocket, and locking means applicable to said locking key, one member; of said locking means having a recessed lug ada ted to form a assage for the drainage o lubricant into said pocket.

11. A device of the character described embracing an aXle-skein having a pocket, the entrance end of said pocket having an extended opening, said aXle-skein having also a recess opposed to said extended opening, a lockin key for engagement with said pocket, and ocking means for said key, one member of said lOCk-ing means having a lug adapted to form a passage for combining with the lateral recess in said axle-skein for effecting the drainage of Waste lubricant into said pocket. k

12. A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein having a pocket, a locking-key having engagement with said pocket, a locking Washer for engagement with said aXle-skein having a tubular extension thereon intersecting said pocket and provided with a lateral lug rounded out in its upper surface to form a drain passage, said a'XIeske'in having an end recess opposed to said rounded out lug, and means for locking sa'id washer and locking key in place.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. WEITZEL.

Witnesses HENRY W. LIOKINGER, Jenn A. SPAGHER.

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