USD5235S - Design for a spoke-socket rim for hubs - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICF.

SAMUEL B. HINDMAN AND WILLIAM N. MATTHElVS, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO THEMSELVES, MERRICK 0. WEEKS, AND EDWARD R. MAT- THEWS, OF SAME PLACE.

DESIGN FOR A SPOKE-SOCKET RIM FDR HUBS.

Specification forming part of Design No. 5,235, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL B. HINDMAN and WVILLIAM N. MAT'rHEws, both of Richmond, in the county of Wayne, Indiana,-have invented a new and useful ornamental Design for a Spoke- Socket Rim for Carriage-Wheels, of which the following is a specification:

The subject of our invention is a cast rim for application to a wooden hub to form a staggered wheel of superior strength, and which shall neither increase nor diminish in dish. The invention consists in the shape or conformation hereinafter set forth.

Sheet 1 is a photograph of parts of two staggered wheels illustrating our design. Figure 1 is a perspective of the rim. Fig. 2 is a perspective of a hub to which the same has been fitted. Fig. 3 is a perspective of aspoke as made for use therewith. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the rim, hub, and spokes united. Sheet 2 is a detail draw ing of the rim. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 6 is alongitudinal section thereof.

We cast our rim with a smooth cylindrical bore, a, Fig. 1, and radial sockets 1) extending through and tapered inwardly in width, the same being further projected alternately to the respective ends of the rim, so as to stagger the spokes when applied and formed or extended in depth by a circumferential chain of marginal flanges, c. The ends d of the barrel of the rim project a short distance beyond the said flanges c, and are rounded or beveled. The number of sockets in the illustration is sixteen. This may vary with difi'erent wheels for all sizes of which the rim may be adapted. The rim is shrunk on the hub in customary manner, and then mortises c, Fig. 2, are formed in the latter in extension of sockets I) in the rim. The spokes are then driven in their tenons f, Fig. 3, occupying the mortises c in the hub, and beveled shoulders g the tapered sockets Z) in the rim. The outer ends of the spokes are then (or in the manufacture of the spokes) tenoned or otherwise prepared, and the folly and tire applied in any preferred way. The stagger will operate as usual to prevent any decrease in the dish, while the tapered sockets, receiving the beveled shoulders on the spokes, provide for the spokes being driven in tightly as often as they may require it, and thus prevent any increase of the dish. These are additional to the primary function of the rim in common with others, to aflord a firm support to the spokes above their teuons.

WVe claim as our invention- The shape or conformation of the one-part spokesocket rim, Fig. 1, adapted for staggered wheels, and formed with a cylindrical bore, a, tapered radial sockets b, and a circumferential chain of marginal flanges, c, as and for the purposes shown and set forth.

SAML. B. HINDMAN. WILLIAM N. MATTHEWS. Witnesses:

J. R. KENWORTHY, J. ALEXANDER.

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