US119295A - Improvement in hubs for wagon-wheels - Google Patents

Description

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SIMEON ATIIA, OF WEST LIBERTY, OHIO.

` IMPROVEMENT IN HUBS FOR WAGQNWHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,295, dated September 26, 1871.

To all lwhom 'it 'may concern: v v

Beit known that I, SnvrEoN ATHA, of West l Liberty, in the county of Logan andl State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hubs for Wagon-Wheels and I do herel by declare the following to be a full and correct description ofthe same, suiicientto enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and construct the same, reference being hadV to the accompanying drawing which Vmakes part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side `elevation of a central vertical section of my improved hub. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the wooden part of the same, and

Fig. 3 is a similar elevation of the metal cover plate their beveled edges are contiguous andform one solid wooden ring, which is held between the side flanges of the cover.

In the drawing, A may represent the wooden part of my improved hub, consisting 'of a perfectly straight wooden cylinder, provided at a suitable distance from its ends with openings `b extending from the periphery to the center opening f for the axle, linto which openings b iit the lower square ends cof the spokes (l. Above these ends c the spokes are beveled and wider, forming shoulders, as shown at d. D represents the two ends of a metal cover iitting closely over the wooden hub A, and connected to each other by a plate, c, which is provided with openings g to correspond with openings b of the woodenhub iianges E rising fromthe parts D, where they connect F'with the plate e and extend upwardly to near the place where the spokes sepi arate. This metal cover, as shown in Fig. 3, I cast or otherwise form .in one piece. The several parts being prepared as described, the hub A, which may be provided with a cap, B, is passed into the metal cover until the openings b g are in line and the spokes driven in between the iianges E. It will be readily understood that when the hub is in proper place within the cover all the wood is covered by the metal cover, and that when thespokes are driven in the space between the iianges E is also completely iilled, so that no dust or dirt can accumulate in the hub. The ends c of the spokes pass through openings g oi' the connecting-plate c into the corresponding openings b of the hub, their shoulders d resting on the plate e, their beveled edges contiguous to each other, as shown at c, iorming a solid wooden rin gheld iirmly between theiiangesE. Itis an established fact that a hub in which the spokes are contiguous to each other is much stronger and consequently more durable than a hub into which the spokes are driven without supporting each other, and at the same time it is desirable to have the ends of the spokes extend through the hub. My improvement accomplishes these desideratums, and by the use of the metal cover, completely inclosing the wooden hub, I am not only enabled to make a much smaller and neater hub of the same required strength, but the splitting of the wooden part of the hub is entirely obviated, and by use of flat connectingplates there is a great advantage obtained over any other manner of constructin g hubs for wheels, as it will be seen that when driving in the spokes their shoulders will carry down those connecting-plates close against the wooden hub, and they will also give down and press more iirmly to the wooden hub when the tire is shrunk on the wheel. By this it will be seen that the connecting-plates and the wooden hub are held rmly together, and, by the use of rivets or bolts passing through the iianges and between the spokes, that neither the spokes nor plates can start or move from the hub; and by the metal cover over the entire surface of the wooden hub a neat and substantial hub is produced. The point cap may be formed on and with the cover, if desired, but I prefer to make it separate and apply it in the usual manner, as shown.

There are various forms of metal constructions used with wooden hubs, but there are none where the wooden portion ot' a wheel-hub is et'fectually and entirely covered and protected by a metal cover formed in one piece and provided with side ilanges which allow the beveled edges of the spokes to be contiguous, as herein described; nor are there any with connecting-plates that will give down and press to the Wooden hub by the shoulders ofthe spokes, as herein shown zuid described.

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

The hub for carriage or Wagon-Wheels constructed of the Wooden portion A b, metal cover D with anges E, and thin connecting-plates e, all formed in one piece, the plates e held so as to firmly press against the Wooden hub by reason of their elasticity, and through the shoulders of the spokes, as herein described.

SIMEON ATHA.

Witnesses:

R. N. JORDAN, J ENNIE JORDAN.

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