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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JEROME B. HATCH, OF DALLAS, AND WILEY N. STROUD, OF WAXA-
HATCHIE, TEXAS.
WHEEL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,045, dated October 16, 1888.
Application filed July 24, 188. Serial No. 20,85. (No model.)To all zvhon071 it may coneer7':
Be it known that we, JEROMIE B. HATCH, of
Dallas, Dallas county, Texas, and WILEY N.
STROUD, of Waxahatchie, in the county of
5 Ellis and State of Texas, citizens of the United
States, have invented new and useful Improve-
ments in Wheels, of which the following is a
specification.
Our invention relates to improvements in
io main or driving wheels for reapers, harvesters,
binders, and other similar machines wherein
the operation of the device depends upon the
rotation of a wheel in contact with theground.
In the ordinary practice wheels of this char-
15 acter are provided with transverse ribs, which
engage the surface when traversing soft, moist,
or marshy soils; but in passing over hard soils
these ribs cause a jolting of the machinery,
which results in an irregular operation thereof.
20 The object of this invention is to provide
simple and efficient means for overcoming this
difficulty without losing the advantage to be
derived from the ribs when the wheels are
passing over soft ground.
25 The invention consists in a certain novel
construction and combination of devices, fully
set forth hereinafter, in connection with the
accompanying drawings, wherein-
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of
30 the improved wheel, and Fig. 2 represents a
detail sectional view.
Referring to the drawings, the spokes A,
which may be of any ordinary or suitable con-
struction or pattern, are attached at their outer
35 ends to the flat rim B, and C C represent
transverse ribs or lugs, which are attached to
or cast integral with the outer side of therim.
These ribs or lugs are tapered or wedge-
shaped toward their outer edges, and the said
40o edges are rounded, as shown in the drawings.
D represents an annular flange, which is at-
tached to or formed integral with the rim on
one side thereof, and the said flange is of thesame height as the lugs or ribs. This flange
is also tapered on its inner side, as shown. 45
The flange and the ribs or lugs may be either
cast integral with the rim of the wheel, as
shown in the drawings, or attached thereto in
any ordinary or preferred manner.
The advantages of the invention are that in 50
traversing soft and marshy soil the ribs or lugs
engage in thesurface in the ordinary way; but
in passing over hard or stony soil the flange
bears on the surface and prevents jarring.
The ribs and the flange are flush with each 55
other at their outer edges, and this height may
be considerably more than that of the ordinary
ribs, as will be seen, for the reason that the
said height does not affect the regularity of
motion of the wheel in passing over hard soil. 6o
The advantage in tapering the ribs or lugs
and the inner side of the flange is to prevent
earth from clogging therein and interfering
with the effectiveness of the wheel.
Having thus described our invention, what 65
we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-
ent of the United States, is-
Awheelhaving a flat rim provided with ta-
pered or wedge-shaped ribs or lugs C C,
rounded at their outer edges, and the periph- 70
eral flange D, integral with the rim and the
ribs or lugs and tapered or rounded on its in-
ner side to a rounded edge, the outer edge of
the flange being flush with the outer edges of
the ribs or lugs, substantially as specified. 75
In testimony that we claim the foregoing as
our own we have hereto affixed our signatures
in presence of two witnesses.
JEROME B. HATCH.
WILEY N. STROUD.
Witnesses to signature of Jerome B. IIatch:
E. B. BARYE,
JNo. BooKHIAUT.
Witnesses to signature of Wiley N. Stroud:
A. R. LOGAN,
J. N. WHITTENDERG.
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Hatch, Jerome B. & Stroud, Wiley N. Wheel., patent, October 16, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171874/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.