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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
RICHARD D. MOON, OF SAN ANGELO, TEXAS.
WHEEL.
971,463. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 27, 1910.
Application filed October 20, 1909. Serial No. 523,570.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, RIrIAD D. MoON, a
citizen of the United States, and a resident
of San Angelo, in the county of Tom Green
5 and State of Texas, have made certain new
and useful Improvements in Wheels, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention is an improvement in
wheels adapted for any of the ordinary pur-
30 poses for which vehicle wheels are designed;
and the invention consists in certain novel
(constructions and combinations of parts as
will be hereinafter described and claimed.
In the drawing Fig lure 1 is a side view,
15 partly broken in section, of a portion of a
wheel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a
cross section on about line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view with some
of the parts detached, illustrating the con-
20 section between the fell sections and the
spokes. Fig. 4 is a side view, partly in see-
tion, of a portion of a wheel showing a some-
what different construction from that pre-
sented in Fig. 1.
25 The spokes A may be used in connection
with any ordinary hub and be united thereto
in the usual or any other desired manner.
At their outer ends the spokes A are pro-
vided with head-like constructions A', and
30 with tenons A2 at the outer ends thereof, the
heads A' with their tenons A fitting within
the rim or between the sections thereof as
shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and as more fully
described hereinafter. As shown, the heads
35 A' are of a width equal to the thickness of
the felly sections B, and are flat on their
opposite sides to coincide with the sides of
the sections B, and the outer ends of the
tenons A2 coincide at A3 with the outer sur-
40 face B' of the rim sections B. The rim sec-
tions B fit each between their respective ad-
jacent spokes A, and are notched in their
ends at B2 to fit the tenon heads A' of the
spokes as best shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4 of
45 the drawing.
While the joints between the tenon heads
of the spokes and the felly sections may be
symmetrical and square as shown in Fig. 1,
I may in some instances, desire to make the
50 spoke heads and the cooperating ends of the
felly sections of the particular form shown
in Fig. 4, wherein the spoke heads and felly
sections interlock.
The tire is made in sections and put on
5 after the wheel is finished. Usually the sec-
tions are semicylindrical and the sections aresecurely fastened together at one end at E
as shown in Fig. 1, and then thrown in a
cold tire shrink, and made tight, and then
riveted securely at E, as shown in Fig. 1.-60
In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the tire sections D
are shown channeled with the flat outer sur-
faces D' and the depending flat flanges D
which overlap the sides of the felly sections
B and the heads of the spokes A, and these 65
tire sections D are secured together at E by
means of a bridge F, see Figs. 1 and 2, pref-
erably in the form of an elongated block,
seated in a recess formed il the outer side
of the felly section B, and lapping the joint 70
between the tire sections I), at E, and hav-
ing transverse holes for the bolts G, and
radial holes for the radially extending bolts
G', whereby the base plate D' and the side
flanges D2 of the tire sections are rigidly 75
united to the bridge connection F as will be
understood from Figs. 1 aWl 2 of the dra w-
ing.
At or near their ends the fell sections B
are provided with transverse openings ad- 80
jacent the tenons A' of the spokes A for
the passage of rivets or bolts H which se-
cure the parts together as shown in Fig. 1
of the drawing. These rivets II may be ar-
ranged on both sides of the tenon A as 85
shown iin Fig. 1, or they may be arranged
on one side only of the said tenon as shown
in Fig. 3 of the drawing.
Iii operation, when the tire gets loose it
can be tightened by a cold tire shrink with- 90
out. taking the wheel apart and the tire
cannot conic off because of the flange con-
struction shown in the several figures.
It is claimed that this wheel is superior
to any other wheel in strength because of its 95
construction in fellies, tire and spokes, where
other wheels are weakest and first to give
down. In this wheel there is no splitting of
fellies, tire running off etc. The wheel can
be more easily made, will be more durable 100
and more easily repaired when repairs are
necessary. The tire covering the sides of
the felly and being riveted at the spokes
will add the same strength to the rim of the
wheel as the iron flanges add to the spokes 105
in the patented hub.
As best shown in Figs. 1 and 3, it will be
noticed that the joint between the felly sec-
tions and the headed form of spokes is such
that while the felly sections abut both the 110
head A' and the tenon A' of the spoke, they
also abut the shoulders at the juncture of
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Moon, Richard D. Wheel., patent, September 27, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510560/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.