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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
RICHARD H. BURGESS, OF MULLIN, TEXAS.
RESILIENT WHEEL.1,131,468.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Mar. 9,1915.
Application filed May 27, 1913. Serial No. 770,248.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, RICHARD 1-. BURGESS,
citizen of the United States, residing at
Mullin, in the county of Mills and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Resilient Wheels, of which
the following is a specification.
This invention relates to new and useful
improvements in resilient wheels and as its
10 principal object aims to provide a device of
this character which may be cheaply manu-
factured, will be durable and efficient in its
action and may be readily applied to any
vehicle running gear.
15 A further object is to construct a resilient
wheel in which the hub is yieldably sus-
pended at the center of a relatively rigid
tire or rim.
A -still further object is the provision of a
20 resilient wheel in which the rim or tire is
formed of relatively rigid steel.so that while
the hub, which is yieldably suspended in the
center of the tire, may be free to move for
the purpose of absorbing shocks which are
25 imparted to the running gear, the tire will,
nevertheless, be unyielding and will engage
the roadbed in the same manner as does any
ordinary wheel tire.
The above and additional objects are ac-
30 complished by such means as are illustrated
in the accompanying drawings, described in
the following specification and then more
particularly pointed out in the claims which
are appended hereto and form a part of this
35 application.
With reference to the drawings, wherein I
have illustrated the preferred embodiment
of my invention as it is reduced to practice,
and throughout the several views of which
4.0 similar reference numerals designate corre-
sponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation
of the wheel with parts broken away show-
ing the various elements in operative assem-
bled relation. Fig. 2 is a section on the
45 line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspec-
tive view illustrating in detail the hub of
the wheel.
Proceeding now to a description of the
drawings and referring particularly to Figs.
50 1 and 2, in which the invention is best illus-
trated as an entirety, the numeral 10 desig-
nates a metallic tire or rim which is rela-
tively wide in its preferred embodiment and
is constructed of relatively rigid steel. In
55 the center of this tire 10 is yieldably sus-pended a hub designated by the numeral I.
In suspending this hub there are provided
a number of helical springs 12, the inner
terminals of which are detachably connected
to the hub and the outer terminals of which 60
are detachably connected to the tire 10.
There are preferably four of these spring
members provided and when such a num-
ber is employed they are quadrantly spaced
and arranged with their longitudinal axes 65
extending as radii of the tire.
As a means for protecting the springs 12
and also for holding the hub 11 against
transverse movement there have been pro-
vided four quadrantly spaced pairs of radi- 70
ally extending guard-plates as at 13, 14, 15 -
and 16. As stated, these pairs of guard-
plates extend as radii of the wheel and are
of such length that their inner ends termi-
nate short of the tire center. To the inner 75
terminals of these guard-plates is secured
a pair of circular housing-plates 17 and 18.
Upon reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that
the individual plates of each pair of guard-
members are arranged to extend in parallel 80
spaced relation to each other. In Fig. 2
the individual plates of the pair 14 are
designated by the numerals 19 and 20. The
inner terminals of these members are riveted
or otherwise secured as at 21 and 22, respec- 85
tively, to the housing-plates 17 and 18. The
outer terminals of the members 19 and 20
are bent at right angles to produce attaching
lugs as at 23 and 24. These attaching lugs
23 and 24 are centrally apertured, the aper- 90
tures being adapted to register with the
members 19 and 20 are assembled so that a
rivet or similar fastening device 25 may be
inserted through the lugs and nass through
the tire 10 for properly securing the outer 95
terminals of the members 19 and 20 to the
tire. Each spring-member 12, is, as previ-
ously described, helical in conformation, its
outer terminal being bent to produce a hook
26 which is engageable over a transversely 100
extending bolt 27 which is positioned ad-
jacent the outer terminals of the members 19
and 20. A bolt similar to the bolt 27 is of
course, provided for each pair of guard
members and in the preferred embodiment 105
of the invention these bolts are adjustable
toward and away from the center of the
wheel by insertion through the series of reg-
istering anerti res 28. It will be apparent
that by adjusting the bolt 27 the tension of 110
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Burgess, Richard H. Resilient Wheel, patent, March 9, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859572/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.