US1237692A - Wheel. - Google Patents

Description

L. H. PERLMAN.

- WHEEL.

APPLICATION F|L ED SEPT. 23. 1916.

v Patented Aug. 21, 1917.'

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' Louis H. P nnLMAN, or New Yoan, n.1?. f

Specification' of Letters Patent. PatentediAlg. 21., 191 '1.

Application filed September 23, 1916. i Serial No. 121,834.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Louis H, PERLMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew York, in the county of New York and State of New' York, have invented certain 'neiwand useful Improvements in Wheels;

and -I doV hereby declare the-following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Awhich it appertains to make and use the same. l

This invention relates'to improvements in demountable rims for vehicle wheels, `such as automobile wheels, and the object in 'f view is the provision for efl'ectively'locking the ends of a cross-cut demountable rim.,

With this and further objects in viewA as will hereinafter in part become apparent and `in part be stated, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as sub- Asequently specied and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,-

` Figure l ,is a fragmentary plan view of '5a. demountable rim embodying the features off the present invention.

Fig. 21sa transverse axial section therei-through taken on the plane indicated by .line 2 2 of Fig. l, a fragment ofa wheel body being illustrated in its coperative relation to the rim and showing partly in elevation and partly in vertical section.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the .plane indicated by line 3-,3 of Fig. l and looking in the direction indicated by .the Farrow. f Referring to the'drawingby numerals,

1,1 indicates a demountable rim of the usual and 4. 5.1:? A latchvis connected to terminal 3 to en- ?gage terminal 4. The said latch consists .of a tongue or strip of metal riveted or otherwise fixed to the under surface of rim 1 at the terminal 3 and bent upwardly at 6 through a notch 7 formed inthe material of rim l and opening at the terminal 3. The

strip or tongue 5 is bent again to ext-end from the pointof notch 7 toward `and valong thevterminal portion 4 and that part of the tongue o cross-cut channel type, the rim being cross-v cut at the point 2, leaving rim terminals 8 and being sufliciently depressed to allow` the tongue 5 vto `have its outer Ysurface liej flush with the outer surface Lo f the base of rim 1.l v.That edge ofthe depressed 'portion ..60 8 'more remote from the end 4 o'frim 1 is' cut away from the material of the rim and' a notch 9 is formed along such edge to receive the free end portion of the 'tongue`5'- .The said free -end portion is bent inward,

as indicated at 10, andin operation extends through the notch 9 and projects a sufficient distance inwardly to enter a recess 1l formed in the felly band l2 of a wheel body 13. The said flange oi' projection l0 thus forms a driver which prevents circumferential creeping of rim 1 in operation.

It will be understood, of course, th/at'the;i

rim is mounted in the usual manner' td? rest against tlange-14 of felly band 12 at. one edge and/ atthe other edge of rimv l1' the rim is supported by thev usual locking means, not illustrated. f Y .f

It is to be noted that the bend 6 'is suinciently abrupt to cause the niaterialjof the tongue 5 to lie within the notch `7 vand to be flush with the cut edge of rim 1 represented by the end 3.

In operation, the lrim l is collapsed or distortedv axially aspreferred for the removal and' application of a tire as is well understood in the manipulation of cross-cut demountable rims of the channel type.

W hat I claim is l.' In a Wheel structure of the class described, the combination of a cross-cut demountable rim of the channel type having a notch at one terminal, and a latch comprisingfa tongue xed to the inner face of one terminal of the rim extending through saidl notch and along the outer face of the other terminal of the rim and engaging the latter terminal vfor locking the terminals together.

2.' In a wheel structure of the class described, tne combination 'of a cross-cut' demountable rim of the channel type having a not-cli at one terminal, and a latch comprising a tongue fixed. to the inner face of one terminal ofthe rini extending through said notch and along the outer face of the other terminal of the rim and engaging the latter terminal for'locking the terminals together, the last-named terminal being formed with a depression for receiving the tongue and allowing the same to lie with its outer face iush with `the outer face of the base of the rim. i

i 3. vIn a wheel structure of the classfde-` scribed, the combination ofa cross-cut delv mountable rim of the channel type having a.

- notch at one terminahand a latch compris-` ing a tongue fixed to the inner face of one terminal of the rim extending through sald notch and along the outer face of the otherterminal of the rim and engaging the latter terminal for locking the terminals together', the last-named terminal being.v

formed with a depression for receiving the tongue and allowing the same to lie With itsy o outer face Hush with the outer face offthe v terminal'of the rim extending throughl said notch and along lthe outer face of? the other terminal of the rim and engaging the latter "terminal for locking the terminalstogether,

.the last-named terminal being formed with a d pression for receiving the tongue and allowing the-same to lie with its outer face v'flusn'with the outer face of the base of the rim; the rim being formed- -With a notch at thele terminal of the-tongue being extended sufi ficiently-to form a wheel-engaging driver.

5. In a Wheel structure of the class del scribed,` the combination with a cross-ontdemountable rim of the channel type, of a v, latch therefor engaging the inner face of one terminal ofthe rim and the outer face of the other terminal thereof.

6. In a wheel structure of the classl de-4 t scribed, the combination with a cross-cut demountable rim of the lchannel type, of a latch fixed to one face of one terminal of the rim and having` a locking engagement With 'the relatively opposite face of the other terminal of the rim, Y

7. In a Wheel struct-ure of the class described, the combination with a cross-cut ldef mountable rim of the channel type, of a latch fixed to the inner face of one terminal of the rim and having a. locking engagement with the outer face of the other terminal of the rim.

l .1e-"of the depressed lportion remote from the4 cut end'of the rimy and the tongue y being formed with its free-'terminal bent to'l project through said notch, the projecting In testimony. whereof I aflix my signature in presence of t\vo Witnesses. i

LOUIS I-I.V PERLMAX. Witnesses:

I. B. LETBSON, O- W. Morr.

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