US471024A - Spoke-socket - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. B. RIGHTER.

SPOKE SOCKET.

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SPOKE-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,024, dated March 15, 1892.

Application filed November 14, 1891. Serial No. 411,890- No model To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES B. RIGHTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reedsburg, in the county of Sank and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spoke-Sockets; and I do 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 which it appertains to make and use the same. My invention has relation to improvements in spoke-sockets; and its novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of a portion of wheel-folly and a spoke, illustrating my improved socket in position. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the socket, removed. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the socket, taken at right angles to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a Vertical diametrical section of the socket, taken in the plane indicated by the line y y on Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modification designed more especially for a purpose hereinafter described.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 thereof, A indicates my improved socket, which is preferably of a general cylindrical form, as illustrated, and is provided at one end with a cap-plate B and at its other end with an annulus O, which are connected by an integral diametrical wall D, which is preferably of a proportional length, substantially as shown. The portion of the lower edge of the diametrical wall D, which preferably extends down within the upper edge of the annulus C, is beveled and notched, as illustrated, for a purpose presently to be described.

Preferably formed integral with the annulus C, and rising from the upper edge thereof at diametrically-opposite points and upon opposite sides of the diametrical wall D, are brads M, which preferably extend to within a short distance of the inner or under side of the'cap-plate B, and are designed in practice to be pressed laterally into the wood of the felly by the split branches of the spoke end, which is split by the lower beveled edge of the diametrical Wall B when it is driven into the socket. I

Whenthe split branches of the spoke end press the brads M laterally into the wood to lock the socket in the felly, it will be readily seen that said branches will also take laterally, whereby it will be perceived that the spoke will be locked in the socket.

In the practice of my invention the socket is driven into the folly of a wheel so that the outer or upper side of the cap-plate B will rest flush with the periphery of the felly, after which the end of the spoke is driven into the annulus C and the socket in the manner before described.

In Fig. 6 of the drawings I have illustrated a slightly-modified form of my invention, which, while capable of use for looking a spoke in the folly of a wheel, is designed more especially for locking the rungs of a chair in the legs thereof. In this construction the socket A comprises the annulus the diametrical wall D, and the brads M, which are similar in construction, and are designed for the same purpose as the corresponding parts in the invention proper.

The cap-plate B (disclosed in the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to is dispensed with in the construction shown in Fig. 6, as in practice this latter construction is not driven entirely through a chair-leg, but is driven into the same, so that the outer edge of the annulus G will restflush with the surface of the leg.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several parts of my improved socket, yet I do not desire to be confined to the same, as

such changes or modifications may be made as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The improved socket, substantially as and for the purpose described, comprising the annulus, the diametrical wall having its lower edge beveled, and the brads rising from the edge of the annuluson opposite sides of the diametrical wall, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the felly of a Wheel and a spoke thereof, of the socket seated in the folly and comprising the annu' lus, the diametrical Wall having its lower 5 edge beveled, and the brads rising from the edge of the annulus on opposite sides of the diametrical wall, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7 3. The improved socket, substantially as IO and for the purpose described, comprising the cap-plate, the annulus, the dialnetrical Wall connecting the cap-plate and the annulus and having its lower edge beveled, and the brads rising from the edge of the annulus on opposite sides of the diametrical wall, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES B. RIGIITER. Witnesses:

G. STEVENS, J. WEAVER.

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