(Nb Model.) ‘L. RASTET‘TER. ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLE WHEELS. No. 518,627. Patented Apr. 24, 1894;

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LOUIS‘RASTETTER, OF FORT \VAYNE, INDIANA.

‘ SPOKE ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,627, dated April 24, 1894. Application ?led November ‘13, 1893. Serial No. 490,749. (No model.)

T0 at” whom it may concern: convenient means of countersinking the nip Be it known that I, LOUIS Rns'rnrrna-a citi ple head without countersinking the washer. zen of the United States, residing at Fort My invention consists in the concavo-con Wayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of vex washer, having beveled edges and a per 55 Indiana, have invented certain new and use forated hemispherical socket or nipple seat ful Improvements in Spoke Attachments for in which a suitable nipple head, when mount Vehicle-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that ed therein will have a full, and equal bearing the following is afull, clear, and exact descrip regardless of the angle at which the said nipple tion of the invention, which will enable oth enters the said socket. 60 The novel feature of my invention is the ‘ _ 10 ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had construction and arrangement of my spoke to the accompanying drawings, which form attachment or improved washer, whereby it‘ part of this speci?cation. is at all times securely retained in position My invention relates to improvements in by its conformity to the periphery of the rim spoke attachments for vehicle wheels, being on which it rests, and whereby a uniform specially adapted for securing metallic bearing for the hemispherical nipple-head in to wooden -rims. the socket or nipple-head seat, is maintained In the spoke attachments for wooden rims regardless of the angle at which it isinserted. now in use, the bearing of the head of the The object of my invention is accomplished .70 by the mechanism illustrated by the accom 20 radial nipple on the washer is greater upon one side thereof than upon the other, owing panying drawings in which similar ?gures to the angle at which the said nipple enters of reference indicate corresponding parts the said washer causing an unequal wearing throughout the several views. ‘ and support; and where the said nipple head _ Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section 75 of my invention in position on a wooden rim 25 projects above the washer, it has a constant tendency to wear and cut the , for a , shown in section. Fig. 2 while to countersink the washer on said rim is a top plan of a metallic washer showing its would either afford too small an area of re elongated form and the central perforation in sistance therefor on “the rim, or by its area which‘ the nipple-head is loosely mounted. would weaken the rirh. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the spoke The object, therefore, of my improvement and nipple attached thereto, and also show is to provide a spoke attachment for bicycle ing in dotted outline the adj ustability of the wheels having wooden rims, consisting of a radial nipples adjustably mounted therein. centrally perforated metallic washer so con Fig. 4, is a perspective cross section of my in structed that its lower surface ‘is adapted to vention in position showing the beveled edges 35 conform to the upper surface of the grooved and also showing the manner of mounting periphery, and having a perforated hemis the nipple in its hemispherical socket or re-‘ . pherical socket or nipple seat in which the taining seat. . head of the spoke nipple is adapted to form The concavo-convex wooden rim or felly 1 a full bearing adjustmentat any angle of the in which the radial spokes are hung, is of any spoke with the washer. proper and well known form, wid th, and thick Another object of my invention is to pro ness and is provided in the usual manner vide a metallic washer for wooden rims of bi with an outer retaining groove for any proper cyclewheels so constructed and arranged as to tire. The said rim or felly is provided at 95 afford a large area of resistance upon the pe proper points thereon with suitable perfora 45 riphery of the wheel, thereby strengthening tions for the admission of the radial nipples the same, adapted to be secure against turn 5 having a hemispherical head 7 adapted to ing or displacement by its conformity to the conform to the concave surface of the socket said grooved periphery, and having its edges 3 when in position therein and being properly so beveled as to present a smooth wearing sur secured to the outer end of the spokes 6 in face for the surmounted tire, thus a?ording a any suitable manner. The washer 2 of any 2 518,627

proper size or material and of any desired will also be secure against either lateral or form, is preferably of metal and elongated in longitudinal displacement by means of the form as seen in Fig. 2, and is provided with said socket 3 mounted in the said counter a vertical socket or cup 3 forming a hemi sink, and against displacement by any tor spherical nipple seat, having a perforation 4 sional strain by the peculiar contour thereof, in which the nipple 2 is loosely mounted. whereby it is adapted to ?t the said grooved The said socket 3 forms a suitable seat for periphery. , the hemispherical nipple~head 7, of a suffi Having thus described my invention and the cient depth to contain the said head, and is manner in which the same is to be applied, 45 adapted to secure for said head a uniform what I claim as new, and desire to secure by bearing surface on which the said head will Letters Patent, is bear equally at every wearing point whatever 1. A spoke attachment for vehicle wheels may be the angle of the radial nipple with comprising a concave washer 2 having a bev the said socket. The perimeter 8 of the eled perimeter and provided with a perfo washer 2 is so beveled as to conform to the rated hemispherical socket as described concave surface of the said rim when in po adapted to form a nipple-head seat, the said sition, and thereby present no perceptible washer being adapted to conform to the con- wearing surface for the said tire. The lower tour of the grooved periphery of the rim, all surface of the said washer 2 is transversely substantially as set forth and described. 55 20 convex to conform to the grooved periphery 2. In a spoke attachment for vehicle wheels _ of the said rim on which it is mounted, and the combination of the concave washer2 pro is longitudinally concave to conform to the vided with a perforated socket 3 for the pur circumference of the said rim, as seen in Fig. 1. pose set forth, and a beveled perimeter, the When the said Washer is placed in position for said washer being adapted to conform to the .25 use upon said rim, the said socket 3 will snugly contour of the grooved periphery of the rim ?t a proper countersink at the outer end of the as described, with a nipple 5 having a ball said vertical perforation in said rim, the said shaped or hemispherical head adapted to fit counter-sink being thus so arranged as not to and form a bearing in the said socket, all sub perceptibly weaken the said rim. The upper stantially as set forth and described. surface of the said washer with its beveled Signed by me, at Fort Wayne, State of In edges, as above described, will thus present a diana, this 11th day of November, 1893. smooth surfacein conformity to the said groove and will thus afford a sufficiently large area for LOUIS RASTETTER. resistance on said rim without the necessity Witnesses: 35 of counter-sinking said washer and thereby O. J. MOLAIN, weakening the said rim. The said washer WM. J. LERMONT.