Title: Spoked wheel and method of making same

Abstract: A spoked wheel and method of making same including a peripheral rim, a central hub and a plurality of spokes interconnecting the hub and rim in which the hub is provided with spaced flanges interconnected by a tubular spindle and the spokes are in the form of wire members extending between the rim and the respective flanges. The wire spokes are of fixed, non-adjustable length and are tensioned simultaneously and equally by expanding the distance between the hub flanges with the spindle being inserted therebetween in order to maintain the flanges spaced apart. Airfoil blades may be mounted on the outer portion of certain of the spokes to enable utility of the wheel as a wind turbine, fan, propeller on a hovercraft or the like.

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Inventors: Chalk, Thomas O. (St. Cloud, FL, US)

Application Number: 493669
Filing Date: 1974-07-30
Publication_date: 1976-03-09
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Primary Class(es): 301/73 29/894.331, 301/37.41, 301/104, 416/193A, 416/193R, 416/194, 416/230, 416/244A, 416/244R
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US Patent Ref:

689371	Dec, 1901	Stutsman	301/60.
2855179	Oct, 1958	Brown	416/230.
3606474	Sep, 1971	Meiklejohn	301/60.

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Primary Examiner: Reeves, Robert B.
Assistant Examiner: Keen, D. W.
Attorney: O'Brien; Clarence A., Jacobson; Harvey B.