Tractor wheel mounting

Claim 1

A WHEEL AND AXLE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING: AN AXLE HAVING AN OUTWARDLY EXTENDING END PORTION; A WHEEL HAVING A HUB WITH A CENTRAL BORE SNUGLY RECEIVING THE AXLE; MEANS FORMED IN SAID HUB PROVIDING A FIRST SET OF COAXIAL RECESSES EXTENDING AXIALLY INWARDLY ONE EACH FROM AN OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID HUB AND HAVING A WALL SURFACE IN EACH RECESS INCLINED RELATIVE TO THE AXLE, AND A SECOND SET OF COAXIAL RECESSES EXTENDING AXIALLY INWARDLY ONE EACH FROM AN OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID HUB AND HAVING A WALL SURFACE IN EACH RECESS INCLINED RELATIVE TO THE AXLE, SAID FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF RECESSES BEING SPACED FROM AND DISPOSED ONE SET ON EACH SIDE OF THE DIAMETRAL CENTER LINE OF SAID HUB; MEANS FORMING A PLURALITY OF PERIPHERALLY SPACED AND AXIALLY EXTENDING RECESSES IN SAID AXLE; DRIVE TRANSMITTING MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID HUB RECESSES AND SAID AXLE RECESSES INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF ELONGATED KEY MEMBERS TAPERED IN ONE DIMENSION ONLY ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF EACH KEY MEMBER AND DISPOSED WITH ONE SET OF SAID MEMBERS IN SAID FIRST SET OF COAXIAL RECESSES AND ANOTHER SET OF SAID MEMBERS IN SAID SECOND SET OF COAXIAL RECESSES AND EXTENDING INTO RESPECTIVE ONES OF THE AXIALLY EXTENDING RECESSES IN SAID AXLE; A PLURALITY OF ADJUSTABLE MEANS WITH ONE OF SUCH PLURALITY COOPERATIVE BETWEEN A FIRST SET OF KEY MEMBERS AND ANOTHER OF SUCH PLURALITY COOPERATIVE BETWEEN A SECOND SET OF KEY MEMBERS FOR SLIDABLY URGING THE RESPECTIVE KEY MEMBERS OF EACH SET AXIALLY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER AND INTO A TIGHT DRIVE TRANSMITTING RELATION BETWEEN SAID AXLE AND SAID HUB; SAID HUB BEING FASHIONED TO PROVIDE BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF COAXIAL RECESSES AXIALLY EXTENDING PAD-LIKE PROJECTIONS HAVING INNER SURFACES CONTOURED TO CONFORM WITH THE CURVATURE OF SAID AXLE AND NORMALLY SPACED THEREFROM; AND HAVING EACH OF SAID RECESSES OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF COAXIAL RECESSES PROVIDED WITH A PORTION THAT EXTENDS BEYOND AN EXTENSION OF THE DIAMETRAL CENTER LINE OF THE AXLE WHEREBY WHEN THE KEY MEMBERS ARE LOOSENED THE AXLE IS LOOSELY RECEIVED IN SAID HUB BORE THEREBY PERMITTING THE WHEEL TO BE ROCKED ON SAID PAD-LIKE PROJECTIONS THROUGH A SMALL ANGLE IN THE VETICAL PLANE OF THE AXLE TO EFFECT AXIAL MOVEMENT OF THE WHEEL.