Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12
TWO NEW TIRES
PUT ON MARKET
MAY REPLACE PNEUMATICS
NOW IN USE
LOS ANGELES MAN CONDUCTS
LENGTHY EXPERIMENTS
Recent Invention by Cole Sailing
Promises to Prove serViceable to
Motorists In Cases Of
Emergency

Two new inventions of interest to
motorists have just been completed by
residents Of Los Angeles, and arrange
ments for placing them on the market
are we'll under way.
Probably the one of most Importance
is a mechanical tire to replace the
pneumatic ones now commonly used
for pleasure vehicles.
No air or rubber is necessary for
the makeup of the tire and its invent
or claims for it the same easy riding
qualities that the pneumatics have.
So far the expense has not been de-
termined, but the yearly cost undoubt-
eddy would be much less than that for
the rubber tires.
Two serrated rims of metal are bolt
ed on the fellows of the wheels, and
through the serrations bolts are fast
ened, around which are loops of fabric
that act as the pulling agents of the
tire.
The bolts are covered with a roller
tube that permits of the friction being
taken up between the metal and not in
the loop of the fabric.
Wound around the perimeter of the
wheel, on top of the series of bolts, are
several layers of cotton betting, from
three to four inches wide, according to
the amount of weight to be carried by
the tires.
On top of this betting lies a series of
DQHorS ITOIu luplHS,
an inch and a half in diameter, with
the center filled with wooden core.
These buffers alternate with the bolts.
Above the series of buffers is another
double layer OF betting, and on top of
that is the tread, made of leather. The
buffers and the tread are held in place
by bolts, two of which pass through
the tread, the buffers, the three or four
layers of betting, and, finally, through
the ends of the loops that pass around
the first series of bolts in the metal
rims.
The bolts that pass through the buff
fers are the connecting link between
the wheel and the tread.
When the weight of the car is placed
on any part of the tire the slack Is
taken up in all other parts that are
not touching the ground. It is the
slack and the elasticity of the fabric
and the leather that gives the tire its
resiliency.
The tread is fiat. or can be built in
any form that is desired.
with the fiat tread studded with
steel rivets. much more traction could
be obtained than with any type. OF
pneumatic tires now on the market,
and skidding is prevented. For desert
work, or in rough country of any KIND,
the tires have the appearance of being
very suitable.
They are the result of years ex-
detrimental work on the part OF Horace
J. Pullen of 1S43 Kellam avenue. VINO o
has applied for patent rights on the
principle involved. 10000
n is reported that there is now $4,000
held In escrow waiting Tor the Pa pa, !
to be allowed, when the money VIII De
transferred for the rights to manuIac-
ture the tires in England.
When the first tire was made 1t was
attached to an axle fastened to a frame
like the handles of a wheelbarroW, the
whole thing was tied to the rear OF a
motor car, and then, with a passenger
on the trailer, 1t was sent over the
road at various speeds to test the RID
ing qualities of the tires.
MANY changes were made during the
experiments, all of which brought bet
fer results. Several improvements that
Mr.. Pullen has in mind VIII De moor or
norated before the manufacture or the
tires is begun. -,
Another tire invention that viii
,oroIra a beneficial aid to any motorlst
Nh uses pneumatic tires is an emer-
gencv tire that has been patented Dy
Cole Sailing. =. Ao,,s
600 in a local rubber house, so that the
features of the invention could pc
shown TO a iobbing house which antlci.
Rates getting out an order OF 1o'ooO
tires. 49,, .4,o, from
a solid tire, are NulNdIiHNN
chains that pass through the sections
of rubber from one end to the other
and fasten them together.
By Swapping the ends Of the chains
ana the string of rubber sectlon one
around a rim an emergency tire Is put
" The rubber sections are about four our
inches long and stand about an men
apart, just enough room being LETT Pc
tween them t. allow of the proper
Reading of the emergency tire around
the rim. A.. on-
trivance would be to liken It to Weea
chain, with the cross chains REPLACES
with the rubber blocks and the SIDE
chains about an inch instead of three
or four inches apart. After a pune
tured tire is removed the emergency
tire is put around the rim in its place &C
and allows the car to run Wl l,I11s emf INF
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