Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-15
TWO Inventions
FOR AUTOMOBILES

T. C. Dobbins, of Blair, superin-
tendent of the power lines of the
Nevada-CalifOrnia Power company,
has joined the list of inventors and
secured patents for what is appar-
emily one of the best chain attach
ments for repairing automobile tires
that have bursted by blowing out of
the inner tube or otherwise so badly
damaged as to require clamp over
the damaged place. His invention
consists of a metal attachment that
fastens to the rim of the wheel on
each side, and connecting these Tugs
are four link chains made of spec
tally hardened steel which go over
the outside of the tire and hold it
in place with as much security from
further abrasions on the weak spot
as though it was a new tire. Mr..
Dobbins' patent also covers the use
of small steel cable in lieu of the
link chains. The Jugs can be made
to carry from two to four or six
chains so as to cover large or a
small break.
Automobile men and chauffeurs
who have seen Mr.. Dobbins device,
pronounce it far ahead of any other
yet put on the market, and great
sale is predicted for it all over the
country and especially where roads
are rough and rocky and very Sc
we're on tires.
Mr.. Dobbins has been working on
his invention for several months,
and says that he was driven by ne
cessity to provide something that
would stand the rough work he has
to put his auto through in his long
drives across the desert and noun
tains along the power line from
Bishop to the big mining camps OF
southern Nevada.
II have tried every kind of clamp
or device ever put out by the auto
mobile trade, and none of them had
made good for me-" said Mr.. Dob
bins, $50 / was simply up against
1t, and had to work out my own
| salvation. This invention is the re.
suit, and l now have on one of my
| tires one of the clamps which
made myself, with which | have
travelled over 500 miles already and
not sign of weakening. The tire
| put it on was so badly damaged
by blowout that | had thrown il
aside as absolutely useless, blu,
when l worked out my invention,
concluded to give it trial and an
more than pleased with the result.
Mr.. Dobbins has also Just com
pleted an ingenious road breaker
which he will give it's first tryout il
making new piece of road abou
ten miles long to get around yer,
bad piece Of road across the sal
marsh near Blair. Two lengths o.
steel water pipe a foot in diameter
and thirty feet long have been bolt
ed together, with the Hanged ends
forward, SO that the centers of the
lower side of the fianges are separ
ated to the exact width of the
tracks of an automobile About ST,
inches above the lower rim of the
fanges a piece of railroad rail about
eight feet long is fastened acros.
the front ends of the pipes. The
road breaker will be drawn by
twelve horses, and as it is dragged
along the ground the flanges on the
pipes cut road the exact widtf
needed by automobiles, the railroad
iron trims down brush and level.
the road, carrying the dirt ant
rocks in front of it like a plow un
til low place is reached, when il
dumps 1t into the hole. AS the
machine proceeds along the road
the thirty feet of pipe on each sid,
drags, packs and smooths the track
Mr.. Dobbins declines to predic
what will be the next thing under
taken by him in the line of inven
ton, but it will probably have some
thing to do with automobiles ant
good roads for those who use them