The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
Would Replace Rubber With
Puncture-Pr Cork Sec
tiOns for Automobiles.
COMPANY is FORMED
TO EXPLOIT INVENTION
Discovery Is to Reyolutionize
Motor Car Travel, According
to the Incorporators.

After careful investigation OF the
merits of the puncture- proof tire for use
on automobiles. motorcycles, bicycles and
other vehicles, some business men OF Salt
Lake City have organized company
known as the Armstrong Puncture Proof
Tire company. This company has re-
Gently filed articles OF Incorporation and
Is capitalized at 100000. in shares OF 81
each.
The features of this invention, which
was made by Charles u. Armstrong or
Salt Lake City, are tires made OF sections
OF cork. or like material, having fiat.
contiguous faces and provided with IA
brio members between the fiat faces OF
the cork sections. The general appear
ance of this tire is not different from
hose commonly used on automobiles,
motorcycles and the like. and the great
difference is In the elimination OF rubber
and consequent lesscning OF expense for
tires. The tire is strong and flexible and
embraces all the advantages of the or
binary pneumatic tire, with no danger or
being hindered or impaired by punctures.
The promoters maintain that IL VIII re-
sist severe strains and impact when run
ming over rough, stony or orner roads,
without danger of pnncture or other
damage. Tho only rubber used Will be in
the facing of tho outer tire and IL has
been demonstrated that the weight OF this
tire is less than that of the ordinary
pneumatic tire
No Blow-outs
IT IS impossible for the new tire TO
blow out from expansion. contraction or
otherwise. The contiguous races of the
annular sections arc flat, that rela-
lively large bearing faces are produced,
and the strains thereby distributed over
corrcspondingly largo areas, so that the
impact and pressure incident 10 the op-
erations of the tire are correspondingly
distributed and prevented from being inn
parted TO small or confined areas OF the
tire. 1t is Thought that the new tire
VIII be as scrviceablc and as HeNibe as
the ordinary pneumatic tire. and that It
can be manufactured at about one-fourth
the cost OF the rubber one.
Mr.. Armstrong has had his Invention
patented In the United Scares and has
patents pending in foreign countries The
exact details of the patent will he care
fully guarded until these latter have been
secured.
Sure Of Invention.
Before making this invention Mr.. Arm
strong has done other work or this kind.
He patented dancing doll which Is
can be made TO dance for a few minutes
or for twcnty-four hours at a single
winding. II Is interesting TO note that
when the idea of the puncrure proof
tire first occurred TO him he had been
working for about three years on pat
cnt spring wheel. AS The new tire oc-
CURED 10 him he destroyed the object
OF three years OF work and study ana
has since been spending his time on this
improvement for rubber tired vehicles.
He is now confident that he has secured
a tire that will withstand the rayages
OF glass, nails and sharp stones. and. II
the plans of the recently formed COM
pany do not miscarry. the invention will
soon be placed on the marsee.
The officers of the new company are
President, Duncan NJ. McAllister; vice
president. D. w. McAIlister; secretary
treasurer. Willard Hamer: additional di-
rectors; Charles d. Armstrong and Ver-
mont Hatch.