Improvements in or applicable to the Tyres of Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 19th Mar.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to the Tyres of Vehicles.
We, HENRY ELTON, Secretary with Messrs. Chas. Macintosh & Company,
Limited, Cambridge Street, Manchester, and CHARLES MACINTOSH & COMPANY
LIMITED, of Cambridge Street, Manchester, Indiarubber Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to improvements in or applicable to the tyres of
bicycles and the like vehicles.
Bicycles are liable to what is known as side-slip when travelling on greasy or
slippery roads.
The object of our said invention is to provide means for eliminating or mini-
mising the liability to lateral sliding of the tyre which produces this side-slip.
The essential feature of our invention is the production on the tread of the tyre
itself or on a separate fabric to be applied thereto of a surface which is less liable
to glide or slide than those hitherto used. This we accomplish by producing a
heterogeneous surface, for example, to the surface, coming nearest to the road we
apply a solution cement composition or the like to form a couch on which we
scatter or in which we embed or partly embed particles of emery cork metal or
other similar substances in order to offer resistance to slipping.
In some cases we sew or otherwise insert either alone or in combination with
detached particles such as herein before mentioned metal wires threads of fibrous
materials strips of split cane or other like material either in lines or in various
patterns.
In another form of our said invention an augmented friction of the surface is
produced by incorporating with the material of which the tyre cover is formed or
covered shreaded comminuted or chopped animal or vegetable fibres.
:
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in or applicable to the Tyres of Vehicles.
We, HENRY ELTON, Secretary with Messrs. Chas. Macintosh & Company
Limited, Cambridge Street, Manchester, and CHARLES MACINTOSH & COMPANY
LIMITED, of Cambridge Street, Manchester, Indiarubber Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
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page_text: formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our said invention relates to improvements in or applicable to the tyres of
bicycles and the like vehicles.
Bicycles are liable to what is known as side-slip when travelling on greasy or
slippery roads.
The object of our said invention is to provide means for eliminating or mini-
mising the liability to lateral sliding of the tyre which produces this side-slip.
The essential feature of our invention is the production on the tread of the tyre
itself or on a separate band or fabric to be applied thereto of a surface which is
less liable to glide or slide than those hitherto used. This we accomplish by
producing a heterogeneous surface, for example, to the surface coming nearest to
the road we apply a solution cement composition or the like to form a couch on
which we scatter or in which we embed or partly embed particles of emery cork
metal or other similar substances in order to offer resistance to slipping.
The materials may be applied to surface of the tyre or to a separate band to be
applied thereto either before or after vulcanisation. If applied thereto before
vulcanisation by means of a cement of rubber the cementation will be aided by
the vulcanisation.
In some cases we sew or otherwise insert either alone or in combination with
detached particles such as hereinbefore mentioned metal wires threads of fibrous
materials strips of split cane or other like material so as to present lines or other
patterns on the running surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
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1. A tyre for bicycles and the like vehicles having a running surface to which
are applied or in which are embedded materials differing from the tyre itself for
the purpose of producing greater frictional resistance to slipping.
2. For application to a tyre for bicycles and the like vehicles a band or fabric
having anti-friction materials applied to or embedded therein so as to present a
heterogeneous running surface.
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E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants