Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Wire Rings and the like, such as are used for Securing Elastic Tires to the Rims of Velocipede Wheels, and for other similar purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Wire Rings and
the like, such as are used for Securing Elastic Tires to the Rims
of Velocipede Wheels, and for other similar purposes.
I, FREDERICK THOMAS JACKSON of No. 3 Jesson Street Coventry in the
County of Warwick, Electro Plater do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates principally to the wire rings and the like used for securing
pneumatic tires to the rims of velocipede wheels, but may be applied to wire rings
and the like used for other similar purposes. The said rings are usually constructed
of steel wire and my invention consists in an improved method of and means for
making the joints in such wire rings.
In carrying out my invention I cause the ends of the wire to butt against or
overlap each other within a metal tube or the like and solder or braze them to
each other or to the tube in this position. In order that the solder may be readily
applied to and reach the various surfaces I make the tube with one or more openings
through its walls. For example, I may make the tube by rolling up a piece of
strip steel helically or spirally; and in forming the strip and tube I arrange that
one or more spaces shall occur between the edges of the strip when it is rolled
up. This helical or spiral tube is well calculated to withstand any tendency
to open or buckle when strained transversely. Or, I may take a piece of
strip steel and form each side with a corrugated edge and fold the strip up
into a tube so that the respective corrugations engage with one another, but
not exactly, so that an opening or openings is or are left between the said
edges. Or, I may make indentations of any other convenient form along the two
sides of a piece of strip steel and fold up the strip into a tube so that the projections
left between the indentations on one side enter the indentations in the other side
but so as to leave an opening or openings between the edges; and the said openings
may take the form of slots running diagonally to the length of the tube. Or, I
may use a drawn tube and make one or more perforations through the walls
thereof. The tubes are made to correspond more or less nearly in internal trans-
verse section to the external transverse section of the wire and the ends of flat metal
bands may be joined in a similar way.
Dated this 16th day of November 1893.
W. B. MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Wire Rings and
the like, such as are used for Securing Elastic Tyres to the Rims
of Velocipede Wheels, and for other similar purposes.
I, FREDERICK THOMAS JACKSON of No. 3 Jesson Street Coventry in the
County of Warwick, Electro Plater, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates principally to the wire rings and the like used for securing
pneumatic tires to the rims of velocipede and other wheels, but may be applied to
wire rings and the like used for other similar purposes. The said rings are usually
constructed of steel wire and my invention consists in an improved method of aud
means for making the joints in such wire rings.
In carrying out my invention, I cause the ends of the wire to butt against or
approximately butt against each other or (by stepping or otherwise) to overlap
within a metal tube or the like and solder or braze them to cach other or to the
tube or both, in this position. In order that the solder may be readily applied to
and reach the various surfaces I make the tube with one or more openings through
its walls.
And in order that my invention may be well understood I append drawings which
show the general form and arrangement of the parts in several methods of carrying
out my invention, but modifications can be made without departing from the spirit
of my invention. Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.
Figure is a plan of a piece of strip steel or the like before being rolled up to
form the tube, constructed according to my invention, and showu fiuished in
Figure 11.
Figure III is a plan of a piece of strip steel or the like before being folded or
rolled transversely to form the tube, constructed according to my invention, and
shown finished in Figure IV.
Figures V and VI show two other tubes respectively also constructed in
accordance with my invention.
Referring to Figures I and II. According to one method of carrying out my
invention I take a rhomboidal or otherwise suitably shaped piece of strip steel or
other suitable material of suitable quality and dimensions, and stamp, press, cut
or otherwise fashion it so that it has one or more, preferably slight, projections such
as 2 on one or both edges and otherwise bring it to the form shown in Figure I
or some other similar and suitable form. I then, by any suitable means, roll up
the strip helically or spirally into a tube. And in forming the strip and tube I
arrange that one or more spaces, such as 3 Figure II shall occur between the edges
of the strip when it is rolled up. This helical or spiral tube is well calculated
to, withstand any tendency to open or buckle when strained transversely.
Referring to Figures III and IV. According to another method I take au
oblong or otherwise suitably shaped piece of strip steel or other suitable material
and of suitable quality and dimensions, and stamp, press, cut or otherwise fashion
it with a corrugation along each edge, and otherwise
Figure III or some other similar and suitable ise bring it to the form shown in
then, by any suitable
means, fold or roll up the strip transversely into a tube. And in forming the
strip and tube I arrange that the corrugations on the respective edges shall engage
with one another but not exactly, so that one or more spaces, such as 3 Figure IV,
is or are left between the said edges. Or, I may make indentations of any
convenient form along the two sides or edges of a suitable piece of strip steel or
other suitable material and fold up the strip into a tube so that the projections

page_text: between the indentations on one side enter the indentations on the other side,
but so as to leave an opening or openings between the edges; and the said openings
may take the form of slots running diagonally to the length of the tube, as shown
at 3 in Figure V. Or, I may use a drawn tube and drill or otherwise make one or
more perforations (3) of suitable dimensions through the walls thereof as shown in
Figure VI. In all cases I make the tubes correspond more or less nearly in internal
transverse section to the external transverse section of the wire. The ends of
flat metal bands may be joined in a similar way the tubes or the like being brought
to a suitable internal form by pressing or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I am aware
of John Shaw's Specification No. 19839 of 1892 and do not claim anything
described and claimed therein, but what I claim is :-
:-
1. In the construction of the joint in wire rings and the like, such as are used
for securing elastic tires to the rims of velocipede wheels and for other similar
purposes, the manufacture and use of a tube or the like constructed from a strip
of steel or the like rolled up helically or spirally and provided with one or more
openings between the edges thereof, substantially as herein described.
2. A tube or the like, for use in a joint of the kind referred to in Claim 1, con-
sisting of a drawn tube and provided with one or more perforations through the
walls thereof, substantially as herein described.
3. A tube or the like, for use in a joint of the kind referred to in Claim 1,
substantially as described with reference to Figures I and II of the accompanying
drawings.
4. A tube or the like, for use in a joint of the kind referred to in Claim 1,
substantially as described with reference to Figure VI of the accompanying
drawings.
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FREDERICK THOMAS JACKSON.
William Bestwick Maxfield,
Registered Patent Agent,
19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester, Applicant's Agent.