Improvements in Tyres for Wheels of Trolleys and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tyres for Wheels of Trolleys and other Vehicles.
WILLIAM GILL HALL, 15, Avenue Road, Lower Clapton, N.E.,-Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: _
My invention consists of an improved method of affixing tyres.or bands of a non-
metallic nature upon the ordinary metal rim or tyre of wheels for the purpose of
deadening sound and lessening vibration. In fixing the said tyre or band no grove
or other alteration is required to be made in the shape of the metal rim of the wheel,
the tyre or band being securely fitted upon the ordinary metal rim in the manner
following, viz.; The tyre or band is made of leather india rubber and canvas or other
suitable material and is put on in one or more layers or rings. When two or more
layers are used I fix the first layer to the metal rim by bolts or screws passing
through the said layer of leather or other material and going through or into the
metal rim of the wheel. I then secure the second layer over the first layer by
rivetting cementing or other suitable means, but I preferably fix the said. second
layer in a simular manner to the usual method of attaching the soles to boots so
that renewals and repairs can be executed with the same facility as the renewals
or repairs to the soles of boots.
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The heads of the screws or bolts before named are bevilled or coned and are
countersunk into the band or tyre and the rim may also be countersunk in such a
manner as to prevent the band or first layer of leather or other material used as
before named from getting detached from the metal rim after the second or outside
band or layer is worn out.
When the bands or tyres are composed of canvas and rubber as before named
or other simular material I secure the same on-the metal rim by rivets bolts or screws
as aforesaid the heads of the same being inlet partially through the said band so
as to yield a wearing surface before the ground comes into contact with the heads
of the bolts or screws.
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According to my invention the whole of the band or tyre is brought into opera-
tion when used on metal rims having a flat surface, but the bands or tyres may
also be fitted to existing wheels having groves cut in the metal-rini.
In carrying out my invention I may also affix the band or tyre to the metal rim
by means of buckling or otherwise securing the same at the sides or underneath the
metal rim or the felloe of the wheel...
Improvements in Tyres for Wheels of Trolleys and other Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM GILL HALL, of 15, Avenue Road, Lower Clapton, London; N.E.,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
[Price 8d.]

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My.invention relates to an improved method of construction, and of securing or
affixing tyres or bands composed of leather or other similar material to the rims
of wheels of trucks, trolleys, and other vehicles including skates, and also wheels
used for mechanical driving pulleys, frictional wheels and other similar purposes.
Figure 1, of the accompanying drawings represents a cross section of the rim of a
wheel with the tyre fitted at 1-2 of the plan view Figure 4. A is the rim, and B the
tyre or band composed of leather or other suitable material. C represents a flexible
band of metal which is secured to the inside of the band B by means of rivets EE.
The lining metal band C may be either made into a ring to fit the rim A by rivetting
or otherwise joining the two ends together before the band B is rivetted upon it;
or the two bands B & C may be rivetted or otherwise secured together before the
ends are joined up but in each case the band or tyre B with its inner lining metal
band C is joined up into a ring so as to fit tightly over the rim of the wheel, and
the tyre is then secured in position by means of forcing a portion of the metal
band C into suitable holes D which are made in the rim of the wheel before putting
on the tyre. The said holes may be made of any convenient size & shape and at
any distance apart. The forcing of portions of the metal band into the said holes
may be done in any convenient manner, but preferably by means of a punch having
a coned or other similar point which on being forced through the outer band B
immediately over the holes D in the metal rim A causes a portion of the band C
to be wedged or burred into the holes D and thus the tyre is secured to the rim
of the wheel.
If desirable set screws may be inserted in the holes D as illustrated in Figure 2,
of the drawings. . In which case F is the screw A is the rim, B the outside leather
band, C the inside metal band, D the hole in which the screw is inserted and EE the
rivets.
When set screws are used as described and illustrated in Figure 2, the band C
may be composed of vulcanite fibre or other suitable material, in which case the
said band C would be secured to the rim A before the outer band B is rivetted or
pegged upon the said band C.
Figure 3, is a cross section of the rim and tyre at 3-4 of the plan view represented
in Figure 4. In the said Figure 4, B is the tyre, D one of the holes, and E one of
the rivets.
Figure 5, is a cross section of the rim and tyre at 5-6 of the plan view as shewn
in Figure 6 illustrating another method of fixing the tyre to the rim. The tyre
composed of the bands B & C as before described may be secured to the rim A by
means of projections or clips G G on the metal band C at various points on each side
of the rim. The said clips or projections may be either rivetted or otherwise secured
to the metal band C, or the said band C, may have the necessary projections left
in the band when it is cut into strips, as represented by the plan view Figure 6.
After the tyre is fitted on the rim as in Figure 1, the said clips or projections are
bent down over the sides of the rim A to any required degree, thus securing the
tyre to the wheel. In order to prevent the tyre moving round the rim, grooves or
channels may be made at the sides of the rim and the clips G G pressed into the
same.
Or, the tyre may be constructed as previously described and illustrated in
Fig. 1, having the band C of the same width as the rim of the wheel, and grooves
or channels, preferably of the shape of the segment of a circle, may be made in the
sides of the rim of the wheel, and by forcing the parts of the metal band into
the said cavities or grooves the tyre would be secured in position.
Figure 7, shews a cross section of a tyre fitted upon a rim A having a groove or
channel around the surface of the rim. In order to fix the tyre or band B, I first
fill up the groove with a band C composed of vulcanite fibre, leather, or other
suitable material, by means of cementing the same to the metal rim in the groove
or channel or otherwise by joining the two ends of the band C, securely together

page_text: by means of staples driven through the material immediately over the juncture of
the two ends of the band or by other suitable means. After this is done I fix the
outer band B, upon the inner band or packing C, by means of rivets or pegs EE
which is done in a simular manner to the fixing of soles to boots.
I may increase the thickness of the tyre or band marked B in the drawings by
means of rivetting one or more additional bands over the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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1. The method of construction and fixing upon the rim of a wheel, a tyre con-
sisting of one or more layers or bands of leather or partly of leather and partly of
other similar material, in combination with a band or ring of metal, vulcanite fibre
or other similar material, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The method of construction and fixing upon the rim of a wheel, a tyre con-
sisting of one or more layers or bands of leather, or other similar material, in
combination with an inner band of any suitable material, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in Figure 7 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated thin 10th dow of Tonuomi 1000
W. GILL HALL.