Improvements in or applicable to the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to the Wheels of Velocipedes and
other Vehicles.
We LILIAN SAVERY, of 28, Napier Street, New Cross, Spinster and GEORGE
HONNOR GREGORY, of 65, Chiswell Street, Silversmith, both in the County of
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
Our invention for, or applicable to, the wheels of velocipedes and other vehicles
has for object to protect the pneumatic, cushion and other elastic tyres of such
wheels.
According to our invention we provide a chain of metallic shoes of approximately
U-shape in transverse section, the ends of the said chain of shoes, after the latter
has been placed upon the wheel tyre, being connected together so as to form a
continuous cover or shield for the bearing surface of the tyre, such shield being
readily removable when not required.
Dated the 1st day of June 1894.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
'COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to the Wheels of Velocipedes and
other Vehicles.
We, LILIAN SAVERY, of 28, Napier Street, New Cross, Spinster, and GEORGE
HONNOR GREGORY; of 91, Paul Street (formerly of 65, Chiswell Street) Silversmith,
both in the County of London, 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 :-
Our invention for, or applicable to, the wheels of velocipedes and other vehicles
has for object to protect the pneumatic, cushion and other elastic tyres of such
wheels.
According to our invention we provide a chain of metallic shoes of approximately
U-shape in transverse section, the ends of the said chain of shoes, after the latter
has been placed upon the wheel tyre, being connected together so as to form a
continuous cover or shield for the bearing surface of the tyre, such shield being
readily removable when not required.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a protecting cover or shield for elastic wheel tyres
constructed according to our invention :
Figure 2 is a cross section of the same drawn to an enlarged scale :
Figures 3 and 4 are details:
Figure 5 is an elevation illustrating the application of the protecting covering to
a cycle wheel; and,
Figure 6 is a transverse section through the rim ând covering drawn to an
enlarged scale.
Our protecting cover or shield, as shewn in Figure 1, is constructed of a chain of
metallic shoes such as a one of which is shewn in cross section at Figure 2. These
shoes are advantageously connected together by hinge joints 6 as illustrated in the
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page_text: detached plan at Figure 3 which shews one of the joints drawn to an enlarged
scale and in Figure 4 which is a section on the line 4-4, Figure 3. It will,
however, be understood that instead of connecting the shoes together as illustrated
in the drawing, they may be attached to a flexible band such as thin steel, canvas
or the like or in any other suitable manner so that they will form, as it were, a
flexible chain.
The chain of shoes of the required length is then placed upon the elastic wheel
tyre c and the two ends connected together so as to form a continuous cover or
shield for the bearing surface of the tyre, and which cover or shield can be readily
removed when not required.
In practice we find that aluminium is a very suitable metal from which to make
the shoes of our protector or shield but it will be obvious that any other suitable
metal may be employed, and that the shape of the shoe may be varied as
required.
In some cases it may be found advantageous to place on the tread or bearing
surface d of the shoes a band of flexible material such as india-rubber, canvas or
the like.
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 :-
1. The construction and application to the wheels of velocipedes and other
vehicles having elastic tyres of a chain of metallic shoes connected together so as
to form a continuous cover or shield for the bearing surface of the tyre, substan-
tially as described.
2. A protecting cover or shield for the bearing surface of elastic wheel tyres
consisting of a chain of metallic shoes suitably jointed together as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the several figures of the drawing.
3. A wheel for velocipedes and other vehicles having a protecting cover or shield
constructed of a chain of metallic shoes substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 31st day of August 1894.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.