An Improvement in Making and Fitting a Detachable Outer Cover for Pneumatio Tyres.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Making and Fitting a Detachable Outer Cover
for Pneumatio Tyres.
WILLIAM HENRY Moss 161 Stretford Road Manchester Carver and Gilder and
Cycle Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows.-
A detachable outer cover made up of canvas and covered with rubber and fixed'
to the rim with one wire. My method consists of putting the wire in one edge of
the cover and crossing the wire into the other edge of cover and leaving the two
ends of wire loose or passing them through the rim & fastening them with a nut or
thumb-screw thus holding the cover to the rim This one wire by this method
encircles both edges of the cover and makes it have the same effect as if fastened
with two endless wires
An Improvement in Making and Fitting a Detachable Outer Cover
for Pneumatic Tyres.
I, WILLIAM HENRY Moss Cycle Agent, and Pneumatic Tyre Manufacturer of
Stretford Road Manchester in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bo performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
1
A detachable outer cover made up as an endless band of canvas coated or covered
with vulcanized india rubber or other suitable equivalents therefor has its edges
constructed so as to form pockets or reoving spaces for the reception of wires to
make such edges practically unstretchable and my invention relates to the use of
one wire which is common to both edges as follows-The wire 13 passed through the
pocket or reeving space on the one side so us to more than encircle this edge and
emerging from the pocket is then passed on the underside of the outer cover
helically or diagonally across to the other side and engaging with its pocket or
roofing space in a similar manner as the foregoing the ends of the wire sufficiently
projecting outside their respective pockets on each side to afford the operator to
take a secure hold of them.
The manner of the application of such a constructed outer cover to the rim of
the wheel is as follows-The rim of the wheel is concave externally, that is, its
transverse section is crescent shaped. The operator brings one edge of this outer
cover within the riu (after having placed the inner or inflation tube within the
concavity of the rim) and taking hold of the free end of the wire draws it so as to
reeve or contract this edge to a smaller diameter than the superior diameter of the
rim the end of the wire is then securod by passing it through the rim or alongside
the edge of the outer cover within the rim. Having thus secured one edge of the
outer cover within the rim the remaining edge of the outer cover 15 then similarly
treated upon the opposing side of the inner inflation tube within the rim the free
end of the wire being simularly treated and secured, when the whole is ready for-
inflation.

page_text: In order to elucidate my invention I make reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
Fig. 1 shows the outer cover in perspective showing the outside and inside of the
endless band as constructed.
A, A shew the ends of the wire projecting from the pockets and with hooked
ends to pass through holes in the run in order to secure them from slipping.
B shews the wire emerging from the pocket or reeving space of one side then
crossing the inside of the outer cover to the reeving space on the other side.
Tho dotted lines indicate the course of direction the wire takes through the
pockets or reeving spaces
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sand
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The application of a single wire in connection with the outer cover of pneumatic
tyres in the manner and substantially as herein described
Dated thus 27th day of April 1895
WILLIAM JIENRY MOSS