Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Tyres for Cycles and other vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1900-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1900
Date of Application, 20H OCL., 1993
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1900-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1900
Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Tyres for Cycles and
other vehicles.
I, THOMAS DEANE, of 40, Tremlett Grove, Junction Road, Upper Holloway,
in the County of London, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object means for minimising the risk of puncture of
pneumatic tyres, which will not decrease, to any extent, the resilience of such
tyres.
For this purpose I employ an endless band built up of a number of segments,
of metal, or other suitably hard material, hinged, or otherwise connected, together
in such manner (as for instance by butt hinging) as to render the band flexible,
whilst at the same time, leaving no opening at the points of hinging.
Such band may be covered with leather, rubber, or other material, and may be
secured either in the layers of the cover of the tyre, or to the inner side of same,
or to the tyre proper, or otherwise, as found most suitable to the construction
of the tyre.
October 1899.
ΤΟ
Jagoing to fen
Dated this 20th
day
Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Tyres for Cycles and
other vehicles.
I, THOMAS DEANE, of 40, Tremlett Grove, Junction Road, Upper Holloway,
the County of London, Tailor, 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 has for its object means for minimising the risk of puncture of
pneumatic tyres, which will not decrease, to any extent, the resilience of such
tyres.
For this purpose I employ an endless band built up of a number of segments
of metal, or other suitably hard material, hinged, or otherwise connected together
in such manner (as for instance by butt hinging) as to render the band flexible,
whilst, at the same time, leaving no opening at the points of hinging.
CD
077

page_text: Such band may be covered with leather, rubber, or other material, and may be
secured either in the layers of the cover of the tyre, or to the inner side of same
or to the tyre proper, or otherwise, as found most suitable, according to the con-
struction of the tyre.
The accompanying drawings show how my invention may be carried into
practical effect.
Of these drawings, Fig. 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a plan of a segment of
the flexible band, with a portion thereof built up to correspond with the shape
of the interior of an ordinary tyre cover; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line A-A,
Fig. 1; Fig. 4 a similar sectional view, but with the tyre cover in position, and
Figs. 5 and 6 a side view and plan respectively of a modified form of hinge.
As shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the flexible band is built up of a number of
plates a of aluminium, or other metal or material, hinged together end to end to
form an endless band of the desired size.
To each of these plates is rivetted, or otherwise attached, a block of wood
fibre b, shaped to fit between the hinges, and having its edges bevelled to slightly
overlap these, so as to cover the slight spaces between the plates at the point of
hinging.
To these blocks are secured, by means of a suitable adhesive, pads of felt c, of
a size and shape to correspond with the interior of an ordinary tyre cover.
The whole is secured in position by solutioning the outer surfaces of the felt
pads to the inner surface of the tyre cover d and solutioning a band of canvas e
or the like beneath the flexible band, as shown in Fig. 4.
When found necessary or desirable, the portions f, Figs. 5 and 6, of the
plates, ordinarily cut away to permit of hinging, are shaped to overlap the hinge,
So leaving no direct passage between the plates.
As will be well understood, the plates may be flexibly connected by any other
form of hinge, or equivalent means, and the band may be built up to correspond
with the part to which it is to be attached, or on which it rests, by means of any
other suitable material, or materials, either in the form of a continuous band,
or in segments, as found most suitable, and I do not, therefore, limit my invention
to the particular details above mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is―
(1) A band for the protection of pneumatic tyres against puncture, formed of
a number of plates of metal or other puncture-proof material flexibly connected
together substantially as described.
(2) A band for the protection of pneumatic tyres against puncture, formed of
a number of plates of metal or other puncture-proof material flexibly connected
together and having one or both of its surfaces built up to correspond with the
shape of the part or parts to which it is to be attached substantially as described.
(3) A band for the protection of pneumatic tyres against puncture, as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of July 1000
"Invention
"
CASTLE SMITH,
Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.