An Improved Elastic Tyre.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 14th July, 1896-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897.
An Improved Elastic Tyre.
I, CHARLES HARDING, Shipwright, 185, Somers Road, Southsea, Parish of Portsea..
in the County of Southampton do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The principles included in the above-named tyre consist in its application to
bicycles, tricycles, carriages, sedan chairs and other land conveyances; the tyre being
so constructed with grip, lug, or clutch (A) that, when applied to proper form of
wheel (B) it obtains a springing nature. Its advantages consist in its ease of
adjustment and superiority in respect of puncture, a puncture having no disabling.
effect on account of forced air being unnecessary in its application to the properly
formed wheels of any kind of vehicle. It will therefore do away with the need
of the forced air pumping arrangements at present so troublesome in respect of
bicycles, tricycles, &c. The tyre being made of the most suitable (i.e. elastic).
kinds of material.
Dated this 20th day of June 1896
CHARLES HARDING.
MPLET
An Improved Elastic Tyre.
I, CHARLES HARDING, Shipwright, 185, Somers Road, Southsea, Parish of Portsea,..
in the County of Southampton, 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:-
The principles included in the above-named tyre consist in its application to
bicycles, tricycles, carriages, sedan chairs, and other land conveyances; the tyre being
so constructed with grip, lug, or clutch, A of the drawing left with the Provisional
Application that when applied to proper form of wheel B it obtains a springing
nature. Its advantages consist in its ease of adjustment and superiority in respect of
puncture, a puncture having no disabling effect on account of forced air being
unnecessary in its application to the properly formed wheels of any kind of vehicle..
It will therefore do away with the need of the forced air pumping arrangements at
present so troublesome in respect of bicycles, tricycles, &c. The tyre being made of
the most suitable i.e. elastic kinds of material.
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 what I
claim is:
(1.) That the tyre have a grip, lugs, or clutch A which obtains the hug to, and,.
over edge and side of rim B of wheel, which grip helps to retain the tyre in its place

page_text: (2.) The principle of the clutch or tension (also A) rims. upon the edges of the
upper or inner side of band, is such that they will be able to be enlarged, or
otherwise, in the making, so as to become the most suitable in its adaptation to
support the strains &c. to which the tyre would be subjected under all and every
condition.
(3.) The road pad upon the under or outer side of band to be apportioned of such
thickness and breadth as to make it most suitable for the purpose to which it is to
be applied.
(4.) The whole to be somewhat of the form given in drawing left with Provisional
with the aforementioned modifications or extensions where necessary.
in 19th dox of Jul 1806
CHARLES HARDING.