Improvements in or pertaining to the Tyres of Velocipedes and other Carriages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to the Tyres of Velocipedes
and other Carriages.
I FRANCIS BROWNE of 88 Great Titchfield Street Marylebone in the County
of Middlesex Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is so to construct the tyres of velocipedes and other
carriages or it may be so to fit the same or so to apply thereto such devices that the
velocipedes and other carriages shall imprint or exhibit on the roads or other
surfaces along and over which they may travel the desired advertisements and
incidentally my invention will also prevent or minimize the slipping of the wheels
and more especially the side slipping which is so objectionably prevalent in and
with velocipedes particularly those which have pneumatic tyres.
To carry out this object I form or construct with the tyre or I fit or apply
thereto a series of the required letters or other signs or symbols which will in their
due sequence produce and indicate the desired advertisement or advertisements
all round the wheel and these letters or symbols are in the necessary high relief
or project so far as may be required from the external periphery of the tyre and
preferably are of the same material as the tyre whether the same be india rubber
or metal or otherwise although they may be of any other suitable material. These
letters or symbols likewise may be fashioned in any ordinary manner as may
be desired and the lines thereof may be continuous or may be intercepted or
broken up into separate parts or dots which also may be of any desired shape
and size.
Therefore when and as the wheel which has this tyre travels along the road or
other surface when the same is muddy or soft the advertisement or advertisements
on the tyre is or are imprinted or impressed on or into the same continuously as is
desired and again when the road or other surface is dry or hard the advertisement
or advertisements on the tyre can also be imprinted on the same preferably by
mounting an ordinary inking roller near the wheel or by any of the other usual
methods commonly employed in these cases so treating the exterior surfaces of
the letters or symbols that they will leave their impressions on the surface or
surfaces they touch or bear against as also is desired and thus in all cases the
advertisement or advertisements will be duly exhibited on the road or other surface
so long as the velocipede or carriage travels while when the same is standing still
it or they will be exhibited on the tyre. These raised letters or symbols also will
and must prevent or minimize the slipping of the wheel as also is desired.
When the tyre is flat in transverse section as is generally the case in and with
metallic and such like tyres the letters or symbols may extend so far across the
same as may be desired but when the tyre is convex or rounded in transverse
section as is generally the case in and with india rubber and such like tyres the
letters or symbols are formed or fitted on or to the crown of the same and they
extend so far on each side of this crown as may be proper and as may be capable
of imprinting or exhibiting properly the advertisement or advertisements.
Dated this 24th day of February 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to the Tyres of Velocipedes
and other Carriages.
FRANCIS BROWNE 88 Great Titchfield Street London, W. 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 object of my invention is so to construct the tyres of velocipedes and other
carriages or it may be so to fit the same or so to apply thereto such devices that
the velocipedes and other carriages shall imprint or exhibit on the roads or other
surfaces along and over which they may travel the desired advertisement or
advertisements and incidentally my invention will also prevent or minimize the
slipping of the wheels and more especially the side slipping which is s0
objectionably prevalent in and with velocipedes particularly those which have
pneumatic tyres.
To carry out this object I form or construct with the tyre or I fit or apply
thereto a series of the required letters or other signs or symbols all round the
wheel which will in their due sequence produce and indicate the desired
advertisement or advertisements and these letters or symbols are in the necessary
high relief or project so far as may be required from the external periphery of
the tyre and preferably are of the same material as the tyre whether the same be
indiarubber or metal, or otherwise, although they may be of any other suitable
material. These letters or symbols likewise may be fashioned in any ordinary
manner as may be desired and the lines thereof may be continuous or may be
intercepted and broken up into separate parts or dots which also may be of any
desired shape and size.
Therefore when and as the wheel which has this tyre travels along the road or
other surface when the same is muddy or soft the advertisement or advertisements
on the tyre is or are imprinted or impressed on or into the same continuously as is
desired and again when the road or other surface is dry or hard the advertisement
or advertisements on the tyre can also be imprinted on the same preferably by
mounting an ordinary inking roller near the wheel or by any of the other usual
methods commonly employed in these cases, so treating the exterior surfaces of
the letters or symbols that they will leave their impressions on the surface as they
touch or bear against it as also is desired, and thus in all cases the advertisement
or advertisements will be duly exhibited on the road or other surface so long as
the velocipede or carriage travels, while when the same is standing still it or they
will be exhibited on the tyre.
These raised letters or symbols also will and must prevent or minimize the
slipping of the wheel as also is desired.
When the tyre is flat in transverse section as is generally the case in and with
metallic and such like tyres, the letters or symbols may extend so far across the
same as may be desired, but when the tyre is convex or rounded in transverse
section as is generally the case in and with indiarubber and such like tyres the
letters or symbols are formed or fitted on or to the crown of the same and they
extend so far on each side of this crown as may be proper and as may be capable
of imprinting or exhibiting properly the advertisement or advertisements.
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
To so construct the tyres of velocipedes and other carriages with a series of
signs. symbols or figures, forming raised letters round the external periphery of the

page_text: tyres, which when the wheels having this tyre so fitted, travel along the road or
other surface, the letters will be imprinted or impressed on or into the same as
is desired, I also claim that this my invention will prevent or minimize side
slipping.
Dated this 27th day of December 1893.
FRANCIS BROWNE,
88, Great Titchfield Street, London, W.