Improvements in or relating to the. Manufacture of Pneumatic Tyres.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the. Manufacture of Pneumatic
Tyres.
I, ALFRED NORREYS, of 222 Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Stock
Broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pneumatic tyres, and the employment therein of threads
or strips of raw hide, either manufactured as a fabric, and so used in the cover or
as the cover, or it may be employed in the same manner as the threads in a
thread tyre. It may also be used upon the tread surface of the tyre to prevent
slipping.
In applying the invention I take small strips of the raw hide of any suitable
size in cross section, and I either weave these together so as to produce a fabric,
or, as before mentioned, I employ them simply side by side in the manner of a
thread tyre. Rubber solution or the like may be used to cause the raw hide
threads to retain their proper relative positions, or other means may be employed
for this purpose.
This material is particularly suitable for tyres for heavy vehicles, particularly
self-propelled vehicles, because while providing the great strength required to
resist heavy air pressures, and carry heavy loads, it retains its flexibility, in this
respect being greatly superior to the canvas ordinarily used.
It has also the advantage of not being affected by moisture-which destroys.
canvas tyres very quickly-or even by some acids of average strength.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Pneumatio
Tyres.
I, ALFRED NORREY9 of 222 Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Stock
Broker, 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 :-
This invention relates to pneumatic tyres, and the employment therein of threads
or strips of raw hide, either manufactured as a fabric, and so used in the cover,
or as the cover, or it may be employed in the same manner as the threads in a
thread tyre. It may also be used upon the tread surface of the tyre to prevent
slipping.
In applying the invention I take small strips of the raw hide of any suitable
size and shape in cross section, and I either weave these together so as to produce
a fabric, or as before mentioned, I employ them simply side by side in the manner

page_text: of a thread tyre. Rubber solution or the like inay be used to cause the raw hide
threads to retain their proper relative positions, or other means may be employed
for this purpose.
This material is particularly suitable for tyres for heavy vehicles, particularly
self-propelled vehicles, because while providing the great strength required to
resist heavy air pressure, and carry heavy loads, it retains its flexibility, in this
respect being greatly superior to the canvas ordinarily used.
It has also the advantage of not being affected by moisture-which destroys
canvas tyres very quickly-or even by some acids of average strength, or by
steam.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a short length of a tyre cover in which strips A
of raw hide, woven together as shown, are incorporated in or secured upon the inner
face of the cover or tyre B.
Figure 2 is a similar view in which strips A are incorporated in the cover B side
by side; when the strips are thus arranged, any suitable means may be employed
in addition for strengthening the tyre transversely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perfornied, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The employment of raw hide in a pneumatic tyre in the manner described.
2. In a pneumatic tyre strips of raw hide employed substantially as and for the
purpose described and illustrated in Figure 1 or Figure 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 5th dar of March 1905
ALFRED NORREYS.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.