WHEELS FOR VEHICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Brown at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st August 1877.
HENRY EDWARD BROWN, of Dublin, Ireland, Coachmaker.
WHEELS FOR VEHICLES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates to improvements in wheels for carriages and other vehicles,
whereby the fellies of the wheels are protected from injury from the kerb-stone or
shingles, or from the rails of tramways, and it consists in constructing the tyres of
the wheels on either the inner or the outer side of the wheel, or on both sides, with a
flange projecting inwardly, so as to partially encase and sheathe the felly, and thereby
preserve the portions exposed to injury from contact with the bodies which the
wheels are liable to encounter during the running of the vehicle. The flange or
flanges may be rebated into the felly if found desirable.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Edward Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th February 1878.
HENRY EDWARD BROWN, of Dublin, Ireland, Coachmaker.
WHEELS FOR VEHICLES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My said Invention relates to improvements in wheels for carriages and other
vehicles, whereby the fellies of the wheels are protected from injury from the kerb-
stone or shingles, or from the rails of tramways, and it consists in constructing the
tyres of the wheels on either the inner or the outer side of the wheel, or on both
sides, with a flange projecting inwardly so as to partially encase and sheathe the
felly, and thereby preserve the portions exposed to injury from contact with the
bodies which the wheels are liable to encounter during the running of the vehicle.
The flange or flanges may be rebated into the felly if found desirable.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate a mode of carrying out the said Invention.
Figure 1 represents a transverse section of my improved tyre; and Figures 2 and
3 represent respectively a side elevation and transverse sectional elevation drawn to
a reduced scale of a portion of a wheel fitted with the same.
A is the tyre forined on its side with a flange a, which partially encases and
sheathes the felly B so as to preserve the same from contact with the kerb-stone,
shingles, tram rails, or other bodies which the wheels are liable to encounter during
the running of the vehicle, and thereby to protect the felly from injury. The flange a
may be arranged on the opposite side of the tyre to that at which it is represented
as placed in the example illustrated, or a flange may be formed on both sides if
desired.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect,
I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, constructing the wheel tyres of road vehicles with a side flange or
flanges for the purpose of protecting the felly of the wheel from injury, substantially
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Edward Brown, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this 21st day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
HENRY EDWARD BROWN. (L.S.)