IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FELLOES AND TYRES OF THE WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, TRI-, CYCLES, BATH CHAIRS, AND OTHER VEHICLES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas James Bell, of 24, Seaview Terrace, South Shields,.
in the County of Durham, Accountant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE FELLOES AND TYRES OF THE WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, TRI-,
CYCLES, BATH CHAIRS, AND OTHER VEHICLES."
Sealed the 10th December 1878, and dated the 14th June 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas James Bell at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1878.
THOMAS JAMES BELL, of 24, Seaview Terrace, South Shields, in the County
of Durham, Accountant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FELLOES AND TYRES OF
THE WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, BATH CHAIRS, AND OTHER
VEHICLES."
Instead of using a flat, or U shaped, or V shaped felloe, I roll or otherwise
manufacture the felloe of the wheels of carriages, bicycles, tricycles, bath chairs,
and other vehicles, in the shape shown in Fig. I. of the accompanying, Drawing,
a, a, a, a¹, being the felloe, and b a section of part of a spoke. The felloe is con-
stricted at c, c, and lipped out again at a¹, a¹.
I construct the indian-rubber tyres of the shape shown in Fig. II., with a con-
striction at d, d, into which the bend in the felloe fits.
As the tyres at present in use are moulded in a shape of which the section is a
circle, a considerable quantity of material, and consequently in weight, is saved by
my Invention.
The felloe approaching nearly to a circle has additional strength, and can be made
of less weight.
When one side of the tyre becomes worn out the tyre can be reversed.
This improved felloe also does away with the necessity for the use of cement.
Fig. III. shews the tyre in its place in the felloe.
This improvement can also be adapted to felloes at present in use of the U or
V shape, by constricting the sides slightly and lipping over the tops.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas James Bell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
December 1878.
THOMAS JAMES BELL, of 24, Seaview Terrace, South Shields, in the County
of Durham, Accountant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FELLOES AND TYRES OF
THE WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, BATH CHAIRS, AND OTHER
VEHICLES."
Instead of using a flat, or U shaped, or V shaped felloe, I roll or otherwise
manufacture the felloe of the wheels of carriages, bicycles, tricycles, bath chairs,
and other vehicles, in the shape shewn in Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing,
a, a¹, a, a¹, being the felloe, and b a section of a part of a spoke. The felloe is con-
stricted at c, c, and lipped out again at a¹, a¹.
By preference I construct the india-rubber tyres of the shape shewn in Fig. 2,
with a constriction at d, d, into which the bend in the felloe fits.
As the tyres at present in use are moulded in a shape of which the section is a
circle, a considerable quantity of material, and consequently in weight, is saved by
my Invention. The tyres may however be made in the ordinary shape, as when
the constriction of the felloe is "pinched in," the elasticity of the india-rubber will
admit of its taking the shape of the felloe.
The felloe approaching nearly to a circle has additional strength, and can be made
of less weight.
When one side of the tyre becomes worn out the tyre can be reversed.
This improved felloe also does away with the necessity for the use of cement.
Fig. 3 shews the tyre in its place in the felloe.
This improvement can also be adapted to felloes at present in use of the U or
V shape, by constricting the sides slightly and lipping over the tops.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the method of effecting
the same, what I claim and desire to have protected by Letters Patent is, the
Invention set forth and described in the above Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas James Bell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness to the signature & seal
of Thomas James Bell,
WILLIAM BELL,
Cleveland Street,
.South Shields.
T. J. BELL. (L.S.)