Improved Fastening for Pneumatic Tyre.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fastening for Pneumatic Tyre.
WILLIAM THOMAS ROBBINS 274 Albany Road Camberwell S.E. Silversmith
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An Improved Fastening for a Pneumatic Tyre.
Two wires running round the cover with a stud fitted to each end which are
passed through a hole in the rim and secured by a pin through the studs on the
outside of rim.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1893.
WILLIAM.THOMAS ROBBINS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fastening for Pneumatic Tyre.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS ROBBINS, of 274, Albany Road, Camberwell, S.E.
Silversmith, 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:―
My invention relates to an improved device for attaching the covers of pneumatic
tyres to wheel rims, and it consists of two wires located in pockets in the edges of
the cover and passing out thereof through suitable holes either before or after the
ends of the wires have crossed, and of studs fitted on the ends of the wires and
adapted to pass through holes in the wheel rim and to be secured thereto by one or
more pins passing through small holes in the said studs outside the rim
one stud on each wire being made adjustable on the said wire for the purpose of
adjusting the said wire to the size of the wheel rim, the object being to attach the
cover to the wheel rim in a simple and effective manner.
attain this end in the manner shown by the accompanying drawing in
which :-
Figure 1 is a broken view in side elevation showing part of the cover detached
from the wheel rim, and
Figure 2 is a broken view in side elevation showing the same part of the cover
attached to the wheel rim.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The cover A is of the usual construction having pockets at its edges and presents
no novel features. The rim B may be either of the section shown or of any other
suitable section, the rim itself presenting no novel feature. In each of the pockets
in the edges of the cover is placed a length of wire C having a stud D fixed to one
end, and an adjustable stud D¹ mounted on the other end, this said stud being
screwed on to the threaded end of the wire for the purpose of adjusting the length
of the wire between the two studs to provide for the variations in the sizes of the
rims. In the rim B are two holes b, b, through which the studs D and D'are
pushed after the edge of the cover of the tyre is placed in position in the wheel
rim, the said studs being prevented from being withdrawn either by one pin E
adapted to pass through small holes in both the studs D and D' as shown by the
drawing, or by means of a single pin adapted to pass through the said hole in each

page_text: stud. It will be understood that both edges of the cover of the tyre are attached
to the wheel rim in a similar manner.
The air tube is of the usual construction and is fitted with any suitable valve for
inflation and deflation.
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. The combination of parts forming an improved fastening for pneumatic tyres,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
2. A device for attaching and securing the covers of pneumatic tyres to wheel
rims, consisting essentially of two lengths of wire C, C, each located in one edge
of the cover A, the ends of the said wires being crossed or overlapped, of studs D
and D mounted on each end of each of the said wires C those on one end being
adjustable and those on the other end fixed, and of holes,, on each side of the
wheel rim B to receive the studs D and D', as set forth.
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ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.