Improvements in Elastic Tyres for Vehicle Wheels.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Elastic Tyres for Vehicle Wheels.
LAVINIA LENTON Trimmings Manufacturer Rockland Works Eagle Street
Coventry do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The advantages & novelty of this tire being air driving power because per-
forated or porous which facilitates speed.
It is cheaper than any other tire. It does not slip in wet weather. Can be
painted all colors. Does not puncture. Will wear long. This is a description
of the manufacture. A fine steel wire gauze is made woven very close yet open
enough to admit air through when driving. It is woven a particular shape on
strong wire edges these thick wires in edges are drawn tight round the wheel rim
or groove. There is then formed a steel spring perforated or porous air driving
tire.
This tire can be made in cane or anything suitable taking the place of fine
wire.
Dated this 24th day of July 1896.
LAVINIA LENTON.
LAVINIA LENTON Trimmings Manufacturer. Rockland Works Eagle Street
Coventry 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 improvements in elastic Tyres for velocipedes and other
vehicles.
The object of my invention is to make a Tyre that will require no air but have
the same resiliency and case and also be porous admitting the air current when in
motion and so facilitate speed. I weave in a loom in a particular shape or manner,
a wire fabric, viz. like a ribbon with close filled in hard drawn steel wire weft
shoots the weft wire crossing the warp wire quite straight from edge to edge of the
fabric and not diagonal as other Tyres have been made. This fabric I weave
seven or eight feet long more or less according to the length of the Tyre or size of
the wheel.
I weave it 5 inches wide more or less according to the thickness of the Tyre
required.
The warp wires in this fabric are as follows

page_text: Ten hard drawn steel wires in the centre put as close together as it is possible
to weave them.
More or less of these wires according to the width of the tread required.
These middle warp wires form the tread of the Tyre I shall call them tread
wires.
To prevent the two outside tread wires from slipping when the Tyre is bent
round the wheel I work one or more fine soft warp wires close beside them. These
fine wires bind or lock the two outside tread wires and so keep all the tread wires
firm.
I shall call these fine soft wires the binding wires.
I work less warp wires in the sides of the Tyre, or wire fabric, than the middle,
i four only, one in each edge and one in each side, between the edge wire and
the binding wire. The advantage being it enables the weft-wires to slip along the
warp wires and enables me to shape the Tyre ready for the wheel rim.
These four warn wires mentioned must be soft and much thicker than any other
wire used which helps me in my method of shaping the Tyre.
The wire fabric is flat like a band or ribbon when it comes out of the loom and
the wires which are woven in the sides or edges are drawn up the fabric forming
a hoop shape as the under part is drawn into a smaller circumference than the tread
part this enables it to fit the wheel rim.
The tread part is non slipping because the wires form rough ridges and between
thes ridges I place wires to ride upon which prevents the Wearing out of the
tread part of fabric.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I will proceed to explain
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 shows
the Tyre as it comes out of the Loom.
A are the tread warp wires.
B are the warp binding wires being a finer size than others used in the tread
part to prevent all the wires from slipping.
C are the weft wires.
D are the thick warp side and edge wires.
Having now rarticularly 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. A woven Tyre made of hard drawn steel wire and woven flat like a band or
ribbon the weft wire crossing the warp wire quite straight shooting from edge to
edge and not diagonal.
2. A woven wird Tyre with weft shoots close enough to ride upon without a
cover.
3. An elastic Tyre that will ride perforated and facilitate speed.
4. The method of using thick and thin wires in the tread part of fabric to bind
and prevent them from slipping.
5. A woven Tyre with close warp wires in the tread part and open warp wires in
the sides or edges of fabric.
6. The method of drawing by wires which are woven in by hand or machine
the under part of the Tyre which fits the rim into a smaller circumference than
the tread part.
Dated this 26th day of May 1897
LAVINIA LENTON.