Improvements connected with Wheels of Vehicles, and in Apparatus Used for their Construction.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1997
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Wheels of Vehicles, and in Apparatus
Used for their Construction..
I, ISIDOR KLEIN, of Finsbury Square, in the City of London, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, which has been partly communicated to me from
abroad by Rudolph Eduard Cuny-Pierron, of 4 Jasomirgottstra., Vienna, Austria,
Gentleman, and partly invented by myself, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements connected with wheels of vehicles and in
apparatus nsed for their construction.
For the purpose of this invention, a channelled or side plates, or a combined
half channelled and a side plate, form the rim of a wheel, into which leather
patches or pieces cut to shape and connected into segmental form can be lodged
and be somewhat crowded in around the periphery, and then be cramped by
hydraulic pressure shoes or by a lagging band or ring or portions of a ring having
the inner periphery shaped to correspond to the tread portions of the leathers,
certain parts of the cramping ring having jointed link arms with intervening
tightening screws which gradually bind the ring circumferentially and close the
leathers in for the reception of the side plate or plates which when bolted home retain
the leathers within the channel.
These side plates can be forced into position by hydraulic or other pressure
before being bolted up or where the complete channel is used the flanges may be
turned in by pressure, before the circumferential cramp is removed, so that the tyre is
bonded to the wheel in a sound and efficient manner.
One side plate may form the base of the tyre rim to embrace and be secured to the
felloe, the other side plate can, after the leathers are ring clamped, be put on and
pressed home and bolted, as before explained.
ليمي
1902
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Isidor Klein.
Improvements connected with Wheels of Vehicles, and in Apparatus
Used for their Construction.
I, ISIDOR KLEIN, of Finsbury Square, in the City of London, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, which has been partly communicated to me
from abroad by Rudolph Eduard Cuny-Pierron, of 4 Jasomirgottstra., Vienna,
Austria, Gentleman, and partly invented by myself, 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 improvements connected with wheels of vehicles and in
apparatus used for their construction.
For the purpose of this invention, a channelled or side plate, or plates, or a

page_text: combined halt channelled and a side plate, form the rim of a wheel, into which,
leather patches or pieces cut to shape and connected into segmental form can be
lodged and be somewhat crowded in around the periphery, and then be cramped by a
lagging band or ring or portions of a ring having the inner periphery shaped to
correspond to the tread portions of the leathers, certain parts of the cramping ring
having jointed link arms with intervening tightening screws or cramped hydraulically
to gradually bind the ring circumferentially and close the leathers in for the reception
of the side plate or plates which when bolted home retain the leathers within the
channel.
These side plates can be forced into position by hydraulic or other pressure before
being bolted up, or where the complete channel is used, the flanges may be turned in
by pressure before the circumferential cramp is removed, so that the tyre is bonded to
the wheel in a sound and efficient manner.
One side plate may form the base of the tyre rim to embrace and be secured to the
felloe, the other side plate can, after the leathers are ring clamped, be put on and
pressed home and bolted, as before explained.
This invention will be more fully understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 sectional elevation of gutter shaped or double flanged rim in normal
condition.
Figure 2 the same with the flanges turned in.
Figure 3 section of tyre with separate side plates bolted home against the felloe,
the original rim, and against the new tyre or tread composed of leather on edge.
Figure 4 section of single flanged rim and one side plate.
Figure 5 section of reverse flanged rim and single side plate arrangement.
Figure 6 plan of wheel on bed plate and encircled by compression ring operable by
screws for cramping circumferentially the leather sections constituting the tyre tread.
Figure 7 edge elevation of circumferential band compres or for suspended hydraulic
action on the band or parts of a band.
Figure 8 plan of same.
Figure 9 detail view of toggle to cramp the band ends for circumferential cramping,
or for holding the band in a cramped condition, such as when the screw or the
hydraulic cramps are required to be removed, such as when the solidification of the
leathers be needed after soaking in water for the purpose of rendering them tractable
to compression.
Referring to Figure 1, A, felloe of wheel. B, rim. C, D, flanges of same
produced by rolling. E face of leather patch with recesses at F, F, in the side edges
into which the flanges C, D, can be forced, as at Figure 2.
Referring to Figure 3, G ordinary tyre on felloe A; H, H, side plates with curved in
outer peripheries I, I, to fit within the edge recesses of the leather patches E when
cramped bome and secured by bolts, one of which is shown at J.
Figure 4, the rim B has one side flange only (marked D) which is preferably
curved in the rolling process, or can be cramped in by hydraulic pressure after the
patches E in segments or otherwise are in place to form the tread of the wheel,
such as after the side plate H has been fitted and secured to the felloe A by bolts J.
In this and in Figures 1 and 2, the rim B is either shrunk on or rivetted by through
bolts as also with the arrangement shown at Figure 3, but at Figure 5 the reverse
flange K of the rim B fits a recess of the felloe A, which recess is sufficiently deep
for the side plate H to be flush when the bolts J are in position, as shown.
In all these plans or methods of making up the tyre of a wheel, the tread portion
is composed of leathers cut or stamped to the shape shown on the several figures
with side edge recesses, as at F, F, Figure 1 for the curved edges of the plates H, H,
or the pressed or rolled flanges C, D, of the rims B to engage.
The leathers E can be laid singly in the channels of the rims or side plates and
be pasted or glued as arranged in position, or they may have been previously so
prepared in segments of say 50 pieces, and these segments can be fitted into the
channels and be partially located and then by wedges, screws, or other devices they
can be crowded up to form a ring, the several leathers being forced into close

page_text: contact, this crowding up can be increased by band compression, such as by the ring-
band L, Figure 6, or by the sectional ring band shown at Figure 8. In Figure 6, the
cramping device is composed of a couple of jaws M, M, hinged at N, said jaws.
having a right and left hand scrow P passed through them which when turned by a
key or lever bar inserted in the holes of the boss Q draw them up tight and clasp.
the band around the leather bound tread of the wheel. The same result can be
obtained by the hydraulic clips R, R, R, shown at Figures 7 and 8, the wheel being
shown centred upon a pedestal S and the hydraulic clips suspended from a ring T by
chains U for ready adjustment.
If it be desired to retain the cramping band to the wheel tread for any length
of time after the screw or hydraulic cramping, a loop V, Figure 9, can be passed over-
the lips W, W, of the band and by coupling and wedge key X, the band can be kept.
cramped and allow of the cramping devices being released for cramping up the tread
of another wheel.
The wheel with the band thus cramped can now be placed in a circular travelling
roller pressure frame for forcing the flanges C, D, Figure 1, into contact with the
leathers as at Figure 2, or the side plates can be fitted and bolted home according
to the arrangement to be adopted.
I am fully acquainted with earlier specifications of patents on the subject of
what I might term, leather patch tyred wheels in channelled metal rims and I make
no claim to anything contained in them but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Constructing the tyres of wheels from a combination of shaped leather patches
(cut or stamped with recessed edges) and channelled rims, the flanges of which are
rolled into contact with the leather patches during circumferential compression by
bands, as and in the manner described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of
the annexed drawings.
2. The modified form of constructing the tyres of wood wheels, described with
reference to Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the annexed drawings when the actual method of
completing said construction is after and during circumferential compression by the
apparatus shown at Figures 6 and 9, or by the apparatus shown at Figures 7, 8, and 9,..
as set forth.
3. Constructing the tyres of wood wheels from a combination of plain leather
patches grouped in segments or cemented together to form a band or tread and
secured by circumferential compression in conjunction with a rolling or the bolting.
of side plates constituting the rim, as described.
Dated this 20th day of February
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,.
Agent for the said I. Klein.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said I. Klein.