Improvements in and relating to Rubber Tyres for Vehicle Wheels.
Year: 1898

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as required by the
decision of the Law Officer, of the 24th day of January, 1899.
Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in and relating to Rubber Tyres for Vehicle Wheels.
I, WILLIAM PETER GARNETT, of 20, Eastcheap, London, E.C., Manufacturer, do
bereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by
the Victor Rubber Tyre Company, of Springfield, Ohio, in the United States of
America, 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 certain new and useful improvements in rubber tires for
vehicles.
The object of my invention is to provide suitable means for encasing the tire
retaining wire or wires whereby moisture is excluded from said wires and whereby
a smaller diameter of wire may be employed and at the same time prevent the wire
or wires from cutting or tearing out of the rubber when severe strains are brought fo
bear on the tire.
In the accompanying drawing on which like reference letters indicate corresponding
parts:
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a portion of a wheel, and my improved tire applied
thereto; and
Fig. 2, a plan view, partly in section, of what is shown in Fig. 1 and showing one
means of fastening the meeting ends of the retaining wires.
The letter A represents a partial section of the felly of any ordinary vehicle wheel
and the letter B one of the spokes of said wheel. Upon the felly is mounted, in any
suitable manner, a tire C, preferably formed of channel iron rolled to the proper
shape. Within this channel iron is fitted a rubber or elastic tire D, which is held in
place by wires E passing through holes or cores F running lengthwise of the rubber
and extending the entire length thereof. About these wires is placed a suitable
covering G, of non-elastic or slightly elastic material which is preferably vulcanized
to the wires.
This covering prevents the wire or wires from rusting, and thus preserved they
last much longer than where the wires are not covered, as herein described. By
means of this cover a wire much smaller in diameter but of the proper tensile
strength, may be employed, while the covering prevents any cutting of the rubber
tire by the wire, which frequently occurs when not covered, as where severe strains,
such as going around sharp turns, etc., are brought to bear on the tire and tend to
partially roll it out of the channel iron as it were.
In order to fasten the ends of each of these retaining wires together a portion of
the covering G is removed from each end of the wire and a coupling sleeve H is
slipped over the exposed ends. Then the ends of the wire are brought together,
when they are brazed within said coupling sleeve. But it will be understood that I

page_text: do not confine myself to brazing, as the ends of the wire may be united in any
suitable manner well known in the art to which this invention relates. .
It will be understood that the ends of these retaining wires are fastened together
after the retaining wires are within the rubber and that in order to thus fasten them the
ends of the rubber tire are pressed back a sufficient distance. As soon as the pressure
is removed from these ends the rubber springs back and the gap in the elastic tire is
completely closed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I am aware that it is not
new to secure a solid rubber tyre in a channelled wheel rim by means of two retaining
wires lying within two longitudinal holes in the substance of the rubber tyre, such
as is shewn in my drawings, as such an arrangement has been described and claimed in
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to George Croydon Marks, No. 24,386 of
1895 and I am also aware that it is not new to secure a solid rubber tyre within the
rim by means of a single wire lying within a passage way extending longitudinally
through the tyre. I therefore lay no claim to such arrangements, per se, but I
declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a rubber tyre for vehicle wheels having one or more holes therein and a wire
extending through each of said holes, the combination therewith of a suitable
covering for said wire or wires adapted to fit within said holes.
2. In a rubber tyre for vehicle wheels having one or more holes therein and a wire
extending through each of said holes the combination therewith of a suitable
covering of non elastic or slightly elastic material about said wire or wires and
within said holes substantially as shewn and described.
3. In a rubber tyre for vehicle wheels having one or more holes therein and a wire
extending through each of said holes, the combination therewith of a suitable covering
vulcanized to said wire or wires and adapted to enter said holes substantially as
described.
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