An Improved Felloe and Tyre for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Road Carriages.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Felloe and Tyre for the Wheels of Velocipedes and
other Road Carriages.
I, ALFRED VAN NOORDEN, of 64, Plympton Road, Brondesbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a felloe and a tyre for use on the
wheels of velocipedes and other road carriages that shall have many advantages
and excellences as for example:-the felloe shall be very strong in comparison
with its weight and the tyre shall be very easy and yielding not at all liable to
slip and when it is a pneumatic tyre not at all liable to puncture or damage.
To carry out this object the felloe as usual may be entirely made of metal in
any ordinary manner or the wooden or other felloe may be surrounded by an
ordinary metal felloe but this my felloe in transverse section is made of a hollow
circular shape or thereabouts. Along the crown or the outer periphery of this
felloe all round the wheel is made an endless slot of the desired breadth and the
edges of this slot may be turned or flanged outwardly or away from the centre
of the wheel and may then again be turned or flanged inwardly or be otherwise
treated as may be desired.
The tyre whether it be a pnematic or a cushion or a solid tyre is made as usual
of india rubber or the like and externally and transversely of a circular shape
of such a size that it can duly be placed in the felloe being inserted it may be
through the slot and when as is perhaps preferable it is a pneumatic tyre it is
of such a size that when it has been placed in this felloe and has then been duly
inflated in any usual manner it will properly fill the felloe. A ring of india
rubber or other suitable material is made of such a size and transversely, of such
dimensions that it can be placed in the slot in the crown of the felloe and the
inner periphery of this ring will bear against the aforesaid tyre while the outer
periphery thereof will be the tread of the tyre and this ring as and when it comes
in contact with the ground or whenever needed can work freely through the slot.
This ring can be made in one with the tyre or can be secured thereto in any
appropriate manner or it can be entirely separate therefrom in which case it might
be convenient to make the inner periphery thereof somewhat broader so that
an enlarged base is provided by which this ring will not easily be disengaged
from the slot in the felloe and by which the tread will be duly transmitted to
the tyre inside the felloe. Again in this case it might be convenient to make
an annular recess on each of the sides of this ring wherein to the flanged edges
of the slot could engage to ensure that this ring shall not leave the felloe. The
ring transversely can be made of any desired shape and the outer periphery or
tread thereof could be bulbous or flat or rounded or semicircular or otherwise
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page_text: and it is obvious that this ring in all cases constitutes and is an integral part
of my tyre.
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12 day of Santambor 1897
HART & Co.,
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
An Improved Felloe and Tyre for the Wheels of Velocipedes and
other Road Carriages.
I, ALFRED VAN NOORDEN, of 64, Plympton Road, Brondesbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, 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:--
The object of this my invention is to provide a felloe and a tyre for use on the
wheels of velocipedes and other road carriages that shall have many and great
advantages and excellences whereamongst I may mention the following:-the
felloe shall be very strong and rigid in comparison with its weight and the tyre
shall be very easy and yielding and not at all liable to slip and when it is a pneu-
matic tyre not at all liable to puncture or damage while if and when it is punctured
cr damaged the wheel can still be used without causing any further harm.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have
shewn a sectional elevation of a part of the rim of a wheel of a velocipede con-
structed according to my invention and provided with a pneumatic tyre.
The felloe A of the wheel may be made entirely of metal as is usual in veloci-
pedes in any customary or other manner or the ordinary wooden or other felloe
of the wheel may be surrounded by this my metallic felloe A which transversely
and in section is made hollow and of a circular or nearly circular shape of any
desired dimensions and is therefore very strong and rigid in comparison with
its weight. Along the centre of the crown or outer periphery of this felloe A
all round the wheel is made an endless slot B of the desired breadth and the edges
of this slot B are properly flanged or turned outwardly and away from the centre
of the wheel and may be rolled over and back as is shewn at C or may be caused
to project beyond the felloe A in the plane of the wheel or thereabouts or may
be otherwise formed and treated as may be desired but in any case this slot B
with its flanged edges will not decrease the strength and rigidity of the light
felloe A to any prejudicial or harmful extent.
When the tyre is to be a pneumatic tyre as is shewn in the drawing the ordinary
endless or other tube D can be duly placed in the felloe A in the customary manner
being inserted through the slot B and this tube D is made of such a size and is.
provided with such valves and other appropriate and usual appliances and devices
that when it has been so placed and in the customary manner appropriately ar-
ranged in the felloe A it can be duly inflated in the ordinary way and will then
properly fill this felloe A. A ring E is made of india rubber or other suitable
material or materials of such a size and is formed transversely and in section of
such shape and dimensions that it can be placed in the slot B all round the wheel
and will fit somewhat loosely therein and the inner periphery of this ring E
inside the felloe A will bear against and be supported by the tube D when it has
been duly inflated while the outer periphery of such ring E outside the felloe A
will be the tread of the tyre. Therefore when the ring E comes in contact with

page_text: the ground or whenever it may be required so to do it can if needful work freely
in the slot B whereby any shock or jolting or the like will be transmitted to
and dissipated in the pneumatic tube D in the ordinary manner and thus this
tyre formed by the combination of the tube D and the ring E will be very easy
and yielding while the tube D will not be at all liable to puncture or damage
as it is covered and protected by the felloe A.
The ring E may be made in one with the tube D or it can be secured thereto
in any appropriate and ordinary or other manner. Perhaps however it is even
preferable that the ring E should be entirely separate from the tube D in which
case it might be most convenient to make the same with a broad base F whereby
not only will this ring E be ensured against being accidentally disengaged from
the slot B but also the pressure of such ring E will be distributed over a larger
portion of the surface of the tube D to the manifest advantage of such tube D
while no difficulty will be experienced in pressing together the two wings of this
broadened base F and entering them through the slot B before the tube D is
inflated.
The outer periphery of the ring E or the tread G of the tyre may be made of
any appropriate and usual or other shape in section but it is preferably made so
broad that it cannot enter the interior of the felloe A as the projecting lateral edges
of such tread G will and must engage the flanged edges of the slot B and therefore
even if and when the tube 1 collapses this wheel can still be used without causing
any further harm while the comparative narrowness of this tread G will render
the tyre not at all liable to slip.
When the tyre is not to be a pneumatic tyre a tube would still generally and
preferably be placed in the felloe A and the tyre would be of the style commonly
called a
cushion tyre" and it could be made lighter than is customary as plainly
in this surrounding and protecting felloe A it is not liable to damage and the
ring E would be fitted thereto and used therewith in manner as is hereinbefore
described.
In a similar manner even a solid tyre could if and when it may be desired so
to do be used in and with this my invention but in this case it might generally
be necessary to make the felloc in two parts being thus longitudinally divided
it may perhaps preferably be along the centre of the inner periphery of this
felloe where the spokes of the wheel are connected thereto or opposite the endless
slot herein before described which two parts of the felloe could be secured together
in any convenient and usual or other manner and this method of construction of
the felloe can obviously be followed and used in other cases also if and when it
may be preferred so to do.
When the web of the ring E is broad enough or strong enough to be in no
danger of bending over sideways and especially perhaps when such ring E is made
of vulcanized india rubber or the like it will generally be preferable to roll the
edges of the slot B over and back only as is shewn at C but when these conditions
aforesaid of the ring E are not present the edges of the slot B ought to project
beyond the felloe A outwardly in any appropriate form and style duly to support
such ring E.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a wheel the combination of an hollow felloe A of a somewhat circular
section having a slot B along its crown and flanged edges to such slot B with a
pneumatic or other tube D or a tyre inside such felloe A and a projecting ring E
on the outer periphery of such tube D or tyre which passes through the slot B
and forms the tread of the tyre substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and declared.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting my

page_text: improved felloe and tyre for the wheels of velocipedes and other road carriages
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1898.
HART & Co.,
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, E.C.