An Improved Bicycle Tire.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bicycle Tire.
We, AUGUST MEYER, Artisan, of 16 Clay Street, and FREDERICK WERNER
KLIPPER, Manufacturer of Furniture, of 6 South Calvert Street, both in the
City of Baltimore and State of Maryland, United States of America, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our present invention relates to tires for bicycles and like vehicles and has for
its object certain improvements in construction to secure the maximum of elasticity
with the minimum of risk of disabling the machine by rupturing or puncturing the
outer surface of the tire.
We provide a core or body of a tire composed of elastic sections, preferably of
rubber, compressible circumferentially or transversely from their peripheries
toward their centres. The sections consist of disks or short cylinders having a
broad rim or outer bearing surface, and concave ends which have a web in the
centre of the section; which web is reduced in cross sectional area gradually from
the rim to the hub, to impart the maximum of elasticity to the web, and locate the
greatest degree of elasticity near the transverse centre of the tire. The hub of
each section is of a length equal to or slightly in excess of the width of the rim
of the section, and when the sections are assembled in the cover or casing the hubs
of each section are brought into contact with a hub of each adjacent section and
prevent lateral movement or buckling of the web and consequent collapse of
the tire.
The casing may be made of rubber or rubber and cloth combined or of canvas.
To assemble the sections of the core, they may be strung upon a cord which
passes through the hubs and drawn through the cover or casing, when the casing is
secured at its ends to form a tire in the usual manner of connecting flexible tires.
The tire is supported in a rim of any approved construction.
By the construction described, a tire of great elasticity is produced and the tire
is not subject to being disabled or seriously affected by the casing being punctured
as in the case of inflated tires, and the casing may be renewed as it becomes worn
without changing the core or body of the tire.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1894.
F. W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent.
An Improved Bicycle Tire.
We, AUGUST MEYER, Artisan, of 16 Clay Street, and FREDERICK WERNER
KLIPPER, Manufacturer of Furniture, of 6 South Calvert Street, both in the City
of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, United States of America, 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
statements:—
Our present invention relates to tires for bicyles and like vehicles and has for its
object certain improvements in construction to secure the maximum of elasticity
with the minimum of risk of disabling the machine by rupturing or puncturing the
outer surface of the tire.

page_text: The invention will be fully disclosed in the following Specification and claims.
In the accompanying drawings which form part of this Specification:
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of part of the core or body of the tire.
Figure 2 a vertical longitudinal section of part of the rim of a wheel, the core
or body of the tire and its outer cover or casing.
Figure 3 an end view of one of the sections of the core, and
Figure 4 a side view thereof.
References being had to the drawings and the letters thereon, A indicates the
core or body of a tire composed of elastic sections a, preferably of rubber,
compressible circumferentially or transversely from their peripheries toward their
centres. The sections a consist of disks or short cylinders having a broad rim or
outer bearing surface b, and concave ends c c which have a web d in the centre of
the section; which web is reduced in cross sectional area gradually from the rim b
to the hub e to impart the maximum of elasticity to the web, and locate the greatest
degree of elasticity near the transverse centre of the tire. The hub e of each
section a is shown of a length equal to or slightly in excess of the width of the rim
of the section, and when the sections are assembled in the cover or casing B the
hubs of each section abut a hub of each adjacent section and prevent lateral
movement or buckling of the web d and consequent collapse of the tire.
The casing B may be made of rubber or rubber and cloth combined, or of
canvas.
To assemble the sections a of the core, they may be strung upon a cord of which
passes through the hubs e and drawn through the cover or casing B, when the
casing is secured at its ends to form a tire in the usual manner of connecting
flexible tires.
The tire is supported in a rim C of any approved construction.
By the construction shown, a tire of great elasticity is produced and the tire is
not subject to being disabled or seriously affected by the casing being punctured as
in the use of inflated tires, and the casing may be renewed as it becomes worn
without changing the core or body of the tire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we do hereby declare that
what we claim is :-
1. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid and connected compressible
sections and an inclosing casing.
2. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid compressible sections having a
central web and inclosing casing.
3. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid compressible sections having a
central web and concave ends, and an inclosing casing.
4. A tire consisting of a core composed of compressible sections having a central
web of varying thickness, and an inclosing casing.
5. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid compressible sections having a
central web and a hub; and an inclosing casing.
6. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid compressible sections having a
central web and a hub, and a cord extending through said hubs; and an inclosing
casing.
7. A tire consisting of a core composed of solid compressible sections having a
web and means for preventing lateral displacement of said web; and an inclosing
casing.
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