Improvements in and relating to India-rubber Tyres for All Kinds of Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to India-rubber Tyres for All Kinds
of Vehicles.
I HENRI MENIER, of 21 Boulevard Poissonnière Paris, in the Republic of
France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements the object of this invention consists in the means of fixing
india rubber tyres on the wheels of vehicles.
My india rubber tyre, instead of being a circle or round ring soldered or moulded
on the iron tyre consists of a band of nearly rectangular section flat where seated
in the metal tyre, slightly rounded at the corners towards the surface which is to
come into contact with the ground and having a groove for the purpose of receiving
segments of metal, or of analogous section.
The metal tyre of the wheel is of the ordinary channel or gutter iron of
commerce and the segments which take into the groove of the india rubber tyre
are an ordinary section of bar iron, thus the manufacture of wheels with india
rubber tyres, which, has hitherto, been the monoply of a few specialists may be
taken up by all carriage builders.
The construction of a wheel with india rubber tyre becomes in fact very easy.
The segments of any length, and traversed by bolts with countersunk head, are
engaged in the groove of the india rubber before this latter is placed in position
and the fastening bolts pass through the channel iron to receive tightening nuts
under the felloe properly so called which may be of iron or of wood. The lips of
the india rubber groove are therefore forcibly compressed between these segments
and the channel iron.
Besides this facility of manufacture my system offers above all other kinds
hitherto used the following advantages.
1. Absolute joining of the india rubber on the tyre.
2. As no screw or rivet passes through the india rubber, the vermicular move-
ment occasioned by the contact with the ground of the wheel always turning in the
same direction, may be produced freely without affecting or injuring the aforesaid
joining.
3. The use of the tyre may be continued until the india rubber is completely
worn out.
4. If, by reason of any shock, or otherwise the wheel should need to be taken to
pieces for repairs, in all other arrangements the tyre is lost whereas with my system
of fixing by segments the india rubber may serve again.
Dated this Twentieth day of December 1892.
For the Applicant,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to India-rubber Tyres for All Kinds
of Vehicles.
I, HENRI MENIER, of 21 Boulevard Poissonnière, Paris, in the French
Republic, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the means of fixing india-rubber tyres

page_text: on the wheels of all kinds of vehicles with the objects of facilitating the construction
of wheels with india rubber tyres, and of preventing injury to the joining of the
india rubber on the tyre by the vermicular movement occasioned by the wheel
always turning in the same direction in contact with the ground.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood reference is had to the
accompanying drawing representing one of my improved india rubber tyres and the
method of securing the same upon the felloe of a wheel.
Figure 1 is a vertical section through the middle of the thickness of the felloe
of a wheel, and
Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same, provided with one of my tyres.
It will be seen from the drawing that my india-rubber tyre A. instead of being a
circle or ring soldered or moulded on the iron tyre as usually constructed, consists
of a band of nearly rectangular section, flat where seated in the metal tyre, slightly
rounded at the corners towards the surface which is intended to come into contact
: with the ground, and having a groove for the purpose of receiving segments of
metal, or of analogous section.
The metal tyre B of the wheel, is of the ordinary channel or gutter section of
commerce and the segments C which take into the groove D of the india-rubber
tyre A are an ordinary or halfround section of bar iron.
By adopting the method of construction shewn, the manufacture of wheels with
india-rubber tyres which has hitherto been the monoply of a few specialists may be
taken up by all carriage builders, and carried on with great facility. The
segments C which may be of any length are secured by bolts a the ends of which
pass through the segments, being rivetted or countersunk therein, and inserted in
the groove D of the india rubber tyre A. before this latter is placed in position, and
the fastening bolts a pass through the channelled or gutter-iron B to receive
tightening nuts 6 under the felloe properly so called which may be of iron or of
wood. By this arrangement the lips of the india rubber groove D are forcibly
compressed between the segments C and the channelled or gutter iron B.
Besides this facility of manufacture, my system offers above all other kinds
hitherto used the following advantages
1. Absolute joining of the india rubber on the tyre.
2. As no screw or rivet passes through the india-rubber, the vermicular move-
ment occasioned by the wheel turning constantly in the same direction in contact
with the ground will not affect or injure the aforesaid joining.
3. The use of the tyre may be continued without renewal until the india rubber is
completely worn out.
And
.. 4., If, in consequence of a shock or any other cause, it should become necessary
to take the wheel to pieces for repairs, in all existing arrangements the tyre is
.. rendered useless, whereas with my system of fixing by segments the india rubber may
serve its purpose again.
Having now particularly 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 :-
. The arrangement and use of the india-rubber tyres above described, the said
tyres being of the section shewn, and fixed by means of segments inserted within
the hollow of the tyre and secured on the wheels of any kind of vehicles, as decribed
and illustrated upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this Twentieth day of September 1893 ·