Improvements relating to Pneumatic Tyres.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1898
Improvements relating to Pneumatic Tyres.
JAMES HENDERSON GRANT, Cycle Agent, 140, John Street, Blaydon-on-Tyne, and
PETER GRANT TULLOH, Jeweller, 4, Guildford Place, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The invention consists of an unstretchable band to encircle air tube when
punctured.
In case of a puncture you patch in the ordinary way binding the patch on
with the "speedy pneumatic tyre repairer" thereby contracting the air chamber
on inflation and thus binding the patch. In case of a cut in the outer cover the
speedy repairer acts in the same way preventing undue expansion at the cut or
weak point. The repairer is fastened with a clasp & rests on the bed of the wheel
rim and is fixed instantly.
Dated this 12th day of August 1898.
Improvements relating to Pneumatic Tyres.
We, JAMES HENDERSON GRANT, Cycle Agent, of 140, John Street, Blaydon-on-
Tyne, and PETER GRANT TULLOH, Jeweller, of 4, Guildford Place, Heaton, New-
castle-on-Tyne, 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:-
This invention consists of an unstretchable band or strip of suitable width and
length to suit the particular size of air tube that it has to encircle. After the band
has been put in place the ends are fastened together by any ordinary & suitable
type of clasp or connection such as by hooks and eyes or by hooks engaging with
eyelets. When hooks and eyes or other means are used that do not keep the ends
of the band firm together across their whole width or the greater part of their
width the band is stiffened with wire fastened into it by any suitable method, the
fasteners and wires being so arranged that when the band encircles the tube the
wires will lie against or adjacent to and parallel to each other. One end of the
band forms a flap under the clasp or other connection and thus keeps the clasp or
other connection from immediate contact with the air tube. If preferred another
flap piece may be fastened on the band so that the clasp does not come in contact
with the rim. The bands may be made of any suitable material such as canvas

page_text: leather or the like. In the case of a puncture in the air tube a patch is put over the
hole in the usual manner and the band then clasped round the tube thus keeping
the patch in place during inflation which after replacement of the tube and its
cover can be proceeded with at once. The band could be removed
at leisure, but it will do no harm if it remain on the tube. The
clasp or other fixing should rest in or against the wheel rim. Where a
cut has been made in the outer cover which does not perforate the air tube the band
is put round the air tube at this point and if preferred some solution put on the
inside of the cover and the outside of the band and the cover again put in place.
When the air tube is inflated the band will prevent any excess of pressure against
the cover at the place where the latter is weakened by the cut.
In the annexed drawings. Fig. 1 shows a band with a clasp connection.
Fig. 2 a similar band with a hook and eye connection. Fig. 3 shows in section
the position of the band and its clasp when the band is on the air tube within the
cover.
A represents the band and B the flap piece to lie under the clasp C and D are
two parts of the clasp. and G represent eyes and hooks and G stiffening wires
which may be used in place of the stiffened clasp shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. 3
J represents the air tube and H the outer cover with the band A lying between
them. K is the rim.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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The improvement relating to pneumatic tyres consisting in the combination
therewith of a band such as A provided with a suitable clasp and adapted to
encircle the air tube for a sufficient length thereof in the manner herein described.
2. A band adapted to encircle a pneumatic tyre air tube and to extend a suitable
distance along the length thereof, said band having a suitable stiffened clasp or
connection adapted to lie in the wheel rim and so placed that the air tube is
protected from said clasp or connection, the whole substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 29th day of September 1898
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.