Improvements in and connected with Covers for Pneumatic Tyres.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Covers for Pneumatic
Tyres.
I, MARY THEODORA BARROW of 26 East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars
Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C. Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an efficient cover for pneumatic tyres
which can be easily removed and replaced as and when required and at other times
form. a strongly attached cover. I carry out my invention in or in about the
following manner. I take a piece of material of suitable dimensions to form the
cover and form therein or attach thereto at intervals along its length "pipings" in
which I place wires or their equivalents of sufficient length to protrude from each
end of the individual pipings. The rim of the wheel is formed with tubular,
flanged or inwardly or outwardly (or more or less so) lipped-over portions at
intervals along each edge and between these tubular or other portions are placed
the pipings on the cover so that the protruding ends of the wires or the like enter
the tubular or pass under the over-lipped portions,
As a modified method of carrying out my invention one of the edges of the cover
may be permanently attached in any suitable manner to one edge of the rim, the
other edge of the cover and rim being arranged as above described or one edge or
both edges of the rim may be perforated with slots surrounded or not by upstanding
flanges and through these slots may be passed spring clips attached to the edge or
edges of the cover.
Instead of the protruding wires or equivalents being on the cover the rim of the
wheel may have on one or each edge tubular beadings at intervals around the
periphery and in these beadings may be provided wires or their equivalents which
may be protruded as and when required, by any suitable means and in such
manner, that the protruding ends may enter the ends of the pipings on the cover.
In all cases a flap may be provided extending below the pipings on the cover, for
the purpose of being tucked under the air-tube and thus intervening between it and
the rim.
Dated this Sixth day of July 1896.
MARY THEODORA BARROW,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Covers for Pneumatic
Tyres.
I, MARY THEODORA BARROW of 26 East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars
Street, Fleet Street, London E.C. Married Woman, 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 relates to improvements in and connected with covers for

page_text: pneumatic tyres and has for object to provide a thoroughly efficient means
for effecting the said purpose which is calculated to form a strongly attached
cover which can be easily removed and replaced as and when required.
And in order that my invention may be more readily understood and carried out
in practice I have hereunto attached a sheet of drawings illustrating two methods
of carrying out the said invention, and being marked with letters of reference
indicating like or corresponding parts in the various figures.
In the method illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing I provide the cover A at
intervals along its length with pipings A', formed in or attached thereto, in which
I place rods p of suitable material, such as metal, bone and the like, and of
sufficient length to protrude a convenient distance from each end of the individual
pipings.
The rim B of the wheel is formed with tubular, flanged or inwardly or outwardly
lipped-over portions B₁ at intervals along each edge and between these tubular or
otherwise shaped portions are placed the pipings on the cover so that the protruding
ends of rods p enter into the tubular or pass under the lipped-over portions B' of
the rim B of the wheel.
In Fig. 2 I illustrate another method of attaining the same purpose. Instead of
the rods p being secured in the pipings A', I leave the latter open and provide the
rim B of the wheel with tubular beadings B¹ having longitudinal slots s through
which protrude buttons p¹ by means of which the rods p may be protruded from or
withdrawn into the said beadings, for the purpose of securing the cover to the rim
by causing the rods p to enter into the pipings, or remove the cover by causing the
said rods to recede from the pipings into the beading.
In all cases flaps A³ may be provided extending below the pipings A¹ on
cover A, for the purpose of being tucked under the air tube and thus intervening
between it and the rim.
One edge may also be permanently attached in any suitable manner to one edge
of the rim, the other edge of the cover and rim being arranged as herein before
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1.) The improvements in and connected with covers for pneumatic tyres
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2.) In covers for pneumatic tyres the pipings A¹ containing rods pin combination
with lipped-over portions B' of rim B constructed arranged and fitted substantially
as and for the purpose set forth and illustrated in the Fig. 1 of accompanying
drawings.
3.) In covers for pneumatic tyres the pipings A¹ in combination with tubular
beadings B¹ having slots s and containing rods p operated by buttons p' constructed
arranged and fitted substantially as and for the purpose set forth and illustrated in
Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of April 1897
HUGHES, ELI, & HUGHES,
76 Chancery Lane,
For the Applicant.