Improvements in Tyres for Bicycles, Tricycles, Motor-cars, or other: Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1397
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tyres for Bicycles, Tricycles, Motor-cars, or other:
Wheeled Vehicles.
We, ALBERT EDWARD LILLIE, Commercial Traveller, 2 Deramore Avenue, Belfast,..
and JAMES COCKBURN, Merchant, 12 Mountview Terrace, Belfast, 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 tyres for bicycles, tricycles, motor cars, and other wheeled.
vehicles.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we have hereunto..
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a section taken through a bicycle wheel as made in accordance with our
invention.
Fig. 2 is a view of one side of, the wheel.
Fig. 3 is a view of the opposite side of the wheel.
Fig. 4 is a cross section and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section to an enlarged scale
showing the method of making the tyre.
Figs. 6 and 7 are side and plan views of a wire joint.
In all the views Figs. 1 to 5 the rim c is shown in section.
The features of novelty constituting the invention are pointed out in the claims
at the end of this specification.
The tyre consists of a number of balls a made of india rubber or other material
and either solid or hollow and which are not permanently attached to either the
wheel rim or the cover. These balls a are enclosed or held in position on the wheel
rime by means of a cover b, or a strip of india-rubber or other suitable and well
known material lined or unlined and shaped so as to fit the rim. Each edge of
the rubber or other cover 6 has a wire d running through it which is divided or made-
in parts. Each part is provided with an eye or loop e at the one end and a bent or
hooked piece e at the other end as shown particularly at Figs. 6 and 7. The pieces e¹,
which are screwed, are first passed through the eyes e and then through holes / made
in the rim. Each screwed end is retained securely in place in the rim by means of
a jam nut 9 and a milled edge, butterfly, or other suitable nut h.
A single nut may
be used if preferred.
As shown at Figs. 2 and 3 each wire is divided into two parts which are jointed at
opposite sides of the rim.
i are chains for attaching the nuts / to the rim or the spokes.
One side of the cover b is first placed on the rim and fastened, then the balls a are.
placed in position, then the other side of the cover is fitted in place and the hooks e¹
inserted in the eyes e, finally the hooks e¹ are pushed through the holes f in the rim.
and fastened by means of the nuts g, h.
When the wires are properly secured in place and held by the nuts the cover is
firmly locked to the rim.
With this arrangement it is an exceedingly easy matter, should hollow balls be
used, to replace any ball which may have become exhausted or punctured.
The invention can be applied to any wheel having a rim provided with raised.
edges or beads.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. In combination, a wheel rim, balls fitted on the rim, a cover for retaining the
balls in place and wires for. locking the cover to the rim, said wires being made
in sections jointed together by hook and eye or equivalent joints, substantially as
hereinbefore described with reference to the drawings annexed.
2. The combination of the wheel rim, the balls fitted on the rim, the cover for
retaining the balls in place, the wires. d made in sections for locking the cover to
the rim, the hook and eye joints e, e', on the sections of the wires, the holes fin
the rim for the hooks to pass through and a nut or nuts for holding each hook,
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown on the drawings annexed.
"
Dated this IIth day of February. 1897.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.