Improvements in Tyres.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st Oct., 1896-Accepted. 14th Nov., 1896
Improvements in Tyres.
I, ALEXANDER STEINER, of Neubangürtel 46, Vienna, XV, Austria, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for preventing the disagreeable
and dangerous sliding or slipping on dirty or slippery places to which wheels
(particularly cycle wheels) provided with elastic tyres are liable.
The means hitherto proposed for the purpose-for example, ribbed running
surfaces, or attachments for increasing friction-have not proved successful in
practice, because, as to some of them, they do not produce the desired effect aud,
as to others, it is difficult to apply them and they increase the weight of the wheels
considerably.
According to this invention strips are employed, which are provided with points
or spikes so as effectually to prevent the wheel from sliding or slipping and which
are fastened to the bearing surface of the tyre in such a way as to be capable of
being easily removed therefrom.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a pneumatic tyre provided with means for preventing
sliding or slipping according to my invention, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of a detached gripping strip.
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a side elevation and a plan showing a modification
of such a gripping strip.
The tyre a (Fig. 1) is provided with two longitudinal strips b, which are located
on the two sides of the running surface or tread. This may either be formed in
one with the tyre or be cemented, sewed, or otherwise fastened thereon; and they
are provided at intervals with transverse slits or openings for the insertion of the
gripping strips c. These latter consist of strips of leather, caoutchouc, sheet
metal, or other suitable material, on which spikes or points are arranged or
fastened. In use, they are bent and their ends then inserted into the corresponding
slits of the strips b. Lateral motion of the strips c is prevented by the fact that
at each end a spike e' bears in every case against the inner lateral surface of the
corresponding strip b.
Such grippers may be made of any desired and suitable form.
Figs. 3 and 4 show as an example a gripper c of elastic sheet metal, the
spikes of which are produced by cutting out and bending up the material of the
strip.
Grippers of the kind described, can, whenever necessary, be fastened to the
tyre, or removed therefrom, in a very short time by the cyclist himself.
Dated this 8th day of January 1896.
For the Applicant..

page_text: Improvements in Tyres.
I, ALEXANDER STEINER, of Neubangürtel 46, Vienna XV, Austria, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for preventing the disagreeable
and dangerous sliding or slipping on dirty or slippery places, to which wheels
(particularly cycle-wheels) provided with elastic tyres are liable. The means
hitherto proposed for the purpose-for example, ribbed running-surfaces, or
attachments for increasing friction-have not proved altogether successful in
practice, because, as to some of them, they do not produce the desired effect and,
as to others, it is difficult to apply them and they increase the weight of the wheels
considerably.
According to this invention strips are employed, which are provided with points
or spikes so as effectually to prevent the wheel from sliding or slipping and which
are fastened to the bearing-surface of the tyre in such a way as to be capable of
being easily removed therefrom.
Referring to the drawings, filed with my Provisional Specification,
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a pueumatic tyre provided with means for preventing
sliding or slipping according to my invention,
Fig. 2 is a plan of a detached gripping strip.
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a side elevation and a plan showing a incdified
construction of such a gripping strip.
The tyre a (Fig. 1) is provided with two longitudinal strips b, which are located
on the two sides of the running surface or tread. They may either be formed in
one with the tyre or be cemented, sewed, or otherwise fastened thereon; and they
are provided at intervals with transverse slits or openings for the insertion of the
gripping strips c. These latter consist of strips of leather, caoutchouc, sheet-metal,
or other suitable material, on which spikes or points c are arranged or fastened.
In use, they are bent and their ends then inserted into the corresponding slits of
the strips b. Lateral motion of the strips c is prevented by the fact that at each
end a spike c bears in every case against the inner lateral surface of the
corresponding strip b. Such grippers may be made of any desired or suitable form.
Figs. 3 and 4 show as an example a gripper c of elastic sheet-metal, the
spikes c' of which are produced by cutting out and bending up the material of the
strip.
Grippers of the kind described can, whenever necessary be fastened to the
tyre, or removed therefrom, in a very short time by the cyclist himself.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
claim is :-
For preventing side slipping of a wheel, an elastic tyre having holding strips b
attached thereto and provided at intervals with slits, and gripping strips c which
are provided with spikes or points e and the ends of which can be inserted in
the slits of the said strips so as to thereby become removably secured on the
wheel-tyre, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of October 1896.
W. LLUID WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
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WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.