A NEW OR IMPROVED TYRE OR GUARD POR WHEELS OF REAPING. MOWING, AND OTHER MACHINES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Affleck, of Swindon, in the County of
Wilts, Eugineer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED TYRE OR
GUARD POR WHEELS OF REAPING. MOWING, AND OTHER MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Affleck at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1867.
1, WILLIAM AFFLECK, of Swindon, in the County of Wilts, Engineer, do
bereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
TYRE OR GUARD FOR WHEELS OF REAPING, MOWING, AND OTHER MACHINES," to be
as follows:-
The surface of the running wheels of reaping, mowing, and some other
machines are usually roughened, ribbed, or corrugated in order to cause them
to grip or adhere to the soil when running to cause the efficient working of.
such machines; when, however, they have to travel over common or rough
roads the roughness, ribs, or corrugations become materially injured thereby,.
and the whole machine is to a great extent injured by the shaking it receives."
Now the object of my Invention is to remedy these defects.
My Invention consists in the employment of a loose tyre or guard fitting
over the wheels of reaping, mowing, and other machines, which serves as a.
guard to the said wheels when the machines are transported or moved from

page_text: place to place. I make the loose tyre or guard in one piece or in several
segments or parts; the surface of the tyre or guard may be smooth or
roughened as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Affleck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
AFFLECK, of Swindon, in the County of Wilts, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Affleck, Her special licence that I, the said William Affleck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Affleck, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
TYRE OR GUARD, FOR WHEELS OF REAPING, MOWING, AND OTHER MACHINES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Affleck, ny executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Affleck, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, that is
to say:
The surface of the running wheels of reaping, mowing, and some other
machines are usually roughened, ribbed, or corrugated in order to cause them
to grip or adhere to the soil when running to cause the efficient working of
sach machines; when, however, they have to travel over common or rough
roads the roughness, ribs, or corrugations become materially injured thereby,

page_text: and the whole machine is to a great extent injured by the shaking it receives.
Now the object of my Invention is to remedy these defects.
My Invention consists in the employment of a loose tyre or guard fitting
over the wheels of reaping, mowing, and other machines, which serves as a
guard to the said wheels when the machines are transported or moved from
place to place. I make the loose tyre or guard in one piece or in two pieces,
or in several segments or parts; the surface of the tyre or guard may be
smooth or roughened as desired.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which I prefer to
carry my Invention into effect.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 is a plan showing the loose tyre
applied to a wheel; Figure 3 is a back view of the loose tyre off the wheel;
Figure 4 is a view in plan of half the loose tyre: and Figure 5 is a cross
section of the loose tyre taken through the line F, F, of Figure 3.
letters of reference indicate like parts in all the Figures.
Similar
A is the running wheel of a machine, a reaping or mowing machine, for
example, the surface of which is toothed or roughened as generally made;
B is the loose tyre placed on and fitting over the wheel A; C, D, E, are clips
formed on the tyre for holding and retaining the tyre in position when placed
on or over the running wheel A; the tyre is maintained in position by screwed
bolts and nuts, as shown.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not limit myself to
the precise arrangement herein-before described for securing a loose tyre to
the running wheel or wheels of machines, as the same might be fastened
otherwise without departing from my Invention; but I claim the construction
and employment of a loose tyre or guard for fitting over the wheel or wheels
of reaping, mowing, and other machines, substantially in manner and for
the purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Affleck, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
WILLIAM AFFLECK. (L.S.)