Improvements in Apparatus for Fixing Tyres.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Fixing Tyres.
I, GEORGE YOUNG, of 45 Tamworth Road, Croydon, Surrey, Wheelwright, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This my invention relates to improvements in apparatus used for fixing iron or
steel tyres on the wheels of vehicles and has for its object the provision of a means
whereby said tyres may be more easily and effectually fixed on the felloes of
wheels, and also of a means whereby simplicity, cheapness, and quickness is
secured in the operation of quenching, thus preventing the burning or injury of the
wheel felloes.
In order to carry out my invention, I provide a tank or cistern of any suitable
shape and size, and made of any suitable material and which may be either fixed
or portable, or built in the ground in proximity to the wheel platform, the
purpose of the tank or cistern being to contain the water used for quenching the
tyres.
This said tank is placed at such a level that the water in it is on the same level
as the underside of the wheel platform or thereabouts, and a connecting pipe or
channel is provided between the tank and the sump well or chamber usually pro-
vided underneath the centre of the wheel platform, into which the platform spindle
is fixed, the whole space, viz. the chamber, channel, and tank aforesaid being filled
with water. I further provide a cover plate made of wood, iron, or any suitable
material, of the same shape and size as the tank or cistern, said cover fitting the
inside of the tank loosely, and which floats on the water in said tank. The edge
of this cover is provided with a flange turned downwards, made of leather, india
rubber or other suitable material, which flange extends all along the edge of the
said cover, and fits the sides of the tank, sliding up and down the same with the
cover, thus making said cover watertight. On the top of this cover I provide a
vertical rod with an eye to which is pinned a long lever working in a fulcrum
at one end, and having a handle at the other end. By forcing the lever down
with the hand, the cover plate presses on the water in the tank and forces it
through the connecting pipe or channel into the sump well or chamber under the
wheel platform, causing the water to flow over the platform and the wheel and
tyre laid thereupon, by which means the heated tyre is momentarily covered all
round and cooled. In like manner should it be required to withdraw the overflow
water suddenly, by raising the handle of the long lever and the cover plate of the
tank of cistern, a suction is formed in the tank, and the level of the water in the
sump well underneath the wheel platform is immediately lowered, and the overflow
water on the platform at ouce rushes back into the sump well.
Dal
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REGINALD W. BARKER,
Monument Chambers, London, E.C., Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, GEORGE YOUNG, of 45 Tamworth Road, Croydon, Surrey, Wheelwright, 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 my invention relates to improvements in apparatus used for fixing iron or
steel tyres on the wheels of vehicles and has for its object the provision of a means
whereby said tyres may be more easily and effectually fixed on the felloes of
wheels, and also of a means whereby simplicity, cheapness, and quickness is
secured in the operation of quenching, thus preventing the burning or injury of tbe
wheel felloes.
In order to carry out my invention, I provide a tank or cistern of any suitable
shape and size, and made of any suitable material and which may be either fixed or
portable, or built in the ground in proximity to the wheel platform, the purpose of
the tank or cistern being to contain the water used for quenching the tyres.
This said tank is placed at such a level that the water in it is on the same level
as the underside of the wheel platform or thereabouts, and a connecting pipe or
channel is provided between the tank and the sump well or chamber usually pro-
vided underneath the centre of the wheel platform, into which the platform
spindle is fixed, the whole space, viz., the chamber, channel, and tank aforesaid
being filled with water. I further provide a cover plate made of wood, iron, or
any suitable material, of the same shape and size as the tank or cistern, said
cover fitting the inside of the tank loosely, and which floats on the water in
said tank. The edge of this cover is provided with a flange turned downwards,
made of leather, india rubber or other suitable material, which flange extends
all along the edge of the said cover, and fits the sides of the tank, sliding up
and down the same with the cover, thus making said cover watertight. On the
top of this cover I provide a vertical rod with an eye to which is pinned a long
lever working in a fulcrum at one end, and having a handle at the other end. By
forcing the lever down with the hand, the cover plate presses on the water in the tank
and forces it through the connecting pipe or channel into the sump well or chamber
under the wheel platform, causing the water to flow over the platform and the
wheel and tyre laid thereupon, by which means the heated tyre is momentarily
covered all round and cooled. In like manner should it be required to withdraw
the overflow water suddenly, by raising the handle of the long lever and the
cover plate of the tank or cistern, a suction is formed in the tank, and the level
of the water in the sump well underneath the wheel platform is immediately
lowered, and the overflow water on the platform at once rushes back into the
sump well.
I do not however confine myself to this one method of raising or lowering the
aforesaid cover in the tank, as I may use a rack and pinion arrangement, or
any other convenient form of gearing for actuating and controlling the upward
and downward motion of the cover.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I will describe the
same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents
a sectional elevation of the apparatus herein before described, Fig. 2 being a
plan of the same, and Fig. 3 shewing an enlarged section of the cover herein
before mentioned, with the flange of leather or other material for making the
cover watertight. The same letters refer to the same parts in the several
views. A being the wheel platform, with a wheel B laid upon it, for fixing the
tyre C thereon. D is the tank, E is the cover, with the watertight flange F.
Ġ is the vertical rod, having an eye H at its upper end working in a guide H¹

page_text: to which is pinned the lever J, working in the fulcrum K, and extending at
the other end to the handle L.
M is the connecting pipe or channel, communi-
cating from the bottom of the tank D to the sump N under the wheel platform A,
said connecting pipe or channel being filled with water. By forcing the lever J
down to the position shewn at O, the water in the connecting channel M and
the sump N, is forced up and over the wheel B, and its tyre C as shewn by
dotted lines at P, thus cooling said tyre equally and quickly all round. In
like manner by raising the lever J to the position shewn by dotted lines O¹ a
suction is formed in the tank, and the water over the wheel B and tyre C
immediately falls away into the sump well N, leaving said wheel and tyre
immediately clear of water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is:
1. The provision of an apparatus for cooling and fixing wheel tyres consisting
of a tank, having a watertight cover and lever, or other means of raising and
lowering said cover, and a connecting pipe or channel to the wheel platform,.
substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
2. The application of this invention or any part thereof to any form or kind
of apparatus used for fixing iron or steel tyres on the wheels of vehicles, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described and illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of April 1896.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Monument Chambers, King William Street, E.C., Applicant's Agent.