Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Wheels or Tyres.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 6th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Wheels or Tyres.
I PETER WILSON MAY of St. Margarets West Heath Road Hendon in the
County of Middlesex Esquire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
The object of my invention is to provide pneumatic wheels, or tyres, with means
whereby puncturing and rupture of the tyre are prevented. According to my
invention I apply to the periphery of the wheel, or tyre, or to that portion of it
which comes in contact with or adjacent to the road in travelling, a material which
is so constructed that whilst it cannot be perforated by sharp articles such as nails
glass or the like with which the wheel or tyre may come in contact whilst the
machine is travelling, it will not interfere with the flexibility or resiliency of the
wheel or tyre. A suitable material for this purpose is steel or other metal formed
iu links combined so as to constitute a chain-like structure surrounding the wheel
periphery or tyre or such portion thereof as bears upon the road or is liable to be
pierced. The material can be outside or inside the tyre or wheel periphery or
imbedded therein in any situation outward of the material. which constitutes the
air chamber and it may be attached by being secured in or to the wheel periphery
or tyre or the rim which carries the tyre in any suitable way.
Dated this 19th day of July 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in or connected with Pneumatic Wheels or Tyres.
I, PETER WILSON MAY, of St. Margarets, West Heath Road, Hendon, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, 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 :—
The object of my invention is to provide pneumatic wheels, or tyres, with means
whereby puncturing and rupture of the tyre are prevented.
According to my invention I apply to the periphery of the wheel, or tyre, or to
that portion of it which comes in contact with, or adjacent to, the road, in travelling,
a material which is constructed like or similarly to a chain burnisher or chain
armour so that whilst it cannot be perforated or penetrated by sharp articles such
as nails, glass, flints, or the like, with which the wheel or tyre may come in contact
whilst the machine is travelling, it will not interfere with the flexibility or resiliency
of the periphery of the wheel or tyre, as it "gives" or yields as readily as does
the material of the tyre to which it is applied. A suitable material for this
purpose is steel or other metal formed in links combined so as to constitute a
chain-like structure surrounding the wheel periphery or tyre or such portion thereof
as bears upon the road or is liable to be pierced. The material can be outside or
inside the material of the tyre or wheel periphery or embedded therein in any
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page_text: situation outward of the material which constitutes the air chamber, or it may be
incorporated or embedded in the material of the air chamber itself or in the
material of the covering of the air chamber or between the air chamber and
covering or outside either, and it may be attached by being secured in or to
the wheel periphery or tyre or the rim which carries the tyre in any
suitable way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with pneumatic tyres or the peripheries of pneumatic wheels
of steel or other material formed in links or the like connected together to form an
armouring substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 20th day of April 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.