Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM Fox, of Castleton Lodge, New Wortley, Leeds, in the County of
York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The wheels of Carriages, Cabs, and other vehicles when very narrow are apt to
take into the grooves of tram-rails which is a source of danger when the vehicle
has to turn to one side or the other, a broken axle and the throwing of the
occupants of a vehicle into the road being not unfrequently the consequence.
This invention has for object to avoid this source of danger by the use of an
improved form of tire having projections at intervals on both sides thereof,-the
projections on one side alternating with those on the other side, so that the
periphery of the tire shall have a serpentine configuration laterally, thus providing
a practically broader surface or tread than obtains with a narrow tire as at present
constructed, and this with a very slight addition in weight.
A vehicle with wheels provided with the improved tires will be enabled to run
with greater safety upon or turn off the rails of tramways without the risk of the
wheel rims becoming wedged into the grooves thereof.
The improved tires will also preserve the felloes of the wheels from being chafed
by contact with kerb stones or other projecting objects on the road.

page_text: I, WILLIAM Fox, of Castleton Lodge, New Wortley, Leeds, in the County of
York Engineer, 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 wheels of carriages, cabs and other road vehicles, when very narrow are apt
to take into the grooves of tramrails, and although while running in the direction
of such rails they may be considered safe, yet deviations from such direct course
involves risk of accidents, such as the breaking of an axle, the throwing of the
occupants out of the vehicle into the road and so forth.
Now the object of this invention is to obviate such accidents by the use of an
improved form of tire provided at both its sides with lateral projections arranged
at intervals. Figs. 1. and 5. of the annexed drawings represent developed tires
according to my invention, made with the projections a, of one side opposite the
spaces b, between the projections a, of the other side so as to present a zig-zag or
serpentine base, and Fig. 2 is an edge-view of a wheel with a tire formed as in
Fig. 1. Fig. 3. shews a modification of tire bar in which the projections a. on the
two sides are opposite each other, and Fig. 4, is an edge view of a wheel with a tire
of that form.
The periphery of the tire when the projections at one side are opposite the spaces
at the other side presents a kind of zig-zag or serpentine configuration, but whether
the projections be so arranged or with those at one side of the tire opposite those
at the other side; in either case there is produced the equivalent of a broader tire
or tread than obtains with a narrow tire of ordinary construction, and this with
a very slight addition in weight.
Vehicles having their wheels provided with my improved tires will be enabled
to run with safety in a direct line upon or to turn off tramrails without risk of the
peripheries of the wheels becoming wedged in the grooves of the rails. The tires
will also preserve the felloes of the wheels from being chafed by kerbstones or
other projecting objects with which the wheels would be liable to come into contact
if provided with ordinary tires.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Wheel tires Having at both sides lateral projections a, alternating with spaces b,
substantially as hereinabove described for the purpose specified.
Dated this 19th day of March 1886.
Witness
THOS E. CRAVEN, C.E.,
Fel. Inst. Patent Agents,
24, Victoria Chambers, Leeds.
WILLIAM FOX.