Improvements in the Metallic Protection of Tyres.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
UITIVATION.
Improvements in the Metallic Protection of Tyres.
I, JAMES HAROLD BARRY of 4 Cadogan Terrace, Victoria Park in the County
of Middlesex Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
1
My invention consists in Improvements in the Metallic Protection of Tyres and
consists in the application of a certain metal, and in the modes or means of applying
the same.
I may attach to the inner or outer part of a tyre or tyre cover by means of
eyelets, hooks, sewing or other suitable means strips of thin magnetic steel so
arranged that the strips from either side of such inner or outer part of the tyre
or tyre cover meet, and preferably overlap each other, at or about the centre of such
inner or outer part of the tyre or tyre cover. The overlapping parts are always
left free.
These pieces may be arranged on cotton silk or other light substance, and placed
in or on or cemented or otherwise attached to the inside or outside of the tyre or
cover.
I may secure the sections of the magnetic metal alternately at either side of the
cover, tyre, or strips of cotton, silk or other material as before mentioned, or at one
side of them only, leaving the other ends free.
I may also arrange the strips of metal fastened to each other across their
centre or they may be secured to a strip of metal, silk, cotton, or other suitable
material, both ends in this case being free to assume the shape or size of tyre,
or I may construct my protector, part of this metal and part of canvas, rubber,
or other material, so that a section of the cover as described will form more or less
a circle in itself, such protector or cover to be placed round the outside or inside
of the tyre or tube.
I may also construct my protector of long strips of this metal overlapping secured
longitudinally to cotton, canvas or other material.
I, of course wish it to be understood that whilst I claim to protect the use of this
magnetic metal to, and for tyre protectors, I wish to reserve full power to arrange
any steel protectors in the forms described.
Dated this 15th day of July 1902
LE FEVRE & Co.,
26, Budge Row, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Metallic Protection of Tyres.
I, JAMES HAROLD BARRY, of No. 4 Cadogan Terrace Victoria Park, London,
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:-
"
My invention relates to "Improvements in the Metallic Protection of Tyres
and consists in the application to that purpose of a number of thin metallic
plates, preferably of magnetic or other steel, and in the novel method of applying
the same thereto.

page_text: In order more clearly to describe my invention, reference is had to the accompaying
drawings upon which
Figure 1 is a cross-section of a tyre having protectors attached on either side of
the tyre-cover and overlapping at the centre.
Figure 2 being a similar view of an arrangement with the protectors attached on
one side only of the cover internally or externally.
Figure 3 is a plan shewing the metallic plates secured at their overlapping parts
to a central band.-
Figure 4 is a plan shewing the method of securing the metallic sections longi-
tudinally to strips of-flexible material.
As will be seen on reference to Figure 1 of annexed drawings, I may form my
improved metallic tyre-protector of thin strips of magnetic or other steel A
attached to the inner or outer side of the tyre or tyre-cover B by means of
eyelets, hooks, sewing or other suitable means at one edge or end C of the steel
strips A which are so arranged that they preferably overlap each other at or near
the centre of the outer or inner circumference of the tyre or cover B. The over-
lapping ends a of the metallic strips A are left free. The steel strips A may be
arranged on cotton, silk or other light fabric cemented or otherwise attached to the
outside or inside of the tyre or cover B as desired. Alternate sections of the
metallic protector may be secured at opposite sides of the tyre or cover B, or of
the strips of cotton, silk or other material above described, as shewn on Figure 1,
or they may be attached uniformly at one side thereof only, leaving the other ends
free as shewn on Figure 2.
I may also arrange for the metallic strips A to be secured to each other at their
overlapping or meeting points only, as shewn on Figure 3, or they may be fastened
at such points to or upon a strip of metal silk, cotton or other suitable flexible
material D both ends being in this case left free to assume the form or outline of
the tyre or cover B.
Or, I may alternatively construct my protector partly of metal and partly of
canvas, rubber or other suitable flexible material, such protector being placed round
the outside or inside of the tyre or tube so as to form nearly a complete circle, and
being secured thereon by the means already described.
By another arrangement shewn on Figure 4, I may construct my protector of
strips of magnetic or other steel A. of elongated form overlapping each other, and
secured longitudinally to or upon cotton, canvas or other suitable flexible material
in the manner before described.
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 :-
Protectors for pneumatic and other tyres, consisting of a number of metallic
plates A arranged to overlap each other, each plate being secured to the outer or
inner circunference of the tyre or cover B, at one point only, for the purposes and
substantially as described and shewn upon the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of April 1894.