Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Velocipedes and other
Vehicles.
1, JAMES GEORGE STIDDER, of 66 Waddon Old Road, Croydon, in the County
of Surrey, Sanitary Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
My invention cousists in the application of an improved protective band to
pneumatic tyres for velocipede and other wheels, and in the application to wheels,
for all kinds of vehicles, of one or more of the improvements described in my
Specification dated July 20, 1893, No. 14,063.
My improved protective band for pneumatic tyres, is formed of wire and tape,
interlaced, for the purpose of more effectually protecting such tyres, and lessening
the danger of accidental puncturing. The wire is bent in a zig-zag manner, trans-
versely to the tyre, and one, two, or more tape or tapes is or are interlaced length-
wise through the same, alternately above and below the wires, thus drawing the
wires closely together, and interweaving the same; the tapes or their equivalent,
forming the warp, and the wire operating as the weft, the latter being curved to
correspond with the form of the tyre upon which it is laid. The protective band
may be covered with any suitable material and vulcanised ready for application
between the inner tube and the cover of any "compound tyre.
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Outside this band I fit the usual covering, whereby the band is secured in position
between the pueumatic tyre and the cover. Or I may bed or incorporate and
otherwise enclose the protective band in the outer cover, the whole being then
vulcanised or solutioned in the usual manner.
I also form the bead, or thickened edges of the cover, of hard rubber, so as to
secure it to the rim; the latter being preferably formed in the manner described
in my said Specification No. 14,063, in which Specification I have described my
new method of manufacturing the rims of velocipede wheels; which improvement,
as well as all or any of the other improvements therein described, I may apply to
the wheels of other vehicles as well as to those of velocipedes.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Wheels for Velocipedes and other
Vehicles.
1, JAMES GEORGE STIDDER, of 66 Waddon Old Road, Croydon, in the County
of Surrey, Sanitary Engineer, 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 following statement :-
My invention consists in the application of an improved protective band to
pneumatic tyres for velocipede and other wheels.
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page_text: My improved protective band for pneumatic tyres, is formed of wire and tape,
interlaced, for the purpose of more effectually protecting such tyres, and lessening
the danger of accidental puncturing. The wire is bent in a zig-zag manner, trans-
versely to the tyre, and one, two, or more tape or tapes is or are interlaced length-
wise through the same, alternately above and below the wires, thus drawing the
wires closely together, and interweaving the same; the tapes, or their equivalent,
forming the warp, and the wire operating as the weft; the latter being curved to
correspond with the form of the tyre upon which it is laid. The protective band
may be covered. with any suitable material and vulcanised ready for application
between the inner tube and the cover of any "compound" tyre.
Outside this band I fit the usual covering, whereby the band is secured in position
between the pneumatic tyre and the cover. Or I may bed or incorporate and
otherwise enclose the protective band in the outer cover, the whole being then
vulcanised or solutioned in the usual manner.
I also form the bead, or thickened edges of the cover, of hard rubber, so as to
secure it to the rim; the latter being preferably formed in the manner described
in my said Specification No. 14,063.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate coiresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a section of a part of my improved protective band;
and Fig. 3 shows one method of applying the same to a pneumatic tyre.
a is the wire bent in a zig-zag manner and bare the tapes interlacing the wire a
as shown in Fig. 2.
In Figs. 1 and 2 the wire is shown bent with a wider curve than is used in
practice in order to show the same more clearly. Also Fig. 3 is shown to an
enlarged scale for the same purpose, c being the inner or inflatable tube and d the
outer cover.
The ends of the wire may be brazed, or otherwise joined together, and the ends
of the tapes may be sewn or cemented, or when made of metal they may be brazed.
Or the ends may be finished off separately, the protective band being made in
lengths to suit the various circumferences of the wheels.
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 :-
1. In wheels for velocipedes and other vehicles, the application and use of pro-
tective bands, constructed in the manner substantially as herein before described
and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The improvements in or relating to wheels for velocipedes and other vehicles
substantially as described.
Dated 24th January 1895
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, Loudon, W.C., Agent.