Improved Tires for Buffing Rolls, and Cycle and other Wheels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1896
Complete Soecification Left, 18th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Tires for Buffing Rolls, and Cycle and other Wheels.
I, GEORGE RILEY of No. 68 St. Leonards Road Clarendon Park Leicester
in the County of Leicester Hosiery Machinist do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved tires for buffing rolls used in the process of
finishing or polishing boots or shoes, but applicable also to other purposes than
narrow or wide rolls or wheels inasmuch that it may be applied to rims of cycle
and other wheels.
To carry out my invention I knit a tubular web in preferably "one and one rib"
in a circular knitting machine of the required capacity and may pass and lay
within the wales of such fabric a thread or threads of india-rubber through suitable
feeders, or may be through a tube and trough containing india-rubber solution,
the latter to keep the thread or threads from slipping. I then take the length or
may be lengths of tubular web and cut into the desired lengths and fold the cut
edges in together and form endless rolls or rings the elasticity of which is in
parallel lines with the periphery of the roll or wheel upon which it is to be placed,
consequently it will bind to the periphery whether straight or curved and will
conform to the circumference thereof.
The web is of course knitted close, and preferably of cotton, in the undyed state
by preference.
The buffing or polishing rolls now in use consist of rubber or felt pads or inflated
rubber rings covered by cotton or other covers clamped or otherwise secured
thereto, these are costly and difficult to fix.
By my invention these difficulties are overcome. I prepare a suitable drum or
the like, the circumference of the barrel being either straight, arched, or curved
and slip thereon or therein the knitted rubber roll or ring by stretching it over the
edges of the drum. It is then ready for use forming a resilient tube and cover of
itself.
In wheels of cycles or vehicles the same web can be used, made upon a circular
rib or plain machine of the required diameter, and the outer half of the roll of web,
(after rolling) covered by solutioning on, an elastic (cast or sheet) strip of any
suitable kind used for tire covers, thus a soft, pliable yet non-slipping or skidding
tire can be stretched upon or on to a wooden or metal rin without fear of
displacement.
Dated this 30th day of April 1896.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Tires for Buffing Rolls, and Cycle and other Wheels.
I, GEORGE RILEY of No. 68 Saint Leonards Road Clarendon Park Leicester
in the County of Leicester Hosiery Machinist 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 invention relates to improved tires for buffing rolls used in the process of

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narrow or wide rolls or wheels inasmuch that it may be applied to rims of cycle
and other wheels.
That my invention may be well understood I have annexed a sheet of drawings
in which:
Figure 1 is a tube or piece of circular knitted fabric in accordance with this
invention.
Figure 2 shows the method of folding same and Figure 3 the roll in the finished
state.
Figure 4 is a partly sectional view of the roll, mounted upon a pulley or wheel,
and covered by a ring C, and clamped to the sides of the pulley or wheel.
Figure 5 shows the ring A¹ adapted to fit over a rubber cap upon a Naumkeig
buffing roll, to be covered by the ordinary emery caps.
Figure 6 is a cut off view showing the endless roil C as applied to a pneumatic
tube of a tyre for cycle or vehicle wheels, the same can be applied to tubeless tires
if required, and
Figure 7 is a sectional view of waist and shank pulley which consists of a felt
or rubber pad h', a narrow rubber flanged ring H sunk in a groove round the
pointed edge of the coue shaped pulley, in a diagonal line with the pad h', and
covered by the ring or rings C¹ stretched thereon from a short tube, not the long
one, as seen in Figure 1, and clamped in the usual manner.
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To carry out my invention I knit a tubular web A preferably of "one and one
rib made in a circular rib knitting machine of the required capacity, and may
pass and lay within the wales of such fabric a thread or threads of india-rubber
(indicated by dotted lines B) through suitable feeders, or may pass them through a
tube in a trough containing india-rubber solution the latter to keep the thread or
threads from slipping. I then take the length of tubular web (or if straight web
or fabric be used it would be joined by seaming and so form the tube) and cut
into the desired lengths, the longer ones for the roll C, and the shorter ones for
the ring C. The former is then rolled up by taking one edge, or end a and roll to
about the position as seen in Figure 2, and the other edge or end a¹ is folded
inwards and then turned over the other in the direction "as indicated by the
arrows," the knitted loops are then picked up opposite each other by hand or
machine and linked together so producing an endless roll C, as seen in Figure 3
or rolled flat as the case may be. The shorter lengths to form the ring Care
stretched with or without the roll on to the pulley so that the ends can be clamped
on either side by clamps D at C, and tightened up in the ordinary way by the
nut E.
The pulley is mounted on a revolving shaft mounted in suitable bearings. The
strands of rubber causing the elasticity of the roll to be in parallel lines with the
periphery of the wheel upon or in the groove or rim of which it is placed causes it
to bind or hold firmly thereto or therein, and to conform to the circumference
thereof. The web is of course knitted close and preferably of cotton of the best
quality in the undyed state by preference, of course it will be well understood that
any other suitable fibrous material may be employed if desired. The buffing or
polishing rolls now in use consist of rubber or felt pads or inflated rubber rings
covered by inelastic cotton or other covers clamped or otherwise secured thereto
these are costly and difficult to fix and last no length of time.
By my invention these difficulties are overcome. I prepare a suitable drum or
the like the circumference of the barrel being either straight, arched, or curved
as shown in Figure 4 and slip thereon or therein the knitted elastic rubber roll C,
or ring C¹, by stretching it or them over its edges and so forming a resilient tube
and cover of itself. The ring A' Figure 5 is made by sewing two discs of the
material together for the purpose as herein before described.
In wheels of cycles or vehicles the same web can be used made upon a circular
rib or plain machine of the required diameter and the outer half of the roll of
web A2 (after rolling) be covered by solutioning on an elastic (cast or sheet rubber)

page_text: strip F of any suitable kind used for tyre covers, or the ordinary tire cover placed
over and secured in the rim by the elasticity of the endless roll A binding to the
bottom thereof. It is therefore easily detachable in cases of puncture, although
considering the number of the circumferential strands of elastic inlay threads
running through the endless-roll, the fact of anything puncturing the inner tube is
nigh impossible. To get at the air tube G, or at the butt ends thereof, the stitches
can be cut for a few inches at 6 and when liberated and repaired, relinked at leisure.
By these means a soft, pliable yet non-slipping or skidding tire cau be stretched
upon or on to a wooden or metal rim of any kind without fear of displacement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The means as herein described of forming an endless roll from a tube, or piece
of tubular elastic or non-elastic knitted or other web or fabric, by rolling one end
over and over and bringing the opposite end, after turning down, over the rolled
portion and linking same, with reference to Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
2. The combination with an endless roll such as C, with a ring C¹ stretched over
the roll and secured in the manner substantially as described with reference to
Figure 4 of the accompanying drawings.
3. A ring such as A arranged and fitted in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as described with reference to Figure 5 of the accompanying
drawings.
4. In a tyre for cycle or other wheels the provision in combination with an air
tube and an outer rubber cover of an endless elastic knitted roll of the character
substantially as herein before described with reference to Figure 6 of the
accompanying drawings.
5. In a tyre for cycle or other wheels the combination of a rubber cover with
an endless roll, the rolled india-rubber strands therein forming a series of parallel
threads running circumferentially to the periphery of and holding the said tire to
the rim.
6. The combination in a tire for waist or shank pulleys of a narrow rubber
flanged ring H, fitting in a groove in the wider edge of the pulley in a diagonal
line with a felt or rubber pad A¹; an elastic (or non-elastic) knitted ring or rings C¹,
the elastic threads being passed through india-rubber solution before laying the
threads in the wales of the fabric, and the ends of the fabric stretched over the
rim of the pulley and secured in the manner, and for the purpose substantially as
described with reference to Figure 7 of the accompanying drawings.
7. The herein described improved tires for buffing rolls, and cycle and other
wheels, substantially as set forth.
3009
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Registered Patent Agent,
19 Bowling Green Street, Leicester, Applicant's Agent.