Improvements in Resilient Tyres for Cycles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Resilient Tyres for Cycles and the like.
I, HANS ARTELIUS, of Sundsvall, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Painter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to those spring wheel tyres which are made resilient
by partially spirally bent steel wires arranged between the tyre and a ring
placed outside the same.
The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 being a side view partially in section of the improved tyre, one of
the side plates and the outer indiarubber tyre being removed;
Figure shows the tyre from the outside, the outer steel rim and the india-
rubber tyre being partially removed;
Figure 3 is a section on the line A-B of Figure 1;
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are details.
On the inner iron or steel rim there are fixed side rims 4 and 5 by means of
screws and elbow pieces 2 and 3. Screws 7 are passed through the said side
rims and into a holder or sheath 8 into which they are screwed from each end.
Steel wires 9 are bent round these holders, each of which wires is carried once
round one of the holders, and then extended to the holder lying next adjacent to
it round which it is passed spirally four times and after which it assumes the
form of an arm 10 which rests with its outer bent end against the outer steel
rim 11, the bent up edges 12 of which are jagged so that the tyre may be resilient.
On each holder two steel wires are fixed by a single loop or winding and two
others are wound round spirally four times and from this holder the four times
wound wires run with one end to the next adjacent holder where they are fastened
On the
with one loop, whilst the other end assumes the form of an arm 10.
other hand the wires fastened with a single loop in the first mentioned holder
extend to the next adjacent holder round which they are four times passed spirally
and so forth. A tyre 13 is fixed on the bent pieces 2 and 3, which tyre is pro-
In order that these slots for the
vided with elongated slots for the arms 10.
arms 10 may be as small as possible the arms outside the said tyre 13 are pro-
vided with a knee or bend. A tyre 14 of indiarubber or the like is placed round
the outermost steel rim 11.
On the movement or travel of the wheel, both the outer steel rim and also the
arms 10 have a resilient action, the latter owing to the fact that their ends slide
over or against the steel rim 11.
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Cantantior 1808
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, HANS ARTELIUS, of Sundsvall, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Painter, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
This invention relates to those spring wheel tyres which are made resilient
by partially spirally bent steel wires arranged between the tyre and a ring
placed outside the same.
The invention is shown in the drawings accompanying the Provisional
Specification.
Figure being a side view partially in section of the improved tyre, one of
the side plates and the outer indiarubber tyre being removed;
Figure 2 shows the tyre from the outside, the outer steel rim and the india-
rubber tyre being partially removed;
Figure 3 is a section on the line A-B of Figure 1;
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are details.
On the inner iron or steel rim 1 there are fixed side rims 4 and 5 by means of
screws 6 and elbow pieces 2 and 3. Screws 7 are passed through the said side
rims and into a holder or sheath 8 into which they are screwed from each end.
Steel wires 9 are bent round these holders, each of which wires is carried once
round one of the holders, and then extended to the holder lying next adjacent to
it round which it is passed spirally four times and after which it assumes the
form of an arm 10 which rests with its outer bent end against the outer steel
rim 11, the bent up edges 12 of which are jagged so that the tyre may be resilient.
On each holder two steel wires are fixed by a single loop or winding and two
others are wound round spirally four times and from this holder the four times
wound wires run with one end to the next adjacent holder where they are fastened
with one loop, whilst the other end assumes the form of an armi 10. On the
other hand the wires fastened with a single loop in the first mentioned holder
extend to the next adjacent holder round which they are four times passed spirally
and so forth. A tyre 13 is fixed on the bent pieces 2 and 3, which tyre
is pro-
vided with elongated slots for the arms 10. In order that these slots for the
arms 10 may be as small as possible the arms outside the said tyre 13 are pro-
vided with a knee or bend. A tyre 14 of indiarubber or the like is placed round
the outermost steel rim 11.
On the movement or travel of the wheel, both the outer steel rim and also the
arms 10 have a resilient action, the latter owing to the fact that their ends slide
over or against the steel rim 11.
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
In resilient wheel tyres which have a spring action by means of partially
spirally curved steel wires inserted between the wheel tyre and a ring
arranged outside of same, the arrangement of screws (7) running
through the wheel rim (1) which Screws engage at each end in holders
attached to the rim and round which holders the steel wires are wound spirally
several times, with one end attached to an adjacent holder and the other end
extended as armis (10), which bear against the outer ring which is provided with

page_text: bent up and jagged edges with the object of enabling the steel ring and the arms
to spring during the running of the wheel, the ends of said arms, for this pur-
pose sliding against the steel ring substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 8th day of June 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.