IMPROVEMENTS IN FELLOES AND TYRES FOR THE WHEELS OF BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES."
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Beck, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Commission Agent, and Thomas Warwick, of the same Place, Manufacturer.
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FELLOES AND TYRES FOR THE
WHEELS OF BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Beck and Thomas
Warwick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th July
1877.
ALFRED BECK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Commission Agent,
and THOMAS WARWICK, of the same Place, Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FELLOES AND TYRES FOR THE WHEELS OF BICYCLES AND OTHER ARTICLES."
This Invention consists of improvements in the form of the felloes of wheels for
the above-named purposes, by making them of the sections shewn upon the annexed
Drawings, for the purpose of gaining extra strength at the part where the felloe
is pierced for the spoke, and for protecting the tyre from injury by the spoke whilst
at the same time the circular groove to receive the tyre is secured.
Our improved tyre consists in covering a core of rope made either of wire or
hemp, or both, or a rod or tube of metal of any suitable kind may be employed,
and, if necessary, may first be covered with hemp or other suitable padding material,
and this core may then be covered with india-rubber, either tubular or coiled in
strips, or by another mode the tyre may be formed of sheet metal in a strip covered
or partly covered with india-rubber, and a felloe being formed of metal or wood
and all the spokes attached to it; the tyre in a half round, or, if preferred, nearly
tubular form, may be closed down round the felloe when it will assume the form
of an open-jointed tube surrounding the felloe.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alfred Beck and Thomas Warwick in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th January 1878.
ALFRED BECK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Commission Agent,
and THOMAS WARWICK, of the same Place, Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FELLOES AND TYRES FOR THE WHEELS OF BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES."
This Invention consists of improvements in the form of the felloes of wheels for
the above-named purposes by making thein of the sections shewn upon the annexed
Drawings, for the purpose of gaining extra strength at the part where the felloe is
pierced for the spoke and for protecting the tyre from injury by the spoke, whilst
at the same time the circular groove to receive the tyre is secured.
The Drawings, Figures 1, 2, 4, and 5, shew various forms of sections for the
felloes in which the metal is thickest, at the part where it requires piercing to
receive the head of the spoke; but in Figures 3 and 3 x, back and front views, no
piercing is requisite, the felloe being rolled with a flange (a) which is clipped by
a fork (b) on the spoke (c), a rivet (d) being inserted through the fork and the
flange, and leaving space (e) for the head of the spoke (f) without injury to the
felloe or the tyre. In Figure 4 the same result is gained by the head of the spoke
when passed through, the felloe being received in the hollow (h) by which it is
prevented from injuring the tyre.
Our improved tyre consists in covering a core formed of any fibrous material,
such as rope, made either of cotton or hemp, or both; or a tube of metal of any
suitable kind may be employed, and, if necessary, may first be covered with hemp
or other suitable padding material, and this core may then be covered with india-
rubber, either tubular or coiled in strips. A strong, cheap, and sufficiently elastic
tyre is thus produced with all the advantages of solid india-rubber, without its
liability to injury by contact with the road or with any cutting or rough surface.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, we claim the several improvements in felloes and tyres for
bicycles and other vehicles, berein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Beck and Thomas Warwick, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.