A BINDER FOR SECURING LOOSE INDIA RUBBER TYRES TO WHEELS AND ALSO AVAILABLE FOR LOOPING UP TROUSERS AND OTHER GARMENTS
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd June, 1887.
also Available for Looping up Trousers and other Garments.
I, WILLIAM COOK of Evesham Road Headless Cross, near Redditch, in the County
of Worcester, Toolmaker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A BINDER
FOR SECURING LOOSE INDIA RUBBER TYRES TO WHEELS AND ALSO AVAILABLE FOR
LOOPING UP TROUSERS AND OTHER GARMENTS to be as follows:-
An India Rubber Band of suitable strength with a metal hook secured thereto at
each end, the said hooks to be made of such shape as to be readily attached to the
metal Rims of Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and other India Rubber tyred wheels,
for securing the loose tyres thereof, or so that it may be readily attached to any
trouser, dress or garment material for looping or binding up the same.
Dated this 8th day of Sentember 1886

page_text: also Available for Looping up Trousers and other Garments.
I WILLIAM COOK, Evesham Road, Headless Cross, near Redditch, Worcestershire
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
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The chief object of the present invention is to provide a simple and effective
temporary attachment for the tyres of velocipede wheels, which frequently become
loose during a journey; the attachment is, however, also applicable for securing or
confining the bottoms of the legs of trousers of bicycle and tricycle riders, also as a
trousers strap, for looping up sleeves and the skirts of dresses, and for many other
purposes.
In carrying out this invention, I take a strip of india rubber of suitable length and
width, and I fix to either end thereof a metal hook.
In securing a loose tyre, the rubber band is lapped around (it may be two or three
times) the loose part, and the hooks are caught under the rim or onto the spokes of
the wheel.
When employing the binder as a dress retainer, the hooks are fixed in the fabric at
a certain distance apart, and the elasticity of the stretched rubber draws together the
parts of the dress between them.
It will also be evident that as a retaining device for dress, the band may be of some
non-elastic material.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shews the elastic rubber band provided at either end with one form of metal
hook.
Figs. 2 show in plan and edge views this form of metal hook for attachment to a
rubber band, the shape of the metal blank from which the hook is formed being shewn
in dotted lines.
Fig. 3 shews an elastic tyre band with this form of hook applied to a cycle wheel,
the hooks taking under the metal rim of the felloe at opposite sides thereof.
Figs. 4 shew in plan and edge views another form of metal hook for attachment to
the elastic band the form of the blank in this case also being shown in dotted lines.
Fig. 5 shews the application of the band provided with this form of hook to a cycle
wheel, the metal hooks in this case taking onto the spokes of the wheel close to the
felloe.
Fig. 6 shows the elastic band as applied to confine a trouser at the bottom of
the leg.
Fig. 7 shews the elastic band used as an ordinary trouser strap ;-and
Fig. 8 shews how the elastic band may be employed for holding up the sleeves or
the skirt of a dress.

page_text: A is the elastic band or binder, which may be of any desired length and substance,
and B B are the metal hooks. These hooks are by preference clamped to the ends
thereof by folding the edges of the metal blank down upon the rubber in the manner
shewn in the drawings, but it will be evident that the hooks may be sewn or rivetted
to the band if desired.
The form of hook preferably employed as a dress retainer is plain, as shewn in
Figs. 2, the twisted hook shown in Figs. 4 being more particularly applicable for
retaining velocipede tyres, where firmness of attachment is more essential.-To fasten
this form of hook upon the spokes of a wheel, and to remove it therefrom, it will be
necessary to twist it sideways, so that when once hooked onto a spoke, it cannot possibly
become automatically disengaged therefrom.
The utility of the binder is self evident;-as a tyre attachment it will be found to
run for many miles with perfect security, and without damage to the tyre, its soft
nature permitting it to yield with the tyre to the inequalities of the ground, and thus
diminishing the chance of its being cut through by the stones in the road.-It also
lies flat upon, and so to speak adheres to and forms one with the tyre, and therefore
does not interfere in any way with the action of the break.
The application of the binder as shown at Fig. 6 is extremely useful for velocipede
riders, who do not care always to use their proper riding dress, as the ordinary
trousers can thereby be confined at the ankles with the greatest ease and security.-
For ordinary trouser straps, it is perhaps preferable to sew two ordinary eyes inside
the trouser. The binder can also be used to secure boots, should a bootlace break on
a journey, by passing the band round the ankle, and inserting the hooks in opposite
eyelets. The binder may also be used to keep the parts of torn garments temporarily
together, and for many other purposes quite irrespective of velocipede riding.
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 :-
1st. A binder or retaining device for velocipede tyres, and for parts of dress,
constructed as herein shown and described.
2nd. The combination of an elastic or other band with hooks of the construction
substantially shown and described with reference to Figs. 2 of the drawing, for the
purpose set forth.
3rd. The combination of an elastic or other band with hooks of the construction
substantially as shown and described with reference to Figs. 4 of the drawing, for the
purpose set forth.
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