of Road Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: of Road Vehicles.
I, CHARLES REUBEN CLOAKE of 125 Great Portland Street, London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object to prevent creeping" or movement of an
elastic or other cushion or noiseless tyre with respect to the metal tyre or rim on
5 the felloe of a vehicle wheel and is as follows:-
According to this invention I use a series of points, burrs, spikes, or other pro-
jections on the surface of the metal tyre or rim against which the elastic cushion or
other noiseless tyre rests or bears so that such points, spikes, burrs, or projections
(which may either completely encircle the wheel or may be at only one point or at
several detached points or arranged in any suitable manner) will enter or press
into or stab into or bear against the said elastic or noiseless tyre so that the latter
(which may be either impaled or not on such point, burr, etc.) will be held thereon
and thereby prevented from "creeping" or moving with respect to the metal tyre.
For instance I may carry out my present invention with an india-rubber tyre
of the character in which the butt ends of a band of rubber are brought together
by inserting just below the said ends a short length of metal plate or strip of metal
on which oppositely inclined burrs or points or projections are raised or formed
whereby the ends where they butt or meet are prevented from parting and so the
whole elastic tyre is prevented from creeping-such metal plate or strip being
secured in position in any suitable manner for instance by a screw or bolt passing
through said plate and metal tyre (a washer being interposed between the two
latter with burrs, or upwardly projecting teeth on the edge thereof if desired) and
into or through the felloe.
Or a plate with any other form of burrs, points, or projections thereon may be
used in place of the foregoing or a number of such separate plates or strips may be
mounted at intervals around the circumference of the wheel or if desired a band or
strip having such burrs, points, etc., thereon may be mounted within the metal
channel so as to completely encircle the wheel.
Instead of forming such burrs, points, etc. (which may be inclined or project
at any suitable angle or angles from said tyre) on separate strips as aforesaid same
may be formed on the surface of the metal channel or rim which forms the metal
tyre aforesaid in any suitable manner.
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page_text: Improvements relating to Cushion or Noiseless Tyres for the Wheels
of Road Vehicles.
I, CHARLES REUBEN CLOAKE of 125 Great Portland Street, London, Merchant,
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 has for its object to prevent "creeping" or movement of an
elastic or other cushion or noiseless tyre with respect to the metal tyre or rim on
the felloe of a vehicle wheel and is as follows:-
:
According to this invention I use a series of points, burrs, spikes, or other pro-
jections on the surface of the metal tyre or rim against which the elastic cushion or
other noiseless tyre rests or bears so that such points, spikes, burrs, or projections
(which may either completely encircle the wheel or may be at only one point or at
several detached points or arranged in any suitable manner) will enter or press
into or stab into or bear against the said elastic or noiseless tyre so that the latter
(which may be either impaled or not on such points, burrs, etc.) will be held thereon
and thereby prevented from "creeping" or moving with respect to the metal tyre.
For instance may carry out my present invention with an india-rubber tyre
of the character in which the butt ends of a band of rubber are brought together
by inserting just below the said ends a short length of metal plate or strip of metal
on which oppositely inclined burrs or points or projections are raised or formed
whereby the ends where they butt or meet are prevented from parting and so the
whole elastic tyre is prevented from creeping-such metal plate or strip being
secured in position in any suitable manner for instance by a screw or bolt passing
through said plate and metal tyre (a washer being interposed between the two
latter with burrs, or upwardly projecting teeth on the edge thereof if desired) and
into or through the felloe.
Or a plate with any other form of burrs, points, or projections thereon may be
used in place of the foregoing or a number of such separate plate or strips may be
mounted at intervals around the circumference of the wheel or if desired a band or
strip having such burrs, points, etc., thereon may be mounted within the metal
channel so as to completely encircle the wheel.
Instead of forming such burrs, points, etc. (which may be inclined or project
at any suitable angle or angles from said tyre) on separate strips as aforesaid same
may be formed on the surface of the metal channel or rims which form the metal
tyre aforesaid in any suitable manner.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated several ways of carrying out my
present invention viz. :-
Fig. 1 is a view of a wheel with the rim in section showing burrs or spikes
arranged completely around said wheel according to my present invention.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a wheel showing oppositely inclined spikes at four
detached positions equi-distant on the circumference of the wheel-or if desired I
may use only one or two or three such detached series of spikes or I may use more
than four arranged either at regular or irregular distances from one another.
Fig. 3 is a local longitudinal sectional view (on an enlarged scale) of part of the
felloe of the wheel showing a detached group of spikes carried on a separate plate
mounted on said felloe with the ends of the elastic tyre butting together just over
said spikes.
Fig. 4 is side view (on a still larger scale) of a detached plate having a series
of oppositely inclined spikes thereon and Fig. 5 is a plan of Fio 4

page_text: Fig. 6 is a local longitudinal sectional view of part of the metal rim or metal
channel of the wheel showing the spikes formed integrally out of the substance
of said metal channelled rim and Fig. 7 is a plan thereof.
Fig. 8 shows another modification (Fig. 9 being a plan thereof) the upwardly
projecting spikes in this case as shown being formed around the circumference of a
circular washer-the central part of which washer is countersunk so as to permit
the head of the screw or bolt (by which same is secured to the rim or felloe) to lie
flush within same.
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. The herein-described means for preventing creeping or movement of an
elastic or cushion or noiseless tyre relatively to the metal tyre or metal rim of a
wheel by providing points burrs spikes or other projections on the surface of the
metal tyre or metal rim against which the said elastic etc. tyre rests or bears
arranged and operating substantially in the manner herein before set forth.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.