Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug.,
1896
PROVISIONAL STEUTETALTUN
Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
We, JEREMY TAYLOR MARSH of 1, Pembroke Road, Kensington, London W.
Colonel of Royal Engineers (Retired) and JOHN DEEBLE MICHELL of
8, Shaftesbury Road, Hammersmith London W. Architect, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pneumatic tyres for bicycles, tricycles, and other
vehicles, the object being to make a tyre possessing great power of resistance
against puncture, which at the same time shall be equally fast along either road or
track.
In carrying out our invention we employ a strip or riband of wire gauze of the
required mesh, such gauze being for preference composed of an inert metal, or
metal which has very little or no elasticity or resiliency. The metal we use
must also be of a character which will not set up any electrical or chemical action
when in close combination with the, rubber or other substance forming the tyre.
The aforesaid wire gauze is built in the thickness of the cover, and is placed for
The gauze
preference immediately inside the outer skin or layer of rubber.
riband or band may be of any desired width according to the requirements of the
tyre, but it is an essential part of our invention that the said gauze strip or band
be built in and be homogeneous with the other materials composing the tyre, and
that it extend all round the circumference of the tyre. It is also an important
feature of our invention that the gauze riband or band shall not present any
cutting edges calculated to injure the rubber, or other material composing the tyre,
and therefore the longitudinal edges of both sides of the riband are turned up to
form a hem or lap, or are otherwise formed to prevent the possibility of their
cutting into the material during the riding of the tyre, when the same is more or
less in a state of activity. The turned over part or hem may be formed through
the agency of soldering or such like means, or a continuous rim or line of metal
may be formed on the gauze riband through fusing the exposed ends of the wires
together.
Dated this 24th day of September 1895.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
We JEREMY TAYLOR MARSH of 1 Pembroke Road, Kensington, London, W.,
Colonel of Royal Engineers (Retired) and JOHN DEEBLE MICHELL of
8 Shaftesbury Road Hammersmith London, Architect, 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 pneumatic tyres for bicycles, tricy: es and other

page_text: vehicles, the object being to make a tyre possessing great power of resistance
against puncture, which at the same time shall be equally fast along either road or
track.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a strip or riband of wire gauze of the
required mesh, such gauze being formed so as to be very inert, or to have little or
no elasticity or resiliency. The metal we use must also be of a character which
will not set up any electrical or chemical action when in close combination with the
rubber or other substance forming the tyre. The gauze we propose to employ
may be specially made for the purpose of our invention, but we may also use any
description of wire gauze which is at present manufactured for other purposes, the
gauze however always possessing by reason of its material or its formation, the
quality of inertness and great' flexibility. It will thus give way to the slightest
pressure, and will not tend to resume its original position or shape, thus not
interfering to any appreciable extent with the elasticity of the tyre.
The aforesaid wire gauze is built in the thickness of the cover, and is placed for.
preference immediately inside the outer skin or layer of rubber. The gauze
riband or band may be of any desired width according to the requirements of the
tyre, but it is an essential part of our invention that the said gauze strip or band
be built in and be homogeneous with the other materials composing the tyre, and
that it extend all round the circumference of the tyre. It is also an important
feature of our invention that the gauze riband or band, shall not present any
cutting edges calculated to injure the rubber, or other material composing the tyre,
and therefore the longitudinal edges of both sides of the riband are turned up to
form a hem or lap, or are otherwise specially formed with a hem or finished edge
to, prevent the possibility of their cutting into the material during the riding of the
tyre, when the same is more or less in a state of activity. The turned over. part.
or hem may be formed through the agency of soldering or such like means, or a
continuous rim or line of metal may be formed on the gauze riband through fusing
the exposed ends of the wires, together, or the wire gauze may be specially'
woven.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we'
claim is :-
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(1.) Improvements in pneumatic tyres consisting in a band of wire gauze built
into the material of the cover and extending around the circumference of the tyre,
formed in such a manner as to possess great flexibility and inertness, substantially
as and for the purposes specified.
(2.) Improvements in pneumatic tyres consisting in a band of wire gauze built.
or embedded in the thickness of the cover and encircling the tyre formed in such a
manner as to possess great flexibility and inertness, and provided with smooth
or rounded edges to prevent cutting) substantially as and for the purposes
specified.
(3.) Improvements in pneumatic tyres consisting of a band of wire gauze, and
built or embedded in the material of the cover, and encircling the tyre formed in
such a manner as to possess great flexibility and inertness, and provided with a hem
or lap at the edges to prevent cutting substantially as and for the purposes
specified.
0.
(4.) In an improved protecting device for pneumatic tyres, consisting of a band
of wire gauze imbedded in the cover, and formed so, as to. possess great flexibility
and inertness, preventing the cutting of the tyre by the edges of the band by)
fusing the exposed ends of the wire together, substantially as described and for the
purposes specified.
(5.) In an improved protecting device for pneumatic tyres, consisting of a band
of wire gauze embedded in the cover and formed so as to possess great flexibility
and inertness, the formation of such wire gauze by a specially woven strip formed

page_text: with a hem or broadened edge so as to provide a non-cutting edge to such wire
gauze strip, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 25th day of June 1896.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.