Improvements in Cycle and other Tyres.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle and other Tyres.
I, ALBERT BARBER of 84 Mitchell Street in the City of Glasgow, Cycle
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention, which relates to improvements in cycle and other tyres, has for
its object improvements in the method of securing protective covers or treads over
or upon inflated or pneumatic or other elastic tyres encircling the rims of vehicles
and-it-consists in the employment of rings bands or flanges of metal which may be
sectioned into any desired number of lengths or divisions in the circumference of
the wheel, the said rings bands or flanges being bolted screwed rivetted or other-
wise fastened down upon both edges of the protecting covering so as to secure it to
the rim of the wheel and at the same time to enclose within it the air or other
cushioned tyre in such wise that in the event of a rupture of the cushioned or other
tyre the cover, by taking off the rings bands or flanges or any section of them,
can be easily removed or partially removed from the rim of the wheel to permit of
repair.
In practising the invention it is preferred that the protecting cover of the
pneumatic or other cushioned tyre, and which cover is composed of a length or
strip of india rubber or other elastic material, should have its edges thickened or
have beads upon it for the purpose of better confining it within the metallic rings
or flanges hereinbefore mentioned.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle and other Tyres.
I, ALBERT BARBER of 84 Mitchell Street in the City of Glasgow, Cycle
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 which relates to cycle and other tyres has for its object the
securing of protective covers over inflated or pneumatic tyres on the wheel rims of
vehicles by means of wires or bands applied in segments outside the covering at
both edges and so secured to the rim as to permit of their being slipped out
or removed on deflation of the tyre to uncover the whole or any section of
the tyre.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a wheel rim and tyre
shewing the improved mode of securing the protective covering and Figure 2 is a
cross section of part of the same on an enlarged scale.
The wheel rim A, inflated tyre B and protective covering Care or may be of
ordinary construction but the covering is by preference made with a bead or
thickened edge c on each side extending outside the wires or bands D by means of
which it is secured over the inflated tyre. These wires or bands are as shewn
made up of segments which are united by thimbles or socket pieces d when in place

page_text: and they are secured by means of hooks or eye bolts E riveted or otherwise
secured to the rim. In practice the covering C is placed over the tyre B when the
latter is deflated slits being formed near the edges of the covering to pass over the
hooks or eye bolts E, the wires D are slipped either under the hooks or end wise
through the eyes, their abutting ends being entered into the thimbles d and the
tyre B is then inflated.
To obtain access for repair of any section of the tyre the latter is deflated and
one or more of the lengths of wiring slipped out of the hooks or eye bolts to permit
of the removal of a section or of the whole of the covering C.
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. As means for securing a protective covering upon an inflated tyre for wheel
rims, the wires or bands D fitted in segments outside the covering and secured to
the rim by hooks or eye bolts substantially as described.
2. The combination of the wheel rim A having the hooks or eye bolts E secured
thereto of the wires or bands D made up of lengths or segments and applied to
secure between them and the rim the edges of the protective covering for the tyre
substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1894.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.