Improvements in Tires for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1897-Accepted. 8th Jan., 1898.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tires for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other
Vehicles.
JAMES MORLEY, of 8, Hamilton Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, in the County of
Hants, Architect and Civil Engineer, 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 improved tires for the wheels of velocipedes and other
vehicles and has for its object to render the said tires safe and immune from the
effects of its becoming punctured by sharp stones or the like while at the same time
securing greater strength.
I propose a mode of construction by which whilst retaining sufficient buoyancy,
vibration is reduced to a minimum, at the same time lessening friction and improving
the draught by distributing the pressure over the whole rim and cover and reducing the
point of contact thus producing the same result with less expenditure of power or
greater speed with the application of the same power.
To carry one form of the invention into effect I employ in place of an inflated air
tube an elastic or semi elastic tube or cover.
To distend this tube or cover I insert therein a metal wood or composite rim
circular and of any convenient section preferably convex. The tube or cover is secured
to the wheel rim in any ordinary way.
Various modifications of the invention are possible and several are illustrated in the
drawings hereunto annexed in which :
Figs. 1 and 2 shew sections of two tires adapted for cycles or similar vehicles.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew a further modified form of cycle or other light vehicle tire.
Fig. 3 shows a cross section and Fig. 4 a side elevation of the periphery of the wheel
constructed according to my invention. Referring to Fig. 1 A is the elastic or semi
elastic tube tightly pressed against the wheel rim B. C is the metallic, wooden or
composite rim or band which is inserted into the tube or cover A and adapted to
distend it. The rim or band C may be grooved or corrugated as shewn at c.
Fig. 2 shows a similar arrangement as fitted to an outer cover A¹ which is held in
position by means of embedded wires d. d. The rim or band c distending the outer
cover causes the wires to grip the recesses in the wheel rim B.
Referring to Fig. 3 this figure shows a tire similar to Fig. 2 the outer covering
fastening in the inside of wheel rim instead of outside. In this case the buoyancy
is obtained by distending metal tapes or wires E as shewn in Fig. 3 and 4 over fixed
pins or studs and which rest in the wheel rim but which hinder the two rims from
coming in contact with each other.
These arrangements under the tyres free from the ill effects arising from bursts,
punctures or leakages, reduces the cost, lessens vibration and improves the
draught.

page_text: essentially of an elastic or semi elastic tube or cover, and a metallic, wooden or com-
posite rim or band disposed therein, capable of distending the said elastic or semi
elastic tube or cover which is secured to an ordinary wheel rim substantially as shewn
and described.
2. In an improved tyre for the wheels of velocipedes and like vehicles the metallic
wooden or composite rim or band c of any preferred section disposed within the
elastic tube A or outer cover A¹ or suspended by metallic tapes or wires as in Figs. 3
and 4-and as substantially shewn and described.
3. In an improved tyre for the wheels of velocipedes and like vehicles the metallic
or wooden or composite rim being of any approved section not brought in contact with
the wheel rim, substantially as shewn and described.
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