Improvements in connection with the Tyres of Wheels for Cycles and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with the Tyres of Wheels for Cycles
and other Vehicles.
We, JAMES RIORDAN, of Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland, Dairy Engineer,
and TIMOTHY HARRINGTON GARDE, Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland, Mill
Manager, 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:-
Our improvements in connection with the tyres of wheels for cycles and other
vehicles, have for object to render the said tyres or their covers non-slipping.
In carrying our invention into effect, we proceed in or in about the following
manner. We fasten round the tyre or its cover a row or rows of flanged studs,
each stud consisting of a shank which passes through the rubber or other material
of which the tyre or its cover is made. The shank is double flanged, one flange
being preferably larger than the other, the larger one being on the tread of the
tyre or its cover, and having its surface roughened in any suitable manner.
order that our invention may be the more readily understood, we make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1, is a side view, and
Fig. 2, a plan of one of our improved studs. Fig. 3, is a section of a solid tyre
with the studs in position, and Fig. 4, a section of a tubular tyre or a cover pro-
vided with the studs. Similar letters denote similar parts.
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a is the shank of the stud, 6 the large flange, e the small one, d the tyre, e the
rim, f the cover or the tubular tyre. The surface of the tread flange b may be
roughened as shewn at g, or in any other manner. We prefer to so place the
studs that the larger diameter of the outer flange may be across the tread.
flange of the studs may be made to screw on to the shank, to facilitate the applica-
tion of them to the tyre or cover. It is intended to make the studs of steel or of any
other suitable metal, alloy, or combination of metals, alloys, or metals and alloys.
We do not confine ourselves to the precise shapes or relative proportions as shewn
in the drawings, or described in the above specification, as any or all of them may
be considerably varied without departing from the spirit of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
The improvements in connection with the tyres of wheels for cycles and other
vehicles, the said improvements consisting essentially in furnishing solid or other
tyres or their covers with a row or with rows of metal studs, each stud consisting
of two flanges, connected together by a shank, the said shank being intended to
pass through the tyre or cover and one of the flanges being on the tread of the
tyre or cover and being or not roughened on its surface in any suitable manner,

page_text: the whole substantially as described in the above specification and exemplified in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of August 1897.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicants.