Improvements in Elastic Tyres for Cycles and other Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., -1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Elastic Tyres for Cycles and other Wheeled
Vehicles.
We WALTER HALLETT of 180 Northumberland Park, Tottenham, no occu-
pation, and COLIN JOHN WINTERBOURNE of High Street, Hampton Wick,
Wine Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to tyres for cycles and other vehicles and has for its object
to cheapen the cost of manufacture and form an unpuncturable and non-slipping
tyre of great lightness and in carrying out our invention we proceed in or in about
the following manner. We form the tyre of cork, the whole heing built up in
sections which are connected by cane or other dowelling, cement or other suitable
means and finally shaped so as to form a tyre of the required cross-section. The
tyres formed in accordance with our invention may be provided with a cover of
rubber or any other suitable or convenient material or materials of any pattern
or kind.
Deted this Fifth day of June 1896
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicants."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Elastic Tyres for Cycles and other Wheeled
Vehicles.
We, WALTER HALLETT of 180, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, no occu-
pation and COLIN JOHN WINTERBOURNE of High Street, Hampton Wick,
Wine 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:-
Our invention relates to tyres for wheels of cycles and other vehicles and has for
its object to cheapen the cost of manufacture and form an unpuncturable and non-
slipping tyre of great lightness and in carrying out our invention we proceed in or
in about the following manner :-We form the tyres of cork either by itself or in
combination with rubber or other substances, and in so doing we may build them up in
sections which may be connected together by any suitable means, or the tyres may
cach consist of a tube or equivalent of canvas, rubber or other material, filled with
granulated cork alone or in combination with other substance or substances.
When the tyre is solid, it is built up of pieces of cork, preferably alone, the
sections of which it is composed being connected by cane or other dowelling,
cement or other suitable means and finally shaped so as to form a tyre of the
required cross-section. Tyres formed in accordance with our invention may be
provided with a cover or with covers of rubber or any other suitable or convenient
materials of any pattern or kind and attached in any desired manner. The accom-
panying drawing represents a cross section of a tubular tyre filled with cork or a
mixture thereof. a is the tube, 6 the cork or other filling, c the rim. The invention

page_text: is capable of various modifications without departing from the essential feature of
it which is the use of cork for tyres of wheels either alone or in combination with
rubber or other material or materials.
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 :-
1. The use of cork for tyres of wheels either by itself or in combination with
rubber or other substances substantially as described in the above specification.
2. Constructing tyres of cork built up in sections suitably dowelled or otherwise
attached together and shaped into any desired cross section, substantially as
described in the above specification.
3. Constructing tyres of tubes of rubber, canvas, or other material or com-
bination of materials, the said tube being wholly or partly filled with cork
(granulated or otherwise) by itself or a combination with other substances. The
whole substantially as described in the above specification and exemplified in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated thi
111000
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicants