Improvements in Wheels for Velocipedes and other Vehicles, and in Breaks for the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wheels for Velocipedes and other Vehicles, and in
Breaks for the same.
We, OTTO LINDNER, Engineer, of 32, Rue de la Bourse, Brussels, Belgium, &
ROWLEY BENBOW TURNER, of 69, Rue du Midi, of the same town, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
The metal rims or tyres of our wheels may be concave or perfectly flat, they are
provided with a groove on each side.
Our elastic tyres or bands, which may be solid, hollow or pneumatic are provided
with projecting rims which fit over the aforesaid grooves in the metal rims. A
strong wire or other binding substance is drawn over the aforesaid projecting rim
on the elastic tyres & force them into the aforenamed grooves. The improvement we
bring to the well known "spoon or "plunger "break is in the application of cork
which prevents a metallic contact with our new tyres & saves it from cutting as in
the case of the metal break.
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R. B. TURNER..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Wheels for Velocipedes and other Vehicles, and in
Breaks for the same.
We OTTO LINDNER Engineer of 148 Rue de Merode Bruxelles Belgium &
ROWLEY BENBOW TURNER Merchant of 69 Rue du Midi of the same town, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a new system of fixing elastie pneumatic
tyres on to the wheel rims of velocipedes & and other wheels vehicles, by simple
mechanical means & and without employing any adhesive matter.
The elastie pneumatic tyres (may be solid, hollow or pneumatic & of any shape
er-section) may be of any shape, section or construction, and they are provided all round
on each side with a projecting lap or rim lip of a special shape, such elastic tyre
being stretched on the said lips being adapted to engage with grooves in a corresponding
metal tyre rim. A wire, band or cord of steel or any other fixing material of
metal or other suitable substance is placed on the top of each of the lap or rim all
reund & lips and then tightened, whereby said lap or rim will be pressed & and
maintained in the groves of the metal tyre rim, fixing the elastic pneumatic tyre
solidly thereto.

page_text: The In the accompanying drawings: represents
Fig. 1. 2 & 3. are views in cross section of elastie pneumatic tyres provided with
the special projecting laps or rims lips M. on each side.
Figs. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8 & 9 are views in cross section of some metallic tyres, bearing
wheel rims having the necessary grooves L. en in which the laps or rims lips M of
the elastie pneumatic tyre is are pressed & and maintained.
Fig. 10. is the elastie a view in cross section of a pneumatic tyre Fig. 3. placed on
a-metallie-tyre-Fig. G& the wheel rim and fixed & and maintained on in the latter by
the steel band B.
Fig. 11. the elastie is a view in cross section of a pneumatic tyre Fig. 2. placed on
the metallic tyre Fig wheel rim and fixed & and maintained by a steel wire W.
Fig. 12 shows one of the many ways in which the two ends of the fixing material
band or wire might be fastened.
Fig. 13-a-side-view of a metallic break provided with a cork plate in-order-to
prevent the damaging & tearing off of the said elastic-tyre.
Fig. 14-is-a-front-view of Fig. 18.
Throughout the several views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
Referring to the drawings M. M. designate the lips on the tyre, L L designate the
grooves in the wheel rim. W. W designate the fixing wires and B. B, the fixing bands,
being the alternative of the wires W. W..
After the description given of the accompanying drawings, little need be added
to explain the invention. On placing the elastie pneumatic tyre on the wheel rim,
.care is to be taken that the two projecting laps-or-rims lips M. M. are placed well
over the groves L L of the metal-tyre-& rim and overhanging the latter about
of an inch on each side before being pressed into the same.
Having now particularly described the nature of this invention, & and in what
manner the same is to be applied, we declare our claims-to-be-as-follows: that
what we claim is :-
1. In the combination of elastic tyres of any shape or section- & wheels, solid,
hollow or pneumatic-for velocipedes-or-other-wheels the addition-of-two-projecting
laps or rims, one-on-each side, and-for-the purpose of being fixed thereby on the top
of a corresponding metallic tyre, by means of a wire, rope, cord, band-or-any-other
fixing-material-of-metal-or-other suitable-substance.
2. In the combination of metallic tyres of any shape or section, for-velocipedes
or other wheels the addition of two grooves-on the surface, one-on-each-side-inte
which the laps-or-rims of the before mentioned elastic tyre is pressed & maintained
by the means-described & for the purpose of fixing the elastic-tyre solidly on the
metallic tyre.
1. A pneumatic tyre having projecting lips ada ted to be held in grooves in the wheel
rim by means of bands or cords or wire, or other suitable material, as set forth.
2. In a wheel for velocipedes, the combination with a wheel rim having a circumferential
groove on each edge, of a neumatic tyre having a projecting lip on each side, and of two
bands or cords adapted to engage with the lips on the tyre and press and fix them into
the grooves in the wheel rim, as and for the purpose set forth.
3. In combination-with-the-above-described elastic tyre, on a metallic break of
any shape the addition of a cork plate fixed-to-same-in order to secure a perfect-but
gradual stopping of the revolving wheel & to avoid damaging & tearing the said
elastie tyre. The whole-substantially as described:
Brussels, dated this Nineteenth day of February Eighteen hundred ninety-one.
OTTO LINDNER.
R. B. TURNER.