Improvements in Tyres for Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tyres for Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
I, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, in the
County of London, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:—
The object of my invention is to provide tyres for velocipedes, or other vehicles,
which tyres are not readily puncturable, are very durable, and elastic, and which
are not liable to skid, or slip. According to my invention the tyre proper or that
portion which comes in contact with the road, is made from felted and compressed
wool fibres such as lambs' wool or the wool of sheep or other animals. The tyres
can be made by first preparing a felted wool cloth of sufficient thickness, and then
subjecting it to high pressure which may be done in moulds which will give the
requisite shape to the tyre or tyre covering or the material may be trimmed to
shape after it has been subjected to compression. Any suitable matter may be
used to impregnate the material if it be desired to treat it with a preservative, or
to render it impervious, or it may be coated internally with rubber, or the like,
in cases for instance where the material is used for a single tube tyre that is one
in which there is no inner air tube. The invention is applicable to solid tyres or
to hollow or pneumatic tyres.
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JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Tyres for Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
I, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, in the
County of London, Physician, 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 my invention is to provide tyres for velocipedes or other vehicles,
which tyres are not readily puncturable, are very durable, and elastic, and which
are not liable to skid; or slip, such liability to puncture and to skidding or slipping
being great drawbacks to the use of rubber tyres. According to my invention the
tyre proper, or that portion which comes into contact with the road, is made from
felted and compressed wool fibres, such as lambs' wool or the wool of sheep, or
other animals. The tyres can be made by first preparing a felted wool cloth of
sufficient thickness, and then subjecting it to high pressure which may be done in
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page_text: moulds which will give the requisite shape to the tyre, or tyre covering or the
material may be cut or trimmed to shape after it has been subjected to compression.
Any suitable matter may be used to impregnate the material if it be desired to
treat it with a preservative, or to render it impervious, or it may be coated inter-
nally with rubber, or the like, in cases for instance where the material is used for
a single tube tyre that is one in which there is no inner air tube. The invention
is applicable to solid tyres, or to hollow or pneumatic tyres.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The manufacture of tyres, or coverings for tyres, from a material made of com-
pressed wool fibres, cut or moulded, to shape, as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of February 1898.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.