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UNITEDo" STATES PATENT OF ICE.S
EDWARD W.'RUSSEY, OF SEYMOUR, TEXAS, AND HENRY, J. COYLE AND JAMES R. COYLE,
OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA; SAID HENRY J. COYLE AND SAID JAMES R. COYLE
ASSIGNORS OF ONE-SIXTH OF THE ENTIRE RIGHT TO SAID RUSSEY.
VEHICLE-TIRE.Specification of Letters Patent Patented Feb. 13, 1917.
Application filed December 31, 1915. Serial No. 69,587.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, EDWARD WT. RUSSEY,
of Seymour, in the county of Baylor and
State of Texas, HENRY J. COYLE and JAMES
5 R. CoYLE, residing at Huntsville, in the
county of Madison and State of Alabama,
citizens of the United States, have invented
certain new and useful Improvements in
Vehicle-Tires, of which the following is a
10 specification.
This invention relates to the tires of ve-
hicles of the automobile class, and has for
one of its objects to provide a. tire having
the requisite resiliency or yieldableness with-
'1m out danger of injury by puncturing, and
wherein the relatively fragile pneumatic
tubes are dispensed with.
Another .object of the invention is to pro-
vide a device of this character in which inner
go metallic sectional sheathings and springs are
substituted for the pneumatic or inflatable.
tube.
Another object of the invention is to pro-
vide a device of this character which may be
L5 attached to the ordinary wheel without ma-
terial structural change.
With these and other objects in view, the
invention consists in certain novel features
of construction as hereinafter shown and
30 described, and then specifically pointed out
in the claims; and in the drawings illus-
*nrative of the preferred embodiment of the
invention-
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in sec-
35 tion of an automobile wheel with the im-
provement applied;
Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line
3-3 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a por-
40 tion of the tire illustrating the construction.
Fig. 4 represents portions of a pair of the
coacting tire casing holding members and
one. of the locking devices;
Fig. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal section
45 of portions of a coacting pair of the tire
casing holding members and one of the
locking devices.
The improved device is designed to-be ap-
plied to the -interior of an ordinary pneu-
50 matic tire casing, such casing being indi-
cated conventionally at 10 and provided
with casing beads .11 to receive holding de-
vices, as hereafter specified. Arrangedwithin the casing 10 are a plurality of semi-
cylindrical sheet or plate metal sections 55
overlapping at their confronting ends and
occupying the entire interior of the tire.
One set 12 of the sami-cylindrical members
bear against the inner face of the outer por-
tion of the tire casing, while the other set 60
13 of the semi-cylindrical sections.. bear
against the inner faces of the tire casing and
in engagement with the casing beads 11 as
illustrated in Fig. 2.
At their confronting ends the sections 12 65
are reduced and overlap, as represented at
14, while the confronting ends of the sec-
tions 13 are likewise reduced and overlap, as
shown at 15, the overlapped portions fitting
with sufficient degree of looseness to permit 70
the requisite flexibility when pressure is ap-
plied to the tire.
Riveted or otherwise attached to the inner
faces of each of the sections 12 are cup-like
holding .devices, represented at 16, while 75
similar but smaller cup-like devices 17 are
attached at intervals to each of the inner
sections 13. The cup-like devices form seats
for springs, represented at 18, the termi-
nals of the springs being held by the same 80
rivet which holds the cups to the sections.
Preferably the cups or socket members 17 are
smaller than the cups or socket members 16,
and the springs are correspondingly reduced
toward their inner ends, but the springs may 85
be of other shapes if preferred.
Any required number of springs may be
employed but for the purpose of illustration
two are represented in Fig. 1 located between
each opposite pairof the sections and rela- 90
tively near their ends.. The springs thus op-
erate to maintain the sections in separated
positioip and thus hold the tire casing in its
distended condition. Holding links 19 are
connected at 20-21 respectively to the sec- 95
tions 12-13 to limit the outward movement
of the sections 12 while at the same time per-
mitting them to. be compressed by outside
pressure when the load is applied to the
wheel. By this means the links serve as 100
safety appliances to relieve the springs from
undue strains, as will be obvious.
The casing beads 11 are designed to be
coupled by annular plates 22-23 rolled out-
wardly at their outer edges, as represented 105
at 24-25 to engage over the casing beads 11.1,215,414.
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Russey, Edward W.; Coyle, Henry J. & Coyle, James R. Vehicle Tire, patent, February 13, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857751/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.