US995115A - Resilient vehicle-tire. - Google Patents

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W. H. GLARK.v EESILIENT VEHICLE TIRE. v APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1`9, *1910.

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WARREN I-I.'CLARK, 0F WEST BURLINGTON, NEW YORK.

RESILIENT VEHICLE-TIRE.

-Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13,' 1.911,

Application led September4 1B, 1810.A Serial No. 582,778. i

T o all 'whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN H. CLARK, a citizen of the United lStates, resident of l/Vest Burlington, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Resilient Vehicle- Tires; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures rabbeted and lying within the of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a radial cross sectiony of my tire as applied showing the pneumatic tube as inflated. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the pneumatic tube as deflated.

The invention has relation to combined pneumatic and cushion tires, and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings illustrat- -ing the invention, the numeral 1 designates the felly of the wheel, to which is clamped by bolts 2, 2, a carrier member or annulus 3, composed of sections 4, 4, having opposed annular spring flanges 5, 5. This carrier member is provided-"with inward projecting portions 6, 6, located at the outer portions of the fianges thereof, said portions extending toward each other and having annular shoulders 7.and`8, the inner shoulder 8 being outer shoulder, a plane vertical annular wall 9 intersecting sald shoulders and being located between the same.

Fitting in theA channel 10 between the lat-- eral spring flanges is av pneumatic tube annulus 11, a cushion strip annulus 12 having an inward extending central annular contraeted portion 13 bearing upon thepneumatic tube and annular shoulders 14 and 15 at each side located without and separated vfrom said contracted portion, said shoulders being intersected by plane vertical walls 15, 15, located between the same, the outer shoulders 15 in this case being rabbeted and adapted to bear should-the pneumatic tube become deflated upon the shoulders 7, 7, of the* springianges the inner shoulders 16, 16 of the cushion strip being at the same tlme 'free movement of the adapted to bear upon the innen rabbeted,

shoulders 8, 8, of said flanges, the vertical@ walls 9, 9, of the cushion strip having neat' but slidable engagement with the vertical walls 15, 15, of the flanges. Thus the cushion strip rests normally matic tube with the shoulders thereof raised from the shoulders of the spring flanges, the

transverse bolts 17, 17, connecting said flanges and working in radial transverse slot-s 18, 18, of the cushion strip allowin cushion strip inwar and outward in its seat and the vertical walls` upon the inliated pneuof the cushion strip and spring flanges having slidable engagement which in connection with the slidable engagement of the free ends of the portions 6, 6, of said flanges with the central contracted portion of the cushion strip willl eHectually brace said strip against lateral I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-Y ters Patent is A combined pneumatic and cushiorijtire composed of annular clamp strips providedwith outward extending flanges including an interval therebetween, at their outer free ends each an outer an nular shoulder, an inner rabbeted annular shoulder, and an inner plane annular lateral wall connecting the inner and outer shoulders, an annular pneumatic tube located at the 'bottom of said interval, an annular cushion strip having a contracted portion located in said interval, normally resting upon said 'pneumatic tube and'providedwith radialV transverseslots, said cushion 'strip having an enlarged tread portion 'provided at" each pneumatic tube become de.

said `flanges having.

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side with inner and outer annular shoulders bolts engaging said slots and connecting said 10 located Without and separated from said conflanges.

fj; shoulders of said ianges, and a plane annutr(r cted portion and normally separated by In testimony whereof I aix my signature, annular intervals from the inner` and outer in presence of two Witnesses.

lar lateral Wall at each side connecting the W' H' CLARK' inner and outer shoulders and having slicl- Witnesses: o ing and bracing engagement Wlth the inner JULIEN E. MATTERN,

lateral Walls of said flanges, and transverse GEORGE M. ANDERSON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, vby addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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