USRE12450E - Rim for rubber-tired wheels - Google Patents

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-- REISSUED FEB. 13, 19 06,

4 0. L. PICKARD.

RIM FOR RUBBER TIRED WHEELS,

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1905."

tion with bicyclesam two parts being disengaged UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

()RSO N L. ,PIUKARD, OF TOLEDO ()l llt).

RIM FOB RUBBER-TIRED WHEELS.

Specification of Reissued Letters Patent.

Relssued Feb. 13, 1906.

Original No. 771,445, dated October 4, 1904. Application for reissue filed November 25, 1905. Serial No. 289.354.

To 1.1.}. 107mm, i'W/Ly concern;

Be it known int 1, ()nsos l.. licnAun, a citizen oi" the United States, residing at Toledo, in the ()hio, have invented certain new Improvements in Rims for Rubber-'lired Wheels; and l do'he'reby declare the following to be a lull, clear, and exact description ot the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap 'iertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to rubber-tired vehicle-wheels, and more especially in connecl automobiles, and has tor its object to provide means for readily and convcuiiently securing the rubber tire in place on the rims withouttlie use oicement. or other adhesive composition.

1n the drawings, Figure 'l is a transverse section of the telly, rim, and tire parts enibodying the improved features. Fig. l is a l'ragme]itary plan view i a sectional rim, the and'Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the rim-scctions locked together.

A represents the telly, which may be ot' the usual construction; B, theinner air-tube; the outer sheathing tube or tire; 4-, the rigid section oi" the rim, and 5 the removable section. The rim is divided circumferentially through the body into the two sections or parts 4 and 5 and consists of the body 6 and the side flanges 7 and is. The rigid section 't is secured to the 'liell y by a number oi screws 9, inserted through the body part and disposed at intervals, the tw sections of the rim being further secured to the tell) by a number of locking-bolts 10, inserted through the rigid part of the rim and having a threaded engagen'ient with the removable part, as at u. Socket-plates 11 are recessed in the telly on one side and. fastened in place by screws 12, Fig. 1. The bolts passthrough and have a threaded engagementwith the' HUChRl-Iflfittfi, which atlord additional holding-ground in properly securing these. parts together against. displacement.

The inner edge of the rigid rim part 4 .is cut out at di'll'erent points throughout its circuinl'ereiu'e in providing recesses 13, having locking-recesses '15 opening thereinto from the ends, as bcst'shown in Fig. This eut-v ting-out feature provides an integral plate 17 between each two'rccesses 13, having a'locking-tonguc "l8 and located intermediate with reference to the recesses 13. The outer wall,

and useful I l l i l i l l h inelosing recesses 15, forms. l0eking-tongues 18. The inner edge 01' removable run part 5 is cut out to form recesses and locking-recounty of Lucas and State of t cesses 21, corresponding to recesses 13 oi. the

other rim part. Therim edge of the removable part is provided with plates 22, corresponding to plates 17,'and is provided with locking-tongues 24, adapted to'engage the recesses 15 in locking the rim' sect' ions so curely together against lateral sepriration, as shown in Fig. 3. The respective plates 17 22 are shown in position, Fig. 2, to enter the recesses in the separable rim-sections, and when so joined the loose'rim part is turned to bring the locking-tongues into engagement, Fig. 3. with their. locking-recesses,

which brings the holes for the bolts 10 into line. The engaging edges of the tongues are beveled and come together drawing action. I

The side flanges 'Z and S of the rim parts are curved inward around their upper sides and terminate in the overlapping hook edges 21%, forming recesses 27 for a close-fitting eugagemcnt of the outwardly-turned edges 1) of the tire t. in providing an interior-l as shown in Fig. 1. l A thin ring 28 is loosely interposed between the periphery oi the rim and the air-tube and provides a ShlOO tll bearing-surface latter.

it will be readily with what facility the different parts may be assembled or separated and the pneumatic tube or tire so firmly secured in place that accidental displacement is impossible.

In separating the parts the bolts 1(1) are turned back just far enough to be tree from a threaded engagement at (I. with the remov able rim-section and yet have a threaded with a wedgmg hold in socket-plates 1 1 and prevent the bolts accomplished by a, singlet volt, while at the same tin'ie several such bolts around the circumference ot. the structure are not objew tionable.

' Having thus described my invention, what. I claim, and desire to secure out, is I 1. In a vehicle-wheel, a rim having a body for the 4 and 5 against by llietters'lah seen by this arrangement to direction of rotation, and

parallel abutting sections which ssl portion divided circuinferentially into two parallel abutting sections which interlock in the direction of rotation, and means for preventing independent rotation of said rim-sec- 2. In a vehicle-wheel, a rim havin a body portion divided circumiierel'itially into two sections provided respectively with recesses and engaging plates which interlock in the means for-preventin independent rotation of said rim-sections, substantially as described.

3. In a vehicle-wheel, a rim having a body I portion divided circumferentiall 5 tions, substantially as described.

the direction 0 rotation, of, op osing side tire-retainin flanges integral with sections, and means for preventing independent rotation of the rim-sections, substantially as described.

4; In a vehicle-wheel, a run having a body portion divided circumferentiall into two parallel abutting sections which interlock and are drawn together by relativerotation,

and means'for preventing independent rotationof said rim-sections, substantially as described. v

I :5. In a vehicle-wheel, a rim having a body portion divided circumferentiallv into two interlock and are drawn together by relative rotation,

and a bolt for scribed. I I

v 6. In a vehicle -wheel, the combination l with a felly, of a, rim having a body portion divided circumferentially' into two sections provided respectively with recesses and pro- Jecting plates which interlock and are drawn 40 together by relative rotation, and a bolt for preventing independent rotation of said rimsections, substantially as described.

into two i 5 parallel abuttin sections which interlock in said rim' preventing independent rota-: tionof said rimsections, substantially a'sdein the direction of rotation, a venting independent rotation said rir"n'sec- V K n a vehicle 7 wheel, the combination P with a telly, of a rim having abody portion divided circumferentially into two sections which interlock and are drawn together by relative rotation, side flan es upon said sections for embracing the fel y, and a throughbolt for preventin independent rotation of said flanges and elly, substantially as described.

8. In a v hicle-wheel, the combination with a Belly, of a rim divided circumferentiall into two sections provided respectivelywitil recesses and projecting plates which interlock in the direction 0 having inclined engaging surfaces for drawing sa chsections together, and means for preventing independent rotation of said rim-q ent rotation of said rim-sections and felly,

and a socket-plate recessed into the felly and forming a bushing for the said locking-bolt,

substantially as described.

10. In a vehicle -wheel, the combination with afelly and tire, of a rim divided bircunm ferentially into" two. sections, winch interlock bolt for pretions, and a tire-protecting ri snrroundin said rim-sections, substantially as escribe In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ORSON L. PICKARD.

Witnesses:

RoBT. L. WATSON, F. S. WATE-RBURY.

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