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UN]TED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM OLIVER HARMON, OF LA PRYOR, TEXAS.
PROTECTING DEVICE FOR TIRES.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug. 13,1918.
Application filed March 30, 1918. Serial No. 225,806.
To allwhom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM 0. HARMON,
a natural-born citizen of the United States,
residing at La Pryor, in the county of Za-
5 vaila, and State of Texas, have invented cer-
tain new and useful Improvements in Pro-
tecting Devices for Tires; and do hereby
declare the following to be a full, clear,
and exact description of the invention, such
10 as will enable others skilled in the art to
which it appertains to make and use the
same, reference being had to the accompany-
ing drawings, and to the letters and figures
of reference marked thereon, which form a
15 part of this specification.
This invention relates to new and useful
improvements in a tire saving device, and
consists essentially in the provision of a pad
of any suitable material, such as a section
20 of the outer casing of an old pneumatic tire
and which is adapted to be held over the
tread surface of the tire to be protected.
My invention consists of a simple and
efficient device of this nature, having various
25 details of construction, combinations and ar-
rangements of parts which will be herein-
after fully described, shown in the accom-
panying drawings and then specifically de-
fined in the appended claim.
30 I illustrate my invention in the accom-
panying drawings which, with the letters of
reference marked thereon, form a part of
this specification and in which:
Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the
35 application of my invention to a section of
a wheel and rim, and
Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view through
the same.
Reference now being had to the details
40 of the drawings by letter:
A designates the felly of a wheel, B the
spokes and C the tire engaging rim, engag-
ing the pneumatic tire E in the usual man-
ner. A pad or protecting covering, consist-
45 ing of a section of an old tire or other ma-
terial and which has staple-shaped members
H passing through the same with their ends
clenched and forming loops upon opposite
sides of the pad. Bail-shaped members K
50 have hooked ends L engaging said loops,
and R is a rod having an eye R' at one endengaging said bail-shaped members. The
shank portion of the rod R is threaded as is
also the shank portion of a hook T, which
hood and rod engage the intermediate tubu- 55
lar member S which is interiorally threaded
and forms a turn buckle. A wire Q passes
about the spokes near their inner ends and
at the point of intersection of the wire, the
latter is engaged by said hook and forms a 60
secure anchorage therefor. The adjust-
ment of the same is done preferably when
the tire is flat. The pad is placed about the
tire at the location to be protected, the hooks
at the ends of the bail-shaped portion are 65
caught into the loop upon the pad upon the
point opposite and the hook with the thread-
ed shank portion is caught under the wire
about the spokes adjacent to the hub and by
rotating the turn-buckle the pad may be 70
drawn tightly against the tread surface of
the tire. These pads may vary in length
and there may be one or more as may be de-
sired and fastened securely at different loca-
tions where protection to the tread surface 75
is desired.
By the provision of a device embodying
the features of my invention, an emergency
device is afforded which may be easily and
quickly applied to the tire and if the entire 80
tread surface is desired to be protected the
pad may extend entirely around the cir-
cumference of the wheel.
What I claim to be new is:
-A device for protecting tires, comprising 85
in combination with a wheel and pneumatic
tire, a pad about the tire, V-shaped wires
having hooked ends engaging the marginal
edges of the pad, a turn buckle having
threaded rods mounted therein, means se- 90
cured.to the spokes of the wheel near their
inner ends and to which one of said rods is
connected centrally between the spokes and
an angle wire connected to the other rod,
and having flaring arms bent at their ends 95
into hooks engaging said V-shaped wire.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my
signature in presence of two witnesses.
WILLIAM OLIVER HARMON.
Witnesses:
JAMES CHESTER POGUE,
THOMAS PHILIP HULL.Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. C."4
1,275,913.
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Harmon, William Oliver. Protecting Device for Tires, patent, August 13, 1918; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256503/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.