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Simple Means for Stopping Tyre-wall Wear
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Details of an Easily Fitted Protector that is Adaptable to Practically Any Type of Wheel
PNEUMATIC tyres—even of the finest and heaviest quality—usually suffer a good deal of damage through shock and abrasion of the side walls, caused by intermittent driving of a vehicle so that the tyres rub against the kerbside. This factor is particularly marked, of course, in the case of vehicles which have to do a great amount of stopping and starting_
Bearing this point in mind, it is interesting to notice that a protector for tyre walls has been devised and patented by a London inventor, and is particularly applicable for use in commercial-vehicle spheres. We were recently able to witness a demonstration of its use and to examine the features of its construction.
Put simply and briefly, the principle of the device is that of clamping, welding, or bolting a curved-section steel ring on to the vehicle wheel so that it projects to follow the curve of the tyre wall. This ring takes any shock or friction when the wheel comes into contact with I' kerb.
Fixing of such a device to a vehicle wheel might be supposed to be rather a tricky business, but actually it would appear that the operation is, in most
1310 cases, quite simpl ring is fitted, for can be bolted or protector in such course, also be spli
In many types of could be bolted d rim, or, yet again, position by the n hold the wheel in p
The protector is in cross-section as wall to make its no under load, so th friction is avoided, normally used wou The inventor cla interest, that this siderably easier to standstill should with its wheels " the kerb. Also, o vehicle come up a on the move it is to steer them awa again, it is claimed facilitates the task.
This patent has the name of Mr. W London Road, S.W.16. . Where the split nstance, the device Med to this; the a case would, of 'heel, the protector tly on with the it could be held in ts and bolts which ce.
of such a contour to allow the tyre mal deflection when t any undesirable The gauge of steel d be about in, ms, as a matter of tting makes it conget away from a e vehicle be left edged" up against cc the wheels of a mst the kerb when fte.0 quite difficult from it, but, here that this protector
been taken out in H. Lambert, 1452, orbury, London,