US1363639A - Casing-hook - Google Patents

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P. s. BROOKS, JR.

CASING HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR- 24, I920.

1,363,639 Patented Dec= 28, 1920.

W/T/VESSES IIVI E/VTOR A TTORNEYS PRESTON SMITH BROOKS, JB., 0F SEWANEE, TENNESSEE.

CASING-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

Application filed March 24, 1920. Serial No. 368,297.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PRESTON S. BROOKS, J12, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sewanee, in the county of F ranklin and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casing-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in casing hooks, and has for its object to provide mechanism of the character specified, by means of which an old casing or a number of pieces of easing may be firmly secured on the outside of a worn tire to permit the worn tire and the worn casing sections to be utilized.

in the drawings:-

Figure 1 is a side view of a wheel having an auxiliary tire held by the improved hooks,

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l. and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the hooks removed.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the improved hooks are shown in connection with a wheel comprising a hub 1 and a telly 2 connected to the hub by spokes 3, the telly carrying the usual rim 4 having the side flanges 4 for engaging the beads of a shoe or casing of usual construction.

. lVhen a tire becomes worn to the fabric, it must be discarded in the usual course, or when a tire becomes torn at the beads or has holes of such size that it does not pay to repair the casing, it must be discarded in the usual course. Portions of the torn shoe or casing however could be reused, if the torn portions were cut away.

Likewise the casing which is worn down to the fabric could be used, if it had a tread. The present invention is designed to provide means for permitting the relatively sound portions of the worn tire to be used in connec tion with the worn casing, to provide a new tread therefor.

lVith this object in view, I provide a member in the form of a yoke consisting of a body 6 and arms 7, each arm having an eye 8 at the end remote from the body, and the yoke is shaped to fit about the folly of the wheel as shown in Fig. 2, so that the eyes 8 are at the inner side of the rim 4.

To each eye there is connected a pair of double hooks, each of the said hooks consisting of a shank portion 9 and a bill 10, and the shank portions of each pair are connected as indicated at 11, the connection passing through the eye of the adjacent arm 8. As shown in Fig. 3, the bills 10 of these hooks are pointed and extend approximately parallel. with the shanks of the hooks, being connected to the shank by a connecting portion which spaces the bill away from the shank.

In use, the sound portions of the shoe or casing are cut out from the tire, or the torn portions are cut away from the tire, and these sound portions indicated at 12, are

' placed outside of the worn casing 5 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The portions are provided in such length that they will entirely cover the worn casing 5, abutting at their ends, and they are held by the hooks shown in Fig. 3.

Each yokeis arranged about the telly as shown in Fig. 2, and the bills of the hooks are sunk deeply into the holding flanges of the outside casing sections. The casing sections will abut the rim flanges, as shown in Fig. 2, and there is no possibility of dis engagement of the hooks. As many hooks may be used as may be necessary, to anchor all the casing sections in place.

I claim l. A device of the character specified, comprising a yoke-shaped body adapted to fit about the folly and comprising a body ex tending across the telly and arms extending radially of the telly, each arm having an eye at the end remote from the body, and a double hook connected with each eye, each double hook consisting of a shank and a bill extending substantially parallel with the shank and spaced away theretrom,the shanks of the hooks of each pair being connected, and the connection passing through the adjacent eye of the hook.

2. A device of the character specified, comprising a yoke-shaped body adapted to fit about the folly and comprising a body extending across the telly and arms extending radially of the telly, each arm having an eye at the end remote from the body, and a double hook connected with each eye.

PRESTON SMITH BROOKS, JR.

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