The Dayton Airless Tires

The Dayton Airless Tires

The Dayton Airless Tire is an automobile tire made of high-grade rubber and fabric. It is not a solid tire, nor is it a pneumatic tire, for it contains no compressed air, nor is it a tire "filler." It is constructed on the same engineering principle as a bridge. When an engineer constructs a bridge, he estimates the weight the bridge must carry, then builds piers at intervals, and places beams from pier to pier of sufficient strength to carry the load. Similarly a Dayton Airless Tire is constructed of piers of rubber (A Fig. 1) and an annular rib or beam of straight cut fabric and rubber of strength corresponding to the beams in a bridge. When on the wheel it looks exactly like and is the same size as a pneumatic. The difference between the two makes of tires is the interior supporting member. The Dayton Airless contains piers or columns or new clastic rubber and an annular rib so constructed as to give sufficient strength to support any given weight of car, and yet deflect or “squeeze down” (Fig. 2) so as to absorb obstructions in the same manner as an air tube in a properly inflated pneumatic. The Dayton Airless will fit all standard clincher rims, being interchangeable with pneumatics. This includes the regular clincher and also all kinds of quick detachable and demountable clincher rims. It is especially valuable for motor fire apparatus, answers demands made on a tire for this service: Safety, speed, resiliency and durability. In fact, over five hundred cities of this country are now using Dayton Airless tires on from one to thirty pieces of motor fire apparatus.

The Dayton Airless Tire is an automobile tire made of high-grade rubber and fabric. It is not a solid tire, nor is it a pneumatic tire, for it contains no compressed air, nor is it a tire "filler." It is constructed on the same engineering principle as a bridge. When an engineer constructs a bridge, he estimates the weight the bridge must carry, then builds piers at intervals, and places beams from pier to pier of sufficient strength to carry the load. Similarly a Dayton Airless Tire is constructed of piers of rubber (A Fig. 1) and an annular rib or beam of straight cut fabric and rubber of strength corresponding to the beams in a bridge. When on the wheel it looks exactly like and is the same size as a pneumatic. The difference between the two makes of tires is the interior supporting member. The Dayton Airless contains piers or columns or new clastic rubber and an annular rib so constructed as to give sufficient strength to support any given weight of car, and yet deflect or “squeeze down” (Fig. 2) so as to absorb obstructions in the same manner as an air tube in a properly inflated pneumatic. The Dayton Airless will fit all standard clincher rims, being interchangeable with pneumatics. This includes the regular clincher and also all kinds of quick detachable and demountable clincher rims. It is especially valuable for motor fire apparatus, answers demands made on a tire for this service: Safety, speed, resiliency and durability. In fact, over five hundred cities of this country are now using Dayton Airless tires on from one to thirty pieces of motor fire apparatus.