The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 60
to the filer.The consequence is that a thin tube, whenbrazed and cleaned up at the joints, maybe cut away to a mere film at some portionsof its circumference, and so made liable tobreak under a very light portion of the loadwhich the tube at its original thicknesscould safely sustain. Until the… … 39 CHILION WOOD FRAME. the only lighter tube obtainable was onethinner in every part, and it is not con-sidered safe to make a braze on tubingmuch less than 18-gauge in thickness. Thetapered tube avoids all this and gives adistribution of metal perfectly adapted tothe manufacture of bicycle frames,…
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