ires are ordinarily secured to carriagewheels by a steel tape or a pair of wires which runlongitudinally through the tire, near its under sur-face. At present the wires seem to meet with morefavor than the steel tape, and the reason for this liesprobably in the fact that the tape first used was… … SOLID RUBBER TIRE SETTING MACHINE. this prejudice there may be some good reasons forthe preference of wire over steel tape. To admit thetape, the tire must have an opening which is muchlonger, in cross-section, than the sum of the diametersof the two wire openings. The tire is thus greatlyweakened,…
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