Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 295
LING. It cannot cut on the edges of the rim for they are lowerthan the rim proper. It cannot be torn off, for nostrain can reach the edges of the lips. It is the ne plusultra shape for a tire. They intended to market it in1891 and so catalogued it, but were so late about get-ting their cycles that… … Duryea Crescent Cushion Tire. They claim that if a tube (or hollow tire) is laid on itsside, and load applied, it is not truly compressed ; it issimply flattened out of shape. Whereas, if it is seton end, it actually compresses. In the first case, morerubber is required to support the same weight,…
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