Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 298
ssary toprevent its impairing the resiliency of the tire, it is cor-rugated transversely, at the same time increasing itsflexibility and its length, and making it transversely flatand rigid. The weight of the band is about threeounces, and it does not in the smallest perceptible de-gree impair the… … Eclipse Pneumatic Tire, is independent of the degree of the compression of theair column. This is produced by the transverse rigidityof the corrugated steel band preventing the tires flatten-ing out on contact with the ground. The running sur-face is thus reduced to about a third of the breadth…
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