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Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)

Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 332

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outer envelope are beadedand folded underneath the rim, after which two hoops,made of small brass tubes slightly less in diameterthan the rim, are pressed into the grooves behind thebeaded edges and then expanded by means of expan-sion joints shown in Fig. i. The hoops grip the PNE UMA TIC A ND… … Resilient Pneumatic Tire. which effectually prevents nipping on the rim, andaffords a most excellent cushion tire to ride home onif the inflation tube becomes punctured on. the road.This elastic core weighs but eight ounces and does 312 WHEELS AND WHEELING. not interfere with the resiliency of the…

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