Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . GORMULLY & JEFFERY INFLATED CUSHION TlRE. of an outer thick rubber tube, a canvas tube, and aninner thin coating of rubber. The air tube and cap PNEUMATIC AND CUSHION TIRES. 281 used are the same as those in their pneumatic, andwill be found described under that head. It is said that in the G. and J. pneumatic tire there are no rags to be unwrapped, resewn, or re-glued ; no needle or thread or pastepot is needed ;the case can be removed, the puncture patched, the. GORMULLY & JEFFERY PNEUMATIC TlR
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . GORMULLY & JEFFERY INFLATED CUSHION TlRE. of an outer thick rubber tube, a canvas tube, and aninner thin coating of rubber. The air tube and cap PNEUMATIC AND CUSHION TIRES. 281 used are the same as those in their pneumatic, andwill be found described under that head. It is said that in the G. and J. pneumatic tire there are no rags to be unwrapped, resewn, or re-glued ; no needle or thread or pastepot is needed ;the case can be removed, the puncture patched, the. GORMULLY & JEFFERY PNEUMATIC TlRE. tire replaced and inflated within four minutes, andthis without the use of a tool of any sort. In the cuts the tire is shown in perspective andsection, one cut showing a central section throughthe valve. The tire consists of an outside case ofindia rubber that is lined with thin canvas so as toprevent stretching, and has on its outer surface aseries of ridges or lengthwise corrugations that affordnot only a good wearing surface but prevent side slip-ping on the roads. This case is divided lengthwise 282 WHEELS AND WHEELING, on the under side, and they are thickened so that thelengthwise slits or sockets that face outward readilyreceive the inturned edges of the rim of the of this case is the inflatable rubber tube which,when fully expanded, fills out the case and engagesthe hooked edges of the rim in the socket referred toin such manner that they are most effectually lockedtogether and prevent the tire from coming off as longas it is
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