Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Michelin Pneumatic Tire. of the actual tire is sunk in the rim ; the rim is alsobroad. A single air tube is formed with butted ends,one slipping into the other, to facilitate removal with- 302 WHEELS AND WHEELING. out taking out the wheel. The outer cover is canvas-backed, with a kind of flange or edge at each are fitted into deep grooves at each side of therim, and on the top of them are placed circles ofsquare wire the exact circumference of the wheel, andwith two projecting ears on
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Michelin Pneumatic Tire. of the actual tire is sunk in the rim ; the rim is alsobroad. A single air tube is formed with butted ends,one slipping into the other, to facilitate removal with- 302 WHEELS AND WHEELING. out taking out the wheel. The outer cover is canvas-backed, with a kind of flange or edge at each are fitted into deep grooves at each side of therim, and on the top of them are placed circles ofsquare wire the exact circumference of the wheel, andwith two projecting ears on both ends of each whichslip through little slits in the rim and are secured witha thumbscrew. The Mikado pneumatic tire is of light construc-tion and very simple. It has the ordinary air tube ;<9X CaxvagA. Mikado Pneumatic Tire. surrounded by a canvas casing, which is sewn withthe stitches on the outside, but so that the sewn por-tion rests on the rim. Under the edge of one side ofthe outer cover is solutioned a flap of rubber whichlies on top of that portion of the canvas casing whichrests on the rim, and the other edge of the cover issolutioned down on top of this. The complete tirethus formed is cemented bodily into the rim, or it canbe bolted through the rim at intervals, a flat washerfitting under the canvas flap already mentioned for PNEUMATIC AND CUSHION TIRES. 3°3 each bolt to pass through; the canvas being cut onthe cross also makes it grip the rim of itself. The Moffat and Huss pneumatic tire is de-scribed as the combination of a pliable, non-extensible,outer layer of rubber, with an internal body of rubberseated against the outer layer and maintained undercompression, whereby a puncture will close automat-ically. In the Nedderman pneumatic tire the canvasedges of a clincher-
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