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Paper Tires For Bicycles

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
June
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The writer has visited the experimental shop of the parties who are working out the idea of niaking tires from paper for bicycles. A pressure equal to 120 pounds was brought to bear upon a rubber tire wheel in the presence of the writer, and the tire sunk in at the bottom. Then the same kind of a wheel was treated in the same way as regards pressure, but the tire was made of paper. The same weight did not cause the tire to sink in go much as in the case of the rubber one. Thus the paper tire can be run over cobblestones, sandy roads, inud, etc., and be less affected. The continual squeezing together and inflating of the rubber tire has a tendency to wear the rubber and cause a fracture. The paper tire, being less liable to flatten or sink in, is not

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News