Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 152
UDK: 629.118
Emne: Reprint 1916.
With 79 Illustrations
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TYRE TUBE REPAIRING
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released, filling the puncture and leaving a small lump
inside and outside of the tyre. The outside lump will soon
wear off. Before inserting the rubber it is well to reamer
the hole smooth by heating the needle with a match, and
then searing the edges of the hole.
Valves.—The type of valve with which most tyres are
provided is of the Woods pattern, shown in Figs. 33 to 35.
Figs. 33 to 35.—Woods’ Valve
The stem or plug of the valve and its sheath of indiarubber
are shown by Fig. 34. The complete valve is shown in
section by Fig. 35, in which a is the body of the valve
with a circular head b ; between this head and the lipped
plate c the air tube of the tyre is pinched by the nut d.
The lips F F rest in the wheel rim, and the nut e, on being
screwed tight against the inside of the rim, holds the
whole valve firmly in position. The valve plug g is shown