QUICK TYRE-CHANGING DEVICE.
The forcing of a heavy motor tyre into place with levers is often a long and arduous task —so much bo that most car owners prefer to carry a complete spare wheel instead of merely a spare tyre. The quick and easy fitting of a tyre to a wheel without removing it from the oar can now (says "Chambers' Journal") be effected by a detachable rim at one side of the wheel. This rim is bolted to the wheel, but about two-thirds of it is hinged to tho remaining portion.' When a new tyro i-,3 to be put on, the nuts holding the hinged portion in position are taken off, and this part of the rim is turned back. The tyre can now be put over without any forcing with levers, and the rim turned back into position, on its hinges, .the nuts being put. on to the bolts again and screwed up. At a recent demonstration before a number of editors of motor papers, the inventor took off a large tyre in nine seconds, and kicked it on again, without touching it with his hands, in eleven seconds.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17127, 23 April 1921, Page 2
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192QUICK TYRE-CHANGING DEVICE. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17127, 23 April 1921, Page 2
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