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Show I THE COt'TOI. ROPE T i R E The carcass of a tire has so long i been a series of cotton fabric layers permeated with rubber that to propose any change in its construction is al aiost like wrecking a sacred institution. institu-tion. But an inventor has come to light in Andover, Mass., who is no respecter respect-er of traditions or the existing order Df things. He has put cotton and rubber rub-ber togethor in a way that is nothing short of amazing. His Invention, specifically, is a machine ma-chine which builds a tire carcass of ! cotton ropo in continuous strands. Cords are used in some other tires, today, to-day, but never rope, and neyer in unbroken un-broken strands. This now tire departs abruptly from all precedent in another particular. Practically .all tires today boast of imported im-ported cotton while in th3 Carlisle ?ood:i old-fashioned American cotton Is used and, strangely, it produces a carcass which outwears its imported contemporaries about 25 per cent. Just one strand of this American rope lifts 235 pounds without breaking and one square Inch of the tire carcass has a breaking resistance of more than a ton. This tiro is said to be a marvel of resilience. Those who havo equipped thoir cars with it frequently remark on the big improvement in tho riding qualities of their cars and the tire offers of-fers so little friction that mileage on gasoline is Increased appreciably. ! |