INNER TUBE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Inner tube

"Inner tube" Quotes from Famous Books

... addition to the rockers shown in Figure 131 is the inner tube shown in Figure 132. In this illustration the rockers are not shown, but should be used. The combination of the rockers with the inner tube gives a very convenient method of pouring acid from a carboy, since the heavy bottle need not be lifted, and since it helps keep the floor and the ...

— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte

... flour-dredger shape, standing three to four inches high. The "box" portion (as distinguished from the lid) is made double, consisting of two tin tubes sliding the one within the other, the bottom being soldered to the inner one only. By pulling the bottom downward, therefore, you draw down with it the inner tube, telescope fashion. By so doing you bring into view a slit or opening at one side of the inner tube, level with the bottom, and of such a size as to let a half-dollar pass through it easily. The lid is also specially prepared. It has an inner or false top, and between the true and false ...

— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort

... pressure, generally in steel cylinders, is first passed through the outer tube and ignited at the open end of the tube. The oxygen from a similar cylinder is then conducted through the inner tube, and mixes with the hydrogen at the end of the tube. In order to produce the maximum heat, the hydrogen and oxygen must be admitted to the blowpipe in the exact proportion in which they combine, viz., 2 volumes of hydrogen to 1 of oxygen, or by weight, ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

... but if I don't, that blow-out will cost me a fine inner tube. However, I'll take the chance. Get in everybody, and ...

— Dave Porter At Bear Camp - The Wild Man of Mirror Lake • Edward Stratemeyer