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CON S E R VAT I ON 
COU R S' E 
LESSON 4 
Mow to Cure for 
Fabric Breaks 
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Saving 2,000 Miles 
by Repairing Stone Bruises 
A GOODYEAR Tire that looked 
perfectly sound on the outside 
blew out one day. The owner, Mr. 
J. G. Jenkins, of 2106 Maryland 
Avenue, Louisville, took it to a Good¬ 
year Service Station. Examination 
revealed a fabric bruise on the inside 
of the tire—probably caused by 
bumping into a sharp curb. The 
bruise had been neglected so long 
that it had developed into a serious 
fracture whose edges caught and 
pinched through the tube, causing 
the blow-out. The Goodyear Service 
Station Dealer advised the use of a 
Goodyear Rim-Cut Patch. With it 
Mr. Jenkins got 2,000 more miles 
from the tire. 
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N OT even the thick muscular 
Goodyear All-Weather Tread 
can protect the inner plies of fabric 
tires when cars are backed sharply 
against square curbs or strike ob¬ 
jects at high speed. 
In such cases the innermost layers 
of fabric are sometimes stretched 
beyond their elastic limit and some 
of the threads have to break. 
The tire is weakened at this point, 
the fracture enlarges, and eventually 
the tube is pinched by the jaws ot 
the resulting fabric break and a 
blow-out follows. 
Generally such tires can be satis¬ 
factorily repaired. 
Goodyear Service Station Dealers 
and many car-owners use the Good¬ 
year Rim-Cut Patch to temporarily 
repair such bruises until it is possible 
to have them permanently vul¬ 
canized. 
If the tire is too old to be worth 
vulcanizing, the Goodyear Rim-Cut 
Patch, securely cemented in, makes 
a permanent repair enabling the tire 
to deliver a great many additional 
miles. 
This most effective inside boot is so 
constructed that it will repair any 
possible injury—a cut through the 
top—a blow-out in the side, or even 
a rim-cut. 
It gained its name many years ago, 
before Goodyear improvements had 
produced tires constructed to elimi¬ 
nate rim-cutting. 
For Cord Tires the Goodyear Cord 
Patch is used in the same manner as 
the rim-cut patch. 
Lesson 4 of the Goodyear Con¬ 
servation Course tells you how to 
detect and repair stone bruises— 
ask your Goodyear Service Station 
for it, or write to Akron. 
