Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1894 — Pneumatic Roller Skates. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pneumatic Roller Skates.

Various are the uses to which pneumatic tires are put. The most recent of them is discoverable in a bicycle skate. It is quite likely that within a year or so this form of locomotion will be widely put in use. A company owning the patents on the invention is negotiating with capitalists in America for the speedy manufacture of the skate. It is stated by those who have experimented with it that it affords au ease

of locomotion far superior to that obtainable from the roller skate, which was so fashionable some years ago. It is also claimed that there is less vibration. The wheels run upon ball bearings and are securely fastened to a cross frame, which in its turn is fastened to a skeleton metal plate which firmly grips the heel, and like the ordinary ice skate is bound over the fore portion of the foot bv straps. The heel is kept firmly in place by a strap across the instep.