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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1906. 



W. Bacon, Grappen- 



Beuchler, Forst, 



T. Roux, Niort, 



W. Boweti, San 



11,470(1905). Armor for electric cables, 

 hall, Lancashire. 



[Arstractkd in thh Ofi-iciai. Journal, October 3. 1(306 ] 



11,880 (i()05). Vehicle wheels [constructed with two parallel flat 

 rings between which fit tread-blocks of wood pressed outwards 

 by a pneumatic or other resilient cushion restinj>; on a free 

 ring]. J. N. B. Moore, Bourneside, Suffolk. 



11,947 (1905). Stoppers [for bottles containing alkalies, acids anil 

 other chemicals, and for laljoratory apparatus]. R. R. Mum- 

 ford, London. 



12,120(1905. Elastic tire [the base of which is formed with a 

 circumferential groove in which fits an inextensible core con- 

 sisting of plies of wires separated by layers of rubber]. J. V. 

 Worthington, London. 



12,184 (1905). Cover for elastic tires [formed of layers of leather]. 

 C. Rossel, Sochau.\, France. 



I2,203A (1905). Dental plates [of two superposed layers of rubber 

 only one of which is colored]. L. Eilertsen, Paris, France. 



12,243 ('905)- Horseshoe. R. Pfeffel, and B. 



Prussia, Germany. 

 12,269(1905). Shower bath apparatus. C. P. 



France. 

 •12,272 (1905). Eraser [for lead pencils]. A. F. 



Francisco, California. 

 12 358 (1905). Bust improver. S. A. Bhisey, Esse.\ road, London. 

 [Abstracted in the Official Journal, Octobkr 10. 1906] 



12,380 (1905). A lever for removing and replacing pneumatic 

 tires. A. Deschamps, Paris, France. 



12,447 (i9o5)- ."Vbdominal belt or truss for prevention of seasick- 

 ness. E. A. Davis, Cookshire, and C. C. Knight, Sherbrooke, 

 Canada. 



12,470(1905). Horseshoe. H. Hennen, Diisseldorf, Germany. 



12,500(1905). Interchangeable tips for boot heels and shoes. W. 

 Barber, London. 



13,622 (1905). Filling nozzle for hot water bags. W. Currie, 

 Edinburgh. 



12,633 (■9"5)- Tire segments fitted in holders, elastic cushions 

 being placed between holders and base of rim pocket. W. B. 

 Hartridge, London. 



12,711 (1905). Pneumatic tire with special tread. W. Baggule}', 

 Lanarkshire. 



ii,7iiA (igoj). Tires with rubber strips in air chambers toes- 

 elude dust. Same. 



12,728 (1905). Tread protector for tires. C. B. Burdon, London. 

 (Soci^t6 Anonynie des Pneumatiques Cuir " Samson," Paris, 

 France.) 



12,768 ( 1905). Method of repairing pneumatic tires by means of 

 leather patches and rivets. G. Miiller and A. Bewig, Bruns- 

 wick, Germany. 



12,832 (1905). Disk wheel adapted for pneumatic tires. E. Mar- 

 tin, Loudon. 



12,859(1905). Process of obtaining raw rubber from chopped 

 rubber plants by crushing them under water and extracting 

 raw material. [A mixture of acetone and am3d. methyl, and 

 ethyl alcohol is used to separate resin, oil, wax, etc. The rub- 

 ber is then washed and dried and the solvent separated from 

 the resin by distillation.] Baron K. von Stechow, Wiesbaden, 

 Germany. 



[Abstracted in the Official Journal, October 17, 1906.] 

 12,938 ( 1905). Spring wheel around the ixle of which is placed a 

 perforated rubber pad for use in case the spring should break. 

 J. 1!. LeMaitre, Birmingham. 

 12,960 (1905). Closet seat guard. A. Hebert, Vevey, Switzerland. 

 12,985 (1905). Vehicle wheel with special means for retaining a 

 pneumatic tire. R. B. Charlton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



13,055 (1905). In fixing rubber to an iron base, for making rollers, 

 the intermediate layer of rubber is used made of hard rubber 

 The object of this invention is to prevent separation of the two 

 rubber layers by the foimation of undercut projections, ledges, 

 etc., on the hard ru'/oer. W. Struck, Berlin, Germany. 



13.056(1905). Solid rubber tire. Same. 



13,197(1905). Method of attaching rubber tire.s. Same- 



*I3,207 (1905). Composition consisting chiefly of rubber with me- 

 tallic wool interspersed, for making shoes, soles, heels, tires, 

 etc. J. P. Crane, Chicago, Illinois. 



13,224(1905). Solid elastic tire. A. T. Collier, St. Alban's, and 

 Reilloc Tyre Co. 



'3.3'5 (1905). Pneumatic tire. [Relates to anti skidding bands 

 of leather, holding metallic rivets or studs]. J. B. Brooks and 

 J. Holt, Birniinghani. 



'3.339 (1905)- Tire made of a series of resilient blocks. F. Toni, 

 London. 



'3.392 (1905). Elastic tire [a wheel is provided with a rubber tire 

 molded on the rim, the wheel itself being used as the inner 

 jjart of the mold with two quarter sections for the top and bot- 

 tom so as to make a complete mold, which is closed by hy- 

 draulic pressure]. W. E. Rowcliffee, Manchester. 



13.443 (1905). Vehicle tire [formed of blocks of wood which bear 

 upon rubber cushions or metal springs]. J. B. Le Maitre, 

 Sparkbrook, near Binningham. 



13.457(1905). Stoppers. C. Bonafede, Paris. 



THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 



Patents Issued (With Dates op Application.) 

 363,646 (F'eb. 26, 1906). F. Loustaunau. Removable rim. 

 363,700 (Feb 3). J. Ramb. Inflatable hamper. 

 363,719 (Feb. 16). C. M. Montezin. Elastic tire. 

 363,726 (Feb. 26). \- von Luede Solid tire fastening. 

 363,822 (Mar. 3). H. F. Marie. Elastic tire. 

 363,830 (Mar. 5). V. Scholz. Extracting rubber from plants. 

 363,828 (Mar. 5). O. Patin. Elastic tire. 

 363,930 (Feb. 26). A. A. C. Desletre. Spring wheel. 

 363,961 (Mar. 8). J. M. Shepard. Pneumatic tire. 

 364 027 (Mar. 10). J. Be.ssoneau. Pneumatic tire. 

 364,67s (Mar. 13). L.Roland. Rubber substitute. 

 364,076 (Mar. 13) L.Roland. Elastic tire. 

 363,989 (Mar. 9). P. Pechaubes. Pneumatic valve. 

 364,193 (Feb. 8). G. O. Heine. Antiskid tire. 

 364,273 (Mar. 15). G. Sinnott. Spring wheel. 

 364,170 (Mar. 14). J. Jacobson. Artificial flowers. 

 364,271 (Mar. 15). D. Benko. Suspenders. 

 364,323 (Mar. 17). L. Pilla. Spring wheel. 

 364,142 (Mar. 6). H. E. Bragg. Tire improvements. 

 364,289 (Mar. 15). Societe Decultil & Cie. Elastic tire. 



[Noth. — Printed copies of specifications of French patents may be obtained 

 from R. Bobet, tngenieur-Counseil, 16 avenue de Villiers, Paris, at 50 cents each, 

 postpaid.] 



MERIT OF THE HOT WATER BAG. 



'nr^HE hot water bag has helped to dissipate at least one 

 -^ popular medical fallacy, according to Dr. Leonard 

 Keene Hirshberg, in an article in the American Magazine. 

 It has driven out what he calls " our old soggy friend, the 

 flaxseed poultice. " The point is that water is really the ac- 

 tive agent in thousands of cures credited to other things. 

 The flaxseed poultice used to be prescribed " for a hundred 

 and one infantile complaints — swollen jaws, bee stings, 

 bruises, ' bumps ' on the cranium, boils, sprains, sore mus- 

 cles, and so on. It was sloppy, hot, and unpleasant, but we 

 submitted to its loathsome embraces because we knew that 

 it oftentimes cured. And yet it would have cured just as 

 often if it had been made of bran or sawdust. 



" The thing of chief value in the flaxseed poultice — and in 

 nearly every other sort of poultice of days gone by — was the 

 heat. The heat in the water alone, without the flaxseed, 

 would have cured just as quickly. The sole virtue of the 

 meal lay in the fact that it enabled the water to retain a 

 comparatively high temperature a bit longer than plain wa- 

 ter might have done. To-day we enclose the water in a rub- 

 ber bag and do without the flaxseed. The rubber bag is dry, 

 handy, and clean. The flaxseed poultice was wet, uncom- 

 fortable, and very dirty." 



