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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[NOV-EMBER 1, 1912. 



New Rubber Goods in the Market. 



THE APSLEY SUCTION HEEL. 



MANUFACTURKRS of rubber footwear for men have given 

 a great deal of attention in the past to making a shoe that 

 would go on easily, as the average man is far too impa- 

 tient to take very much time in putting on a rubber; but one trou- 

 ble with a shoe that goes on very easily is the fact that it is 



likely to come off very 

 easily, and the sen- 

 sations of the man who 

 has crossed the street 

 through the mud and 

 fmds when he gains the 

 sidewalk that he has left 

 one of his rubbers be- 

 hind him in the road is 

 not agreeable. The Ap- 

 sle\- Rubber Co. has a 

 new device called "The 

 Apsley Suction Heel" 

 for keeping the rubbers on. The cut gives an illustration of it. 

 It is a piece of rubber with three perforations placed inside of the 

 lieel of a self-acting shoe. These perforations create enough 

 suction to counteract the suction of the mud on the outside of the 

 slioc. and thus tend to hold the rubber snugly on the heel. The 

 de\ ice has been patented in tlie United States, Canada and several 

 Huropcan countries. jThe Apsley Rubber Co.. Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts.] 



RUBBER HEADED NAILS. 



There are a thousand and one uses for rubber-headed nails. 

 They are useful where there is any contact and a desire to 

 escape the consequences of it. For instance, they are excellent 

 articles to put in the bottom of chairs to keep them from mark- 



ing hardwood floors; they do good service as liumpers where 

 doors are likely ta fly back and mar the wall. It is hardly 

 necessary to enumerate the places where rubber-headed nails 

 serve a worthy purpose. Here are five varieties put out by one 

 of the German manufacturers. 



AN EMERGENCY GRIP FOR MOTOR TRUCKS. 



Here is an illustration of a chain grip for motor trucks re- 

 cently put on the market by a Milwaukee manufacturing concern. 



It is made in ten 

 different sizes and 

 can be used on 

 tires from 2-inch 

 single up to 10- 

 inch single — or 5- 

 inch double. It will 

 be noted that the 

 chain simply covers 

 tiie tread of the 

 tire, the sides being 

 protected by a solid 

 piece. This greatly 

 minimizes the wearing of the grip by rubbing against the curb- 

 ing or car tracks. [The Garage F.quipmetn Mfg. Co.. Milwau- 

 kee, Wisconsin.] 



STANDING AND WALKING ON AIR. 



Everybody can always walk on "Easy Street" if he will always 

 walk on air, and that is not so very difficult to do in these days 

 of pneumatic footwear devices. Here are two illustrations of 

 pneumatic appliances to go inside the shoe. One is called "Soft- 

 Spots Arch Cushion" and the other "Soft-Spots Heel Cushion." 



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The Gemco Motor Tire Grip. 



The arch cushion extends from the back of the heel well under 

 the arch of the foot, while the heel cushion is intended simply 

 for the heel. Both of these devices are finished with a leather 

 surface on the top next to the foot, while the bottom surface 

 consists of a group of rubber cushions full of air. Obviously 

 these "Soft- Spots" appliances make the step resilient and walk- 

 ing easy, and they are quite inexpensive, especially the heel 

 cushion, wliich retails at 25 cents a pair. (Essex Rubber Co., 

 Trenton. X. J.) 



SPLASH GUARDS IN PARIS. 



The question of splash guards in most of our American cities 

 is not a very urgent one, as our streets are as a rule in a condi- 

 tion where muddy pools are impossible ; but evidently there are 



sections of London 

 and Paris where 

 splash guards are 

 a desideratum, as 

 both of those cities 

 are more or less 

 exercised over 

 some device for 

 preventing the ve- 

 hicles in the street 

 from throwing mud 

 on the pedestrian 

 on the sidewalk. 

 The municipality 

 of Paris, in con- 

 junction with the 

 Paris omnibus 

 companies, has of- 

 fered prizes for tlie best splasli guards, the points to be taken 

 into consideration being ease and simplicity of attachment, econ- 

 omy in construction and in use, weight and appearance. The 

 test consists of an initial trial on a bus traveling twelve miles 

 an hour, to be followed by a test of 100 consecutive hours, and 

 a third trial to test the durability of the guard when brought 

 in constant contact with the curbstones. 



The accompanying cut shows one of the guards already in 

 use in Paris. This cut cannot be commended as a work of art, 

 but it was the best available, and it shows the splash guard and 

 thus serves its purpose. 



