Jllv 1, 1913; 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



533 



New Rubber Goods in the Market. 



LIVING IN THE OPEN. 



( ( T-j ACK to the open'' has been the cry of city dwellers for 

 I) a number of years. People are pretty generally waking 

 up to the fact that if they had less medication and 

 fewer serums and more fresh air and sunlight they would be 

 much better off. Here is an open-air bungalow. It is made of 

 canvas sides, with plenty of screened windows, and has a canvas 



waterproof roof. In addition to the open windows it has open 

 gables — which enables the occupant, w^hile being duly housed, to 

 live practically perpetually in the open air. The cut shows one of 

 these bungalows with a floor space 10 x 14 feet, and with 

 screened windows aggregating 81 square feet. Canvas curtains 

 are provided for covering these screened windows when in- 

 clement weather necessitates. It is an admirable little house for 

 camping purposes, for out of doors sleeping, as a summer house 

 on the lawn, a playhouse for the children, or to supplement sleep- 

 ing accommodations at the summer cottage or camp. It is light 

 and portable, easy to put up and readily taken down. [The 

 Camping Bungalow Co., Hartford, Connecticut.] 



A NEW FIRESTONE CLINCHER TIRE FOR ELECTRICS. 



Extremely sensitive mechanisms — these electric cars. They 

 cannot be bounced around with impunity — every jolt and jar 

 by that much diminishes the mileage power of the batteries. 

 For that reason pneumatic tires have been used extensively on 

 the electric delivery wagons employed by city stores, to relieve, 

 as far as practicable, not only the mechanism of the car itself, 



but the batteries 

 from jarring. 



But a pneumatic 

 tire on a delivery 

 wagon has its draw- 

 backs, because it 

 may be necessary to 

 arrive at a given 

 point at a certain 

 time, and a punc- 

 ture or a blow-out 

 may interfere seri- 

 ously with such a programme. Consequently various manufac- 

 turers have devoted much time to the designing of a cushion 

 tire that shall be sufficiently resilient to be used on electric de- 

 livery wagons without subjecting the batteries to excessive jolt- 

 ing. The Firestone people have recently put on the market a 

 new tire which they call the "Firestone Clincher Cushion Tire 

 for Electric Cars." The accompanying cut gives a very good 



idea of it. The manufacturers say that this tire has a.l the 

 cushion value of the pneumatics hitherto used. It is interchange- 

 able with pneumatics on standard clincher or quick detachable 

 clincher rims. [The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.l 



A BELT TO KEEP SHIRTWAISTS IN PLACE. 



Slovenliness is the greatest crime of which a woman can be 

 guilty. Other delinquencies are readily forgiven her, but to go 

 around with everything flying at loose ends is unpardonable — 



that is a mortal sin. Here is 

 a device to assist women in 

 their effort always to appear 

 trim and orderly. It is a shirt 

 waist belt, consisting of a 

 specially woven corrugated 

 clastic cord with small nickel 

 fastener. It is worn as a belt 

 around the shirtwaist, beneath the skirt, and keeps the waist in 

 place. Its length can be regulated without in any way decreasing 

 its snug lit and tenacious hold. It cannot tear the waist and 

 it is quite inexpensive. [M. W. Schloss, 291 Seventh avenue. 

 New York.] 



A RUBBER STAMP FOR EGGS. 



In these days w'hen there are so many different qualities for 

 almost every sort of article, the consumer likes to know where 

 his particular purchase comes from, as the brand indicates to 

 him the quality. He always looks for the name when he 

 purchases a tire or a pair of shoes. In fact this principle has 

 been carried even into the world of edibles, so that many 



The "Treo" Shirtwaist 

 Belt. 



The "Pat" Egg Marking Sta.mp. 



people always buy oranges from a particular grove and eggs 

 from a particular poultry farm. Here is a simple rubber 

 stamp for marking eggs. It consists of a little metal tube, 

 one end being open and the other end furnished with a molded 

 rubber diaphragm. In inking the pad the finger is inserted in 

 the cylinder so as to push the diaphragm against the inking pad, 

 but in stamping the egg the finger is removed so that the 

 rubber diaphragm conforms to the shape of the egg. It is a 

 simple and inexpensive device. [The R. H. Smith Mfg. Co., 

 Springfield, Massachusetts. 



VOLUME OF RUBBER TRADE. 



It has been estimated that out of a rubber production of 

 108.000 tons anticipated for 1913, nearly 45,000 tons will be con- 

 sumed in factories identified with the automobile industry. That 

 industry is said to now consume as much rubber as constituted 

 the total supply of the world fifteen years ago. 



