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THE INDIA RUBBER 'JVORLD 



[March i, 1902. 



garments, double textured, of cloth closely resembling the rain 

 proof fabrics, and are putting them on the market at from $5 

 to $10 to the consumer, as against $10 to $30 for the other 

 goods. Two excellent types of such garments are shown in the 

 accompanying illustrations— the ladies' " Automobile " coat and 

 the men's " Marlboro" coat. [American Rubber Co., No. loi 

 Milk street, Boston.] 



A DAINTY USE OF RUBBER. 

 The florist, says a writer in the " woman's page " of one of 

 the newspapers, who had the pretty idea of adding a dainty pin 

 to the bunch of violets every woman loves to wear upon occa- 

 sions has supplemented it with another, which renders the 

 delicate corsage immune. Fancy a little violet silk cover lined 

 with rubber, tied round the stems, which, thus protected, retain 

 sufficient moisture to keep the blossoms fresh through the en- 

 tire evening. 



RUBBER NOTES FROM EUROPE. 



RECENT RUBBER PATENTS. 



THE Austrian consul at Warsaw reports that rubber belting 

 is manufactured in Russia, but that the better sorts are 

 imported, principally from Germany. The German firms do 

 business partly through agents, but with even more success 

 through maintaining stocks in Warsaw and Lodz. Shoe elas- 

 tics are produced by five Russian factories, and nothing in this 

 line can be imported. 



FIREPROOF GAS TUBING IN GERMANY. 

 The Asbest- und Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon, Aktienge- 

 sellschaft (Hamburg), according to the Berlin journal, Kuh- 

 low's, recently made a successful attack on the patent granted 

 to Wilhelm Eisner, of Berlin, under November 29. 1898, for a 

 fireproof gas tubing with close woven asbestos braiding. The 

 Hamburg firm, who have sold rubber tubing with asbestos 

 braiding since 1891, stated that it should not matter if gas or 

 any other stuflt was conducted through the tubes, and, there- 

 fore, no new patent should be granted for the specialty of "gas 

 tubing." The imperial patent office held the same views, with- 

 drew the patent, and forbade the manufacture of gas tubing 

 with asbestos braiding as made by Miiller & Korte, of Berlin- 

 Pankow, according to this patent. 



AMERICAN RUBBER SHOE AGENTS IN LONDON. 



The first annual dinner of the European staf! of the United 

 States Rubber Co., at the Holborn restaurant, London, on Jan- 

 uary 4, at which the chief guest was Mr. John W. Knott, man- 

 ager of the company's London depot, is reported at some length 

 in the London India-Ruhber Journal. The humorous menu 

 card, on which the various]dishes were named after the various 

 brands of the United States Rubber Co.'s footwear, excited 

 much merriment, and the dinner was followed by a number of 

 speeches in which much good feeling was manifested. 

 DUNLOP TIRE PROFITS. 



At the last annual meeting of the shareholders of the Dun- 

 lop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, the directors reported a total 

 profit for the business year ended September 30, 1901, of ^^237,- 

 569, which, added to the balance from the preceding year, 

 amounted to ^401,324. The dividends recommended amounted 

 to 10 per cent, on the preferred shares (;{J48.39o) and 5 percent, 

 on the ordinary shares (£26,484), After meeting the interest 

 on debentures, and other fixed charges, there remained ;£ 178,580 

 to be carried over. Of the above income, £81,360 was derived 

 from investments of the company's reserve fund.= -=The profits 

 on trading by the Societe Frangaise des Pneumatiques Dun- 

 lop, Limited, for the same period, including interest on invest- 

 ments, were £16,772, allowing of 12 per cent, in dividends on 

 the preferred shares and 15 per cent, on the ordinary. 



THE UNITED STATES PATENT RECORD. 

 IssuEn December 31, 1901. 



NO. 689,852. Vehicle tire. John W. D. Carslaw, Chicago, Illi- 

 nois, assignor to the Union Tire and Rubber Co. 



689,972. Syringe. Alcinous B. Jamison, New York city. 



689,977. Elastic tread rocker. Ellsworth J, Light, Pittsfield, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



68Q.9S7. Nursing nipple. David Pick, Salzburg, Austria-Hungary. 



6go, 192. Tire or other valve. George H. F. Schrader, New York 

 City. 



690,231. Hoof pad. John Campbell, New York city. 



690,250. Process of making waterproof and air-tight fabrics. Warren 

 A. Durrin, Woodville, Wisconsin. 



690,287. Cushion tire. Charles Hird, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as- 

 signor of 49/100 to Patrick J. McCarthy, Providence, R. I. 



690,353. Machine for cross wrapping rubber hose preparatory to vul- 

 canization. Frank H. Brewster, Derby, Connecticut, assignor to 

 Birmingham Iron Foundry. 



Design Patents. 

 35,493-3S.494- Rubber eraser. Byron B. Goldsmith, New Y'ork city. 

 35,497. Invalid cushion. Christian William Meinecke, Jersey City, 

 New Jersey, assignor to Meinecke & Co., New Y'ork. 



Issued January 7, 1902. 

 690,482. Hoof pad. August C. Tappe, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



690.604. Rubber vehicle tire. Raymond B. Price, Chicago, Illinois. 



690.605. Striking bag. Walter H. Price, Brockton, Massachusetts, 

 assignor to Stall & Dean Manufacturing Co., Brockton. 



690,663. Appliance for swimmers. Harry Pratt, Kenilworth, Illi- 

 nois. 



690,706. Pneumatic tire protector. Clarence G. Dinsmore, Staatsburg, 

 New York. 



690,719. Dress shield. Martha B. Gault, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



690,819. Hose mender. William C. Anderson, Detroit, Mich., as- 

 signor to Buckley-Hart Manufacturing Co., Detroit. 



6go,868. Process of waterproofing fabrics. James Menzies, London, 

 England. 



690,908. Vehicle wheel tire. Johann Ludwig, Mayence, Germany, 

 assignor of one half to Ferdinand Sichel, Mayence. 



Trade Marks, 

 37,606. Dress shields. I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., New Y'ork city. 

 Essential feature — A keystone with a representation of a dress 

 shield thereon. 

 37,627. Rubber hose, belting, packing, and gaskets. New York Belt- 

 ing and Packing Co., Limited. Essential feature — the word "Vul- 

 can." 



Issued January 14, 1902. 



690,935. Pneumatic tire. Alfred Ducasble, Paris, France. 

 690,984. Horseshoe. John M. Myers, Louisville, Kentucky. 

 691.028. Rubber tire equipment for vehicle wheels. John G. Webb, 



Springfield, Ohio, assignor to the Victor Rubber Co., Springfield. 

 691,111. Hoof pad. John Campbell, New Y'ork city. 

 691,118. Inflatable articles. Charles W. Curlin, Hickman, Kentucky. 

 691,153. Life saving apparatus. Icilius W. Maccolini, Inwood, New 



York. 

 691,341. Life preserver. Charles Gore, San Francisco, California. 



Issued January 21, 1902. 



691,390, Horseshoe. Thomas F. Kenney, La Crosse, Wisconsin, as- 

 signor of one half to Herman C. Scharpf and Prank G. Roth, La 

 Crosse. 



691,440. Hose supporter. James B. Carolin, Newark, New Jersey. 



691,467. Vehicle wheel and tire. Charles Howells, New York city. 



691,574- Elastic tire. Joseph Baier and Emily Clark, London, Eng- 

 land. 



691,589. Tire. Mary E. Brooke, Denver, Colorado. 



691,698. Vaginal syringe. Richard H. Eddy and Joseph B. Johnston, 

 Providence, Rhode Island. 



Trade Marts. 

 37,665. Syringes. Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Mass. Essential fea- 

 ture — the word " Homestead." 



