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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



267 



NEW GOODS AND SPECIALTIES IN RUBBER. 



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WIND AND WEATHERPROOF CLOTHING. 

 HESE goods are not offered as mackintoshes, but arc 

 coated thoroughly with a good grade of rubber, which 

 renders them impervious to cold, penetrating winds. 

 The cloths are as nearly waterproof as the ordinary 

 grade of mackintoshes. This 

 new line of goods is made up in 

 a wide variety of styles, and in 

 different cloths, at varying prices. 

 The illustration shows a suit 

 composed of a heavy covert 

 double breasted jacket and trous- 

 ers, for workingmen's use. The 

 material is a heavy quality of cot- 

 ton duck, proofed with rubber, 

 with a heavy napped wool lining. 

 The goods are rendered " wind 

 proof " by an interlining, also of 

 wool, proofed with rubber. The 

 jackets of the style shown in the 

 cut are intended to retail at $2 

 and the trousers at a relatively 

 low figure. These new garments 

 are evidently of a durable char- 

 acter, and have met a very heavy 

 sale. Some other styles besides 

 ^tj that illustrated in this cut are 



^Ht men's heavy wool ulsters, heavy 



^^1 wool pea jackets, men's top coats, 



^H and boys' heavy covert top coats. 



^H The coats are manufactured by 



^U the American Rubber Co. and 



^M sold in New York by William 



Bl Morse & Co., No. 72 Reade 



Ift street. 



"universal" rubber vehicle tire. 

 This tire is adjusted to the wheel directly over the steel 

 tire, and dispenses with the channel iron which other rubber 

 tires require. In case of an accident to the rubber tire while 

 on the road, there is always the steel tire to fall back upon, so 

 that the traveler may proceed without injury to the wheel'. No 



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no possibility of puncture, and it may be placed upon high 

 wheels, which overcome better than low ones the effects of in- 

 equalities in the road. Should this tire become injured, it will 

 be necessary only to procure a 

 short section of rubber to replace 

 the damaged part. All the ap- 

 pliances needed for putting on 

 the "Universal" tire are a 

 double-pointed bradawl, a ham- 

 mer, and double-pointed brads or 

 staples. The tire can be put 3n 

 at home, instead of having to 

 send it away to a tire shop, per- 

 haps at a distance. The "Uni- 

 versal" tire is made in strips seven feet long. The larger cut 

 shows the general appearance of the tire, with the brads driven 

 through its edges into the wheel felloe to hold it in the place ; 

 the smaller cut shows a section of an inch tire. [Boston Belt- 

 ing Co., Boston.] 



THE " MONARCH '' RUBBER HEEL. 

 This new heel, for which patents are pending, possesses a 

 novel feature in construction which makes an air cushion of it. 

 A hollow in the heel lightens the weight and gives greater 

 elasticity to the tread. A small opening at the top of the heel, 

 where the heel is fastened to the shoe, allows the air to be 



channel iron being used, a wider tread is obtained, which gives 

 a lighter draft, especially through mud and sand. Further- 

 more, the absence of the channel iron lessens any tendency to 

 sand and mud throwing, and also obviates the extreme " dish " 

 which a heavy channel iron causes on light wheels and which 

 to many eyes is unsightly. With the " Universal " tire there is 



pumped in and out as the wearer walks. Both the hollow in 

 the heel and the vent at the top are shown in the second of the 

 illustrations which accompany this description. It should 

 further be mentioned that the " Monarch," being a whole heel, 

 requires no leather rand to aid in adjusting it to the shoe. 

 Attention is called by the manufacturers to the 

 quality of the material used in these heels, in 

 consequence of which they do not chip. The 

 entire heel is made of the same grade of stock, 

 and the edge takes on a burnish like a leather 

 heel. This heel is made by the Monarch Rub- 

 ber Co. (Brockton, Mass.), who long have been 

 identified with the manufacture of rubber ce- 

 ment for use in the leather shoe industry. 



A NEW RUBBER HEEL. 



William W. Comingor (Danville, Indiana) 

 has obtained a patent [No. 663,865] for a new 

 rubber heel for leather shoes, his invention consisting in em- 

 bedding a plate of peculiar form and arrangement within an 

 otherwise solid rubber heel as a bearing plate for nail heads to 

 draw upon for attaching the heel to a sole, the plate being 

 adapted to cause the heel to fit closely at its edges to the sole 

 and prevent uneven bulging of the sides of the heel, and thus 



