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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1911. 



16,340 (1909). Pneumatic bub cushioned wheel. A. Cheradamc, Paris, 

 France. 



[Abstracted in the Ili.cstr.med Ofucial Journal, November 9. 1910.] 



16. -433 (1909). Attaching pneumatic tires. M. H. Smith, Westminster, 

 and L. Sgal, London. 



16.540 (1909). India-rubber compositions. E. Poizot, Calvados, France. 



16.663 (1909). India-rubber compositions. E. Poizot, Calvados, France. 



16.664 (1909). Pneumatic tire for vehicle wheels. W. W. Beaumont, 

 Westminster 



16.672 (1909). India-rubber heel protector. J. Markus, Manchester, 



16,743 (1909). Rubber heel protector. J. Helliwell, and W. A. Brigg, 



Kcighley. Yorkshire. 

 16,763 (1909). Pneumatic tire made non slipping and protected against 



puncture by insertion of rubber, which becomes hard on vulcanization. 



F. Rose, Liverpool. 



16,777 (1909). Rubber packing ring for metallic closures. A. Mauser, 



Cologne, Germany. 

 16,918 (1909). Rubber bath brushes. \V. R. Blowers, Toronto. Canada. 



[Abstracted in the Illustrated Official Journal, November 16, 1910.] 



17,072 (1909). Point protector for hat pins. A. Ilolcroft and G. A. Boy- 

 cott, Wolverhampton. 



17,249 (1909). Reinforcement for pneumatic tire shoe. T. Cann, Leicester. 



17,285 (1909). Rubber protective part for vehicle tires. J. F. F. W. Ure, 

 London. 



17,329 (1909). Rubber mud guard for vehicle wheels. H. II. Wright, 

 London. 



17,338 (1909). Rubber sheath for bats and other striking appliances. 

 S. Brown, London. 



•17,446 (1909). Elastic vehicle tire. G. Gillette, New York city. 

 [Abstracted in the Illustrated Official Journal, November 23, 1910.] 



17,653 (1909). Rubber tire consisting of flexible rubber tread supported 



by solid or pneumatic side cushions. W. B. Hartridge, Seaford, Sussex. 

 17,622 (1909). Elastic wheel with spoke ring supported by india-rubber 



loops. A. E. Hofmann, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 *17,639 (1909). Pneumatic tire with compression cylinders for maintaining 



the air pressure. A. R. Bangs, New York city. 

 17,720 (1909). Protected pneumatic tire. E. B. Gaze, Waltham Cross, 



Hertfordshire. 

 17,766 (1909). Pneumatic tire strengthened to resist torsion by injection 



of viscous material. P. Wolfrom, Kiips, Bavaria. 

 17,856 (1909). Elastic tire consisting of rubber blocks enclosed in a cover. 



R. Basch and S. Basch, London. 

 •17,924 (1909). Elastic tire with thin metallic casing supported by hollow 



rubber cylinders. W. R. Stewart, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, and two 



others. 



•17,930 (1909). Dress shields. T. McKenna. London. (I. B. Kleinert 



Rubber Co., New York.) 

 17.944 (1909). Typewriter erasers. H. A. Wanklyn, London. 

 •18,003 (1909). Rubber cushions for surgical boots and shoes. M. Byrne, 



San Francisco. 



[Abstracted in the Illustrated Official Journal, November 30, 1910.] 



18,231 (1909). India-iubber surgical trusses. M. Brook, Iluddersfield, 

 Yorkshire. 



18,249 (1909). Pneumatic tire with exterior fastening flanges. W. Stand- 

 ing, Dublin. 



* 18,343 (1909) . Solid or pneumatic tire connected to spokes by two-part 

 sliding clamps. A. L. Carroll, St. Louis, Missouri. 



18,369 (1909). Fabric for wheel tires. Salzmann & Co., Cassel-Betten- 

 hausen, Germany. 



18,385 (1909). Method of attaching pneumatic tires. C. Lees, Ashton- 

 under-Lyne, Lancashire. 



18,403 (1909). Elastic cord for punching ball. A. G. Pirkis, London. 



*18,441 (1909). Puncture preventing shield for vehicle tires. G. W. 

 Sharpe, Brooklyn, New York. 



18,446 ( 1909). Vehicle tire of rubber blocks secured to metallic plates. 



G. D. Howard, Catford, Kent. 



THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 



PATENTS ISSUED (with Dates of Application). 



Automobile Fran^aises. 



Protective 



Co. 



415,239 (April 26. 1910). Societe des 

 covering for pneumatic tires. 



415,247. (April 27). The Akron Pneumatic Tire Making Machine 

 Machine for the manufacture of shoes for pneumatic tires. 



415,213 (July 6, 1909). C. P. Barry. Process of recovering the natural 

 caoutchouc contained in manufactured rubber. 



415,334. (April 28, 1910). L. J. Huguerrc. Process of manufacturing 

 leather agglomerates. 



415,481. (May 3). Brown Perfection Tube Co. Improvements applied to 

 air chambers for pneumatic tires. 



415.464 (July 12, 1909). M. Bouchet. Portable vulcanizcr. 



415,494. (May 3, 1910). P. Torchio. Process and app'aratus for the manu- 

 facture of insulating coverings for electric conductors. 



415,542. (May 2). F. Zu Aichburg. Process of manufacturing a sub- 

 stance resembling caoutchouc. 



415,659. (May 6). C. J. Walker. Pneumatic tire for road vt-hicles. 



415,954. (Mav 13). G. A. Pascal. Removable elastic tire for wheels of 

 automobiles and other vehicles. 



415.975 (May 14). The Detachable Rim Co., Ltd. Tire for vehicle wheels. 



415,996 (May 14). J. Gcbraucr. Process for the manufacture of vitreous 

 and mouldable substances, by means of celluloid and caoutchouc 



solutions. 



416,025 (July 27, 1909J. De Brach Blustein. .Air chambt-r protection for 

 pneumatic tires. 



416.082 (Mav 19. 1910). Martean d'.\utry. Shoe for pneumatic tire=. 



416,099 (July 29. 1909). O. Grenier. Construction of non pneumatic 

 elastic tire for vehicle wheels. 



416,120 (May 19, 1910). The Rubber Patents. Ltd. Improvements in the 

 manufactijre of lawn tennis and other similar balls. 



416,229 (May 2). I. B. Kempshall. Improvements in elastic tires for 

 automobiles. 



416,301 (May 24). E. H. Neefe. Method of treating crude caoutchouc. 



416,353 (May 24). R. Lacaille. Protector for pneumatic tires. 



416,435 (May 26). Leneven. Elastic tire for wheels. 



416,486 (May 28). C. Halin. Hollow elastic tire for roaJ vehicles gen- 

 erally. 



416,599 (May 31). 



J. P. Magney. Elastic tire. 



416,570 (May 19). Dr. Cassirer & Co. Process and machine for the 

 manufacture of caoutchouc dress shields. 



[Note. — Printed copies of specifications of French patents can be ob- 

 tained from R. Robet, Ingenieur-Conseil, 16 avenue de ViUier. Paris, at 

 50 cents each, postpaid.] 



RUBBER AND THE CHINESE BANKS. 



P EFERRING to a recent crisis in Shanghai, which has been 

 •^^ widely reported as an aftermath of the rubber boom, the 

 Shanghai journal Capital and Commerce points out that the 

 cause of the crisis and the dislocation of the market generally 

 has to be looked into far beyond the rubber speculation of the 

 first few months of the year. 



Without going into details, it is to be taken into account that 

 the banking system of China is totally unlike that of European 

 countries or the United States. The number of banks is very 

 great, and the capital usually small. They are started as a rule 

 for the employment in trade of the accumulated money of the 

 depositors. The bankers find it convenient to guarantee and 

 give native orders for goods, generally to brokers, and have an 

 interest in several businesses that come under their purview. 

 Everything goes smooth in ordinary times, and only in times of 

 crises one sees the essentially unbusinesslike methods they are 

 following. 



When the rubber boom developed the lianks advanced money 

 freely on plantation shares, in some cases much over the market 

 value. Unlike merchandise, which in cases of necessity the 

 banks can sell at a loss, they could realize nothing on some of 

 the rubber shares when the decline came in this class of securi- 

 ties. The government was reported recently to be arranging 

 for loans to relieve the tension caused by the embarrassment of 

 the banks. 



Coi.T Memori.m. School (Bristol, Rhorf, Island). 



[Erected in memory of the late Mrs. Theodora De Wolf Coit. by her son, 



Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt.] 



