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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October I, 1913. 



New Rubber Goods in the Market. 



RUBBERS IHAT PROTECT THF GROUND. 



HI 1 IIEKTO rubber overshoes have been worn for ihe pur- 

 ixise of protecting the feet against outside conditions, but 

 here is an illustration of a rubber overshoe — or at least a 

 partial overshoe — intended to protect outside conditions from the 

 feet. This is a rubber covering that fits over the heel and comes 

 forward to the ball of the foot, the space under the arch of 



the shoe being 

 filled in with 

 some material. 

 It is fastened 

 on the foot by 

 three straps go- 

 ing over the in- 

 5 t e p. W h e n 

 this rubber is 

 put over the 

 shoe the most high-heeled pattern affected by any woman is 

 converted at once into a perfectly flat-footed surface, the in- 

 tention being to wear this rubber shoe in playing croquet, and 

 possibly tennis, or other outdoor games where high heels with 

 very narrow bottoms arc liable to cut up the ground. This, by 

 the way. is the invention of a citizen of Surrey, England. To 

 be sure, most people intending to engage in outdoor sports would 

 get a pair of rubber soled shoes made especially for that purpose, 

 but if any woman is so devoted to her high heels that she 

 cannot be parted from them, here is a device that will enable 

 her to retain them and still operate on tennis and croquet courts 

 without injury to the grounds. 



A COOL BITE FOE JUVENILE BITERS. 



The li;iliy has a host of friends. Snnulindy is doing some- 

 thing for his comfort and peace of mind continually. The 

 latest embodiment of this Ihoughtfulness for the youngster is to 

 be found in the "Koolbite Teething Toy" which is herewith illus- 

 trated. While this is called a toy, it is a toy with a serious 

 purpose. The accompanying picture shows what a winsome face 

 this device has been given, which ought to appeal at once to 

 the infantile mind — and particularly that long rubber nose, which 

 every well disposed baby will insist upon bitin.g forthwith. 



Ihe Koolbite Teething Toy. 



But that humorous visage masks the maker's real purpose. It 

 will be noticed that there is a ring around the center of this 

 article, dividing the face from the back of the head. The device 

 at this central point can be taken apart, when it will be dis- 

 covered that it contains a small aluminum receptacle which 

 also can be taken apart and filled with cracked ice. When put 

 together it is water tight, and no ice nor water can get out any- 



where; but they serve to cool the elongated nose on which the 

 child bites, and in this way the superheated gimis of young 

 people engaged in the interesting occupation of teething are 

 cooled and relieved of their inflammation. Its entire weight is 

 only 1J4 ounces. It is 4 inches long and 2;4 inches in diameter, so 

 in neither size nor weight is it any great strain on the youngster's 

 strength. (Koolbite Company, Inc., 96 Broadway, New York.) 



A FINGER TOOTH BRUSH. 



Here is an illustration of a tooth brush intended to be worn 

 on the finger — invented by an Englishman who evidently thought 

 that the saving of space was a prime consideration ; for the 

 advantage of this brush over others is simply that it does away 



with tlie handle and substitutes 

 the human finger in its place. 

 The brush itself is made of 

 bristles fastened into a base of 

 celluloid, hard rubber or water- 

 proofed leather, as the case may 

 be. This base is cemented on a flexible cot or sheath made 

 of rubberized fabric with a soft rubber tip. A button is pro- 

 vided at the mouth of this sheath to make it more secure when 

 on the finger. The illustration gives an adequate idea of this 

 highly important invention. 



A RUBBER DISC TO LIFT OFF THE CREAM. 



It is sometimes desirable to separate the cream from the milk 

 in the bottle which the milk-man leaves at the door in tlie 

 morning. Here is a very simple device for accomplishin,g tliat 



end. It consists of a flexible 



rul)ber disc to which three long 



aluminum wire handles are 



attached, and they are so ar- 

 ranged that the disc can be 



dropped down through the 



cream edgewise, as shown in 



the first illustration, and then 



brought up under the cream 



flat, as shown in illustration 



No. 2. The disc just fits the 



bottle at the point where the 



cream should normally rest on 



the milk. With the wire 



handles the disc is then drawn 



up. and. being flexible, con- 

 tinues to fit the neck of the 



bottle as it grows smaller, thus 



lifting all the cream and leav- 

 ing the nfilk. Where the milk 



is not up to standard quality 



there will naturally be a little 

 milk with the cream; and if the milk is above standard <|uality — 

 but this never happens. (Hamlin & Russell Mfg. C".. Worcester. 

 .Massachusetts.] 



CEMENTING WALLS WITH RUBBER HOSE. 



Rubber hose can hardly be classified under new goods, but 

 Iicre appears to be a new use to which rubber hose has recently 

 been put. The custodians of St. Paul's Cathedral in London have 

 been very much disturbed of late by the cracks appearing between 

 some of the big stones of that structure, and they have finally 

 devised a way of filling these up and making the walls as solid 

 as ever. They filled the cracks with cement by means of a rubber 

 hose attached to the proper machinery, which, by the use of 

 compressed air. drives the cement into the remotest corners and 

 knits the stone solidly together. 



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