Junk 1. 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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464.160 (October 28). P. Durel. W-liicle wIil-c-I tires. 



464,192 (.October 28). C. II. BoehrinKt'ii. I*rocess of coagulating rubber 

 latex. 



464,207 (October 29). A. Grucnais. Movable rubber heel. 



464,474 (November 6). E. Mclin. New process for lixing tires on metallic 

 wheels. 



464,323 (October 31). N. Roussclle. Multiple pneumatic tire with annular 

 solid cover. 



464,356 (October 31). H. F. Ileycock. Improvements in pneumatic tires. 



464,425 (November 4). Olier & Cie. Improvements in the fastening of 

 autoclave vulcanizing presses. 



464,427 (November 5). II. Heed, M. Lander and C. Lander. Improve- 

 ments in tires. 



464.550 (.-Vuguj-t 14). J. 11. Kniglit. Improvements iti automobile and 

 other wheels. 



464,557 (September 19). J. IJader. Pneumatic vehicle tires. 



464,589 (October 23). 1". K. K. Dujiont. Non-hur sting nneumatic tire. 



464,621 (January 16). L. I.. I'rotin. Mudguard for vehicle wheels. 



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

 tained from K. Hohet, Ingeuieur-Conseil, 16 avenue de Viliers, Paris, at 

 50 cents each postpaid. 1 



to a different kind. Tlmsc who make the trip on the "Maid of 

 the Mist" down almost under the falls, hobbing and tossing with 

 the current, arc advised to rent rubber suits, and these of the 

 >tylc shr.wn in the picture. What a sight they are, too, as, thus 



THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM. 



PATENTS PUBLISHED. 



263,629 (March 20, 1914). Process of utiliziuR wurn vubber objects. E. 



Lapisse, rue Montbazon, 19, Tours, France. 

 263,952 (March 20, 1914). Process and device for the manufacture of 



syringes on a hard core in one piece with the neck. Montsouris. 



Societe Frangaise de Caoutchouc, Paris. 

 264,292 (April 18, 1914). Improvements in methods of 6xing asbestos and 



other slabs. Societe Anonyme Eternit, Neder-over-Heembeck, 



Holland. 



RUBBER COATS AT NIAGARA AND IN LABRADOR. 



By J-rli.v J. Koch. 

 XT EXT time you arc in search of sonic pattern in riil)ber 

 ^ ~ coats make a little journey to the Labrador coast. Yen 

 will get more contrasts there than perhaps anywhere else on 

 earth. 



Not. of course, that Americans are not adthottd to tiiem. 



At Ni.-vc.ar.s F.vlls. 



arrayed, they venture on deck, to let the spray trickle in rivulets 

 down tlieir faces. 



Hut it is up in Xevvfoundland and Labrador that one meets 

 most with the rain coat. Thirty thousand odd lishermen 

 come to this Northland as soon as the ice melts in the spring- 

 time, to take the cod. They live in miserable "telts" or 

 "stages" on the rocks, and it is much preferable to be on the 

 Nca to housing up in these Hsh barns. So, safe in their 

 rubber slickers, these men go out daily after the prolific cod. 



Most of them are sold by dealers in St. John's, Ijut here 



Fishermen of L.\bor.\dor. 



Get aboard any great tourist steamer in the summer, let 

 the weather be a bit wet. and from steamer trunks and 

 Iwgs there appears a variety of rubber coats and rubber 

 caps that would do a rubber dealer's heart good to see. 

 Pretty tourist girls, especially, affect these styles, and with 

 seamen's black rubber hats all but enframing their faces, 

 and the latest cut in the rubber coat about their forms, they 

 are most attractive. Fond admirers will lead them to the 

 bridge over the compass for a snapshot. 



At Niagara Falls, too, the American and the Canadian take 



and there a trader is found .going up the coasi with a supply 

 of slickers. He sells for cash and his prices are high for 

 tlie quality he gives. But if one man buys, all buy. 



The photographs show a few of the more characteristic 

 specimens in use. 



It is estimated that 1,250.000 tires will be required to equip this 

 year's output of Ford automobiles. These tires are supplied by 

 four of the leading American tire manufacturing companies and 

 are received in (piantities to keep pace with the production of 

 automobiles. About 400 sets of tires comprise a car load, so that 

 781 freight cars will be called into service in transporting these 

 tires to the factory, where they are placed on wheels, inflated, the 

 fittings attached and then sent to the car assembling department, 

 emerging as parts of completed cars. 



