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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May i, 1910. 



26,304 (1908). Apparatus for molding pneumatic tires. G. C. Taylor, 



Helsby, Cheshire. 

 26^315 (1908). Telephone mouthpiece to prevent lovierhearing of the 



conversation. P. B. Clarke, Liverpool. 



26,310 (1908) An inflating valve for footballs, tires, and the like. G. 

 Carruth, Paisley. 



'26,377 (1908). Elastic tire other than pneumatic. W. P. Thompson, 

 Liverpool. (Safety Tire Co., Portland, Maine.) 



26,445 (1908). Heel protector. J. C. Hancock, Perth, and A. B. Thomp- 

 son, Brookton, West Australia. 



26,490 (1908). Devisible rim for carrying a pneumatic tire. G. J. 

 Arnold, Torquay, Devonshire. 



26,585 (1908). Elastic tire with non-slipping recessed cover. C. J. Watts, 

 Calne, Wiltshire. 



26.598 (1908). Tire inflating pump. A. Hohler, Kreis Diedenhofen, 

 Germany. 



26.599 (1908.)- Means of securing a non-skid tread to a pneumatic tire. 

 F. E. M. de Meestei, Malines, Belgium 



26,680 (1908). Apparatus for vulcanizing rubber at a required tempera- 

 ture for a definite period of time. M. Bouchet, Paris, France. 



"RUBBER" IN A DICTIONARY. 



The spectacular industry of the world today is the rubber in- 

 dustry. The daily papers chronicle the market changes, the fever 

 of speculation in "rubber shares," and the discovery of new 

 substitutes. The weeklies and monthlies are replete with illus- 

 trated articles combining fact and fiction that center about 

 rubber gathering or manufacture. The muckraker has "muck 

 raked" the Congo and the Mexican plantations. The rubber novel 

 has passed into history. So much of evanescent worth has the 

 industry accomplished. Of permanent accomplishment, how- 

 ever the additions to the English language that have been evolved 

 in connection with the trade must be noted. From the latest 

 volume of the "Century Dictionary" we cull the following words 

 and definitions that have not appeared in any dictionary hitherto : 



THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 



PATENTS ISSUED (with Dates of Application). 



407.108 (Aug. 17, 1900). G. Gi. Johnston. Pneumatic tire. 



407.109 (Aug. 19). W. P. Mulie. Segmental pneumatic tire for bicycles. 

 407,146 (Sept. 18). J. C. Bongraud. Devulcanization of waste rubber. 

 407,218 (Sept. 21). L. M. Nelson. Wheel tire. 



407,258 (Sept. 22). Hall and Baynes. Demountable tire. 



407,298 (Sept. 24). M. Byrne. Interior pneumatic cushion for boot heels. 



4°7»354 (Sept. 25). G. O. Draper. Elastic tire. 



407.377 (Sept. 27). A. B. Cathala. Rubber studded heel for boots. 



407,409 (Dec. 28, 1908). Putvis. Tire. 



407,482 (Dec. 29). Martin. Tire. 



407,555 (Dec. 31). Largeron. Pneumatic tire. 



407,559 (Oct. 4, 1909). Hill and Baquie. Pneumatic tire. 



4°7.597 (Jan. 4). Baraduc Muller. Protected tire. 



407,706 (Oct. 8). Garronne. Pneumatic cycle tire. 



407.754 (Oct. 6). V. Guillemin and J. Rougelet. Elastic tire. 



407,823 (Oct. 12). L. Huillier and Roye. Method of manufacture of 



flexible tubes. 

 407,791 (Oct. 11). 

 407,891 (Oct. 14). 



tires. 



407.943 (Oct. 16). 

 tires. 



407.944 (Oct. 16). 

 wires. 



407,793 (Oct. u). 

 407,864 (Oct. 13). 



T. O'Brien. Tire protector. 



P. M. J. David. Protected air tubes for pneumatic 



F. R. de Urrucla. Demountable rim for pneumatic 



Handccck, Dykes and Rawlings. Covering for electric 



I.. Bancbieri. Process for devulcanization. 



Y. Scholz. Process for obtaining caoutchouc and 

 gutta-percha in a pure state. 

 ,6Si (Oct. 7). J. & J. Schoenfeld Frcres. 

 rubber nipples. 



Process of manufacturing 



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

 tained from R. Robct, Ingenieur-Conseil, 16 avenue de Villier, Paris, at 

 50 cents each, postpaid.] 



DUTCH INTEREST IN GUTTA-JELUTONG. 



AN American consular report states that a company has 

 been organized in Amsterdam, with the support of Ameri- 

 can capitalists for the purpose of working the forests of Dutch 

 Borneo which supply the well known product gutta-jelutong, or 

 Pontianak, gum. This product hitherto has been gathered by the 

 natives ( Dyaks) in a crude and destructive manner, and the 

 supply, which w-ould otherwise have been sufficient for a long 

 time to exilic, has consequently been decreased to a very con- 

 siderable extent. Although the government promulgated a law 

 which compels all persons who intend to gather gutta-jelutong 

 to obtain a permit, it will be readily understood that it was 

 found impossible to enforce this measure in an efficient manner. 

 The government now expects to obtain more satisfactory results 

 by granting concessions to companies who are willing to proceed 

 in an adequate and rational manner. The company referred to 

 above was granted an area of 300,000 acres, and is under obliga- 

 tion to respect the rights of the natives and to erect within a 

 term of two years several factories for the gutta trade. If the 

 company is to be successful in its operations, two factors will 

 have to take a favorable turn, viz. : firstly, the selling price, which 

 is subject to large fluctuations, and secondly, the labor question.— 

 Gummi-Zeiiung. 



rubber 2 (rub'er), »,-. [Short for rubber-neck. j 

 One who turns around to see something; one 

 who gazes or looks out eagerly: often used as 

 an exclamation in mockery of one who turns 

 to look at something. [Slang, U.S.] 



rubber'-' (rub'er), v, i, [rubber' 2 , «.] 1. To 

 turn around to see something; to look out or 

 about in an eager or awkward manner; in 

 general, to look about. [Slang, U. S.] 



If they 're [Police Commissioners] any good they prob'ly 

 rubber around on their own hook an' they must see these 

 joints . . . everybody rubbers in this town [Boston], 



Jogiah Flynt, in McClure'a Mag., June, 1901, p. 117. 



2. To listen when others are talking through 

 the telephone (on party lines). [Recent 

 slang, U. S.] 



rubber-neck (rub'er-nek),.re. [A humorous 

 term, meaning literally 'one who has, as it 

 were, a long, flexible neck,' which turns 

 easily.] One who turns his head to look or 

 gaze at something or some person he has 

 passed, or at anything that attracts attention ; 

 one who gazes eagerly or awkwardly at tbo 

 sights of the town. [Slang, U. S.] 



In the West we have long used the term 'rubberneck, 1 

 just now so popular with you here in the East. Its mean- 

 ing there differs slightly from the interpretation you put 

 on it. A 'rubberneck' West is one who snoops around 

 and tries to get into business deals and like things. Now 

 the term is countrywide and attracts but little attention, 

 but formerly, when confined to the West, it alw:ns caused 

 inquiry from the Eastern visitor. 



.V. )'. Tribune, April 14, 1901. 

 Rubber-neck wagon, a vehicle with cross-seats used fur 

 conveying parties of tourists or other persons about tile 

 streets of a city, under the direction of a guide, equipped 

 with a megaphone, who calls attention to and describes 

 the various 'sights.' [Recent slang, U. 8.) 



rubber-neck (rub'er-nek), !\ ('. To stare like 

 a rubber-neck ; go about staring at or prying 

 into things; rubber. [Slang, U. S.] 

 Still joy is rubbernecking on the street . . . 

 [itill does the masher march around the block. 

 Wallace Irwin, Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, wii 



WHY HER DANCING DRAGGED. 



BY A NEW REPORTER. 



A YOUNG chap who was born on a ranch and who, while 

 getting his education in the East, has turned westward 

 each summer and has thus maintained a fine, strong physique, 

 recently danced with a young woman of some two hundred 

 pounds in a New Jersey town, not far from Princeton. 



He noticed that the dancing was uphill work, and, when 

 it was over, sank into a chair in a state of exhaustion. The 

 young woman looked thoughtfully across the shining sur- 

 face of the floor and threw a glance of inquiry at the corner 

 where the punch bowl stood. 



"Doesn't it strike you that the floor is very sticky tonight?" 

 she asked. 



The young man gallantly denied thinking so. 



"It seems so to me," observed the young woman. 



Then, looking down at her foot, protruding from a silken 

 skirt, she exclaimed: 



"Why! I've got my rubbers on!" 



