September i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



437 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



■"pHE Bosti x Belting Co. issue a brochure devoted to the solid 

 ■l woven cotton belting which they manufacture under the 

 trade mark "Eelskin." This brand is referred to as being 

 adapted for power transmission under widely varying conditions, 

 and also for conveying materials. [3'.>" x 6". 12 pages.] 



Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) distribute in the footwear trade a 

 brochure on "The Use and Abuse of Rubbers," the keynote of 

 which is "More rubbers are destroyed from abuse than from 

 actual use." Retailers may find it desirable to aid in the dis- 

 tribution of this pamphlet. [3V2" x 5%". 8 pages.] 



B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts) issue 

 Catalogue No. 150 in their Engineering Series. It is devoted to 

 Fuel Economizers and Air Heaters, and is of unusual interest, 

 even for a Sturtevant catalogue. [6j4" x 9". 40 pages.] Also, 

 Bulletins Xos. 172, 173, 176, and 177, devoted to various ap- 

 pliances for power plants. 



The new "Engineers' Catalogue" of the New York Belting 

 axii Packing Co., Limited, is devoted to Packings for all 

 conditions of service, including, in addition to their long estab- 

 lished lines of products in this field, a new line of combination 

 and asbestos packings. The booklet is fully illustrated with de- 

 tailed descriptions of the different brands of goods, and is in- 

 tended for ready reference in the engine room. [5" x 7 z /z"- "2 

 pages.] 



New York Rubber Co. (New York) distribute to their patrons. 

 in a substantial red leather cover, a "loose leaf" Price List, apply- 

 ing to their various products of mechanical rubber goods. There 

 are included blank for discounts, and a four-page telegraph code. 

 IzYa" x 7". 104 pages.T 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), have issued many 

 attractive advertising publications, all of them interesting to 

 the trade, but probably none that outranks in these respects a 

 booklet labeled "The Passing Show." It relates to the exhibits 

 of Goodrich tires at the most recent automobile show in each 

 of twenty-one cities. On each page appears a photographic view 

 of the interior of one of the automobile shows. [6" x 7^4". 

 24 pages.] 



The American- Wringer Co. (New York), issue their Cat- 

 alogue No. 9 of "Horseshoe Brand" clothes wringers and wring- 

 ing machines. Clothes wringers are not as nearly all alike as one 

 might suppose, as is indicated by the appearance in this book of 

 illustrations of nearly a hundred different products of this one 

 company. The illustrations are colored, indicating more clearly 

 the appearance of the different wringers described. The 

 wholesale price list of these wringers fills 12 good sized pages. 

 [6J4" x gii". 104 pages.] 



The New York Mackintosh Co. (New York) issue a neat 

 booklet showing their "Bestyette" rainproof "outer garments for 

 the whole family," illustrated with styles which are least affected 

 by changes in fashion ; in other words, garments which they re- 

 gard as staples. [3 T 4" x 6]/$". 16 pages.] 



Rurlerset Co. (Newark, New Jersey) describe in their Cat- 

 alogue Xo. 11 more styles of Rubberset Shaving Brushes than 

 might be supposed to exist by one who has not followed re- 

 cently the rapid development in the growth of the demand for 

 this class of brushes. The various styles, whether shaving 

 brushes, tooth brushes, paint brushes, or what not, are illus- 

 trated. [5-V x 7'. 18 pages.] 



W. D. Allen Manufacturing Co. (Chicago) issued during the 

 month their Catalogue No. 28, which is the most extensive and 

 complete production in its line which at any time has appeared 

 in connection with the rubber trade. It will be remembered that 

 Messrs. Allen do not specialize in rubber, their catalogues being 

 devoted first to leather belting and accessories, and later on to 

 a great variety of brass goods, which have a relation more or 

 less to products of rubber factories. At the same time this 



catalogue has a very extensive list of packings manufactured 

 by the Allen firm, to which is added a catalogue of other stan- 

 dard packings, which they handle; also rubber belting and many 

 other items of rubber, including many specialties, such as rubber 

 coats for firemen, which are appropriate in a catalogue which 

 covers so many fire department supplies. This firm is known to 

 The India Rubber World's readers as the manufacturers of 

 perhaps the most complete line of lawn sprinklers sold by any 

 firm. All their specialties in this line are illustrated and fully 

 described in the volume under review. This catalogue forms a 

 handsomely got-up volume in red cloth, making of it a volume 

 more substantial than is usual in the trade. [7" x 10". 638 pages]. 



ALSO RECEIVED. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut. = Hartford Tires 

 Will Not Slip. 12 pages. 



Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania. = Electrically Heated Matrix Driers. 8 pages. 



The E. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio.=Straight to the Mark. [Relates 

 to endurance of Goodrich tires.] 16 pages. 



FIRE AT THE BRUSSELS EXPOSITION. 



A FIRE started in the Belgian section of the International 

 ** Exhibition at Brussels on the evening of August 14 and 

 rapidly spread over the grounds, doing a great amount of dam- 

 age. It has been estimated that the companies who had 

 written insurance upon the exhibits will have to pay $10,000,000 

 or more. No lives were lost, though something like 100,000 

 people were within the exhibition limits. This was one of the 

 best exhibitions which has been held in Belgium, a country 

 particularly skilled in organizing world shows. The exposition 

 was closed to permit of the removal of debris and the later 

 reopening of such sections as were not destroyed. The plan 

 of the exposition provided for exhibits of rubber from many 

 countries, and one such exhibit was the important collection 

 of rubber specimens shown at Manaos, Brazil, in connection 

 with the rubber congress there last February. 



The fire destroyed a very complete display of rubber stamp 

 \ ulcanizers and rubber stamps and like goods belonging to the 

 J. F. W. Dorman Co. (Baltimore. Maryland). The Dorman 

 company won a gold medal for this display last year at Earl's 

 Court. London, after which it was transferred to Brussels. 



REPUDIATED BY MR. MACBEAN. 



I\ the last issue of this journal (page 377) appeared, with 

 ■*■ credit to an esteemed contemporary, what purported to be an 

 interview with Mr. Edward Macbean, of Glasgow, on the sub- 

 ject of reclaimed rubber. Mr. Macbean, who was the founder 

 and is still the head of the important oil clothing and water- 

 profing house of Edward Macbean & Co., Limited, advises The 

 India Rubber World that not only has he no views to express 

 regarding synthetic rubber, but he has submitted to no inter- 

 view on this subject for any journal whatever. He particularly 

 would not like to be held responsible for certain expressions ap- 

 pearing in the article referred to. 



A PATENT LAW AMENDMENT. 



I T may be of interest to our readers who may have business 

 *■ pending with the United States patent office, or who have 

 been applicants for patents in the past, to be informed that by 

 an act of the Congress at the last session that portion of the pat- 

 ent laws relating to caveats was repealed to take effect from 

 July 1, this year. In brief, a provision of the law formerly 

 was that by filing a "caveat" in the patent office one who was 

 engaged upon an invention was entitled to notice of any applica- 

 tion for a patent for an interfering invention during one year, 

 while he was perfecting his own. The new act is declared not 

 to apply to any caveat filed prior to July 1. 



