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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1920. 



3')3,191. The word Hermetic — French chalk and dressing for improving 

 the appearance of tires and other rubber articles. The Seli^ 



393,338. The 



393,611. 



ppearance ot tires and other rubber articles. The Self 

 Sealing Rubber Co., Limited, Ryland street, Birmingham. 



d FixACRiFS — rubber heels. J. Giraud, 96 rue de 

 Rivoli, Paris, France. (Care of Marks & Clerk, 57-58 Lin- 

 coln's Inn Fields, London, VV. C. 2.) 



c word Flapper — rubber sponges, etc. G. W. Beldham, 

 Boston Lodge, Windmill Road, Ealing, Middlesex. 

 393,940. Representations of a label with a checkered border bearing 

 within a circle the picture of a light-house and rocks; 

 against this as background the figure of a man putting 

 on a raincoat: the the words Dryco Raincoats kor Father 

 AND Son, for Rain or Shine. Barnetts the Coat House— 

 raincoats. Mark Barnett, trading as Barnetts, 24 Scotland 



will be subject to whatever modification the said regulations may 

 prescribe. 



Application for registration at Shanghai must still be made 

 through the American consulate-general, and, to avoid delay and 

 exchange complications, should, in every case, be accompanied 

 by a remittance of Mexican $7.50, payable to the commissioner of 

 customs, Shanghai.— "The Official Gazette." 



393,971. 



SocietC" Generate des 

 Jitaonsscments licrgougnani, s Boulevard Berthelot, Cler- 

 mont-Ferrand, Puy de Dome, France. (Care of Marks & 

 Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W. C. 2.) 

 The word Flexor— rubbsr tires. The Uunlop Rubber Co., 



Limited, 150-152, Clerkenwell Road, London, E. C. 1. 

 The word Fibraz — vulcanizing compounds for repairing tires. 

 Harvey Frost & Co., Limited, 148-150 Great Portland St., 

 London, W. I. 



15,816. The _ _ 



Solomon Harry Goldber: 

 U. S. A. 



DESIGNS. 



THE UNITED STATES. 



^0.54 



54.070. 

 54,090. 

 54,109. 



54,114. 

 54,120. 



Barberton — both in Ohio. 

 Tire casing. Patented November ■ 



Dickinson, New York City. 

 Tire. Patented November 4, 1! 



Hoffman, Akron, O. 

 Surf rider. Patented Novembei 



1919. Term 14 year: 

 >. Term 14 years. 



F. 



9. Term Syi years. 

 Angeles, assignors to 



- --. o— both in California. 



Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. Term 14 years. C. L. 



Moody and T. Midgley, Springfield. Mass. 

 Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. Term 7 years. E. S. 

 Phillips, assignor to The Yale Tire & Rubber Co.— both of 

 New Haven. Conn. 

 Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. Term 7 years. E. S. 

 Phillips, assignor to The Yale Tire & Rubber Co.— both of 

 New Haven, Conn. 



COTTON NOTES. 



SUOCESSrVL PLANTING IN BELGIAN CONGO. 



THE SYSTEMATIC ENDEAVOR tn introduce the cultivation of 

 cotton into the Belgian Congo seems to have succeeded. In 

 1912 the matter was put in charge of an American cotton specialist 

 named Fisher, whose first experiments in the Lower Congo re- 

 gion failed because of irregular rains. In 1915 Nyangwe, a region 

 in Manyema, where the climate is more settled and rain is more 

 abundant, was planted to the extent of 55 acres, which were 

 increased to about 3,600 acres by 1919. 



Satisfactory results were also obtained in the Sankurke and 

 Kassai regions, where about as many more acres are under culti- 

 vation, which means a yield of 600 or 700 tons of cotton. The 

 Welle region, where the climate is suitable and the natives are 

 industrious, will be tried next. American ginning machinery has 

 been imported and has been set up at Kibombo and Lusambo, the 

 collecting points. The Congo cotton sold in Liverpool has been 

 graded as middling and good middling. The first lots of Congo 

 cotton that reached Antwerp after the armistice sold well; the 

 latest cargo brought 5,900 piculs, or $11.40 a ton. 



COLOMBIA COTTON. 



Cotton raising is neglected in Colombia, although what is 

 grown under unfavorable circumstances is very fine, and of long 

 staple. It is planted without previous preparation of the soil 

 except cutting down and burning off the brush ; weeds are 



m 







1 mm 



54,063 

 54,122 



54,070 54,090 



54,120 



Ter 

 The 



54.121 



4 years. 

 F. Goodr 



54.153. Tire 



Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. 



Pierson. Akron, O., assignor 



New York City. 

 Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. Term 14 years. R. M. 



Pierson, Akron. O., assignor to The B. F. Goodrich Co., 



New York City. 

 Tire. Patented November 4, 1919. Term 14 years. R. M. 



Piers., n, Akron, O., assignor to The B. F. Goodrich Co., 



Tire irea.l' P.-itcriud November 4, 1919. Term 14 years. H. 1-. 



Stan^burv im.l I. I'. Davis, Scranton, Pa. 



nted November 4, 1919. Term 14 vears. 



U. L. Weaver, assignor to The Star Rubber Co.— both of 



Akron, O. 

 Tire tread. Patented November 11, 1919. Term 14 years. 



C. A. Swinehart, assignor to The Victor Rubbber Co.— both 



of Springfield, O. 

 Tire tread. Patented November 11, 1919. Term 14 vears. 



R. H. Syfers, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Non-skid tire. Patented November 18, 1919. Term 14 vears. 

 to The Black Hawk Tire it Rubber 



P. I. Anderson, assignor to Th 

 Co.— both of Des Moines, la. 



1.665. Rubber 



54,123 54,124 54,143 54,153 54,185 54,186 54,193 



chopped out with machetes. It needs to be replanted only once 

 in five years and the yield is about 400 pounds an acre the first 

 year and 800 pounds an acre after that. 



In 1914 Colombian cotton sold for 24 cents in Liverpool; the 

 output was 789,390 pounds. In 1917 Colombian cotton worth 

 $23,777 was shipped to the United States. At present not enough 

 is raised to supply the local demand and cotton has to be im- 

 ported. 



COTTON SINCE THE WAE. 

 Comparisons between the cotton crop of the United States 

 in 1914 and in 1918, show a decline in acreage and production 

 but an increase in value. In 1914 the number of acres planted 

 was 36,832,000, which produced 16,135,000 bales of cotton, valued 

 on the plantation at $549,036,000; in 1918 the acres were 35,890,000, 

 bearing 11,700,000 bales, valued at $1,616,207,000. The price of 

 cotton at the plantation on December 1 was 6.8 cents per pound 

 in 1914; in 1918 it was 27.6 cents per pound. 



FEE FOR TEMPORARY FILING OF TRADE-MARKS AND PATENTS 

 IN CHINA. 



In accordance with instructions from the inspector-general of 

 Chinese customs, a fee of Haikwan taels 5.00 will, from August 

 1, 1919, be charged for each trade-mark or patent filed for pro- 

 visional registration at the branch office of the trade-marks 

 bureau at Shanghai. 



When fees are remitted by persons living in foreign countries, 

 Mexican $7.50 will be accepted as the equivalent of Haikwan 

 taels 5.00. This fee will be payable until the regulations for the 

 registration of trade-marks and patents come into force, when it 



EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP 1919-1S20. 



The Egyptian cotton crop for 1919-1920 is estimated at 

 6,000,000 cantars of 99 pounds, or 5,940,000 pounds, according to 

 Consul Garrels of .Alexandria. The crop for the financial year 

 ended August 31, 1919, was 5,927,460 cantars, of which 443,000 

 cantars remained on hand on that date. The exports, in Egyp- 

 tian bales of 750 pounds, amounted to 718,309 bales, of which 

 459,744 bales went to England, 95,262 to the United States, 

 78,487 to France, 49,328 to Italy, 22,160 to Japan, 10,436 to Spain, 

 2,602 to Greece and Syria, 250 to Portugal and 10 bales to the 

 Dutch East Indies. 



