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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Januaky I, 1908. 



there are no cuts or seams, and is made of heavy, closely woven 

 duck, rubber coated especially for these tubs. The material not 

 being injured by salt, sulphur or medicated waters, it is possible 

 to take a medicated bath ; or, if looped up in the center, the tub 

 serves as a sitz bath. The tub is emptied by simply taking hold 

 of the rails and lifting at one end, the other end forming a 

 trough by which the water is poured into a pail. [Russell M. 

 Irwin, No. 103 Chambers street. New York.] 



"BUBBLE-aUICK" HEATEK. 



The "Hygeia" nursing bottle, for which this heater is especially 

 designed, has already had a special holder patented for it, and 

 now with the heater it would seem that 

 the outfit is nigh completion. Some 

 genius has computed the number of 

 times the nursing bottle has to be heated 

 the first year, and makes it 2,500. Any 

 device which will lessen the labor and 

 worry involved in this number of opera- 

 tions is naturally assured of a welcome. 

 The construction of this heater demon- 

 strates the principle of a large heating 

 surface and a small quantity of water 

 to heat. According to this principle there 

 is but a thin sheet of water surround- 

 ing the bottle, and the water also fills 

 the broad shallow base which has both 

 upper and lower plates deeply corru- 

 gated. It can be used over an ordinary 

 gas jet, giving the light at the same 

 time, as well as over a gas stove. The 

 time required for heating depends upon 

 the temperature and amount of milk and the means of heating, 

 varying from 60 to 90 seconds. [The Hygeia Nursing Bottle 

 Co., Buffalo. New York.] 



"CONTINENTAL" HOSE EXPANDER, 



The "Continental" Hose and Suction Expander, shown in the 

 illustration, is a tool for attaching couplings to suctions and other 

 large hose where inside diameters range from 3j4 to 6 inches. 

 This expander is supplied with an adjustable gauge and auto- 



ber stock that is absolutely oilproof, and two braided jackets are 

 placed over all. The "Empire" primary wire, which is also illus- 



"Bubble-Quick" 

 Heater. 



"Continental" Hose Expander. 



matic release, the various segments are interchangeable and any 

 one or more of the sizes within the range of the tool can be 

 supplied at any time. It is compact and convenient, and has 

 many advantages in its favor. [The Ahrens Fire Engine Co., 

 Cincinnati.] 



•■EMPIRE" AUTOMOBILE ELECTRIC WIRES. 



The "Empire" secondary wire, for automobile use, is so con- 

 structed that it may be subject to much hard usage, not to say 

 abuse, without making it unfit for service. The cable is covered 

 with a rubber stock designed to resist high voltage, and this in 

 turn is covered with a braid, outside of which is placed a rub- 



"Empire" Atjtomobile Electric Wires. 



trated in the smaller cut, is insulated with oilproof rubber, and 

 finished with two braided jackets. [Empire_ Automobile Tire 

 Co., Trenton, New Jersey.] 



"THE CORKER." 



The device here illustrated is simply a device formed of strong, 

 fine, pure rubber, in the shape indicated by the darker portion 

 of the cut. It slips on any bottle, over any cork, and is designed 

 to keep medicines or the like from 

 spilling, evaporating, or concentrating. 

 Its use is better than tying pieces of 

 paper or cloth over bottle corks when 

 traveling, to prevent spilling the con- 

 tents and spoiling everj^hing in a grip 

 or trunk. "The Corker" corks the 

 bottle instantly and securely. It is 

 sold very generally by druggists. [O. B. 

 Schellberg, No. 217 East Twenty- 



,,-T-, r- •• seventh street. New York.] 



i HE Corker. ■■ 



ADVERTISING ON THE ROADWAY. 



'T'HE illustration here does not relate to any particular kind 

 •*• of footwear, rubber or otherwise ; it merely records the 

 suggestion of some clever man in the advertising field of the 

 possibility of utilizing shoe soles for a new purpose. Were the 

 suggestion to be adopted generally, while every man might not 

 leave behind him "footprints on the sands of time," he would 

 leave somebody's advertisement every time he stepped upon a 

 sanded or dusty roadway. In an early issue of The India Rubber 



"if 



Why Not Rubber Soles for Advertising? 

 World an illustration was copied from a contemporary pointing 

 out how bicycle tires might be used for advertising purposes by 

 means of raised letters on the tread. More recently a leading 

 maker of bicycle tires in England began branding or lettering 

 the tires on the tread, with the incidental idea of advertising 

 them on the road surface wherever they ran. Whatever the 

 advertising value of the idea, it was copied by other makers, 

 with the result that the matter got into the courts of justice. The 

 cut here presented is a feature of the advertising of Albert 

 Theilgaard, of Copenhagen, in the reclaimed rubber trade, for 

 calling attention, by name, to his brands. 



