THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1915. 



475,975 (August 10). Substance to render air tubes serviceable in spite of 

 their porosity and punctures. F. D. Bellefaye. 



■I76.0U (August 14). Elastic tire for wheels. W. C. Wreen and J. J. 

 Ijarrigan. 



476,036 (March 31). Improved elastic tire for vehicle wheels. A. Bonnai. 



476.116 (August 28). Improvements made on apparatus for feeding fabric 

 winding machines, especially for machines used by manufacturers 

 of pneumatic tire fabrics. The Miller Rubber Co. 



THE GERMAN EMPIRE. 



PATENTS ISSUED (With Date of Validity). 

 287,094 (January 13, 1915). Needle holder for medical injection apparatus. 



Gustav Rudolf Schimmel, Detroit, U. S. A., represented by 



E. W. Hopkins, patent lawyer, Berlin SW 11. 

 287,093 (October 10, 1914). Liquid vaporizer. (Supplement to patent No. 



284,980.) Karl Heinicke, Keichswaldallee, 7, Dusseldorf. 

 287,110 (October 4). Process for attaching rubber heels to shoes. Julius 



Bahnsen, Kaiscriautern, Palatinate. 

 287,150 (June 13, 1913). Sewing material for surgical purposes. Essbach, 



Klingenthal. 

 287,303 (June 5, 1914). Nozzle for hose and tubes, especially adapted to 



garden hose. Bernliard Schulz, Berlinerstrasse, 151 Berlin- 



Lichterfeld. 

 287.299 (July 19). Machine for manufacturing tlicels from fibrous ma- 

 terials and cement ; for instance, asbestos or cardboard or the 



like and "cement. Birchier and Pflug, Zurich, Switzerland. 



Represented by Messrs. G. Dedreux, A. Weickmann and H. 



Kauffmann, patent lawyers, Mu«ich. 

 287,382 (December 17, 1913). Nursing bottle with reinforced neck for the 



ripple. Carl Cade. HoUandstrasse 10, Herford-in-Westphalia. 

 287,478 duly 17, 1914). Hose or tube jet having a plurality of small holes; 



also machine for manufacturing it. Supplement to Patent No. 



265,318. Dr. Carl Veltman. Kiisnacht, near Zurich, Switzerland. 

 2S7,536 (September 24). Press for stamping leather and similar materials 



in which the stock is automatically fed to the press. United Shoe 



Machinery Co., Paterson, N. J., and Boston, Mass., U. S. A.; 



represented by Messrs. K. Hallbauer and A. Bohr, patent law- 

 yers, Berlin SW 66. 

 287 547 (October 2). Interchangeable rubber heel. Otto Goltsch, Olatz- 



in-Silesia. 



EUBBES TIRES IN BRAZIL. 



The use of autoniobiles in Brazil i.s continually on tlie in 

 crease. Yet every tire has to be imported. The tire imports 

 from the United States for the year 1914 ainounted to but 

 three per cent, of the total, the tire trade of Brazil for 1914— 

 as shown by the value of its imports— being distributed as 

 follows; 



BRAZILIAN IMPORTS OF TIRES FOR 1914. 



Value. 



France $188,247 



United Kingdom 100.965 



Belgium 79,638 



Germany 74,131 



United States 15,714 



Italy 11.416 



All other countries 6,975 



Total $477,086 



.^s foreign automobile tire manufacturers are largely oc- 

 cupied in furnishing tires to the countries at war, American 

 manufacturers have at present an t-xceptional opportunity for 

 introducing their tires in Brazil. 



CHILEAN IMPORTS OF RUBBERIZED FABRICS. 



It cannot be said that Chile oflfers a very extensive market 

 for rubber goods, but at the same time American exports to 

 that country ought to be much larger than they are. While 

 eight months of the year are practically dry in Chile, during 

 the four winter months there is quite a fall of rain, the aver- 

 age yearly rainfall at Valparaiso being 35 inches. The sta- 

 tistics for 1913, which are the latest available, show that out 

 of an importation of over 32.000 pounds of rubberized cotton 

 fabrics, only 44 pounds were exported from the United States. 

 The statistics in detail are as follows: 



During 1913 Chile imported 32,557 pounds of rubberized 

 cotton fabrics valued at $18,857, of which Great Britain fur- 

 nished 20.000 pounds valued at $11,579; Germany 8.937 

 pounds, worth $5,180; France 3.510 pounds, worth $2,034, and 

 the United States only 44 pounds, worth $26. The total im- 

 ports of woolen rubberized fabrics amounted to 2,168 pounds. 

 valued at $4,304. of which 1,526 pounds, worth $3,031, came 

 from Great Britain. Germany and France furnished smaller 

 quantities, and thi- United States only 49 pounds, valued 

 at $96. 



UNITED KINGDOM RUBBER STATISTICS FOR 

 MONTH ENDING AUGUST 31, 1915. 



OUTPUT OF DUTCH RUBBER COMPAUIES. 



The United States Consul-General at Amsterdam, Hol- 

 land, writes that reports to date of Dutch rubber producing 

 companies show that for the first seven months of 1915 the 

 product of these companies was much greater than for the 

 corresponding period of 1914. and about equal to the total 

 product of 1913. 



The same consular officer reports that on August 31 the 

 Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. began to operate steam- 

 ers between Amsterdam and Callao, Peru, and Valparaiso. 

 Chile, via the Panama Canal. Sailings will be monthly, and 

 six or seven of the company's 50 steamers will be devoted 

 to this service. 



