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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



also lists of those who have died in the preceding year; a 

 general index of the towns with the names of the practi- 

 tioners who live in each, and a brief mention of the medical 

 periodicals published in the Kingdom. In all it is a book 

 which must be of great value to those in or interested in 

 the medical profession. We congratulate Mr. Manders on 

 bringing out so complete a book, one showing care in com- 

 pilation and excellent judgment in arrunscment and pub- 

 lication. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



matter and useful information of the British rubber trade 

 liesides the regular diary pages, which are so arranged as 

 to give a liberal amount of room for accounts of daily trans- 

 actions of the busy rubber man. In former editions these 

 pages have been interleaved with blotting paper, the absence 

 of which is in part made up this year by the insertion of 

 several loose sheets of this material. The trade index com- 

 prises a long list of importers, brokers and rubber manu- 

 facturers throughout Great Britain and also information re- 

 garding export duties from rubber producing countries and 

 other useful facts in convenient form for quick reference. 



GUTTA PERCHA & RUBBER, LIMITED, Toronto, Canada, 

 is sending out a neat little pamphlet describing the 

 "Maltese Cross" tires. The book is handsomely printed, 

 the illustrations being especially clean, clear and distinct, 

 and giving a very realistic idea of the tires, inner tubes, 

 patches, rubber mats and other automobile accessories man- 

 ufactured by this company. Each page is printed with a 

 tinted background, which adds particular brightness to the 

 illustrations, and the whole mechanical arrangement is most 

 commendable. 



The Link-Belt Co., Chicago, Illinois, in a compact little 

 booklet describes and pictures the various forms of belt 

 conveyors for handling separate pieces or packages from 

 floor to floor or from one part of a factory to another. 

 These various forms are pictured and described in such a 

 manner as to give a very clear idea of their arrangement 

 and appearance. The pictures show conveyors carrying such 

 things as loaves of bread, or even ink bottles, while others are 

 shown moving raw material, printed matter, trays of bottles, 

 boxed and other goods, as well as barrels, loose packages, bales 

 of various substances and similar articles. There is hardly 

 a manufacturing establishment of any large extent in the 

 United States which could not find use for one or another 

 of such conveyors, and managers of industrial establishments 

 might well read this little book with profit. 

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The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has published a wall cal- 

 endar for the 12 months following April 1, 1916, which is likely to 

 find space in many offices. Like all the Goodrich adver- 

 tising, it is attractive, and this particularly so, being mainly 

 a large lithograph of a crossing policeman escorting a daintily 

 dressed little miss of perhaps ten years across the street 

 while holding up traffic for the purpose. The aristocratic 

 step of the little girl and the appreciative smile upon the 

 face of the policeman make the picture especially noticeable. 

 It is the work of Peter Newell, the well-known artist. A 

 series of monthly leaflets forms the calendar portion, with 

 bold, strong figures easily read from a distance. 



The Racine Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin, has published 

 a very attractive booklet entitled "The How and Why of 

 Racine Tires," which gives a well written story of the factory, 

 the method of manufacture and the kinds of tires manufac- 

 tured by this concern, together with hints of value to users 

 of these tires. The pamphlet is printed in two colors, has a 

 bird's-eye view of the factory and many illustrations of the 

 various departments, as well as of the tires, patches, reliners, 

 casing boots, etc., manufactured by this enterprising company. 



We have recently received a copy of the India-Rubber. 

 Gutta-Percha & Electrical Trades Diary and Year Book for 

 1916, published by Maclaren & Sons, Limited, London, Eng- 

 land. This is the regular edition of the convenient desk 

 book which has been published by this firm for a number 

 of years and which contains a large amount of statistical 



The National Fire Protection Association, Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, has printed a special pamphlet fully describing the 

 sweeping fire in the residential section of Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee, on March 22, at which there was an estimated 

 property loss of $1,500,000. It gives a panoramic repro- 

 duction of a photograph of the burned district nearly four 

 feet long and shows what havoc the fire wrought. It also 

 gives a map of the burned section showing area and extent 

 of the fire. A similar booklet describes a $10,000,000 fire 

 in Paris, Texas, last March which resulted in a destruction 

 of 1,440 buildings. In each case the conclusion is that, if 

 sweeping fires in American cities are to be avoided, light 

 frame construction and especially shingle roofs must be 

 eliminated, and the recommendation is that there should 

 be a legal abolition of the shingle roof and encouragement 

 of that type of building construction which resists fire. This 

 is a point well worth the consideration of those manufac- 

 turers who are erecting buildings for their plants or for 

 their employes. 



The board of directors of the Underwriters' Laboratories, 

 Chicago, Illinois, under date of March 16, sent out their 

 annual report, which shows the assets and liabilities, recom- 

 mendation for the annual appropriation, and by-laws adopted. 

 These items are followed by a statement descriptive of 

 the organization, its purposes and methods, which portion 

 of the book is illustrated with fine half-tone engravings of 

 the building and various departments, thus giving a good 

 idea of the thoroughness of the equipment for the purposes 

 designed. In the latter portion of the book is shown in 

 fac simile, printed in several colors, the many labels which 

 are furnished by this corporation as guarantees of efficiency 

 of the many machines, accessories, etc., which are examined 

 and recommended by tliis establishment. 



BALLOON FABKIC PATENTS. 



German patent. No. 283,760, of September 9, 1913, was granted 

 to Walter Seyd and Paul Benrath, both of Barmen, Germany, for 

 a new balloon fabric made of a knitted textile having a rough 

 surface instead of the ordinary smooth surface of woven balloon 

 materials. This new fabric is said to be very strong, flexible and 

 not easily torn. It is further stated that it can be used for cov- 

 ering the sustaining surfaces of aeroplanes as well as for making 

 up balloon bags. It can be made of silk, cotton or any other 

 textile, in any color, and it can be produced in large quantities 

 at a low cost. It is especially easy to impregnate the new fabric 

 with balata, which gives it great strength and makes it perfectly 

 gas-proof. 



German patent, No. 283,437, of January 11, 1913, to Metzeler 

 & Co., of Munich, Bavaria, is for a process for building the hulls 

 of airships from a material composed of several layers of fabric 

 assembled in such a manner that the diagonally running warp 

 threads of one layer cross the corresponding threads of the next 

 layer of fabric, the strips of fabric being composed of a con- 

 secutive series of panels whose warp and weft threads cross 

 one another. 



