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1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



329 



WATERPROOF BAGS. 



Waterproof bags arc now made and sold in some variety, and 

 the demand increases as their usefulness is recognized. A eei 

 tain large store in a western city is said to haw 

 recently greatly stimulated sales in its children's 

 department by giving a rubber-lined school bag 

 to each purchaser of a pair of children's shoes. 

 Another useful hag is the one shown in this small 

 cut. It is a Mothers' Bag, the outside being of 

 leather and the inside consisting of a removable 

 rubber-lined bag. It has an outside mills bottle 



pocket, and the top is closed by a silk draw 

 string. I be handles are of leather, large enough 

 to slip over the arm. (Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago.) 



IMPROVED PASSENGER ELEVATOR LOCK. 



This lock was designed to prevent rope-operated elfevators 



iroin being started from another floor while taking on or let- 

 ting • <(* passengers. The shipper rope running through the lock 

 i- equipped at each floor with buttons that engage the finger 

 pull in the lock and stop the car level with the floor, saving un- 

 necessary starting and stopping of 

 the car. As long as the finger pull 

 is thrown forward tlte buttons pre- 

 vent starting. 



The improved passenger lock has 

 all the advantages of similar devices, 

 with the added one of heing noise- 

 less The sound of the buttons 

 striking against the lock and jaws 

 the passing of the elevator up and down 

 eliminated by the insertion of a thick rubber 

 shing in the bell of the lock through which 

 the shipper rope passes. The buttons themselves are furnished with 

 thick rubber bushings. These absorb all noises and make this 

 improved lock suitable for hospitals, hotels and all places where 

 noises arc especially undesirable. [Angell Elevator Lock Co.. 

 Boston | 



A NEW FOUNTAIN SHAVING BRUSH. 



The accompanying illustration shows an 

 interior view of the new Fesler sanitary 

 fountain shaving brush. It is described as 

 a "renewal specialty'' because the cartridge, 

 through which the soap is supplied and 

 which contains a sufficient quantity for 

 fifty or moie shaves, is renewable. As 

 will be noted, a flexible rubber tube ex- 

 tends through the center of the brush well 

 toward the end of the bristles. This rub- 

 bei tube opens and closes automatically, 



and through it the soap is emitted from 

 a non-refillable glass container or cartridge. 

 The bristles are set in hard rubber, and 

 the rubber tube extends so far toward the 

 end of the brush as to enable the user to 

 gel the full benefit of the soap, at the same 

 time preventing it from sticking to the 

 of the bristles. [Fesler Sales Co., 

 Trenton. New Jersey.! 



RUBBER AT THE AMUSEMENT RESORTS. 



An cniircK new ball-throwing game has been devised, known 

 as the Automatic Moving Ball Rack. It is 10 x 7 feet in 

 si/e and has 18 dolls mounted on an endless chain moving 

 across the face of the rack, operated by a motor or small 

 engine. Two heads appearing above the back fence have 



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A new leak-indicator for use in locating 

 leaks in underground pipes depends for 

 tightness of connection when attached to 

 water orifices on a soft rubber insert or 

 gasket. [H. W. Clark Co.. Matto, m. Illinois.] 



A rubbert insert has been adopted by one of the proprietary 

 medicine companies to take the place of the cork insert hitherto 

 used in the metal screw cap on medicine bottles. 



extra large faces, made of rubber. The dolls move con- 

 tinuously in otic direction and are automatically reset when 

 knocked over, but the rubber-faced heads move in both 

 directions. 



Another new device of the same nature is the Cat Rack, 

 an illustration of which is shown. The cats are made of 

 heavy rubbered canvas and stuffed so that they resemble 

 the genuine feline. Casey's Flats is a similar amusement ap- 

 paratus, the windows of the flats being occupied by figures 

 which it is the object of the player to knock over; while yet 

 another is the "Mutt and Jeff" rack. 



Everybody knows the old ball-rolling games popular at 

 Coney Island and other seaside resorts and generally pre- 

 sided over by young Japanese gentlemen, where prizes are 

 awarded according to your proficiency — or luck — in rolling 

 a certain number of balls into certain 

 numbered holes in a table alley. A 

 game of this sort called the "Devil's 

 Howling Alley," has just appeared 

 which calls for a ball composed in part 

 of rubber. The wooden portion of this 

 ball is in one piece, and each ball 

 has a numbered rubber slide concealed 

 within it and held in place by a spring. 

 In the cut shown the slide is opened by 

 thumb nail under one end and pulling it back. 

 made with a small button in the side which, 

 when pushed, releases the rubber slide. These balls are 

 kept constantly rolling on the alley. When you have paid 

 the required fee you are provided with a three-pronged fork 

 and. having selected the ball likely to secure you the most 

 desirable prize, you proceed to spear it as it passes you. This 

 accomplished, the prize in the prize rack which corresponds 

 in number to the number on the rubber slide in the ball is 

 awarded. 



New devices of rubber appear from time to time to remove 

 at least the undesirable risks from games of chance. The 

 rubber poker chip appeared some time ago, and now comes 

 a rubber mat with billiard cloth cover for dice shaking. This 

 mat reduces the noise and, being made with a rim, protects 

 the dice from falling on the floor : so that crap as well as 

 poker can now be indulged in without danger of detection 

 from the noise of rattling ivory. 



inserting the 

 Another ball 



