Little Inventions to Make Life Easy 



Why Weren't They Thought of Before? 



Finger-Ring to Be Used as a 

 Pencil-Holder 



A V-SHAPED 

 spring clip is 

 attached to a fin- 

 ger-ring, and is 

 used to hold a pen- 

 cil in a convenient 

 place so that the 

 user will not have 

 to search for a mis- 

 ■' laid pencil con- 

 stantly and yet leaves the hand free. 



This Grease- Cup Keeps Your 

 Hands Clean 



TO obviate the 

 necessity of 

 removing thegrease 

 cup when it is de- 

 sired to fill it with 

 grease, an inven- 

 tor has inserted in 

 the cup a washer 

 which acts as a 

 plunger to force out 

 the grease. This washer runs on a 

 screw-threaded stem, which is operated 

 by a thumb-screw in the head of the 

 cup. 



A Clothes-Pin with a Sandow Grip 



A clothes-pin 

 has been pat- 

 ented with a grip 

 sufificiently firm to 

 resist the strongest 

 wind. On the wire 

 or rope used for 

 drying the clothes, 

 is attached a ring 

 which projects 

 downward, and terminates in two short 

 arms similar to the blades of a pair of 

 scissors, but having corrugated surfaces 

 for gripping the clothes. Above the 

 pivot the outer surfaces of the arms are 

 also corrugated to engage a ring nut, 

 which can be tightened when fastening 

 the pin on the clothes. 



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Keeping the Heat Out of Milk- Cans 

 MILK- CAN 



especially de- 

 signed to keep out 

 heat is the latest 

 improvement in 

 dairy appliances. 

 It consists in real- 

 ity of two cans, 

 one within the 

 other. The space 

 between them is filled with felt, ground 

 cork or other heat-insulating material. 



An Electric Whirlpool to Suck Flies to 

 Their Doom 



THE latest fly- 

 killing engine 

 is a small motor 

 encased in a han- 

 dle with a cord 

 which attaches to 

 an ordinary elec- 

 tric socket. The 

 motor operates a 

 miniature electric 

 fan placed eccentrically in the open end 

 of the handle. Air is sucked in and 

 swirled around the circumference of the 

 casing and forced out through a bent 

 tube ending in a screened trap. Insects 

 coming within reach of the "deadly 

 wind " are sucked in and killed. 



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Counting Up on Steel Fingers 



N improve- 

 ment on the 



old method of 

 counting on one's 

 fingers is a new 

 device having sev- 

 eral strips of steel 

 pivoted at one end. 

 At the "finger 

 tips," are written 

 the names of the various articles which 

 are usually sent to the laundry, such as 

 "shirts," "handkerchiefs," and "col- 

 lars." On each "finger" is mounted a 

 slide which may be quickly moved to 

 register the number of pieces. 



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