GOODYEAR ON GUM-ELASTIC. 



WHEEL-BARROW SHOULDER STRAPS 



Are formed of a strap made of gum-elastic plated fabrics, 

 with a piece of stayed gum-elastic compound, from two to four 

 inches in length, inserted in each end of the strap. The advan- 

 tage gained by this, is to relieve the laborer of the jar of the 

 barrow, by the elasticity of the strap. 



COVERED IRON FURNITURE. 



Iron furniture, such as bedsteads, chairs, settees, &c., has long 

 been made, and although stronger, and evidently possessing 

 many advantages over wooden furniture, it has obtained favor 

 but slowly with the public. 



This may be owing in a great measure to the forbidding aspect 

 of the material, and to the idea one has of its repulsive properties, 

 coldness and hardness ; and possibly more or less to the idea 

 that the bedsteads are dangerous to sleep on in a thunder- 

 storm. 



It is here proposed to make the article in the usual manner, 

 either of wrought, cast, or malleable iron, or in parts as suggested 

 by the diagrams, plate , and to cover them first with cotton 

 wadding, and afterwards with vellum, colored in imitation of 

 mahogany or rosewood. 



Iron furniture is also enameled with caoutchouc enamel, in 

 imitation of rosewood and mahogany, and various ether styles 

 which surpass them in hardness and finish. 



tide, than in the use of furniture made of wood, especially where 

 the gum-elastic shoes or castors are used. 



