Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Chester. 561 
Article 1425. Messer & Thorpe , 8 Quality Court, Chancery 
Lane, London, W.C. Fire Extinguishing Apparatus, price 
71. 7s . — This is a very simple, practical contrivance, founded on 
the oft-stated fact, that more fires are put out with a bucket of 
water, year in year out, than by any other means. It is merely 
an iron tank which can stand anywhere, full of water. In the 
centre of this tank, immersed in the water, are some 20 buckets, 
telescoped one inside the other and so occupying very little 
space. These slide easily into grooves which keep them in 
place. In case of fire the lid is raised, the top bucket is full, 
and as fast as this is handed out the next fills, and so on to the 
last. Probably there have been moments when this appliance 
would have commanded a good deal of money. 
Article 1642. The Bifurcated Rivet Co., Ltd., Warrington. 
Slotted Clinch Rivet, price Is. to Is. 8 d. per gross. — These 
rivets (fig. 7) are made of steel, coppered, and in all sizes 
Fia. 7.— Slotted Clinch Rivet. 
from £ inch to f inch. They require no punch, no washers, no 
spreading, and no more skill than is necessary to drive a nail. 
When these rivets are better known, we ought no longer to see 
the disgraceful, unsightly, nay dangerous, attempts to repair 
harness with string, wire, or the first material that comes to 
hand, a fruitful source of accidents for which there is no longer 
any excuse. The rivet is simply driven through the leather to 
be joined, and the ends are clinched outwards. For belting they 
are especially useful. Machines are supplied, by which quicker 
and more accurate work can be done, at moderate prices. 
Article 2255. Captain H. S. Tunnard, BiltOn Road, Rugby. 
Keay’s Incubator, price 81 . — The temperature is regulated auto- 
matically by means of a thermometer of special construction. 
A platinum wire is fixed in the vacuum end of the instrument, 
