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Show consists of a single piece of leather, cut to form a straight hanger, with two staps projecting from either side to clasp the umbrella at about Its thickest part. The fastening devices ; may be either buckles or snap buttons, ; though the latter are preferred. The hanger may be attached to the belt by the eyelfit at the upper end, which is formed of another snap button secured in the proper jdac- o allow the point of the strap to be foitA back on itself. it-self. The hanger adds no pei'Cnjdble weight to the costume, and it is very easy to detach the umbrella should it be needed in a hurry. Eva M. Bowyer of Chicago, 111., is the inventor of this practical novelty. ( PROGRESS OF SCIENCE PRACTICAL INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES DIS-COVERIES OF BENEFIT. 1 Simple Device That Will Be a Boon to Women on Shopping Trips Elevator Eleva-tor for Cinder Pits A Plant Protector. Pro-tector. Affords Protection for Plants. As every gardener knows, a scorching scorch-ing sun is liable to wither plants and thus cause thousands of dollars' worth of damage, which might be averted were the plants protected during the hottest hours of the day. To provide this shade in a convenient and cheap form is the task which Joseph W. Ross of Alma, 111., set himself, and our picture shows the result of his efforts. It consist of a hood made up of paper or thin wood folded to the proper shape, the folds being secured by a Elevator for Cinder Pits. Anyone who has ever watched the men shoveling hot ashes out of the cinder pits where the fire boxes of engines en-gines are dumped after each trip of the road can readily understand the importance of the invention in-vention by William Robertson of Chicago, Chi-cago, illustrated below. The ashes must first be cooled by thoroughly wetting with water, which makes them heavy to handle, and on a hot day in summer the heat in the pit is sufficient to cause actual suffering among the men who are called upon to perform this disagreeable task. The object of this invention Is to provide an apparatus which can be easily installed and adapted to convey con-vey the cinders from the pit and discharge dis-charge them into large cars for trans- portation to the ordinary deposit. The elevator consists of a cable car running run-ning on an inclined track, with a hydraulic hy-draulic or compressed air cylinder for hauling in the cable and pulling the car up the incline. When the car reaches a point directly above the receiving re-ceiving car an automatic trip opens the floor and discharges the contents, ' double rivet, through which is inserted insert-ed the wire bail on which the guard is mounted. In order that the protecting protect-ing hood may be adjusted in several positions a notched flap is secured to the top at right angles to the bail, the flap being folded down flat when it is desired to tilt the guard on the support posts of the bail. The protectors pro-tectors can be folded into small space for shipment, and it requires but a short time to insert the ball in the eyelets and force the ends of the wire into the earth on either side of the plant. The hood may then be lowered, low-ered, raised or tilted at will, to shade or protect one side of the plant, or, as may be frequently desired, to allow al-low the sun to strike the plants while protecting them from the wind. At night the hood can be lowered to the ground to shut out the moths which are in the habit of depositing their eggs on the young plants after dark. p Shoveling Hot Ashes a Thing of the Past. The elevator is controlled by a valve, which is turned in one direction to admit compressed air or water back of the piston, driving it downward and pulling on the cable until the car is lifted to the proper height. When the dumping process is completed the valve is reversed to allow the fluid or air to escape from the cylinder, Carrier for the Umb--ella. The woman who thought out the Invention In-vention shown in the accompanying drawing has evidently either been shopping herself and attempted to hang on the supporting strap of a street car with her arms full of bundles bun-dles and an umbrella in Addition, or when the car falls of its own accord back into the pit to receive its next load. Mica Springs. The American Machinist, of recent date says: "Mr. W. C. Leland, a machinist ma-chinist of Brooklyn, referring to our inquiry some time ago for a spring made of a substance which would not be affected by heat, sends us some pieces of mica arranged to act as a flat spring, and he says that a mica spring continues to act as a spring when exposed to very high temperatures. tempera-tures. A specimen he sends us acts as a spring when held in a gas flame and continues to so act for a considerable consid-erable time at least as long as our patience has held out to test it. Of course, as many layers of mica may be superposed as is necessary to get the desired thickness and for experimental ex-perimental purposes at least we would imagine that such a spring may be quite useful." Invention of a Chicago Woman, else has seen some other women make an effort to perform the feat. As a practical solution of the question of what to do with the umbrella when not In use and both hands are wanted for some other purpose this invention seems complete, and as its use eliminates elimi-nates the possibility of losing an umbrella um-brella by laying it on a counter when shopping it will probably beconsidered a good investment by ladies who have met with this misfortune. The device |