Show patent office kept busy by ASHINGTON seven W VV hundred hum human in problems most mosi of them inconsequential quent lal ial are solved every week at the U united states patent office inventions ranging from boxing gloves to fluorescent theater aisles continue pouring in to prove how wrong was the patent df director rector who ho resigned years year sago ago because there anything left to invent it if nothing else it if proves theres no slump in enterprise th these ese days the past year for example brought forth this collection at the university of california botanists discovered discover edin in the juice of milk milkweed weedan an active substance 6 that can tenderize meat A philadelphian solved the problem of that first cigarette in the package with a strip of transparent film that th at tears off thereal the seal destroys the revenue stamps opens the flaps and pulls out two cigarettes no double exposures an amateur photography fan per fectea a device making it lt impossible for the camera enthUs enthusiast last to I 1 ZIPPER HOT DOG this wienie hasa has a perforated casing which operates on the zipper principle take a second picture without winding the film thus preventing a double exposure peter J dayl gaylor orlof of elizabeth N J developed a synthetic rubber invaluable for elastic threads in clothing because it does not deteriorate rapidly many inventions here and a broad abroad have made it easier and cheaper to wage war germany for example is treating mineral vegetable ana and animal oils with an electrical discharge process that increases their viscosity american chemists have discovered a less expensive but just as deadly way to make more poison gas another invention needed some inventions are designed to soothe ruffled nerves theres a new spring cap for tooth paste tubes but nothing to make fathel squeeze it out from the bottom instead of the top A drip catching device has been invented tor for umbrellas and somebody perfected a helical coll coil of wire which as part of a cigarette holder keeps ashes from falling on the rug g there are two important imports n t developments in photography one camera can expose standard film aim at a speed of 2500 frames per er second enabling you to study the wing structure of houseflies or the action of a golf stick against a ball on the more massive side prof E newton harvey of princeton university has a REMOTE CONTROL it keeps smoke out of your eyes but break your arm lighting a cigar cigarette ettel camera which snaps pie pictures fures two miles under the ocean this gadget gaag et is a steel ball which resists ic c water pressure X rays blown up closely akin is the giant new xray X ray projector which enlarges a standard chest plate up to 0 the size of it a regulation motion picture screen thus allowing several hundred people to consult over ever the medical problem at band theres a new type hypodermic needle in which the medicine is ejected by y achang a charge ilof of compressed air wt but it pio probably bibly hurts just as much those first few moments two important automobile patents have been granted the first to henry ford tor for an easily removable uner liner tor for motor acar car cylinders it can be taken ou out with a screw daiv er contrasted with the the powerful presses employed heretofore another patent covers an antiskid anti skidded skid device tor for autos running on ley icy pave pavement A sharp edged wheel is pressed against the ground by a strong spring fixed dow downward nvard from the under side of the it running timIng board |