JUST INVENTED

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 16, 28 March 1938, Page 1

JUST INVENTED

LONDON, Jan. 14. More than 3-5,000 applications for patents in this country are made by inventors every year. Last year there was.a. 50 per cent, increase over the previous year in inventions dealing with warfare. During the last few weeks patents have been obtained for:—. A jug with a tube beneath its hp. After pouring, the last drops of liquid run down the tube and back into the jug—instead of down the side of the jug and on to the tablecloth. -V new process for making collars stiff when they are laundered. An apparatus to filter the air in an air-raid refuge. Transparent seals for milk-bottles. A new method of keeping up trousers—with a belt inside them instead of outside. , A lid to fib all kinds of milk-jugs—-and protect the milk from germs. Comic face-masks, with modelled and plastic appearance—yet winch pack flat when not in use. A windscreen without supporting pillars—so that the driver may have an uninterrupted view. An iipprovement on the present colon red-pa per-ou-string method of scaring birds —by the use of metal foil instead. which crackles, will not deteriorate, and shines in the sunlight. A slip-on sole and heel, to save boot and shoe repairers’ bills. L -V cleaner for upholstery which,-in-stead of cleaning with soapy water, as m the past, uses the soapsuds only—not the water, so saving wetting oi the material. An. absorbent pad for -attaching to the forearm of athletes, so they can easily wipe their foreheads when, they* are hot. A non-clogging salt collar, fitted with a valve, so that the salt remains dry. i A sweet-making machine to produce spherical or couii-a] Jolli-pops. ,A golf-dull bag, fitted with separate covered compartments, to protect the heads,, of golf clubs when in the bags.