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Co., 30 Rue du Marche-aux-Poulets. Brussels, Belgium ; Eugen Boll, Paradiesstr 1, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Ring-Balance Gas Flowmeter HE Cochrane Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., announces the Cochrane ring-balance flowmeter for low-pressure gas measure-
T Kettle for Manufacture of Textile Oil Emulsion HE Patterson Foundry & Machine Co., East Liverpool, Ohio, has developed a line of kettles for use in the manufacture of textile oil emulsion. These kettles are
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"defense only" or with full obligation on the licensor to ''defend and hold harmless." The rates based on fresh charge to regular cracking units will be 5 cents per barrel for "defense and hold harmless" and 4 cents for *'defense only." Rates based on gasoline produced will be proportionately reduced, and paid-up rates are also sub ject to reductions. Special rates for re forming will be continued. Passenger Car Tire Made of Rayon NBW Double Eagle Airwheel passen ger car tire, in which rayon is utilized for carcass construction, is announced by The Goodyear Tire A Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. The rayon used is not the ordinary commercial fabric, but a revo lutionary silk-type cord called Rayotwist, spun from rayon filaments. Advantages claimed by Goodyear for its new product are lightness, greater strength, resilience, and resistance to heat and shock, allowing greater ease of riding and providing much greater mileage. It is claimed that a four-ply Double Eagle has greater strength, endurance, and resistance to fatigue than a six-ply tire built of conventional cord, and that it weighs 10 per cent less. It is available in both the All-Weather tread, in a new arrangement that concentrates more roadgripping diamonds in the center to give still greater non-skid traction, and the popular rib type.
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ment. This instrument is designed for operating differentials as low as 2 inches or water and is particularly applicable to measurement of gases at pressures below those for which the customary types of mercury-sealed flowmeters are suitable. The meter consists of a ring-shaped hollow body, supported on knife edges at its center. The annular body is partly filled with water, oil, or air anti-freeze liquid, and is divided at the top by a partition wall, to each side of which a flexible tube is led for subjecting the unit to the differential pressure from an orifice through which flow is to be measured. When flow occurs through the orifice plate, the resultant differential pressure causes the liquid in the ring balance to be transferred from one side to the other, whereupon the ring balance rotates to a new position of equilibrium. Motion is maintained proportional to flow by a suspended weight and cam.
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Electric Hot Plato HE Cooley Electric Manufacturing Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., is offering an improved type of electric hot plate for laboratory use. This hot plate is distinguished by the use of the heating elements as the support for the ware being heated without interposing a metal top and by flexibility of temperature control. The hot plates are furnished with two or three heating units, depending upon the size, each unit having three heating coils. Each coil is separately controllable by an individual switch, so that several temperatures are available at the same time on the one plate.
built of stainless steel and can be furnished in a variety of sizes. The one shown is 5 feet in diameter by 6 feet 6 inches deep, and is built for 50 pounds' internal work ing pressure and 65 pounds' jacket pressure. It is equipped with motor drive and improved type of stirring mechanism. These machines are supplied either with or without vent condensers. All internal parts are ground and polished to ensure cleanliness in operation. Plastics Division of Monsanto Chemical Co. Expands HE Fiberloid Division of Monsanto Chemical Co. henceforth will be known as Plastics Division, Monsanto Chemical Co. Fiberloid was acquired by Monsanto on April 1, its former man agement and personnel being continued without change by Monsanto. The Plastics Division's national repre sentation has been expanded so that it now maintains district offices in New York, N. Y., in the R. C. A. Building; Chicago, in the Tribune Tower; St. Louis, in the Monsanto Building; Detroit, in the Union Guardian Building; and Los Ange les, at 605 West Olympic Boulevard. Royalties Reduced ASOLINE Products Co., Inc., 26 Journal Square, Jersey City, N. J., licensor for many jvears of the Cross, Holmes-Manley, and DeFlorez cracking processes and more recently, with its licensing agent The M. W. Kellogg Co., originator of the modern "Combination" and "Unicoil" processes, announces reductions in the royalty rates for its various processes for the United States and Canada, effective October 1. Gasoline Products Co. will continue to grant licenses on the basis of charge or of gasoline produced and on a running or paidup basis. All licenses may be obtained with
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It is stated actual tests have proved that the new Double Eagle rolls so smoothly that it actually cuts down gaso line consumption while multiplying tire mileage to new long-distance records. Foreign Representatives of Glyco Products Co. HE Glyco Products Co., Inc.. 148 Lafayette St., New York, Ν. Υ., an nounces the appointment of the following representatives M. Romulo Vildoso, Casilla Correo 26, Calle Potosi 137» La Paz, Bolivia: R. R. Haagensen, Postboks 582, Oslo, Norway; Einar Holmark, Vesterport 320, Copenhagen V, Denmark; Tuteur êc
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SUIT brought by the Derby Oil Co. against the Universal Oil Products Co. seeking punitive damages of $8,000,000 has been thrown out of Court by Federal Judge Richard J. Hopkins in Wichita, Kans. The judge found that neither the license agreement nor any of the acts of Universal in any way violated the antitrust laws, and that if Derby ever had a cause of action, it was outlawed by the statute of limitations.
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