Interesting New Inventions.
J. B. Deidrich, of Streator, Ill., has invented a bread slicer which he believes will be especially valuable for restaurants and boarding houses. The knife is not much different from the ordinary bread knife, but it is suspended from a frame which causes it to come down in the same place each time it is swung for a cut. There is also a gauge which insures every slice being of the same thickness. With its use there is no danger of bread more than an eighth of an inch thick getting by the censor.
Two Wisconsin inventors have patented a kerosene lamp that is automatically extinguished if upset or even lifted from a support.
A screen has been patented that is raised and low[{61}]ered with a window so as not to interfere with the light when the window is shut.
The latest aëroplane invention is the use of a recording phonograph by which the operator may make notes of his observations.
A conveyer belt has been recently made for an Ohio stone quarry which cost $6,000, weighs 12,000 pounds, is 839 feet long, and 26 inches in width—one of the largest ever made, if not the record breaker itself.
For carrying baskets that lack handles of their own, a folding wire handle has been invented.
A cane that can be taken apart and converted into a stool is a French invention.