A Dish Scraper Made of a Piece of Rubber Inserted in a Wood Handle
Housekeepers will find the scraper shown to be silent and more rapid than a knife for cleaning dishes. It consists of a handle cut from a piece of straight-grained wood, with a kerf sawed in the wide end to a depth of ³⁄₄ in., into which a piece of sheet rubber is inserted. The rubber may be cut from an old bicycle-tire casing and is fastened with two or three brads driven through the handle. The ends of the brads are bent over or riveted. The edge of the rubber should be made straight.—Contributed by H. S. Craig, Rushford, Minn.
Protecting Lights in a Gymnasium
A public-school auditorium was used for playing basket ball, and the lights were protected as shown. Wire waste-baskets were fastened to pieces of board, which in turn were nailed to the ceiling around each lamp. As it was desired to provide a way to ventilate the room, an opening was cut in each board around the lamp base, providing fan-shaped cut-outs covered with galvanized metal of the same design, to make a way to open and shut the ventilator. The air passed up into an attic.
Wire Wastebasket Fastened around a Light to Protect It for Basket-Ball Games
The goals, which were old blackboards, were fastened between the posts that supported the ceiling. Two iron rods, one above the other, were clamped with bolts to the posts, and the boards were bolted to the rods.—Contributed by Frank C. Svacha, McKees Rocks, Pa.
Shortening a Pasteboard Box
