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��The End of the Cleaner Is Moistened by the Enclosed Benzine a Drop at a Time

���The device is pressed down on the glove. This drives in the felt and pushes down the disk, com- pressing the sponge and causin-j licjuid to pass through a small hole into the tube and out through a second hole. In the mid- file there is a fixed metal piece which separates the device into two similar halves. Two strong springs separate the parts.

��Outside Covering Absorbent Material Benzine Outlet

��Movable Disk Sponge Benzine Inlet Stationary Disk Spring Movable Disk

��Cleaning Gloves Economically with Benzine

A GLOVE cleaner which contains its own benzine is illustrated. A metal tube holds a sponge in its upper part and felt or some other porous material in its lower ^-"-'^ \ part. The whole ^-^^'^^"" II \ is surrounded by a cov- ering of fabric.

��Good-By to the Pin-Boys in the Bowling-Alley

ANEW kind of bowling-alley has been invented bj' Joseph M. West, Rockport, Missouri. The bowler throws a ball suspended from a trolley carriage which travels on an elevated guide-rail. It is merely necessary to pull a lever to cause a resetting ring to push the pins back into upright position. The ball is automatically returned to the bowler without the services of the pin-boys. A perfectly accurate fioor, expensive feat- ure of an alley, is not es- sential.

���The Ball Is Suspended from a Trolley Car- riage Which Travels Back on a Guide-Rail

��A Perfectly Accu- rate Floor Is Not a Prime Essential of This Alley

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