Coin Machine Journal

Issue: 1932 May

THE COIN M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
100
“Life Made Easy”—Keynote at
New York’s Patent Exposition
and land plop against your rich
uncle’s vest!
Well, cheer up. Our busy inven­
tors have fixed all that. Their ac­
tive, fertile brains do not slow up
AVE yon a yen for non-skid
soap! Is heating the baby’s
bottle an irksome chore?
Does Sunday’s chicken skid off
the plate while you’re carving it
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No. 40—S-ln-f Tool Set. Hol­
low nickel handle. Highly tem­
pered steel tools. Price per
doz. ........,................ .........$8.40
No, 41—-Same with hard rubber
corrugated handle. Price per

....$9.00
No. 97—Armored Knioht Table
Lighter. Silver and cadmium
plate. King of the pin game
prizes. Can also be used in
iron claws as per special in­
struction. Press head-guard—
it snaps and lights. Black
onyx base with felt bottom.
Price each ___________ ...$2.40
May-June, 1932
in times of depression. They seem,
indeed, to work a little faster.
If you went to the International
Patent Exposition in New York,
you saw all of these gadgets that
are going to make life easy for us
some day. If you didn’t you can
see them at the Chicago fair next
year.
Strangely enough, none of the
5,000 inventions displayed ares now
being manufactured and sold. As
a matter of fact, the purpose of the
show was to interest manuf acturers
in them.
Holding the bottle for baby
“must be the most annoying duty
in modern life,” Ruth Seinfel wrote
of the show in the New York Eve­
ning Post:
“This reporter counted no less
than five gadgets to take the place
of a weary parent beside the crib
or perambulator, and hold the bot­
tle in place while baby sips.
"There was one that clamped to
the side of the crib or the carriage.
Two clutched the edge of a table or
high chair. One stood on two wire
legs and held the bottle supported
in a wire cradle between them. One
looked like an instrument of tor­
ture straight out of the dungeons
of the Inquisition, a contraption of
arched and twisted wires to be
placed over the baby while he is
lying down.”
Appropriately e n o u g h , milk
comes next to the baby’s bottle as a
source of trouble—on the basis, at
least, of inventors’ evidence. Ap­
parently, Miss Seinfel continues:
“A good many householders
reach outside the door of a morning
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BUY YOUR
No. 20 — Bullet-Shaped 2-Cell
Flashlight. Long range. Cor­
rugated Galalith handle* in 6
colors. Complete with bulb and
batteries. Price per doz....$4.20
No. 50—Our Leader, Improved
Vest Pocket Pen-Light. In as­
sorted French enamel finish.
Complete with bulb and batter­
ies. Price per doz..— .......$2.40
No. 30 Jr.—4 ,/2-0unce Whiskey
Flask of hammered German sil­
ver; concaved to fit hip pocket.
Price per doz.....................$8.40
No. 31 Sr.—10-Ounce Whiskey
Flask, as above. Per doz.... $9.00
No. 50
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THE COI N M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
May-June, 1932
only to find some one has got there
before them. Three of them looked
into this milk-stealing problem, and
sent their patented conclusions to
the exposition.
“A seamstress took the pins out
of her mouth long enough to invent
—a gymnasium appliance.
“A married woman in Kiowa,
Kansas, patented a model for a
portable elevator which should be
wheeled up to a building and
hoisted to the proper height, pre­
sumably for delivering pianos. ,
“Mary Halleek Greenewalt, of
Philadelphia, who has already
earned something of a name for
herself as an inventor, devised an
instrument for blending color and
light with music.
“Meanwhile, Mr. Gus Klempp,
of Glenwood, Iowa, worried about
improving the rolling-pin; while
other gentlemen set their minds to
making doughnut-cutters w h i e h
have a ‘positive means for ejecting
center dough from the hole,’ a set
of house bells and signals by which
a housewife can indicate whether
she is ‘out’ or ‘in / an egg-boiler
with a steam-whistle to signal that
the egg is finished, a meat-slicing
board which holds the roast in place
on prongs, and a cream machine
which reverses the usual process
and makes sweet cream out of milk
and unsalted butter.”
Business enterprises of this na­
ture offer wonderful opportunities
to coin maehine operators who can
obtain concessions to operate ma­
chines. In these out of 'the way
stands and dance halls there are
usually no restrictions against of­
fering prizes for high scores on
amusement games and business
should flourish in the evenings dur­
ing the season.
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Who Makes the "Peek-O”
Machine?
The staff of the Coin Maehine
Journal is still trying to locate the
manufacturer of a maehine known
as “Peek-O.” Operators having in­
formation as to the whereabouts of
this manufacturer kindly send us
this information. We have had sev­
eral inquiries regarding this ma­
chine.
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