Coin Machine Journal

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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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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