Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1948)

Small Fire Extinguisher For Handy Wall Mounting a small fire extinguisher designed for economy of installation and maintenance so as to encourage placement for immediate availability upon discovery of a fire at its beginning, has been developed by Bostwick Laboratories, Bridgeport, Conn. The fluid is 90% carbon tetrachloride, with carbon dioxide as a propelling agent, which forces out the carbon-tet under high pressure in an 18-foot stream. The unit, which is small enough to be held in one hand, is operated by a trigger. The extinguisher comes with a wall bracket for mounting it. Announcement of it states that according to a testing company's report, it is adapted to fires involving oils and grease and electrical materials, as well as fabrics, paper, etc. New Motor Made Available for Reduction THE EXTREMELY Compact, lightweight axial air gap motor introduced a year and a half ago by Fairbanks, Morse & Company, Chicago, has been made available as a motor reducer to meet various power transmission requirements. The line of axial air gap motors ranges from Y\horsepower to 10 horsepower. The motor may be removed from the gear housing for separate operation. The gear system has two ratios of single helical gears in simple trains. Motor and gear shafts are parallel ; the former rotating on ball bearings, the latter being mounted on tapered roller bearings. Bearings on the low-speed shaft are oversized to allow for a liberal amount of outboard pull from a sprocket, gear or pulley that may be mounted on the shaft. Gear housing is a one-piece casting. Color Clips and Louvers For Reflector Lamps SELF-CONTAINED (Par-38) reflector lamps manufactured by leading electric lamp manufacturers can be equipped for color by color clips developed for them by the Amplex Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y. The clips are available with inter changeable louvers designed to cut off side spill of both white and colored light. The glass color filters are made in four segments to allow for heat action, and are available in seventeen shades. Different colors can be inserted quickly, the manufacturer explains. • Col. E. L. Love has been placed in charge of all sales promotion and advertising of both the Whitney Blake Company and Koiled Kords, Inc., both of Hamden, Conn. Products of each are of importance in the drive-in theatre field, Whitney Blake cable being used for sound system wiring, and Koiled Kords being self-coiling cable used on in-car speakers. According to the announcement by John Brown Cook, president of both firms, Colonel Love will continue as sales manager of Koiled Kords. e Leonard Maclean has become associated with Goodall Fabrics, Inc., New York, as special sales promotion representative. He has specialized in the development and styling of pyroxylin and plastic coated materials for twenty years. British Patent Issued On Century Projectors a patent has been issued by the British government to the Century Projector Corporation, New York, covering design features of the Model "C" and Model "CC" Century projectors. United States patents were previously issued. The patents refer specifically, according to the company announcement, to such features as the double shutter, simplicity of gear and shaft design, method of applying oil-sealed ball bearings and cushioning of gears, and also the ground tooth placement of the intermittent sprocket with enlarged diameter to promote longer life of both film and sprocket. The company adds that the two models are now in use in 39 countries. FRONT INSTALLATIONS Two theatres in Chattanooga, Tenn., as modernized with front materials and equipment of Poblocki & Sons, Milwaukee. The Brainerd (above) has porcelain enamel front facing, a neon and filament lamp pylon sign operated on flashers, and porcelain-finished box-office and stainless steel display frames. The design of both the box-office and the poster case is especially adapted to narrow fronts. The projecting portion of the box-office is entirely unsupported at the ground, and the poster case frame is raised beyond the surface. Wide bands of polished stainless steel at both top and bottom of the box-office and case effect continuity of design. . . The Capitol theatre installation (below) included porcelain front facing and box-office, new poster cases and unilluminated attraction board. There were several posts which could not be removed, so they were incorporated in the box-office design so as to be invisible. Both theatres are owned by Independent Theatres, Inc. I A BETTER THEATRES, DECEMBER 18, 1948