Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-01
INVENTION OF BADGER MAN rs,
PERFECTED BY UNIVERSITY
PHARMACISTS. u
INVENTOR DENIED PATENT;
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DEFECTS ARE NOW OVERCOME
Liquid Provss Proof Asainst Fire hut
Was Soluble Il Water, Making il
Impractical a. Rain Would Wash u
Away and Destroy Effect Secret Z
Mastered at state University. ii
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City, May Iowa university
pharmacists announce the perfection
Of remarkable liquid preparation
which will render inf1ammable ma
terials absolutely fire-proof. It prom
ises to revolutionize many phases OF
business. IA ,s$ 4 N
This liquid is a higher development
of that discovered several months ago
by Arthur Aren't "a druggist Of Badger
Iowa, but the perfecting thereof in the
pharmacy laboratories OF the state
university here is the work that has
made the liquid patentable, Of COM
mercial value and likely to lay the
foundation Of a fortune for the young
Iowan, and the two university experts
who made 1t possible Prof. WILDER J.
Teeters, dean OF the. college Of phar-
macy and Prot. Rudolph A. Kuever, q
confrere.
Aren't worked eighteen months. ex-
perimenting, and finally announced he
canvas. cloth, etc, unburnable. He
secret, but the United States patent
OIllC0 ldAcu " SIdlI lllHl d PdSSAIp as
,the fluid. altho able to Withstand fire
tests, was soluble in water. This spelled
impracticability, as rain would wash II
out. Xxi 3s.s ~ 81 III Il Il
Scientists Master Secret. III
The Iowa university scientists, seek
ing an insoluble compound. labored
day and night, for weeks after Aren't
came hitler to confer with them. Re-
ped fpro
finally were visible, and they discov--
cred they had mastered the secret they
sought. ise5
went to washington, D. CO.. and re-
ceived assurances that a patent will be
duly issued to the three Iowans. Aren't
ness and will devote his future to de-
veloping the discovery. %Sss
Any kind Of cloth treated with the
new compound chars, but will not
burst into flames. One test proved
that gasolene will burn of material
thus treated. but will leave the ma
terial itself unburned. The same kind
Of goods, gasolene-dampened. and not
be burned to ashes. y ,s
Inc PTSptAdllOlp d1SSlSsUOAl9 oOohSsA
into wood or cloth, evaporates. leaving
q mineral residue that Is indissoluble.
Rssists Bunssn Burner 4tazs.
A block OF wood, thoroughly tested
by the Hawkeye scientists. after It had
been soaked I'M the huid and dried, re-
sisted the blaze Of IA Bunsen burner,
which develops 6rom 100 to 1000 de-
grees Of heat lat least twice as much
as that Of an ordinary fire. Exposed
to one hour Of this terrible heat, the
block was not even ablaze merely
showing charred spot. a duplicate
block, untreated, was placed In the
same blaze and was heap Of ashes
in nine minutes. 81 vs. l.
1t will render pine Shingles as unin-
flammable as slateI carpets, rugs, wall
paper, other household materials. rail-
road ties lumber, tenting. etc, will be
absolutely incombustible In q resi-
dence, whose equipment has been
treated with the liquid 1t Is declared
1t would be utterly impossible Tor fire
to spread.
z The three discoveries win not make
q prediction as to the extent the LIQUID
will be- used. Its possibilities are In
Vulnerable. they aver. It can be pro-
duced at prices that will make It avail
able in manufactures, IN railroad
building, etc, all over the world.