September i, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



429 



the leg, and much more cleanly. [The Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Conn.] 



" AGNOTA " VEST POCKET PUNCHING BAG. 



Although designed at first as a toy, this has proved to be 

 an efficient little exerciser. It consists of a light but strong 



rubber bag, that may be 

 inflated up to say 8 

 inches in diameier. To 

 this is attached a strong 

 rubber cord with linger 

 loops of braided ta 

 the other end. When 

 it is desired to use the 

 exerciser, the bag is 

 blown up, the free end of the cord grasped in the hand, and a 

 blow given to the bag which carries it away to the limit of the 

 elastic cord, when it bounces back toward the operator, who 

 continues punching it. There is room for considerable skill in 

 successfully punching the elusive ball, and in acquiring that 

 skill one not only becomes alert and accurate, but at the same 

 lime the muscles are well developed. When not in use the 

 whole outfit weighs less than 2 ounces, and it is small enough 

 to carry in the vest pocket. It is protected by patents. The 

 retail price is 25 cents. [The M. Lindsay Rubber Co.. No. 298 

 Broadway, New Yoik.] 



FOR BRANDING SHEET PACKINGS. 

 Inquiry has often come to the office of The In ma RUBBER 

 World (or the name of a manufacturer who produces a rotary 



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rubber stamp 

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 other goods 

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just this purpose, and to-day widely in use. As will be 

 seen, the wheel has a roller attachment connected with it 

 upon which is a pad, inking the rubber die as it revolves. A 

 rubber manufacturer who desires such a tool has simply to 

 make a wood cut of the proper size, showing his trade mark. 

 From this the manufacturer of the printing roller makes a rub- 

 ber die, which is firmly attached to the wheel and the job is 

 completed. Accompanying the electrotype sent by the maker 

 of this roller is a facsimile of the work done by one of his tools 

 in the factory of the Republic Rubber Co., of Youngstown, 

 Ohio, which is shown herewith, as a specimen of what can be 

 done by this means, the stamp measuring 5X11^ inches. 

 [James H. Matthews & Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.] 



The Standard Rubber and Oilcloth Co. (Campello, Mass.) 

 have resumed operations. 



GERMANY. 



THE rubber goods lactory of Graff & Co. at Solln (Munich) 

 has been purchased by the Hannoversche Actien-Gum- 

 miwaaren-Fabrik. of Linden-Hanover, who undertook its opera- 

 on August 1. The object is both to relieve the Linden fac- 

 tory and to provide means (or the prompter supplying of cus- 

 tomers in south Germany and Switzerland. The management 

 of the branch will be in the hands of two capable men from 

 Linden, and the products will be the same, in both mechanical 

 and surgical goods. 



= The press of Berlin has been urging the United Berlin Om- 

 nibus Co. to equip their vehicles with rubber tires, since not 

 even the fact that very many of the streets are paved with 

 asphalt renders riding in the omnibuses an unmixed pleasure. 



= The death is reported, at Berlin, on July 24. of Herr Carl 

 Schwanitz, founder and manager of the fiim Carl Schwanitz, 

 (iummiwerk, Miillerstrasse 179 B, in Berlin. The funeral was 

 largely attended by members of the trade. 



AUSTRIA. 

 Messrs. Adolf Prin^horn and Sigmund Seligmann, of the 

 Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha- Compagnie (Han- 

 over, Germany) having resigned from the board of the Oes- 

 terreichisch-Amenkanische Gummi-Fabrik-A. G. (Vienna). Dr. 

 Julius Caspar has been chosen in their stead. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 

 The Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited, reclaimers of rub- 

 ber, owing to the increase of their business, have been com- 

 pelled to remove their offices from 51, North John street, Liv- 

 erpool, to their works, L'therland, Liverpool, dating from 

 August 1. 



GRANT TIRE PATENT VALID IN FRANCE. 

 The validity of the Grant patent on solid rubber vehicle 

 tires has now been definitely established in France. The first 

 decision relative to this case was rendered on November 22, 

 1901, in the third chamber of the Palais de justice, in Paris, in 

 Wheel Tire Co. v. Loubiere, the latter being a 

 at 62, rue Desrenaudes— an action for alleged in- 

 the French patent No. 252,731, issued April 10, 

 relating to what is known in America as the 

 ield " tire. The decision was in favor of the 

 plaintiff, embodying the principle that, while 

 each of the parts and processes employed by 

 The Rubber Tire Wheel Co. in the construction 

 of their tire might already have become public 

 property, yet "a novel combination of known 

 means is patentable, provided that the article 

 produced by the combination is of industrial utility." [See 

 The India Rubber World, January 1, 1902— page 109]. Lou- 

 biere appealed from this decision, leading to a hearing before 

 the court of appeals, fourth chamber, where, on July 3. the for- 

 mer judgment was affirmed, the appellant being sentenced to 

 pay the costs of the action. 



With regard to the yield of rubber, there seems to be a 

 great variety of ideas. One told of tapping fourteen wild trees, 

 10 inches in diameter, and getting only a watery fluid, and no 

 rubber. While another tapped eighty wild trees of the same 

 size and got 150 pounds of rubber. A conservative estimate 

 covering all trees on a good plantation was given me as about 

 four ounces for each six year old tree, increasing up to the tenth 

 year, when about a pound would be produced. This is less 

 than many claim and than some are getting, but even this 

 would show a good profit. — Letter from Mexico. 



