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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1908. 



Machinery for the Balata Industry. 



THE constant increase in the production of balata [see The 

 India Rubber World, August i, 1908 — page 372], which is 

 nowhere to be obtained except in comparatively inaccessi- 

 ble regions, in the face of greater than the ordinary difficulties, so 

 that, measured by the price of cr.iJe n-hber, it is never a cheap 

 commodity, indicates that there must be an incessant growth in 

 the demand for goods of a type for which no ether gum is so 

 suitable as balata. It appears that the manufacture of balata 

 goods is still contincd to a few ■ factories, the use of this gum 

 not yet having been undertaken in rubber factories generally. 



even in the manufacture of mechanical goods, such as belting, 

 in which line balata has met with its greatest demand. 



The present and prospective importance of balata in the rub- 

 ber industry has led to the designing of many machines spe- 

 cially fitted for use in connection with this gum. It is in order, 

 by the way, to record here a tribute to the designers and builders 

 of machinery, as a more important factor than may have been 

 recognized, generally, in the development of the india-rubber 

 and allied industries. As The Indi.\ Rubber World sometime 

 has pointed out. what are called "inventions" are not, as a rule. 



Ll.\L,\i.\ Washing M.\chine. 

 [Designed tc wash 2 cwts. of balata at one washing; driven with gear, 

 ing from main shaft fitted with disengaging gear. Washing capacity, 10 

 cwts. in 10 hours.] 



Single Coating Solutioning Machine 60 ins. Wide. 



[Comprising one front upris^ht hot box 10 feet high. Machine with 2 

 sets of cast iron rollers (hollow), solutioning trough and bogey, dipping 

 roller with brackets, doctor blades for cleaning back roller, fast and 

 loose pulleys, and belt striker with necessary gables and gearing for roll- 

 ers. Double countershaft with tapered cones, belt striker, pulley for driv- 

 ing the machine, also fast and locse pulleys on countershaft. Belt striker 

 and driving pulley for main shaft. L-shaped hot box, horizontal length 

 J5 feet, upright end 15 feet. Brackets and sparred rollers for drying 

 arrangement, pair nipping rollers for recoiling the web, with gearing, fast 

 and loose pulleys, and belt striker with necessary steam traps and wheel 

 valves. Weight, 30 tons, complete.] 



the result of one man's work. It may be that the merest sug- 

 gestion of a new application of rubber occurs to a man un- 

 familiar with the qualities of this material, and certainly not 

 competent, personally, to deal with it. He consults a rubber 

 manufacturer, whose more practical knowledge leads to sug- 

 gestions which further the development of the "invention." But 



Solution Mi.\ek. 



[With copper-jacketed steam pan, with gearing, fast and loose pulleys, 

 belt stitcher, sleam trap, saftty valves, and main driving pulley. Weight. 

 2 tons. Additional; Two stock solution tins, steam-jacketed with spring 

 safety valve, and carbon solution tin.] 



Xu'i'iNG Rollers fur Recoiling. 



