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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1908. 



end plates are provided to accommodate various widths of cloth 

 An arrangement is made for spraying the cloth with a number 

 of small jets of steam just back of the spreading knife to pre- 

 vent the frictional electricity from igniting the naphtha solvent. 



After being coated, the cloth passes over a large surface of 

 steam coils and around a drum at the extreme end of the ma- 

 chine, and is wound up on a roll placed underneath. The 

 machine is of sufficient length to allow the cloth ample time to 

 dry in passing over the steam coils. 



A countershaft is furnished having 8"x6" T. & L. pulleys 

 arranged for straight and crossed belts in such a way that the 

 machine may be reversed for running the cloth back. 



The T. & L. pulleys should run 175 revolutions per minute. 

 This gives a speed of 20 feet per minute to the cloth. The width 

 of the machine, between housings, is 62 inches. The floor space 

 is 6x17 feet. Net weight, 3,000 pounds. [New England Butt Co., 

 Providence, Rhode Island.] 



A NEW HtTBBER MIXER. 



The rubber grinder and mixer illustrated herewith is built in 

 sizes from 10 inches to 20 inches, diameter of rolls, and of any 

 length desired. It is made with cap on end of frame, as shown 



Standard Rueder Grinder and Mixer. 



TMade for M. P. Fillingliam by the Taylor Engineering Co.. Allentown, 

 Pennsylvania. ] 



in the cut, held together with through bolts, or is made with cap 

 on top. The frames and caps are of cast iron of ample strength 

 and weight, the journal boxes are brass lined and fitted with oil 

 pipes, the brass liners reach around under the necks of rolls, so 

 that when the mill is running idle the weight of the rolls are on the 

 liners, making the journal boxes less liable to heat up. The adjust- 

 ing screws are of steel working in bronze nuts. Each machine is 

 furnished complete as shown on cut, including foundation bolts 

 and plates. If desired these machines can be fitted with safety de- 

 vice. These mills are designed by M. P. Fillingham and built by 

 the Taylor Engineering Co. (Allentown, Pennsylvania). 



RUBBER HEELS BAD FOR THIEVES. 



A FTKR the robbery of a railway station near Toronto the 

 ^*- detection of the thief, says the Toronto Globe, resulted 

 from comparing the imprints of rubber heels outside the 

 window of the station with those worn by a young man found 

 in the vicinity. Hitherto the wearing of rubber soles and heels 

 has been considered as facilitating the operations of gentlemen 

 of thieving propensities, but if the detectives are going to study 

 trade marks on such goods it may be better for the burglars to 



depend on their leather shoes, which make a less definite im- 

 press on the soil. 



The home of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), the author, 

 in Fairfield county, Connecticut, was entered one night recently 

 by burglars, whose arrest resulted, as the newspaper reports 

 agree, through their being traced by the imprints in a dusty 

 road of the rubber heels worn by one of them. The local police 

 went over the road and found the prints of a large foot and a 

 smaller one. The big man wore rubber heels "with six little 

 cleat marks." The steps led to a railway station, and the police 

 boarded the same train with two men, an examination of whose 

 shoes led to their arrest for the burglary of Twain's home. 



EXHIBITION OF FIRE APPARATUS. 



"T^ HE rubber trade was well represented at the exhibition of 

 ■^ fire apparatus and accessories held in connection with the 

 thitty-sixth annual convention of the International Association 

 of Fire Engineers, at Columbus, Ohio, commencing on August 

 25 — too late for a report in the succeeding issue of this journal. 

 This association is beginning to be more widely recognized, not 

 only as of a most helpful character to the fire department offi- 

 cials in the various cities in aflfording an opportunity for an 

 interchange of views and experiences, hut also for the study of 

 new and improved equipment. The recognition of this latter 

 feature is shown by the fact that during one day of each yearly 

 convention no formal sessions are held, the delegates devoting 

 their time to a series of tests of the apparatus on exhibition. 

 The leading manufacturers of fire hose were fully represented 

 during the week, and also the makers of hose couplings and the 

 like, hose washers, and waterproof clothing. A new feature 

 which has developed at these exhibitions in late years is that of 

 rubber tires for fire apparatus, and several of the rubber com- 

 panies made displays in this line. 



On the opening day of the convention the public presentation 

 of a diamond studded badge of the association was made in 

 behalf of the fire chiefs present to Mr. Isaac B. Markey, of the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York), who by 

 his constant attendance upon the meetings of the association 

 from the beginning had become widely known to the members, 

 and a prominent figure at the conventions. Mr. Markey has 

 failed to be present only at one meeting — in 1904 — and that was 

 on account of illness. 



JAPAN AND THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



■"PHE Canadian department of trade and commerce publishes 

 ■^ a report by the Canadian trade commissioner of Yokohama 

 the effect that a representative of a French syndicate is negotiat- 

 ing to bring the rubber factories in Japan into co-operation with 

 certain large manufacturing concerns iti Great Britain and France. 

 The intention is to supply the local markets, and eventually 

 secure the export business to Corea, China, India, Siam, and the 

 Straits Settlements. At present, the commissioner states, there 

 are six companies engaged in the rubber industry in Japan. So 

 far, the quality of rubber goods manufactured by these factories 

 has not been first-class ; but, nevertheless, the product is re- 

 placing the imported article. The local product has not alto- 

 gether met with the approval of the public, on account of its 

 weakness and inability to stand wear. One or two of the estab- 

 lishments, however, have made changes in the basis of the material 

 from which their goods are manufactured, charging a consider- 

 ably increased price, and have placed articles on the market 

 quite equal to the best of the kind that have been imported. 

 — The Financial News (London) . 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) will exhibit their 

 tires at the eleventh annual Paris automobile exhibition, at 

 the Grand Palais, which opens in November. 



