January i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



131 



Exports of American Rubber Goods. 



FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30. 1904. 



GENTSCH'S ARTIFICIAL GUTTA-PERCHA. 



EXPORTED TO— 



Europe : 



Austila-Himgary 



Azores aiul .Madeira. . . 



Helitluin 



Daniiiark 



France 



Germany 



UlbralCar 



Greece 



Italy 



Malla.Gozo. etc 



N'etlierlands 



PortiiRal 



Kiissla 



Spain 



Sweden and Norway. ... 



Switzerland 



Turkey in Europe 



United Kingdom 



Total, Europe 



North America: 



Bermuda 



British Honduras. 



Nova Scotia, New Bruns,. 

 Quebec, On tario.ManltobK 



Britlsli Columbia 



Newfoundland, Labrador. 



Costa Kiea 



Guatemala 



Honduras 



Nicaragua 



Panama 



Salvador 



Mexico 



Mlijuelon, Laneley 



West Indies— Britlsn 



Cuba 



Danish. ... 



Dutch . ..... 



French 



Haiti 



Santo Domingo 



Total, North America 

 South Amkrica : 



Argentina 



Bolivia 



Brazil 



Chile 



Colombia 



Ecuador 



Guiana— British 



Dutch 



Peru 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Total, Sou»h America 

 Asia : 



Chinese Empire 



China— Russian , 



East Indies— British India 

 Srs. Settl'mts 

 Other British 

 Dutch... 



Hong Kong 



.lapan ^. 



Korea 



Russia, Asiatic 



Turkey in Asia 



All other Asia 



Total, Asia 



OCEANIC.V: 



British Australasia. 



French Oceanica 



German Oceanica. . . 

 Philippine Islands.. 



Total, Oceanica 



AFRICA: 



British Africa— West 



South... 



Canary Islands 



Liberia 



Portuguese Africa 



Turkey in Africa— Egypt. 



Tolal, Africa 



Grand Total 1904. 



GrandTotr.I.iOO.'i.... 

 Gi and Total, 1901! .. 

 Grand Total, itioi... 

 GrandTotal,1900.... 

 Grand Total, 1.S99.... 



(;randToial.l898 



Gr?.ndTntai,i897... 

 Grand Total. 1896... 



Belting, 

 Parking, 

 and Hose. 



$ 2,760 



no 



3,688 

 3,701 

 6,314 



a?, 171 



3,440 



967 



1,773 



.s',454 



37 



5,780 



94:2 



110.983 



$180,016 



$ 1,408 



463 



10,282 



80,628 



•:ti,46.5 



6,061 



3.760 



4.1.5.5 



4.876 



3.81-2 



2,243 



4,721 



137.608 



261 



4,303 



58,251 



207 



709 



327 



J362,.335 

 S 9,140 



4,859 



6,384 



8,663 



10 915 



447 



81 



7,253 



677 



3.964 



617 



1,010 



»7,r26 



2i,4rjO 



20i,319 



SU:,4U1 



GOO 

 2C,S)73 



5,093 



898 



4,.571 



107,704 



76,329 



6512 



113.622 



766,875 



1,735,563 

 24 



27,633 



44,2.56 



13.011 



40,364 



IS-i 



40 



36 



93 



522 



72 



2,2'J9 



1,788 



1.279 



2,763 



II 



611 



'4.56 

 1 



8 52,383 



S 7.T25 



395 



5,869 



645 



'373 



1,4.50 



40,992 



951 



17 



S 58,417 



$ 67,842 



4,472 



67 



32,835 



5105,206 



S 985 

 128,444 



2,052 

 140 



$131,621 



(880,010 



819,985 

 6:!l,14f; 

 .565.726 

 541,830 



.. (a) .. 



... (a) .. 



. ..(,.)... 

 .(a)... 



3.250 



3,67 



19.S 

 1,862 



264 

 5,280 



720 

 696 

 18; 



660 

 36 



106, 

 43, 



196,292 



189 093 

 434 



203,669 



492 

 14 177 



20 

 9,921 



Value. 



S 684 



1,487 



36,736 



9,877 



70,607 



133,704 



'261 

 12 608 



1,696 



932 



2,508 



44 697 



S4.544 



2,666 



42,123 



3:6,234 



Other 

 Goods 

 Value. 



S 7,01 



83 



36,3.^9 



10,146 



62,145 



111,767 



138 



100 



43,145 



100 



60410 



46 



2,662 



8.450 



10,636 



607 



403 



907,476 



$750,906 $1,291,554 



$ 12 



28!55- 

 47 721 

 22.886 

 20,18: 



s: 



14 

 44 



41 

 270 



2' 



1,66:; 



2,03' 

 788 



2.980 

 11 



296 

 37 



$127,67. 

 8 3,221 



2.252 

 169 



1,089 

 162 



2.291 



24 



524 



P32 



412 



8 10. 



523 

 84 



S 74 

 S104 



4,653 



8109,644 



491 



i,023 



2,!07,401 

 2..594.7O81 

 1,4.59,100' 

 767,I0ll 

 486,686 

 391,8.32 

 :M6.026 

 150,713 



40 



1,573 



8 13,127 



2,310,808 81.086.364 



$ 1,866 



279 



8,U60 



876,277 



17,994 



2,108 



4,56 > 



1,615 



83- 



1,004 



1,732 



733 



146,712 



4; 



6,048 



100,332 



293 



434 



111 



171 



1,722 



8571,932 



$ 10,166 



633 



20,r^3 



a.2o8 



6,817 



1.433 



672 



15' 



6,317 



1,504 



4,631 



Tm«l 

 Value. 



$ 10,446 



1,020 



76,750 



28,721 



138.UC6 



302,842 



3,578 



304 



56,620 



1(10 



63,779 



978 



S,624 



63,084 



60,960 



4.015 



42.626 



1,384,692 



8 58.698 



S 9,532 



2 



9,736 



465 



73 



754 



3,lfO 



84,038 



2,076 



273 

 314 



8110,411 



8 75,471 



817 



178 



36.402 



8112,868 



8 330 



21,192 



76 



5 



1,789 



895 



I,0">C,49I 

 1,046.315 

 724.016 

 420,740 

 260,886 

 224,706 

 195,499 

 216,6.51 



8 24,28'; 



1,781,91! 

 1,727,627 

 1,405.212 

 1,604,499 

 1,499,1.57 

 1,611,616 

 1.642.499 



82,222,518 



$ 3,286 



742 



46,899 



703,026 



67.315 



28.341 



8,409 



5,784 



6,7.57 



4,857 



4,'.'46 



5,481 



285 873 



2,343 



11,139 



161,5.3 



616 



1,170 



HI 



794 



3,561 



81,351,941 



8 22,827 

 633 

 27,894 

 11,798 

 16,569 

 12,500 

 3,410 

 262 

 14,124 

 2,713 

 9,007 



5121,737 



8 18,009 



397 



16,127 



1,194 



73 



1,127 



37,225 



149,189 



3,030 



12 



16,571 



331 



8243,285 



8247,939 



5.664 



235 



73.790 



8127,618 



8 1,806 



157,6.59 



76 



5 



3.881 



5,608 



8169.036 



82,469,7.50 81,436,124 

 2,290,875 4,176,351 



3,462,402 

 3,017,268 



2,367,788 

 1.76.5,385 

 1,723,862 

 1,807,145 

 1 8.59.156 



fl— Included in *' Other Goods " prior to July i, 1899. 



' I "HE insulating material Icnown as " New Gutta.percha," or 



* " Gutta-Gentsch," has had its first practical application 

 in the United States in consequence of its having received the 

 favorable consideration of the United States army signal ser- 

 vice. A cable insulated with " Gutta-Gentsch," ordered by 

 General A. W. Greely, chief of the signal service, and construct- 

 ed by the Bishop Gutta Percha Co. (New York), has been under 

 test for about four months, between fortifications on Long Isl- 

 and sound. Thecable is one mile in length — single conductor, 

 composed of seven No. 24 B, & S. copper wires, stranded and 

 covered with a seamless layer of Gutta-Gentsch to a diameter 

 of /j inch, and served and armored according to general prac- 

 tice. The electrical engineer of the signal corps, in a letter to 

 the patentee, wrote of Gutta-Gentsch : " If the material proves 

 to be as good as all published reports indicate, I have no doubt 

 that the signal service will use a good deal of it in future." 



Gutta-Gentsch, the invention of Adolf Gentsch, of Vienna, 

 first came into notice as the result of exhaustive experimenting 

 by the German telegraph department, which led to the acquir- 

 ing of the German patents, in March, 1901, by the Felten & 

 Guilleaume Carlswerk Actiengesellschaft (Miilheim). The 

 government first ordered a four-conductor cable nearly 6 

 miles in length, to connect the island of Fohr with Schleswig, 

 with such results that further orders were placed with the Miil- 

 heim firm. There are now in use by the German telegraph de- 

 partment, 15 miles of cables insulated with Mr. Gentsch"s ma- 

 terial. The Danish government has recently placed with the 

 Miilheim works an order for about 25 miles of submarine cable 

 insulated with the Gentsch material. Messrs. Felten & Guil- 

 leaume have since acquired the Gentsch patents for Austria- 

 Hungaty, erecting a special factory for supplying the material 

 in that country, and, still later, the patents for Russia, where 

 also a small plant has been erected for manufacturing. The 

 use of the new material, however, has been by no means con- 

 fined to submarine cable work; it has been used for insulation 

 purposes generally by the company referred to. 



The patents for Great Britain and the British possessions 

 have been acquired by the New Gutta Percha Co., Limited 

 (London), which had a paid up capital one year ago of /i 12,500, 

 and at the second annual meeting of which favorable reports 

 were made. The object of the British company, at first, was 

 the production of the new material for the trade, but they are 

 now laying down plant at Greenwich for the manufacture of 

 insulated wires and cables. There is now being formed a com- 

 pany subsidiary to the English corporation, to control the 

 Gentsch patents for southern Europe. The American patents 

 have not yet been exploited. 



The new material was described at some length in The In- 

 dia Rubber World of September i, 1902 (page 385), and Oc- 

 tober I, 1902 (page 9). Briefly stated, it is a mixture, with India- 

 rubber, of vegetable waxes specially treated to raise their melt- 

 ing point to that of rubber. Tests that have been made indi- 

 cate that the product is equal to natural Gutta-percha for elec- 

 trical uses, while the cost is claimed to be much less. The 

 United States patents granted to Mr. Gentsch are : No. 657,696 

 (September 11, 1900), " Process of raising the melting point of 

 resins, waxes, and similar bodies " ; No. 699 383 (May 6. 1902). 

 " Insulating composition and method of producing same." 



While reference is made above only to insulation work as af- 

 fording a field for the use of Gentsch's compound, experiments 

 have been made which, it is asserted, indicate its value in othei 

 work, as a substitute for India-rubber or Gutta percha. It has 

 been tried also in compounds for uses in place of hard rubber. 



