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THE INDIA RUBBER M70RLD 



[August i, 1902. 



SOME WANTS OF THE RUBBER TRADE. 



f-oO] pROM a fountain pen manufacturer: "Can you give 

 ■■• us some information about rubber firms, located 

 convenient to New York, who might be interested in doing 

 some vulcanizing outside of their own work ? " 



|2.)1] " Will you please furnish us with the names and ad- 

 dresses of some manufacturers of machines for making cotton 

 hose jackets? " 



[252] " We have an inquiry regarding a brand of garden 

 hose known as the ' Sunproof,' which withstands the summer 

 heat of southern California and Arizona, the life of the hose 

 being guaranteed for ten years. Can you give us the name of 

 a manufacturer? " 



[253] "Will you kindly inform us who manufactures the 

 Fidelity ' brand of cotton fire hose ? " 



[254] We have a request from a leading bicycle agency in 

 the city of Mexico for the names of parties able to supply " rub- 

 ber coats for bicycle riders." 



[255] From a rubber factory : " We should be glad to know 

 of the best place to buy collapsible tubes for rubber cement." 



[256] " Please send us the names of parties from whom we 

 can buy prepared Pontianak, ready for use." 



[257] " We should likeja list of as many hard rubber manu- 

 facturers in the United States as you know, indicating such as 

 manufacture hard rubber sheets." 



[25s] " I-'lease give me the addresses of manufacturers who 

 weave material for suspenders." 



[259] " We should like you to advise us who are the makers 

 of Caldwell's covered gas tubing." 



[200] " Can you give me any information as to where I can 

 buy the filler called ' Petrifite ' , mentioned in Mr. Pearson's 

 'Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients ? ' " 



[261] " Kindly advise us from whom we can secure a varnish 

 such as rubber manufacturers use in coating drills and sheet- 

 ing, to make luster finish." 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



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H E Goodrich Rubber Man's Vacation " is the title of one 

 of the best pictures that has yet come from the advertis- 

 ing department of that enterprising Akron house. It is wholly 

 up-to-date in that the foreground of the picture shows a game 

 of ping pong on the lawn at the Goodrich Camp. A delightful 

 surprise comes to whoever carefully scrutinizes the faces of the 

 beautiful women who are disposed in comfortable attitudes in 

 hammocks and under the trees, when it slowly dawns upon 

 them that they recognize "Helen of Troy," " Vivian," "Jose- 

 phine " and others of the Goodrich beauties. The picture is in 

 every way artistic, nor is there a suggestion of caricature in 

 any part of it. 



Franz Ci-outh Rheinische Gummiwaaren Fadrik m. 

 B.H. (Coln-Nippes) have issued a handsomely printed brochure, 

 for distribution at the industrial and commercial exhibition for 

 the Rhinelandjand Westphalia, at Diisseldorf, describing their 

 extensive variety of manufactures of India-Rubber and Gutta- 

 percha. [S"X9'/*"- 34 pages.] 



The Dermatine Co., Limited (95, Neate street, London, 

 S. E.), issue, under the title " Prix Courant de Dermatine," a 

 catalogue in French, containing illustrations and descriptions 

 of their various products, including belting, hose, tubing, valves, 

 etc., together with prices. This is in effect, a translation of 

 their English list, mention of which has been made already in 

 The India Rubber World. It includes also several pages 

 of mteresting matter on the origin of Caoutchouc and Gutta- 



percha, with maps of the rubber producing zone, and notes on 

 the history of the industrial uses of these materials. [6 xpK'. 

 36 pages.] 



Tremont Rubber Co. (No. 218 Congress street, Boston) 

 issue a handsome Souvenir catalogue of the " Wales-Good- 

 year" rubber footwear, which they carry in stock. A promi- 

 nent feature of the book is a picture of their store, " The Rub- 

 ber Corner," followed by several pages of interior views, giving 

 an impression of an enormous volume of business done, and 

 portraits of their salesmen throughout New England and some 

 other states, from whose appearance it may be assumed that 

 they have contributed in no small degree to building up this 

 business. [6ys"X9". 3- pages]. 



The Vulcanized Rubber Co.. who have removed to No. 1 10 

 Grand street, New York, issue, under date of July i, 1902, a 

 new price list of the Hard Rubber Goods manufactured by 

 them, which forms a conveniently arranged and well illustrated 

 booklet. l4}i" X 8^". 56 pages.] 



" Talks ON Rubber " is an illustrated catalogue of rubber 

 goods used for medical purposes in families or in hospitals, 

 kept in stock at Riker's drugstore in Sixth avenue, New York 

 — an establishment which has long made a specialty of its rub- 

 ber goods department, and has done much to educate its cus- 

 tomers in the use of rubber goods of the classes referred to. 

 The book is as fully illustrated as most catalogues of druggists' 

 sundries manufacturers, and is provided with an index filling 

 twelve columns. [5>^"X8X"' I44 pages.] 

 also received. 



Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., New York=The Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire. I2 pp. 



Munger Automobile Tire Co., Trenton, New Jersey=Munger Non 

 Collapsible Pneumatic Tires for Motor Vehicles. 12 pp. 



B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston = Bulletin 46. Mechanical Draft. 

 What it is ; what it does. 12 pp. 



Parker. Stearns & Sutton, New York = Alpha and Omega Superior 

 Rubber Specialties. 24 pp. 



American Vulcanized Fibre Co., Wilmington, Delaware^Catalogue 

 and Price List. 34 pp. 



The Baumann Rubber Co., New Haven, Connecticut = Price List of 

 Red, Velvet, and American Balls. 4 pp. 



Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. (Jersey City, New Jersey)^ [Folder illus- 

 trating bridges treated with Dixon's silica-graphite paint.] 



"DERMATINE" AND ITS USES. 



AN essentially English product, but one that is used the 

 world over, is a compound from which mechanical rub- 

 ber goods are manufactured, and known as " Dermatine". 

 The uses to which it is put are the manufacture of belting, 

 hose, valves, and packings chiefly. The special excellences 

 claimed for it are that it outlasts ordinary rubber compound, 

 and is a better resistant of acids, grease, and heat and cold. 

 Physically, Dermatine looks very much like a vulcanized rub- 

 ber compound, but of an extremely fine and close texture. It 

 is flexible, but cannot be stretched easily, and may be made 

 very soft or as hard as vulcanite. " Dermatine " is the inven- 

 tion of Mr. M. Zingler and was patented by him prior to the 

 establishment of The Dermatine Co., Limited, which company 

 now has extensive works in London, under the successful man- 

 agement of Mr. John Cooper. The basis of Dermatine is a 

 substitute for Gutta-percha called "gum percha ". This is 

 compounded with waste rubber. India-rubber, sulphide of anti- 

 mony, peroxide of iron, sulphur, alum, asbestos, sulphide of 

 zinc, and carbonate of ammonia, these ingredients, of course, 

 being varied for different products. 



