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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1912. 



year, the business has almost doubled in that time and branches 

 have been established in Columbus and Dayton. 



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Cecil F. Adamson, of East Palestine, Ohio, filed suit in the 

 United States District Court here against J. Everett Inman and 

 George Inman, proprietors of the Victor Inner Tire and Rubber 

 Co., of Dayton, Ohio, for alleged infringement of a patent on 

 improvements in tire vulcanizing repair apparatus. He asks 

 damages in the sum of $5,000, an accounting and an injunction 

 restraining the defendants from further infringement of his 

 patent. 



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Creditors of the Ohio Motor Car Co., which was placed in 

 tlie hands of a receiver last month on application of the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., filed a petition of involuntary bankruptcy in the 

 United States District Court. The petition alleges that a specific 

 act of bankruptcy was committed by the company by settling the 

 claim of certain creditors in preference to others. 



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F. J. Ramlcr, formerly with the United States Tire Co., has 

 joined the selling force of the Racine Rubber Co. as general rep- 

 resentative for this territory. The local distributor for the 

 product of the companj- — the Kelly-Racine tires — is the I. J. 

 Cooper Rubber Co. 



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The Ideal Steel Wheel Co., a new Cincinnati corporation, has 

 purchased the former plant of the Seufferle Cooperage Co. at 

 Winton Place, paying, it is reported, $41,000 cash for the prop- 

 erty. The corporation expects to revolutionize the automobile 

 tire industry by the introduction of a solid tire, made possible 

 through the manner in which the wheel is constructed. Presi- 

 dent J. B. Fitch of the, company stated that the property would 

 be greatly enlarged at an early date. The general dimensions 

 of the main building are 200 .x 226 feet, together with several 

 minor structures. Since the latter have strong foundations it is 

 the company's intention to utilize these and connect the whole 

 in the very near future with an immense addition. 



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The Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. is represented in this city by 

 Hanke & Rothe, who have opened warerooms at 803 Race street 

 and are handling the product of this company exclusively. 



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The Motz Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron has started active com- 

 petition for business in this city and territory. An agency has 

 been established with the Selden Auto Agency at 109 East Lib- 

 erty street. 



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The Federal Motor Supply Co., which was recently incorpo- 

 rated in this city, has leased the buildings at 919 and 921 Race 

 street and, after remodeling is finished, will open for business in 

 about IS days. The company will operate as wholesale and re- 

 tail dealers in rubber accessories, parts and supplies for automo- 

 biles, truck, motor boats, air vessels and bicycles. 



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The scrap rubber trade is fast developing into one of Cin- 

 cinnati's leading commercial lines. Until the advent of the auto- 

 mobile, dealers in rags and papers bought scrap rubber as a side 

 line. Now there are two concerns in the city which are making 

 a specialty of scrap rubber. These two concerns are M. Rider 

 & Co., who operate a big plant at 113 and 115 Sycamore street, 

 and Klein & Cohn, who have a large establishment recently 

 fitted up and equipped for handling scrap rubber at 731 Read- 

 ing Road. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients; Rubber Tires and All About Them; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 

 /'CONSTANT increases in output were made during Novem- 

 ^^ her by the manufacturers of rubber shoes, arctics and 

 boots. The unusual mildness of the season did not seem to 

 alTect business in Rhode Island, and in many instances factories 

 ran well into the evening in efforts to keep up with their 

 orders. One concern, the National India Rubber Co., of Bris- 

 tol, sent shipments as far west as California. These latter 

 were confined to insulated wire, which is being made in im- 

 mense quantities in the new department which this concern 

 opened, following the transfer of the manufacturing of sun- 

 dries to Cleveland, Ohio. 



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The United Wire and Supply Co. has declared a quarterly 



dividend of 154 Per cent, on the preferred stock and one per 



cent, on its common stock. 



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The International Rubber Co. at West Harrington, is in- 

 creasing its output regularly. It now operates until 9 o'clock 



each evening. 



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A suit for $10,000 was filed in the Superior Court at Provi- 

 dence on Thursday, November 21, by Michael Mountain, of 

 East Providence, against the Uniform Seamless Wire Co., of 

 Providence. The plaintiff alleged that the fingers of his right 

 hand were crushed as the result of a defect in the machinery 

 at which he was working on February 20. 



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Owing to a misunderstanding the International Rubber Co., 

 of West Harrington, started to erect a vulcanizing room at its 

 plant in West Harrington recently without obtaining a building 

 permit from the Harrington Town Council. When the atten- 

 tion of officials of the concern was called to the matter an ef- 

 fort to legalize the work was made. The company sent blue 

 prints and a lengthy explanation to the town officials, and the 

 Council voted that it would grant the belated permit. 



The officials of this company are endeavoring to locate a 

 place for a new manufactory to be started in New York, but 

 thus far no plans have been decided upon, and the nature of 

 the business has not been annoimced. At the present time this 

 firm manufactures rubber textiles. 



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Although Providence dealers have been experiencing diffi- 

 culty in securing sufficient coal to satisfy the terms of their 

 contracts for several months, the National India Rubber Co., at 

 Britol, has had large orders filled by the New York operators, 

 and has been storing immense quantities for use during the 

 winter. 



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John Anderson, foreman of the shipping department of the 

 wire department of the National India Rubber Co., and Miss 

 Cora F. Shaw, of Fall River, Mass., were married at the home 



of the bride's parents on November 11. 



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The stores of the Diamond Rubber Co. and the B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., of Providence, have been combined at 260 Wey- 

 bosset street. Although the companies combined last spring, 

 separate stores have been maintained in this and other cities. 

 The separate lines, made by these companies which have been 

 manufactured since the consolidation, will still be carried at the 

 new store. George Coleman has been appointed business man- 

 ager. Originally the Diamond company store was at 200 Wash- 

 ington street, and the Goodrich company at 392 Weybosset 



street. 



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Col. Samuel P. Colt has started the work of beautifying that 

 part of Bristol which lies near his estate. A steam shovel has 



