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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Al-RIL 1, 1911. 



merits are filled, the makers must also give a guarantee that the 

 hose will stand high-pressure and other tests at the end of two 

 or three years. The only company that was willing to comply 

 with all these requirements and made an unrestricted bid, put 

 their price at 85 cents to $1.15, and, as this is very high, it is 

 believed that the bids will be re-advertised, possibly in modified 



form. 



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The Plant Rubber and Supply Co., which bought the presses, 

 etc., formerly owned by the Barton Packing and Rubber Co., 

 e.xpect to have their plant in operation by April 1. It will be in 

 charge of Mr. Whitehead, formerly superintendent of the Barton 



factory. 



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President Edward R. Rice, of the United States Rubber Co. 

 (New York) and L. J. Gervin, a rubber merchant of Los Angeles, 



were recent visitors in San Francisco. 



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A new branch has been opened by the Diamond Rubber Co. 

 (Akron, Ohio), at Fresno,' California, where they have taken a 

 store with 5,000 feet of floor space. The company's general 

 manager on the Pacific Coast, C. E. Mathewson, paid a recent 

 visit to Los Angeles, California, to select a building for a branch 



in that city. 



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F. S. Winslow, who had charge of the Pacific Coast Rubber 

 Company, has been engaged by the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co., 

 who have taken over the Pacific Coast Company's stock. This 

 does not include their stock in the Northwest, as they are a 

 separate concern there. The Gorham-Revere Rubber Co. expects 

 to instal a new store in Portland, Ore., and to double the capacity 



of their Seattle branch. 



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M. E. Murray, who comes to this city for the purpose of assum- 

 ing the management of the Republic Rubber Co.'s affairs on the 

 Pacific Coast, is here, and will make his headquarters at their 

 San Francisco branch, the Phoenix Rubber Co. 



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The purchasers of the factory department of the Phoenix Rub- 

 ber Co. will maintain the factory on First street, near Howard. 

 They have named their concern the Panama Rubber Co. 



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The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), have secured the 

 services of Carl Webb, formerly with the Pacific Coast Rubber 

 Co. He will have his headquarters at Los Angeles and represent 

 them in the southern portion of the State. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT TRENTON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



TR.\DE conditions generally are unchanged; mechanical mills 

 report fair volume of business; tires, drug sundries and 

 specialties good ; insulated wire less active. 



Thermoid Rubber Co. continue busy; mechanical and tire 

 departments reported working nights. 



The Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., working five nights 

 weekly, have business on hand that warrants continuation of this 

 activity. Hereafter, they will manufacture Peerless Red Inner 

 Tubes, to the exclusion of the grey. The standard gauge tube 

 wrill be known as "Standard," the extra heavy as "Peerless," as 

 heretofore. 



The Whitehead Brothers' Rubber Co. made a "hit" with their 

 glazed cotton covered vacuum hose and the sales, which have 

 already attained large proportions, are steadily increasing. They 

 have put on an automobile to carry their office help to and from 

 business. Their recent completion of a 200-foot fireproof ware- 

 house is further indication of their progressiveness. 



The Mercer Rubber Co., working three nights a week, report 

 prospects for future business good. 



Essex Rubber Co., Inc., who until recently manufactured only 



specialties and have now added a full line of sheet packings, 

 report the last four weeks' business the best they have ever had. 



The wedding of Miss Hamill and Mr. Bruce Bedford, of the 

 Luzerne Rubber Co., in February, was one of the season's social 

 events. The newly-married couple went on a bridal trip to 

 Bermuda. 



The return of Mr. Harry L. Boyer, of the Joseph Stokes Rubber 

 Co., and family, from Florida, is a reminder that some people 

 have the happy faculty of being able to combine business with 

 pleasure. 



Frederick R. Sayen, secretary of the Mercer Rubber Co., who, 

 on finishing his course at Haverford, elected to travel in place 

 of entering another college, recently addressed the Republican 

 club of this city on the subject of his visit to the Panama Canal. 

 Though but twenty-six years of age, he is a fluent and interesting 

 speaker. 



A contract worthy of note was the recent order of the Timken 

 Detroit Axle Co. for 400,000 feet of Autobestine Break Liner, 

 manufactured by the Woven Steel Hose and Rubber Co. This 

 is a specialty of Trenton origin that has "caught on" with the 

 automobilists. 



AN AUTOMATIC ASH REMOVER. 



\ /.ACUUM cleaners for homes, hotels and offices are so 

 '' common and so widely accepted as to cause no comment. 

 That a principal analogous to that used in vacuum cleaning 

 should be applied to the removal of ashes from beneath boilers 

 in great manufacturing plants will, however, strike many as a 

 novcltv. 



D.\RI.KV SlTCTION .\SH CONVEYOR. 



The system which lias already been adopted by certain rubber 

 manufacturers, is known as the Patented Suction Conveyor 

 System and is installed by the Darley Engineering Co., of New 

 York. 



Described briefly it consists of an iron conveyor pipe, six, eight 

 or ten inches in diameter, which runs from beneath the boiler 

 fronts to an elevated storage tank. Other parts are : a separator, 

 an exhauster, and a water jet. The separator, which is really 

 a storage tank also, Irtis a discharge gate at its lower end for 

 dumping into cars, which may be run directly beneath it. 



The exhauster may be a simple exhaust fan or a blower, and 

 is either steam or motor driven. Just before entering the 

 separator a water jet sprays the material that is being removed; 

 cools it and settles all dust. 



The system is very simple, can be adapted tn any plant, and 

 will handle from 200 to 500 pounds of ashes per minute. 



