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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1911. 



BUCHTEL COLLEGE RUBBER LABORATORY. 



BUCHTEL College ^. Akron. Ohio), has u liat iiu other .\ineri- 

 can school possesses — a complete working ruliher laboratory. 

 It is equipped with a full line of rubber machinery and students 

 have the use of mixing mills, calender rolls, vulcanize;:;, aS well 

 as of the finely constructed and delicate apparatus used in the 

 laboratory. The course is organic chemistry for a year, quanti- 

 tative analysis for six months, with six months for a special 

 course in chemistry. 



During the first half year particular attention is given the 

 experimental study of crude gum, covering the amount of mois- 

 ture, foreign materials and resins, solvents of crude gums, the 

 chemistry of colloids, constituents of rubber, action of haloids 

 and sulphur upon rubber, theories of vulcanization, experiments 

 upon vulcanization, chemical examination of sulphur carriers 

 and compounds, used as "tillers," chemical analysis of cured 

 rubbers, etc., etc. 



During the second lialf year a comparative study is made of 

 various methods for determining free and total sulphur, nature 

 of the active extract, determination of fatty and other organic 

 substitutes, a 

 study of reclaim- 

 ing processes, the 

 principles in- 

 volved and effici- 

 ency in practice, 

 chemical exami- 

 nation of sam- 

 ples of reclaimed 

 stock, experi- 

 ments in com- 

 pounding, effects 

 of compounds 

 upon the char- 

 acter of the products, 

 causes of deterioration of 

 cured rubber. 



The second year covers 

 special work in research, 

 depending on the particu- 

 lar field of chemical re- 

 search and mechanical 

 practice which the stu- 

 dent desires to master. 

 The course is wonder- 

 fully well arranged and of 

 great value. 



BucHTEL College, Akro, 

 Portrait of Dr. C. M. Knight, 



THE FEPEBAL RUBBER MANUFACTURING 00. 



This company, which incorporated under the laws of the 

 State of Wisconsin, starts with a capital of $1,000,000, fully 

 subscribed, and will manufacture mechanical goods and solid 

 and pneumatic automobile and bicycle tires. It has purchased the 

 present plant of the Federal Rubber Co., at Milwaukee, which 

 is being rapidly remodeled and extended by Wcstinghousc- 

 Church-Kerr Co., who have a contract for new buildings, power 

 plant and machinery. B. C. Dowse, until lately president of the 

 G & J Tire Co., will be the guiding spirit. 'Hie sales manager 

 will be Herbert A. Githens, formerly manager of sales and 

 general representative of the G & J Tire Co., for the United 

 States Tire Co., who will also be vice-president, and who as- 

 sumed his duties the middle of May. Richard Ward, formerly 

 secretary and treasurer of the G & J Tire Co., will be secretary 

 and treasurer of the I'ederal Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



RUBBER RECLAIMERS' CLUB LUNCHEON. 



ASPECI-VL feature of the last meeting of the Rubber Re- 

 claimers' Club, held on May 4, 1911, was an elaborate 

 luncheon given by the club to members and their guests. This 

 luncheon was given at the Hotel Belmont, New York City, at 

 one o'clock, and the regular meeting of the club was held im- 

 mediately afterward. 



Beyond all question this was one of the most successful 

 meetings the club has ever held, not only because of the number 

 of members in attendance, but because of the social side of th.e 

 meeting as well. The officers of the club were all present, Joseph 

 F. McLean, president; Francis H. Appleton, treasurer, and 

 R. \V. Seabury, secretary, and they all took pains to sec that 

 the other members and their guests enjoyed themselves. 



The luncheon itself was very satisfactory, and helped to divert 

 the minds of the members from the price of old rubber boots 

 and shoes and helped also to make some of the members of the 

 club better acquainted with each other. 



Among other gentlemen who helped to make this event so 

 successful were A. D. Thornton, of the Canadian Consolidated 



Rubber Co. ; Harold 

 P. Fuller, of the 

 E. H. Clapp Rubber 

 Co., and the New- 

 Jersey Rubber Co. ; 

 Samuel H. Dodd, 

 treasurer of the Pe- 

 quanoc Rubber Co. ; 

 W. T. Rodenbach, of 

 the United States 

 Rubber Co. ; Charles 

 N. Downes and P. B. 

 Price, of the Derby 

 Rubber Co.; C. I. 

 Wilson, of the Boston 

 Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co.; Ira W. 

 Henry, of the Bloom- 

 ingdale Rubber Co. ; 

 H. R. Nason, of the 

 Empire Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing Co. ; 

 Charles Brock, of the 

 Boonton Rubber Co. ; 

 John A. Norman, of 

 the New York Rub- 

 ber Reclaiming Co., 

 . and J. R. Trewin and 

 D. J. Price, of the Stockton Ruliber Co. 



The membership list of the Rubber Reclaimers' Club is con- 

 stantly increasing, and it is hoped that eventually it will in- 

 clude all reclaimers of old rubber scrap, wliether reclaiming for 

 tlieir own use or for the trade. 



This club has been in existence for a number of years, and 

 the meetings which it holds each month not only help its mem- 

 bers but serve in the long run to benefit the trade as well. 



N, Ohio, Rubber L.-\boratorv. 

 Dean of the Chemical Department. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers: Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



Org.\nized eight years ago by American business men doing 

 business in the German Empire, carried on as an American 

 Chamber of Commerce, with board of directors and committees, 

 the American Association of Commerce and Trade, Berlin, is 

 doing good work in promoting the interests of American manu- 

 facturers seeking trade with Germany. The work of the associa- 

 tion extends over the entire United States and all Germany, 

 and its secretary, Mr. George S. Atwood, will promptly respond 

 to all enquiries looking to the extension of American trade with 

 Germany. 



