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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[AL-cr?T 1. 1911. 



SWEDEN. 



Helsincborcs Gummifabriks Aktiebolag has set aside 10,000 

 crowns ($2,680) for the establishment and maintenance of a day- 

 nursery lor the infants of women working in their factory, and 

 for the pension and benevolence fund, 2.000 crowns ($536). 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



So much attention was recently bestowed by the public on the 

 new Navy airship that it may be of interest to note that in the 

 construction of the gas bags, the famous "North British" fabric. 

 manufactured by The North British Rubber Co., Limited, Castle 

 Mills. Edinliurgh, Scotland, was used. 



The directors of Harrisons & Croslield. Limited, have declared 

 a dividend on the cumulative preference shares at the rate of Syi 

 per cent, per annum for the three months ending July 15. 



Much is claimed for Pfleumatic, a filling for tires, that takes 

 the place of air and is asserted to insure total immunity from 

 tire troubles. 



REFORMING RUBBER IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



The first essay in re-forming rubber has been made, in 

 London, extending over a period of seventeen months, in the 

 new works of the Premier Re-Forming Co., Ltd., a subsidiary 

 compan.v of the Endurite Manufacturing Company of London. 

 The Endurite Company owns the German patent for re-forming 

 old waste rubber. To make this matter quite clear, there is a 

 French patent for a similar process which is being worked 

 in London by another company. Further there are several Eng- 

 lish companies re-forming rubber waste under English patents. 



The Premier Re-Forming Company is the strongest of the 

 six English companies. Their chairman presented his report to 

 the shareholders at the ordinary general meeting held in Lon- 

 don on June 14th. Something like $75,000 have already been 

 spent on machinery installation, as against earnings $2,885 gross ■ 

 profit, the company having operated about eighteen months. 

 Re-forming already has absorbed about $167,525 of English cap- 

 ital. The chairman stated that the capacity of the Premier com- 

 pany's new works is equal to a production of 10 tens or even 

 15 tons per week. 



THREE NYASALAND RUBBER PATENTS. 



Thf. registration of three interesting rubber patents has been 

 recorded by the Xyasaland Government Gazette. 



One in tlie name of Leopold Valour is for improvements in 

 machines for separating caoutchouc from the liark of rubber- 

 yielding plants and for similar purposes. 



.A patent application has been accepted from Harold Theodore 

 Grannele van der Linde, for a method of extracting particles 

 of rubber from substances with which it is associated, while 

 another has been received from William .\ppleton Lawrence 

 for process and apparatus for extracting rubber or rublier-like 

 substances from its vegetable sources. 



A LARGE VACUUM DRYER DRUM. 



The Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co. recently cast an excep- 

 tionally large drum for a Rotary Vacuum Dryer. It was 12 feet 

 long and 5 feet in diameter. The drums are generally made of 

 dense air furnace iron, but in this case it was necessary to use 

 a high quality bronze, owing to the fact that the extract to be 

 dried would become discolored if it came in contact with iron. 



It required 16.000 pounds of metal to pour the casting and on 

 account of this large quantity, it was necessary to melt the metal 

 in a 48-inch cupola. 



THE USEFUL PONCHO. 



Tl I F. use of the poncho, for some reason, seems to be almost 

 wholly confined to those who live in the tropics or sub- 

 tropics. Possibly this is due to its usefulness when one rides 

 on horseback. It is. however, one of the simplest and best of 



Sou.\RE Poncho. 



rain shedders. For automobilists it is ideal, while for those 

 who do much walkmg in the rain, it is umbrella and coat 

 combined. 



.\merican soldiers in the Philippines have found that a part, 

 indeed about half, of their duty when out on a "hike" consists 

 of crossing streams and keeping their accoutrements dry. They 

 have, therefore, learned to make rubber boats out of ponchos. 



PONCIKI l!0-\T I^K.\Il^• UK L\l XLlllNG. 



Work is being actively pushed on the new building in course 

 of erection for the Stoughton Rubber Co. at Stoughton. Mass. 

 The concrete foundations are complete, and a large gang of The illustration shows a boat, made of one rubber poncho, two 

 mixers and workers are busy raising the walls. rifles, two sabers, and straps, two shelter tent poles and their straps 



