August 1, 1911.] 



THE IxXDlA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPON'DENT. 



THE UOOO £LU£ STKEAK3. 



A \' IRRITABLE "blue streak" of success is recorded by 

 the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. for their motor- 

 cycle tires ill connection with July race meetings. 

 At Brooklauds track, Weymouth, England, Jake DeRosier, using 

 Goodyear "Blue Streak" tires broke the world's record. He 

 secured two out of three heats in the match race with C. R. 

 Collier. At the race meet held July 22, under the auspices of the 

 Akron Motorcycle Club at Akron, Dan Willis, of Canton, carried 

 off five firsts and two seconds out of eight events. At the In- 

 dianapolis State Fair grounds. Baker won fur firsts one day and 

 three firsts the next, incidentally breaking two records. Every 

 one of nine events at Fort Wayne, Ind., was won by machines 

 having Goodyear tires. Anderson, at Elizabeth City, North 

 Carolina, took all five open events on a machine similarly 

 equipped. \t Lima. Ohio, de Salvo took four firsts. 



THE PORTAGE KUBBER CO. 



E. A. Kinsman, formerly with The Di.imond Rubber Co.. 

 has been secured as foreman of their mill room. 



This company has just declared a quarterly dividend of 

 IJi per cent. They were enabled to do this through the 

 earnings of The United Rubber Co.'s reclaiming plant at 

 Barbcrton, which they purchased last Fall. 



The Port.-\ge Rubber Co.. L).\mihi<Tii.\, Ohio. 



The Portage Rubber Co., of Barberton, commenced opera- 

 tions July 25. Tires and mechanical goods are manufactured. 

 The company has a floor space of 42,000 square feet, well 

 equipped with rubber machinery. Two new designs of solid 

 tires have been developed by the company's experts. They 

 also recently obtained a patent on a new process of reclaim- 

 ing rubber upon which they have been experimenting for 

 some time. 



DIAMOND RUBBER CO.— DIVIDEND. 



The Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, on July 20, de- 

 clared a regular quarterly dividend on the common stock of S'/s 

 per cent. 



SWINEHART TIRE AND RUBBER CO.— INCREASE OF CAPITAL. 



The Swinchart Tire and Rubber Co., at a meeting of the 

 stockholders, passed a resolutiun fur an increase of the capital 

 stock from $400,000 to $800,000. The company expects to 

 place $250,000 worth of stock on the market at once, and to 

 retain $150,000 worth of stock in the treasury. M. W. Wuch- 

 ter, superintendent, says that the company also expects to 

 employ 100 more men within the next few weeks, and increase 

 that number from time to time when improvements which 

 were discussed at the last meeting of the stockholders are 

 finished. The company has been working night and day 

 during the past season and claims that it has been unable to 

 cope with the increased volume of business. 



FIRESTONE TIRE le RUBBEA CO. 

 The I'irestone Tire & Rubber Co. has greatly increased their 

 office force since moviiig into their new building. They have 

 also secured property and expect to erect a building at the cor- 

 ner of Conklin and Locust streets, St. Louis. Mo., which they 

 will occupy with a factory branch in the near future, apd have 



Firestone's New Tire Tread. 



clo.sed a lease for the premises at 724 Main street, Buffalo, N. 

 v., to be used for the same purpose. This branch will be in 

 charge of R. W. IngersoU. 



Mr. Firestone says, "That motor racing is the severest test 

 a tire can have, as it is a scientific fact that high speed shows 

 up the strength or weakness of a tire." 



WILLIAMS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE CO. 



For the repair of inner tubes and minor repairs to casings, 

 The Williams I'"oundry and Machine Co. are about to place on 

 the market an inner tube vulcanizer. 8x20 inches, with three 

 pressure bars, an efficient steam generator, which is fitted with 



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burners for gas or gasoline, complete with steam gauge, safety 

 valve, water gauge and filling funnel. A set of three blocks 

 with inner cores to cure small casings is provided to be used 

 with it. 



The same company has invented a new clasp-type, boltless 

 vulcanizer head. The following are some advantages claimed 

 for this head ; 



( a ) Time Saving. — \o bolts to handle in locking or sealing 

 the head. When closed it is instantly sealed by opening a 

 valve. 



(/') Ease of Operation. — The door of vulcanizers, 36 inches 

 in diameter and smaller, may be counter-weighted and operated 



