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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1914. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Marathon Tire & Kul)l)cr Co.. of Cuyahoga Falls, 

 Ohio, is now distributing its Marathon tires in the Xew Eng- 

 land territory through the Dayton Tire Co., of Boston, 

 Massachusetts. 



The United States Tire Co., of New York, has established 

 a tire distributing agency at Huntington, Ohio, under the 

 management of R. \V. Mottler, formerly located at Cincinnati. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co., of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has 

 favored some of its cu,stomers with a very convenient asli tray. 

 it is made of glass, is four inches in diameter, and the raised 

 edge represents one of the company's oil proof tires with the 

 well-known \acuum Cup tread. The tray is mounted on a 

 piece of fell, so as not to mar the desk. It is a useful article 

 and the company will undoubtedly have requests for all it cares 

 to circulate. 



.\ nev\' form of preventive against blowouts and punctures 

 is being introduced by the K. & W. Rubber Co., of Ashland, 

 Ohio, under the name of the "Maxotire." This protector — 

 which is especially effective with straight side tires — is made 

 Jk||tire fabric and will adjust itself automatically to either new 

 ^f stretched tires. It is so constructed as to completely sur- 

 round the inner tube, a cross section having the appearance — 

 except for circumferential measurement — of an ordinary cas- 

 ing, and is designed to form a non-chaling bed for the tul)e 

 to rest upon. 



A recent consignment by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 

 to its branch at Houston, Texas, comprised a total of 4,000 

 tires, or two entire carloads — said to be one of the largest 

 shipments of its kind ever received in tliat city. 



■ The tire which recently destroyed the stores of the Day 

 Rubber Co., at 415-417 North Fourth street, St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, resulted in a property loss amounting to $265,000. 



The Independent Rubber Co., incorporated June 23, 1913, 

 and located at 408 V'irginia avenue, Joplin, Missouri, expects 

 in the near future to enlarge its plant so that rubber tires 

 may be added to its present line of production, which con- 

 sists of inner tubes for automobile tires. The litharge used 

 in the preparation of the rubber entering into these tubes is 

 a local product, and the sale of the tube has thus far been 

 confined chiefly to the local market and to Kansas. The 

 officers of the company are: F. A. VVilber, president; Fred 

 Smith, vice-president; B. H. Wilber, treasurer, and Arthur 

 James, secretary. 



On page 312 of the March issue of this publication an item 

 appeared regarding the forrtiation of a company known as the 

 Brooklyn Shield & Rubber Co. to take over the business 

 formerly conducted by II. P. Rindskopf, and mentioning the 

 location of the new concern as 397 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. 

 This was an error and should have been 397 Sumner avenue. 



A wholesale distributing agency has been opened in Kansas 

 City, Missouri, by the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., of East Pal- 

 estine, Ohio, under the name of the Kansas City Tire & Rubber 

 Co. This new branch is located at 1516 Grand avenue, and will 

 conduct a wholesale and jobbing business exclusively, carrying a 

 full line of the company's well-known Congress, Imperial and 

 Pullman tires, for distribution throughout the entire Northwest. 



Plans are under way for the erection of an addition to the 

 plant of the Canfield Rubber Co, at Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

 This additional building is to be ISO x 200 feet in area, four 

 stories in height and of brick construction. 



H. W. Morgan, 4417 Franklin avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, has 

 invented a material that he calls "Morganite, a new vulcanite." 

 It is made by the partial or entire dissolution of wood, the 

 addition of various compounds and then vulcanization. The 

 inventor says his process is applicable to hard rubber and 



makes this interesting statement: ''By a similar process even 

 hard vulcanized rubber can be dissolved to a plastic state 

 and applied to surfaces of wood or paper and be again vul- 

 canized as a coating, giving the appearance of ordinary hard 

 rubber goods." 



The New York Mackintosh Co. e.xpects early in the spring 

 to erect a factory at Mamaroneck, New York, and bids for 

 this work are now being received by the manager, J. Place. 

 The structure under consideration is 52 x 102 feet, two 

 stories high. 



Early in March a preliminary certilicate of dis.-^olution of 

 the Goodyear Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Naugatuck, was 

 iiled in that city. This corporation has existed rather as a 

 matter of form than as being engaged in active operations. 



THE IRON KNOWN AS L. H. G. SPECIAL 



The L. II. Goodnow F'oundry Co., of Fitchhurg, Massa- 

 chusetts, has for several years been manufacturing a special 

 iron which has been extensively used by the United States 

 Government and which lately has come into use in various 

 rubber factories, especially for tire molds, die castings or 

 plates, and for gears. This iron — which i> known as the 

 L. 11. (t. Special — has a tensile strength of from 33,000 to 

 35,000 pounds per square inch, a density and tinish like steel 

 and is said to be free from blow holes. The company is very 

 glad to send manufacturers interested in the subject samples 

 showing the fracture, the perfect thread that the iron takes, 

 as well as its fine finish. 



EXTENT AND GROWTH OF THE STAMP TRADE. 



A review of the rubber stamp industry shows that there 

 are now in the English speaking countries of the world about 

 3,000 concerns engaged in the production of rubber stamps 

 and cushion mounts, about 150 of which are new concerns 

 started during the past year. It also indicates constant im- 

 provement in tlie art of stamp rubber vulcanization and an 

 increasing volume of business, sales for 1913 reaching an 

 amount more than 30 per cent, in advance of those of the 

 previous year. 



RUBBER REVEALS THE SECRETE OF THE INNER MAN. 



To take the measure of man is no new thing, being done 

 with some frequency and with more or less accuracy, but to 

 arrive at a system by which the degree of a man's appetite 

 for food may be correctly measured has hitherto been believed 

 incapable of accomplishment. However, much learning brings 

 about wonderful discoveries, and one of the latest is the dis- 

 covery by a professor at the University of Chicago that by 

 the aid of a small elongated balloon and a rubber tube it is 

 possible to decide the exact degree of a man's hunger. The 

 balloon, attached to the tube, is tirst swallowed, then inflated, 

 and the end of the tube attached to sensitized paper. The 

 air escaping from the tube registers on the paper the degree 

 of avidity with which the muscles of the stomach seize upon 

 the supposed food. The market for rubber balloons with tube 

 attachment will no doubt be considerably extended by this 

 latest discovery in usefulness. 



HAS ALL THE BOUNCE OF P.UBBER. 



Ernest Jacoby & Co., of Boston, recently sent to this office a 

 couple of round balls about the size of a baseball having the 

 appearance of rubber and certainly its resiliency, for when 

 dropped on the floor they bounded five or six feet into the air: 

 and yet these balls contain no rubber, but were made of a new 

 material, called "Brown Jaco," intended to be used in the manu- 

 facture of rubber goods. The makers state that in addition to 

 its remarkable physical properties it has chemical properties that 

 make it possible to use it where materials of this general de- 

 scription could not be used. It costs about one-fifth as much as 

 crude rubber. 



