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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1910. 



Powdering Rubber Waste, 



[British Patent to T. Gare.] 



tin rasping cylinder. Pressure rolls are mounted on rods with 

 spiral rings to form a tension above the feed roll and hold the 

 stock in position. The powdered rubber falls through a chute 

 in the bottom of the device and is then ready for use. 



SELF-FEEDING TUBING MACHINE. 



This device may be described as an ordinary tubing machine, 

 having a worm screw for forcing the stock through a die into 

 tubes, tires, and the like. In addition, there are two feed rolls 



an improvement would it be to the sheathing paper, with which 

 the copper bottomed ships are lined!" 



The leading text of the booklet is the danger of catching 

 deadly colds from getting one's clothing wet from exposure to 

 rain. And in this connection appears a gem of American his- 

 tory not found even in every great library : 



The firft fettlers of America (Quakers), fenfible of the dangers 

 that refulted from their drab coloured fuits being: faturated with 

 rain, adopted a curious expedient to evade it. When they were 

 travelling, and faw a thunder ftorm approaching, they knew that 

 taking fhelter under a tree was dangerous; and therefore generally 

 ran into the middle of a field, where they f'tripped off all their 

 clothes, and having bundled them together fat upon them until 

 the rain ceafed. 



How much more comfortable they might have been if pro- 

 vided with patent waterproofs! The Prince of Wales, to avoid 

 any such possible embarrassment, "not only ordered all his 

 own clothes should be made the same," but that the dresses 

 of all his household, "from the highest to the lowest," should 

 be waterproofed. All this and much more is recorded in the 

 little work entitled : 



Self-Feeding Tubing Machine. 



[British Patent to J. C. Kay & Co.] 



placed at an angle above the opening in the tubing machine. 

 rhese rolls are driven so as to feed the stock into the machine 

 as fast as necessary. 



AN OLD TIME RAIN DEFIER. 



QL'CH rains as the oldest inhabitants had never seen the like 

 *~* of fell in England in the year 1801, on June 30, very oppor- 

 tunely for the proprietors of a then new patented process for 

 waterproofing cloth. These gentlemen were enabled thereby 

 to collect a lot of testimonials in behalf of their fabrics, more 

 enthusiastic in character than any writers of these modern de- 

 generate days could hope to produce. Wearers of the proofed 

 garments who happened to be caught in that torrential rain had 

 only to wipe them gently with a pocket handkerchief and they 

 were as dry as ever, whereas less lucky individuals went to bed, 

 while their clothes were obliged to be hung some hours before 

 a large fire. Very many persons lost their lives in that memor- 

 able rain, but none who wore Ackerman, Suardy & Co.'s water- 

 proof clothes. 



In a quaint booklet got out in the same year to describe the 

 wonderful process — but which gives no hint of its nature — one 

 reads that it "does not in the smallest degree stop the inter- 

 stices of the cloth, canvas, cotton, or silk"; that water poured on 

 a cloth stretched over a glass will not run through, though you 

 ■"repeatedly run a pin or needle through the cloth" ; in the case of 

 colored fabrics submitted to the waterproofing process, they 

 '"were rendered of a higher and more beautiful tint." 



"But without resorting to the regions of romance what 



ANALYTICAL HINTS 



B EtATIVR 



TO THE PROCESS 



OF 



ACKERMANN, SUARDY, & CO'S. 



iHanufactortfS 



fOR 



WATERPROOF CLOTHS, AND WEARING 

 APPAREL, 



AT 



BELCRAVE-PLACE, CHELSEA, 



AND AT 



MESSRS. DOUCLASS AND CO'S. MANUFACTORY, 

 CUPER'S BRIDGE, LAMBETH. 



JLunuOU: 



PRINTED TOR THE PROPRIETOR, AND SOED BV T. HURST, 



NO. 32, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 



And all Book/tilers in Gnat Britain. 

 E. SPRAGC, PRINTiR 27 EOW-STREET, COVENT-CARDEN. 



The title page is undated, but there are internal indications 

 that the pamphlet appeared before the end of 1801. The British 

 patent office records show that on April 28, in that year, appli- 

 cation was made for a patent — granted later as No. 2491 — by 

 Rudolph Ackermann and Peter James Cutteau, which is thus 

 described : 



"For a new improved method of rendering all sorts of woolen 



clothes, cotton, linen, silk, hats, paper, and other manufactures 



and substances, perfectly waterproof, and so as to be used on 



all occasions where a power of repelling rain, wet, or moisture 



may be required." No specification was enrolled. The invention 



is not listed among British patents relating to india-rubber. 



There were, however, two British patents of earlier date for the 



use of rubber in waterproofing. 



[Note. — This interesting relic of the early waterproofing trade has been 

 brought to the notice of The India Rubber World through the favor of 

 Messrs. llodgman Rubber Co., of New York.] 



