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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



May 1, 1921 



"Halowax in the Rubber Industry." — Ix an eighteen-page 

 pamphlet bearing the above title, the Condensite Company of 

 America. Bloomlicld, New Jersey, describes the physical proper- 

 ties ol Halowax and the application of different grades in rubber 

 manuiacturing, illnstrated by typical mixmgs. 



The .\merican Society for Testing Materials, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, has issued Bulletin No. 1, April 1, 1921, consisting 

 of lour i>ages dealing with the activities of the .\. S. T. .\I., and 

 notes and publications of interest to members. 



JUDICIAL DECISIONS 



McLeod Tire Cortoration vs. The B. F. Goodrich Co. Dis- 

 trict Court, Southern District of New York. February 

 28, 1920. No. 554. 



The court will allow liberal inspection and compel answers to 

 interrogatories in patent cases. In a tire patent case, inspection 

 ■>t working drawings or blue-prints from the records of de- 

 fendai;t, showing molds, cores and other working parts used in 

 the commercial production of defendant's tires, would not be 

 denied because of defendant's objection that these represented 

 the details of a secret process of manufacture employed by de- 

 fendant. The secrecy of the process would be safeguarded by 

 tire order so far as possible. 



In the above suit in equity the court granted in part the motion 

 of the plaintiff to be allowed inspection of drawings, etc. — Fed- 

 eral Reporter, Volume 268, page 205. 

 Willys-Overland Co. vs. Akron-Overland Tire Co., Inc., 



District Court, District of Delaware. In equity, .\ugust 2, 



1920. No. 386. 



In a suit in equity by the Willys-Overland Co. against the 

 Akron-Overland Tire Co., Inc., a preliminary injunction was 

 sought restraining the defendant from using the word "Over- 

 land" as the whole or any part of its corporate name, from listing 

 its capital stock upon the New York Curb Market or any other 

 association or exchange where listed stocks and securities are 

 dealt in, under any name containing the word "Overland," and 

 from designating its tires, or other automobile accessory made 

 or sold by it, by the word "Overland," or by any combination of 

 words containing that name. 



Morris, District Judge, rendered the opinion that from the 

 evidence the defendant was using "Overland" in its corporate title 

 unfairly and to the detriment of the plaintiff ; that the use by a 

 defendant in its name of a word calculated to lead the public 

 to believe its goods are the goods of the plaintiff, may be enjoined ; 

 that a preliminary injunction should be granted: and that a decree 

 in conformity therewith might be submitted. — Federal Reporter, 

 Volume 268, pages 151-155. 

 In re Schweinert et Al. Court of -Appeals of District of 



Columbia. Submitted November 8, 1920. Decided January 3, 



1921. No. 1323. 



In the matter of the application of Maximilian Charles 

 Schweinert and another for the patent of a tire valve, the 

 defendants appealed from the refusal of the Commissioner of 

 Patents to grant such a patent. The Court agreed with the Com- 

 missioner that the applicant had made no patentable advance over 

 the prior art. The decision was therefore affirmed. — Federal 

 Reporter, Volume 269, page 1020. 



TREASURY DECISIONS 



No. 44145.— Protest 935857 of Davies Turner &• Co., New York. 



Rubber Attachments for Soles and Heels; Wearing Ap- 

 parel. — These articles are classified as articles of wearing apparel 

 composed of cotton and india rubber at 30 per cent ad valorem 

 under paragraph 256, tariff act of 1913, and are claimed dutiable 

 as manufactures in chief value of india rubber at 10 per cent 

 under paragraph 368. 



Opinion by Weller, G. A. : Proportionate values of component 

 materials not shown, but found evident rubber is of chief value ; 

 therefore, claim that they are dutiable as manufactures in chief 

 value of india rubber under paragraph 3C8 was sustained. These 

 attachments are excluded from paragraph 256 on authority of 

 Steinhardt vs. United States (8 Ct. Custom Appeals, 372; T. D. 

 37629). — Treasitry Decisions, Volume 39, No. 14, page 10. 



adjudicated patents 



Palmer et al vs. John K. Stewart & Sons, Inc. United 

 States District Court, New York. 



The Palmer patent, No. 878,995, claim 1, for api)aratus for 

 iiu^erting tubular fabrics, held infringed. — Federal Reporter, 

 Volume 269, page 148. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD 

 WELL-KNOWN RUBBER FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURER 



TR.\cv S-\MrKL Lhwis. presi<Knt ni tlie Heacuii l-'all^ Rubber 

 Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Connecticut, died suddenly on April 

 3, at his-home in in Brooklyn, New York, in his lorty-e ghth year. 



Mr. Lewis was born in Naugatuck. 

 Connecticut, in 1873, and was edu- 

 cated at Greenwich .Academy, Green- 

 wich, Connecticut, and the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, Yale University, 

 graduating in 1894. Four years later 

 he became secretary and treasurer of 

 the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., of 

 which his father, the late George A. 

 Lewis, was president. On his fath- 

 er's death in 1914, Mr. Lewis became 

 president of the company, which has 

 continued to prosper under his man- 

 agement. 



Several other firms closely allied 

 with the rubber industry claimed part of his time. He was presi- 

 dent and treasurer of the Connecticut Mills Co., tire fabric manu- 

 facturers, Danielson, Connecticut ; treasurer of the Canadian 

 Connecticut Cotton Mills, Limited, tire fabric manufacturers, 

 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada ; president of the Medford Woolen 

 Manufacturing Co., Medford, Massachusetts ; president of the 

 Nobska Spinning Co., Taunton, Massachusetts ; president and 

 treasurer of the Continental Clay Co., Langley, South Carolina; 

 and a director of the Naugatuck National Bank, Naugatuck, Con- 

 necticut, and of the Connecticut Cottons Co., Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. He was a member of The Rubber Association of .\merica, 

 Inc., and in 1917, one of its directors. 



His widow, Grace Meacliam Lewis, survives him, and his un- 

 timely death is mourned by many friends and trade acquaint- 

 ances. Funeral services were held at the residence of his father, 

 the late George A. Lewis, Naugatuck, Connecticut, and interment 

 was also at Naugatuck. 



Tr\cv S. Lewis 



A PIONEER IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RUBBER STAMPS 

 Charles Everson, one of the earliest to develop the rubber 

 stamp in the commercial world, died ."Vpril 14 at his home in 

 Orange, New Jersey. 



He established the Everson & Reed Co., manufacturer of 

 rubber stamps, in 1875, which in 1914 acquired the Carragan & 

 Tilson plant manufacturing metal badges, stencils and dies, thus 

 joining the two oldest organizations. He served as first president 

 of the New York Stamp Club when it was organized and later 

 as president of the International Stamp Manufacturer.^' .Asso- 

 ciation. 



Mr. Everson was president and treasurer of Everson & Reed 

 Co., 88 Chambers Street, New York, until his death. He was 



