August 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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modern fireproof concrete building, having outgrown its present 

 factory which is operating day and night. One of the new 

 specialties of this company is "2-Plex" combination electrical 

 tape which replaces the rubber tape and friction tape generally 

 used for insulation. 



"TEST SPECIAL" RUBBER BELTING 



.■\ remarkable example of the durability of rubber belting is 

 being furnished at the plant of the Champion Fibre Co., Canton, 

 North Carolina. 



The belt in que.stion is one which has traveled most of the 

 time through 24 liours n day, at the speed of 6,273 feet per 



A Demonstr..\tion of Ri'bi!er Belt Efficiency 



miiuite. It has been in use for six years, and is still running. 

 The installation was m.adc by The New York Belting & Pack- 

 ing Co., 91-93 Chambers street, New York, N. Y. The claims of 

 this company regarding the great strength and endurance of its 

 "Test Special" rubber belting would seem, in this instance, to be 

 fully substantiated. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



THE tire situation in Trenton is holding its own at the present 

 time and the plants are busy. One manufacturer said : 

 "This is the time of the year when there is a large demand for 

 tires. But the volume of business is not as great as it should be." 

 Another rubber manufacturer said he did not believe the industry 

 would show any great strides before fall. "The fact that the 

 rubber mills are not as busy as they should be was proof that 

 the demand for tires would not increase any this summer." 



The Globe Rubber Tire Manufacturing Co. still has a night 

 force at work and expects to continue the double shift all sum- 

 mer. An official of the Empire Tire & Rubber Corporation said 

 that his plant was fairly busy and that he expected to see the 

 tire business improve shortly. The mechanical end of the busi- 

 ness, he declared, was much brighter. The Bergougnan Rubber 

 Co. is running 75 per cent of capacity. The Zee Zee Rubber Co. 

 reports business good. The Ajax Rubber Co. reports that the 

 outlook for the concern is very bright and that there has been 

 much improvement of late. 



The scrap rubber business is not very encouraging. The Near- 

 para Rubber Co. is running full time, but the business is not 

 very good. Prices of scrap rubber are at the lowest levels and 

 there is no telling when they will advance. 



Tire prices continue to be very low and in sonic instances 

 tires are selling at less than pre-war figures. It is said that the 



average mileage of high-class tires has increased, in some in- 

 stances, 100 per cent. 



TRENTON NOTES 



Affiliation is announced between the Thermoid Rubber Co. and 

 the Detroit Pressed Steel Co., in the manufacture of the Ther- 

 moid universal joint. The consolidation of these two well-known 

 companies in this particular line of manufacture is a significant 

 event in the automotive industry. 



The Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co. and the Essex Rubber 

 Co., Trenton, will display their goods at the trade exjxjsition to 

 be held in Caracas, Venezuela, this fall. 



The Grizzly Rubber Co., Trenton, has been appointed the Tren- 

 ton representative of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, and will handle Mason tires in the surrounding territory. 

 Richard R. Rogers, head of the Grizzly Rubber Co. for a num- 

 ber of years, was identified with the Empire Rubber & Tire Cor- 

 poration, both in manufacturing and selling. 



Edward T. Comly, secretary of the Acme Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., Trenton, recently gave a talk before the Rotary Gub 

 on the making of garden and other hose. 



The plant of the Trent Rubber Co. was sold at public sale on 

 June 22 for $100,000 to Edgar W. Hunt, representing some of 

 the creditors. In August the plant will be turned over to the 

 purchasers, while in the meantime operations are being continued 

 under the managership of J. O. Bigelow, the receiver. The com- 

 pany was incorporated more than two years ago under the name 

 of the Atlas Tire & Rubber Co. and later the name was changed 

 to the Trent Rubber Co. The plant was erected at a cost of 

 more than $300,000. 



The automobile service station of Charles H. West was de- 

 stroyed by fire on June 23, causing a loss of about $15,000. More 

 than 400 Bergougnan tires and tubes were burned, together with 

 two automobiles. The loss is covered by insurance. 



THE STOKES ASBESTOS CO. 



The new plant of the Stokes Asbestos Co., Trenton, New Jersey, 

 is now operating at about one-third capacity, but will be at max- 

 imum capacity as soon as additional machines, already installed, 

 have been adjusted and put into service. This plant is an ad- 



Plant of The Stokes Asbestos Co., Trenton, N. J. 



junct of the Thermoid Rubber Co., which uses asbestos metallic 

 cloth in the manufacture of brake lining. 



The principal raw material used in the preparation of this 

 product is crude aslx-stos, which is mined in Canada. The 

 process includes spinning this material into yarn around small 

 strands of brass wire. This metallic yarn is then woven into 

 an asbestos metallic cloth, which finally appears in rolls approx- 

 imately 100 yards long. The finished cloth, then delivered to the 

 Thermoid Rubber Co., undergoes several processes, the last of 

 these being vulcanizing. This final treatment gives the product 

 a uniform density throughout, and does not destroy its fabric 

 nature. 



The machinery in the new buildings is of the newest design, 



