February 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



365 



local manager, and will also call on the trade. He will per- 

 sonally inspect stitchers and see that they are in good order. 



A discount of ten per cent was announced in Canada December 

 1 on all tennis and sporting goods, to apply not only on future 

 sales, but also on those already placed for the coming season. 

 Thus those who ordered before that date and who are entitled 

 to the five per cent discount for early ordering retain this advant- 

 age. Although the drop in price is due in some extent to the 

 slowness with which orders have come in, the change is mostly 

 attributable to the falling off in the cost of materials. 



The Dominion Rubber System (Ontario), Limited, recently 

 received a gold medal from the Canadian National Exhibition 

 for its display at the 1920 show. The company is to be con- 

 gratulated on receiving this distinction. 



The Dominion Rubber System (Ontario)i Limited, held the 

 annual "get-together" convention of its salesmen at the King 

 Edward Hotel, Toronto, on Deeejnbcr 29 and 30. It was attended 

 by R. E. Jamicson, president of the company, and his assistants 

 at the head office at .Montreal, -Messrs. Massle, Carroll, Rudolph 

 and Morrisettc. Ontario executive and department heads were 

 present, together with 45 Ontario salesmen and representatives of 

 all branches of the company. A big feature was the bantjuet and 

 minstrel show, in which the humor was personal and of a 

 decidedly rubhery flavor. It was a big surprise and a big 

 success. 



The new factory of the Tiger Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, 

 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, began production the first week in 

 January. The company is confident "of a good season's business. 



The new plant of the K. & S. Tire & Rubber Goods, Limited, 

 99 Paton Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, said to be the most 

 modern tire plant in Canada, is just about completed, and is 

 e.xpected to be in operation in all departments by February 1. 

 The company reports orders on hand from over a thousand 

 dealers in Canada and has already sold the out|nit for the coining 

 season of 300 tires and 750 tubes per day. 



A department has been installed for the manufacture of a 

 full line of rubber goods for druggists, including the necessary 

 hard rubber parts. 



Legislation recently passed in Canada enal>Ies trade marks 

 consisting of surnames, geographical names and marks of a 

 desciptive nature, heretofore only registrable liy an order from 

 the Canadian courts, to be registered without the expense entailed 

 by court procedure. The Trade-mark Office is empowered to 

 grant registration of marks consisting of surnames, geographical 

 names' or adjectives implying descriptiveness upon the filing of 

 evidence that such mark has acquired a secondary meaning and 

 distinguishes the goods of the applicant. 



This change of procedure should be of advantage to tire 

 exporters having trade marks consist'ug of surnames which in 

 the past have been rejected by the Canadian Trade-mark Office 

 on grounds of non-registrability, since it would now appear that 

 such marks can be registered without a great deal of difficulty; 



Among the articles invoiced from the Vancouver Consulate 

 General, Vancouver, British Cohimbia, for 1918, was rubber to 

 the value of $1,060: in 1919 similar invoices showed exports of 

 3.096,583 pounds of rubber, valued $1,466,118. 



Imports of gutta percha and india rubber manufactures at the 

 port of Quebec in 1918 were valued $109,249 as against $191,444 

 in 1919. Of the latter imports, $182,778 came from the United 

 States and $8,367 from the United Kingdom. 



Rubber and its manufactures declared at the .American con- 

 sulates in the province of Quebec for shipment to the L^nited 

 States dur-ng 1919 were 2.008.262 pounds, valued $214,484, as 

 against 870,882 pounds, valued $127,839, in 1918. Exports of 

 rubber scrap to the I'nited .*^tatef in 1919 totaled 39.829 pounds. 



valued at $3,143. Rubber goods to the value of $427 were shipped 

 to the Virgin Islands, to which there were no shipments what- 

 ever in 1918. 



R. W. .-\shcroft, director of publicity, Ames Holden McCready 

 System, Montreal. Canada, has been appointed assistant to the 

 president of that company, in addition to his other duties. 



W. Youngblud has been appointed sales manager of the tire 

 department of the Ames Holden McCready System, Montreal, 

 Canada, vice E. C. Kabel, resigned. Mr. Youngblud has been for 

 some lime tire sales inanager of the Quebec division of the Cana- 

 dian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, and is well known to the 

 tire trade of Canada. 



The Joseph .Stokes Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, 

 U. S. A., has completed its new plant at Welland, Ontario, 

 but it is not expected that the factory will be placed in opera- 

 tion for some time because of the present business depression. 

 The new factory is 100 by 120 feet, one story, of timber, steel 

 and concrete, with a power house measuring 50 by 50 feet. 

 The plant stands on a tract having 651 feet frontage along the 

 Grand Trunk Railway. The company manufactures hard 

 rubber goods, its trade being principally in the automobile 

 industry. W. J. B. Stokes, bead of the Thernioid Rubber Co., 

 is vice-president. 



A NOVEL COTTON PICKING MACHINE 



ANEW vacuum cotton-picking apparatus has recently been 

 demonstrated in Imperial Valley, California, which the in- 

 ventor' claims, and many who have seen it in operation believe, 

 will not only save two-thirds the labor, but will also enable 

 ginners to gin one-third more because the cotton is picked in a 

 cleaner manner. 



The principal feature of the cotton picker is a suction fan, at 

 one side of which is an upright 5-inch pipe opening into a hor- 

 izontal header provided with four openings, into which arc fitted 

 four lengths of 1^-inch vacuum hose 12 feet long, terminating in 

 metal nozzles to be thrust into the cotton bolls. The fan dis- 

 charges into a 5-inch pipe, five feet long, with a V-shaped ter- 

 minal containing a butterfly valve at the apex, not unlike a 

 damper in a stove pipe, 'whereby the sacks suspended on the 

 terminal may be alternately filled. 



This apparatus is mounted on the front of a small farm tractor 

 and can be easily removed to allow the tractor to be used for 

 general farm work. The fan is driven by belt from a large 

 pulley on the shaft passing through the right hand driving wheel 

 of the tractor and so arranged that the fan may be operated, 

 whether the tractor is in gear or not. A pointed hood can be" 

 placed in front of the machine so that the latter can no.se its way 

 between rows of plants. The cotton picker is operated by two 

 men walking ahead with the suction nozzles, while two others 

 walk at the side of the machine, also carrying similar nozzles. 

 A fifth man operates the tractor and looks after the filling of the 

 sacks. 



A "Utilitor" tractor uitli the cotton picking attachment weighs 

 hut 810 pounds, and is driven by a 4-horse-power motor. A 

 patent has been granted for the pulley driving the fan, and appli- 

 cation has been made for three other patents covering other fea- 

 tures of the apparatus. An early type of the machine, now dis- 

 carded, combined picker and self-driven car as a single unit. — ■ 

 Hand & Cavin, maiuifacturers, 400 .\orth .Nvenuc 26, Los .An- 

 geles, California. 



"RiBBKR M.mhinerv," by Henry C. Pearson, should Ik' in the 

 library of every progressive rubber man. 



'Captain K. F. II.ind. 1526 Winfielci .Street, I.os .\ngcles. C.ilifoinla. 



