March 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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PRINTING PATTERNS ON RUBBER SURFACES. 



Edward A. Williams, Providence, Rhode Island, has invented 

 a process of printing patterns— checks, plaids or any other pat- 

 tern that any one might desire, as long as it doesn't require more 

 than three colors— directly upon a rubber surface. This means 

 that rubber clothing, for instance, can be made of two thicknesses 

 —one of fabric and one of rubber— and still have a pattern 

 printed on both sides. 



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P.\TTERN Printed on Rubber Surface. 



The accompanying illustration shows a rubber surface printed 

 by this process. The process is controlled by Starkweather & 

 Williams Co., 47 Exchange Place, Providence, Rhode Island. 



WHAT CONGRESSMAN WEEKS REALLY SAID. 



A QUICK-OPENING TIRE KETTLE. 



THE average tire repair shop doesn't need and cannot afford a 

 large vulcanizer. It costs too much money, takes too much 

 room and can only be used, in the ordinary small repair shop, by 

 allowing tires to accumulate and, of course, the owner of a 



tire doesn't care to 

 wait for tires to ac- 

 cumulate. If he wanti 

 a shoe repaired, he 

 wants it right away. 

 Here is where the 

 small repair kettle, 

 shown in the illustra- 

 tion, becomes useful. 

 This is large enough 

 to take in a single 

 casing 37 inches by 

 S^ inches, and where 

 the casings are 36 

 inches x 4 inches, or 

 smaller, it will ac- 

 commodate two at a 

 time. It occupies 

 comparatively little room and is economical to handle. The cover 

 IS finished around the edge, as will be seen in the cut, with pro- 

 jecting lugs. When the cover is put on the kettle a little turn 

 brings these lugs under corresponding lugs cast in the top of the 



THE report, published in our February issue, of Congressman 

 Weeks' able address on the Monetary Problems of the 

 United States, delivered at the Rubber Club dinner in Jairaary, 

 was made for us by a stenographer of much experience in this 

 sort of work, but evidently toward the last of that address his 

 mind wandered and his pothooks got mixed, because in the con- 

 cluding paragraph he made an error thrice repeated that mate- 

 rially changed the significance of that paragraph. W^iere the 

 speaker said panic the stenographer wrote bank. If any of our 

 readers were somewhat mystified by that final paragraph, they will 

 find its meaning rendered much more intelligible by the following 

 corrected reproduction: 



"If wliat has been proposed (by the Monetary Commission) 

 is done, we need have no more currency panics in this country. 

 We will have financial depressions, as we always have had and 

 always will have as long as business men over-expand and 

 have to contract. Those will come at certain periods, but the 

 currency panic will be a thing of the past. A financial panic, 

 such as we have known, will be a thing of the past. Labor will 

 not be thrown out of employment; capital will not be idle; the 

 enormous losses which we have had as a result of the almost 

 numberless panics since the Civil War, will be things of the past, 

 and we will go on in the even tenor of our way, doing business 

 as do our commercial rivals in foreign countries, being able to 

 compete with them, because we have similar or equally good 

 tools to compete with." 



The Akron-Williams Retreading 

 Vulcanizing Kettle. 



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Cross Section of the Kettle. 



kettle. When the steam is turned on the special wedge-shaped 

 rubber packing keeps the kettle absolutely tight. This is done 

 without a single bolt or nut to tighten. When the casmg is 

 cured the steam is shut off and a little turning of the cover re- 

 leases the lugs and the work is done. [The Williams Foundry 

 and Machine Co., Akron. Ohio.] 



The accompanying illustration shows a gauge for meas- 

 urincr sheet rubber that will allow extremely close gauging. 

 The°face of the dial, which is divided by lines for each one- 

 thousandth of an inch, gives the measurement. It can be set 



at any time, so as to 

 start at zero; therefore 

 very accurate readings 

 can be taken. It can be 

 put to a very great va- 

 riety of uses not pos- 

 sible with others. This 

 gauge has a capacity of 

 from 250 to 300 thou- 

 sanths, and for ordinary 

 uses will measure one- 

 quarter of an inch or a 

 little over by thou- 

 sandths. [The Hoggson 

 & Pettis Manufactur- 

 ing Co., New Haven, 

 Connecticut]. 



A Gauge for Measuring Sheet 

 Rubber. 



