1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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( 2) Take delivery and pay costs of discharge, lighter- 

 age and landing at foreign port of destination in 

 accordance with bill of lading clauses. 



(3) Pay foreign customs duties and wharfage charges, 

 if any. 



Explanations of Abbreviations. 



O. n Free on board. 



A. .S Free alongside ship. 



& F Cost and Freight. 



I. F Cost, insurance and freieht. 



C. I Less than carload lot. 



RUBBER IN THE SAFETY COUNCIL. 



THK National Safety Council, made up of prominent men 

 in all lines of industry, now has a rubber section. Although 

 this is but a beginning, a score of the largest rubber companies 

 are members and send from two to half a dozen representatives 

 to each meeting. At the first meeting there were present: 



E. H. Fitzgerald. :M. Klein, The Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, 

 Wisconsin; Harold Martin, T. J. Dwyer, H. T. Greene, and E. 

 Focand, The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts: 

 P. B. Martens, T. S. Petty, C. G. Dimcombe, A. L. Weyland, 

 E. S. Hoener, X. A. Shepard and M. F. Letzel, the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; R. N. Watson, and P. A. 

 Belden, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; W. N. Fitch. W. L 

 Snyder, J. C. Howard, E. P. Raiford, A. C. Mack, W. G. Ober- 

 holser, E. K. Davis, G. A. Knofler, and R. B. Howe, The B. F. 

 Goodrich Rubber Co.; H. G. Pushee, The General Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; A. L Rose, The Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co., .\kron, Ohio; S. M. Shott, Morgan & Wright, Detroit, 

 Michigan, R. W. Fogerty, A. C. Peterjohn, United States Rubber 

 Co., Mechanical Goods Division, Cleveland, Ohio; W. H. Larkin, 

 Jr., J. W. Towsen, United States Rubber Co., Mechanical Goods 

 Division, Passaic, New Jersey; R. L. Gould, United States Rub- 

 ber Co.; Dr. Haron, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



ROTTND TABLE SUGGESTIONS. 



In discussing safety appliances for washers, crushers and 

 mills the following were cited: use of wooden paddles to push 

 rubber between walls; cutting blocks of rubber wedge shape to 

 facilitate entry between rolls ; mill rolls placed shoulder high, 

 bars in front of washers over which the sheet of rubber is fed ; 

 individual clutches on each mill which are inspected daily; auto- 

 matic reversing devices. 



Electric signals from motor pit to each mill in every line; 

 motor pit switch-boards set six feet above floor to give clear 

 view of line ; reports of tests of safety devices signed by in- 

 spectors and delivered regularly to master mechanic. 



Calenders equipped with electric clutch and brake ; special 

 gears for opening center and lower rolls, rolls being lowered 

 so that opening clears the hand ; triangular casting at open- 

 ing with 34-'nch clearance to prevent men from getting near 

 opening; split casting and one-inch slot on fabric calenders; 

 inch bar across calender connected with bell crank to trip switch 

 operating dynamic bar on calendar; floor near calender sur- 

 faced with carborundum. 



.Automatic conveyor system with hydraulic opening for open- 

 ing molds after curing ; special opening bar with increased lever- 

 age : special track for hauling molds and cores ; endeavor to 

 make men use respirators on dusty job handling compounds; 

 milk served to men in compound room, mills hooded and strong 

 suction used; danger of poisoning from benzol, rash on hands 

 and free from hcxamethylene tetramine (eurotropin), eliminated 

 by applying bora.x in solution with 20 per cent gum arable. 



A census of all the accidents that liave occtirnd in the rubber 

 industry will be undertaken by the Rubber Section of the National 

 Safety Council with the view of standardizing accident pre- 



vention activities and accident statistics in that industry. This 

 was decided on at a meeting of the executive coinmittte of the 

 Rubber Section, held at the headquarters of the National Safety 

 Council in Chicago on January 20 and 21. .\mong those present 

 were S. M. Schott, of the Morgan & Wright plant of the United 

 States Rubber Co., Detroit, Michigan, chairman of the section; 

 E. H. Fitzgerald, Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, vice- 

 chairman of the section; R. M. Watson, The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, secretary; W. N. Fitch, The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, chairman of the bulletin committee, 

 and H. T. Martin, The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massa- 

 chusetts, chairman of the program committee. 



Plans were also laid at this meeting for a nation-wide mem- 

 bership campaign with the view of including in the Rubber 

 Section of the Council every progressive rubber plant in the 

 country. The officers of the section laid the ground work for 

 an extensive bulletin service and for a sectional program at the 

 next annual congress of the National Safety Council. Twenty- 

 six bulletins depicting the principal hazards in the rubber manu- 

 facturing industry and methods of elimination will be issued by 

 this section to its members during the ensuing year along with the 

 general bulletins of the Council. 



The tentative program for the 1920 safety congress calls for 

 three sessions of the Rubber Section, when the reports of 

 committees will be followed by papers on "The Present and 

 Future of Safety in the Rubber Industry," "Health Hazards in 

 the Rubber Industry," and a general round-table discussion of 

 these topics. The program includes papers and discus- 

 sions on "Making Mills and Calenders Safe." "Handling Mate- 

 rials," and "Vulcanizing Apparatus," The election of 

 officers will be followed by forma! papers and discussions of 

 "Industrial Sanitation" and "Methods of Educating Workmen in 

 Safety." 



R. M. Watson was appointed chairman of the committee which 

 will investigate accidents and accident statistics with the view of 

 standardization. The findings of this committee and the class- 

 ifications recommended will be presented at the next safety con- 

 gress. H. T. Martin was appointed chairman of the committee 

 on standardization of safety rules and safety instruction. The 

 companies that are now members of the Rubber Section of the 

 National Safety Council are as follows : 



Batavia Rubber Co., Batavia, New York : Boston Woven Hose 

 & Rubber Co., Boston. Massachusetts; Braender Rubber & Tire 

 Co., Rutherford, New Jersey ; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Co., 

 Limited, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Electric Hose & Rubber Co., 

 Wilmington, Delaware ; Federal Rubber Co.. Cudahy, Wisconsin ; 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio ; The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; General Tire & Rubber Co., 

 .■\kron, Ohio ; Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin ; The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio ; The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., .\kron, Ohio; Gutta Pcrcha & Rubber 

 Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hood Rubber Co.. Water- 

 town, Massachusetts; Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.. Akron, Ohio; 

 Tlie McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio ; Mechan- 

 ical Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio ; The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio; New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co.. Inc.. Jersey City, 

 New Jersey; Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., Norwalk, Connecticut; 

 Oak Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, Oakville, Ontario. Canada; 

 Pennsylvania Rubber Co.. Jeanette. Pennsylvania; Philadelphia 

 Rubber Works Co., Akron, Ohio ; Plymouth Rubber Co., Canton, 

 Massachusetts; Quaker City Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 \ania; Racine Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin; Republic Rubber 

 Corp., Youngstown, Ohio; Rotary Tire & Rubber Co., Zancsville, 

 Ohio; Sprague Tire & Rubber Co., Omaha, Nebraska; Stowe & 

 Woodward Co., Campello, Massachusetts; Thermoid Rubber Co., 

 Trenton, New Jersey; United States Rubber Co., New York 

 City ; United States Rubber Reclaiming Co.. Inc., New York City. 



