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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1908. 



RESULT OF A TIRE PATENT SUIT. 



In- the United States circuit court for the district of Massachu- 

 setts, in re Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. v. Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co. — a suit for injunction to restrain the defendant from 

 alleged infringement of United States patent No. 466,577, for a 

 pneumatic tire, issued January 5, 1S92, to Frederick Schrader, 

 of Philadelphia— a decree was entered dismissing the bill of 

 complaint on the ground that the patent claim was not infringed. 

 The plaintiff appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals 

 for the first circuit, in which court on July 15 the following was 

 filed : "The decree of the circuit court is affirmed, and the 

 appellee recovers its costs of appeal." Details regarding this 

 suit appeared in The India Rubber World June i, 1907 (page 

 290). 



BAYNE-SUBERS TIRE WINDING MACHINE. 



The illustration shows one of a series of drawing relating 

 to a machine for laying threads in such a way as to form a 

 fabric in connection with tire shoes that will give every bit of 

 strength that the threads would give normally if woven, and 

 at the same time a greater degree of resiliency. The machine. 



Automobile Tire Winding M.\chine 



in brief, is so built that crossed threads, which are presumably 

 covered with rubber cement, are first laid over the whole tread 

 surface of the tire. Then threads similarly prepared are laid 

 longitudinally above the crossed threads, but not in contact with 

 them. These layers of crossed threads and longitudinal threads 

 are alternated until a strong smooth fabric is built up to the 

 rubber tread, when the whole mass is vulcanized in the usual 

 way. This machine is the subject of United States patent No. 

 847,041, granted to Eugene D. C. Bayne and Lawrence A. Subers. 



EFFECT OF RUBBER TIRES ON ROADS. 



THE objects of the International Road Congress to be held in 

 Paris on October 11-18 have had notice already in these 

 columns. [See The India Rubber World, May i, 1908— page 

 254.] The official program, later to hand, indicates that the 

 questions to be considered at the Congress are even more in- 

 teresting from the standpoint of the tire trade than was at first 

 apparent. The idea is to consider roads as they now e.xist and as 

 affected by the means of conveyances over them in vogue hither- 

 to, after which will be taken up the effects of the more modern 

 means of conveyance on the road. The influence of pneumatic 

 and other rubber tires on various types of roads will be studied ; 

 also of anti-skid devices, and so on. Finally is to be taken up 

 the consideration of how highways should be constructed to fit 

 them for the requirements of the automobile age, no one being 

 bold enough to suggest that existing roads be protected in their 

 present state by suppressing the automobile. 



The French government, at whose instance the road congress 



has been called, has spared no pains to give it encouragement. 



The French railways will grant half rates both to delegates to the 



congress, and for exhibits to be shown in connection therewith. 



President Roosevelt has appointed as delegates from the United 



States : Logan W. Page, director of the office of public roads, 



department of agriculture, at Washington ; Colonel Charles S. 



Bromwell, of the L^nited States army engineer corps, in charge 



of the public buildings and grounds at Washington; and Clifford 



Richardson, of New York, an authority on bituminous road 



building materials. 



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At the first Legislative and Good Roads convention of the 

 American Automobile Association (Buffalo, New York, July 7) 

 one of the papers read was by Mr. L. W. Page, mentioned in 

 the preceding paragraph, on "The Effect of Automobiles on 

 Macadam Roads." He showed by illustrations how rapidly 

 moving cars raise dust and loosen small particles of the roadways. 



SEWING HORSESHOE PADS. 



THE question has so often come to the office of The India 

 Rubber World, "Who makes a machine for sewing horse- 

 shoe pads?" that it is a pleasure to illustrate and describe the 

 new Pearson Automatic No. 6. It is really a harness sewing 

 machine and sews wax thread through thick and thin work, 

 without adjustment and without dropping a stitch. Although 



Sewing Machine for Horseshoe Pads. 



the machine is known as a wax thread machine, it will sew with 

 either dry thread, liquid-wax, or niucilaged thread. The machine 

 is light running, simple and practically automatic. It is hardly 

 wortli while in tliis article to mention the parts in detail, as 

 rubber factories that are interested can easily see the machine or 

 get circulars from the sole agents in the United States, The John 

 O'Flaherty Co., Rouse's Point, New York. 



After exhaustive tests of various makes the War office have 

 placed their contract for tires with the Avon India Rubber Co., 

 Limited, of Melksham, Wilts. 



