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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1916. 



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Vol. S3. 



MARCH 1, 1916. 



No. 6. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Editorials : Pages. 



Preparedness and the Rubber Trade 273 



The American Rubber Exports in 1915 273 



The Rubber Club's New President 274 



Crude Rubber Distribution 274 



Tariff Commission, The Proposed 275 



Golf Bail, The 275 



Rubber Club's Sixteenth Annual Banquet 276-280 



Illustralions of Banquet and Portraits. 



Members and Guests Present 280-281 



Rv-'er Club: 



( :'ins Manv Members 281 



-A imual Meeting 282-285 



Ilhislrations, Portraits of Directors. 



Spreader Fires, Causes of 286 



New Trade Publications 286 



Golf Ball Industry, Development and Changes in., illustrated 287 

 Chemistry: 



What the Kubber Chemists Are Doing 289 



Vulcanization Experiments 289 



Chemical Treatment of Rubber 290 



Other Chemical Patents 290 



Laboratory Apparatus Illustrated 290 



Machines and Appliances, New illustrated 291-293 



Rotary Vacuum Dryer for Rubber Scrap. Multiple Expan- 

 sion Joints. Sewing Machine for Re-Treading Tire Cas- 

 ings. Trabue's Label Gumming Machine. Machine for 

 Panning Rubber Covered Wire. Hydraulic Valve for 

 Rubber Mills. A Garvin Hard Rubber Lathe. 

 ^Machinery Patents: Price's Dipping and Vulcanizing Ap- 

 paratus. Tire Flap Making Machine. Automatic Mixing 

 Mill. Other Machinery Patents. 



Hunter Dry Kiln — A Comparison 294 



Editor's Book Table 295 



■•Tfcliiioldgic Der Kautschukwaren." "Transactions of the 

 Rubber Growers' Association 1915." "Agricultural Bulle- 

 tin of the Federated Malay States." "Stubbs' Buyers' 

 Directory for the Wholesale Drug, Chemical and Allied 

 Trades 1910." "Dictionary of Textiles." 



New Goods and Specialties illustrated 296 298 



Thermo Steaming Bag. Drop Bottle with Rubber Cap and 

 Bulb. Goodrich Safety Respirator. Jones Pneumatic Tire 

 Spring. Veeder Clutch Speed Counter. "Du-Tell" Punc- 

 ture Finder. Dainty Raincoat. "On the Level" Rubber 

 Heel. 1916 "Goodrich Championship" Tennis Ball. "Vacu- 

 Vas" for Flowers. Rubin Duplex Water Bottle. Watch 

 Holder for Steering Wheel. "Buddy" Inside Lace Pacs. 

 Rubber-Coated Patients' Bib and Laboratory Apron. Silk 

 Outing Pump. "Bi-Plane" Sidewalk Coaster. Ford Air 

 Break. Rubber Tatting Shuttle and Thimble. Work Shoe 

 with Rubber Heel and Rocker Bar. Rubber Sewing 

 Finger. 



Tires: 



"Giant" Tire Twelve Inches Wide Illustrated 307 



Vacuum Cup Sliock Absorbing Liners Illustrated 307 



"Clincher Cross" Tire Illustrated 307 



Obituary Record 299-300 



C. H. Arnold (Portrait), J. H. McKeehnie (Portrait), Sir 

 Clements Robert Markham. Moriz Josef Reithoffer, Rich- 

 ard S. Bryant, Tli. L. A. Runge. 



American Rubber Trade— News Notes and Personals 301- 



New Incorporations 



Otis R. Cook— Sketch and Portrait 



R. B. Tracy — Sketcli and Portrait 



Domestic Correspondence: 



Akron By Our Correspondent 



Boston Illustrated 



Trenton Illustrated 



Rhode Island By Our Correspondent 



Foreign Rubber News: 



Germany By Our Correspondent 



Russia By Our Correspondent 



Great Britain By Our Correspondent 



France By Our Correspondent 



Eurojiian Trade Notes 



Planting Notes, Rubber 315. 



Riibl)cr Situation in the Guianas By Our Correspondent 



Rulilicr Tapping in South Kurg, India 



Patents Relating to Rubber . .318- 



United States. Canaila. United Kingdom, French Republic, 



Trade Marks 



Designs 



Markets: 



Rubber Scrap 



Crude Rubl)er 



Singajiore Rubber Auction 



Chemical and Ingredients 



Cotton and Other Fabrics 



Statistics: 



American Rubber Exports in 1915 Editorial 



Amsterdam Crude Rubber Market in I9I4 



Brazil, Rubber Exports from Manaos During 1915 



British Guiana, Balata Exported 



Canada, Rubber Statistics for Eight Months 



Imports of Cotton Fabrics 



Ceylon Rubber Exports 



Federated Malay States Rubber Exports 



France, Imports of Rubber and Balata 



Germany, Imports and Exports of Waste 



Golf Balls Editorial 



Malaya, Rubber Exports 



New York Arrivals of Crude Rubber 322- 



Statistics of Crude and Manufactured Rubber 323 



Rubber, Crude and Manufactured, Yearly Imports and Ex- 

 ports by Countries 



Crude, Distribution Editorial 



Straits Settlements, Rubber Exports 



United States, Rubber Afloat to 



Customs House Statistics 



Rubber Statistics for Eleven Months 



United Kingdom, Imports and Exports of Crude Rubber 

 for January 



Statistics for 1915 



BTTBBER-TIRED AUTO TRAILERS. 



An unexpected effect of the war now raging in Europe has 

 been the bringing into evidence of the value of small rubber- 

 tired automobile trailers. The tremendous number of wounded 

 which the warring nations have been obliged to handle caused 

 them to resort to these trailers for increasing the capacity of 

 their motor ambulances. 



Various types of trailers have been produced, but aside from 

 the large ones with capacities of from 5 to 15 tons, they were 

 nearly all made to order or the work of amateurs. Now the 

 manufacture of trailers susceptible of being drawn by ordinary 

 popular and low-priced touring cars and roadsters has been 

 taken up on a commercial scale, and there are several American 

 concerns offering rubber-tired trailers capable of carrying from 

 750 to 1,250 pounds, at prices that put them within the reach of 

 those who are most interested in this economic and practical 

 device for hauling freight by automobile. Now the small trades- 

 man can hook a rubber-tired trailer to the back of hi: 

 car and deliver substantial loads without soiling his machine. 



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