THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1915. 



Vol. 53. 



NOVEMBER 1. 1915. 



No. 2. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Pages. 



The New Export Tax on Ceylon Rubber 53 



Will There Be a Dumping of Rubber Goods? 54 



The Growing Ranks of Rubber Importers 54 



An Overseas Trust to Insure Neutrality 54 



Gutta Percha— Sources— IV 



Illustrated 55-58 



Rubber in the Service of Life Saving 



Illustrated 59-62 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 63 



New Processes in Rubber Manufacture." 63 



Patented Treatment of Rubber 64 



Laboratory Apparatus 



Illustrated 64 



New Machines and Appliances: 



Illustrated 65-67 



A Motor-Operated Screwdown for Calenders. Southwark 

 Solid Tire Press. Scott Fabric Tester. Nuttall Flexible 

 Coupling. Nilson Tilting Wire Reel. Protection of Al- 

 ternating Current Motors. 



Machinery Patents. — Peter D. Thropp's Press Vulcanizer. 

 Nipple Bead Forming Machine. Royle's Multiple Tubing 

 Machine Head. Meade's Multiple Spreading and Doubling 

 Apparatus. Other Machinery Patents. 



Editor's Book Table 68-69 



"Rubber Machinery." Report of the International Kubber 

 Congress and Exhibition. Batavia." "Hendrick's Com- 

 mercial Directory of the United States." 



New Trade Publications 69 



New Goods and Specialties 



Illustrated 70-72 

 Rubber Corob with Staggered Teeth. Waterproof Cothing. 

 Cluirch Telepliones for Deaf Worsliipners. Dental and 

 Surgical Inhalers in New Forms. RiMl-T.e^iyc.l Boot for 

 Santa Claus Trade. New Cable 1..1 M,,i ,1 -I (, iven Con- 

 vevances. New Hvgeia Inventinn-. I'ldli'itiiiu the 

 Cricketer's Knuckles.' Golf Ball l>.-i;;n. Hair Tonic 

 Comb. R\ibber Bird and Game Calls. Rubber Shock- 

 Absorber for the Ears. Armor-Tred Sole. Interchange- 

 able Rubber Heel. Football Pants with Elastic Band. 

 Rubber Covered Screw Driver. 

 The Tire Trade — American Notes 



IlluslrateJ 7J-74 



News of the American Rubber Trade — News Notes and 

 Personals 



Illustrated 75-80 



Rubber Company Dividends 7.5 



.1. W. Avlswortii— Sketch and Portrait 76 



William' E. Hardy— Sketch 76 



Edison and the Electric Incandescent Lamp— Portrait 77 



Annual Report of the Intercontinental Rubber Co SO 



Obituary Record SI 



Geoige F. Davenport. .John Loyd Warren ^\. Hill. 



Trade Opportunities and Inquiries 81 



Domestic Special Correspondence: 



Bost-n Rubber Trade 



Sv Our Correspondent 82 

 Trenton Rubber Trade 



Bv Our Correspondent 83 

 Rhode Island Rubber Trade 



Hv Our Correspondent 83 



Akron Rubber Trade 



By Our Correspondent. Illustrated S4 

 Chicago Rubber Trade 



Bv Our Correspondent 86 

 Pacific Coast Notes 86 



Foreign Rubber News: 

 Great Britain, The Hui 



Pages. 



ubber Trade in 



By Our Correspondent 87-88 



Mr. JIauders Appointed Press Manager— Portrait 88 



Europe, Some Kubber Interests in 88-90 



( iermany, The Rubber Trade in 



By Our Correspondent 89-90 



Kubber Planting Notes 91 



Dutch Guiana. The Rubber Situation in 



By Our Correspondent 91-92 



Amazon, The Rubber Situation in 



By Our Correspondent 93 



Rubber Tires in Brazil 93 



Nicaragua, The Kubber Industry in 95 



Patents Relating to Rubber 94-95 



United States. United Kingdom. New Zealand. Germany. 



Trade Marks and Designs, United States 



Statistics: 



Ceylon Rubber. Imports into the United States 



Imports of Rubber Goods into the United States, 1913-14. 



Value of Annual Production of Rubber Goods in the United 

 States 



Rubber Importers, Number in the United States 



British South Africa, Imports of Rubber Goods 



Hnllnnd. Knlilicr Imports and Exports 



Sciiiili IimIi:i, iliibber Exports 



I!niiii;i. lliiliK.i' Exports 



( e\ h.n. I 'la II I 111 i'ln Acreage 



Nicaragua. Rubber Industry 



Arrivals of Rubber at the Port of New York 9' 



General United States Custom House Statistics 



United States Rubber Imports and Exports 



Plantation Rubber from the East 



Canadian Imports of Cotton Fabrics 



Imports and Exports of Rubber and Rubber Manufactures 

 at the Port of New York 



Canadian Rubber Imports and Exports 



United Kingdom Rubber Imports and Exports 



Markets: 



Crude Rubber 



Rubber Scrap 



Cotton and Other Fabrics 



Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients 



UNITED KINGDOM STATISTICS. 



(Continued from page 103) 

 E.XPORTS, UNITED KINGDOM. 



9,680,700 $5,353,139 111,303,300 $65,105,053 



Manufactured — 

 .\pparel, waterproofe( 

 Boots and shoes — doz 



Insulated wire 



Motor tires and tub'-i 

 Motorcycle tires and 





and 



lined. 



$934 

 13,103 

 20,015 

 216.839 

 7,008 

 5.978 



$2,928 

 54,204 

 27,974 

 2,124,110 

 56,984 

 104,509 

 21,671 



separated 



