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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1917. 



is with James M. Satterfield, Esq., Dover, Delaware. To buy, 

 sell and develop all kinds and grades of gas, petroleum, etc. 



Tennessee Tire & Supply Co., June 18, (Tennessee) $10.(KK). 

 C. \V. Parker, A. C. Malian, Lee M. Ross, W. L. Smith and 

 J. J. Bryant. Principal office, 400 N. Gay street, Knoxville, 

 Tennessee. To handle a general retail business of auto sup- 

 plies, tires, etc. 



Tire Outlet Co., Inc., July 12 (New York), $1,000. Sydney 

 Bernheim. 35 Nassau street. New York City: Catherine A. VVel- 

 don, 591 Seventh street, and Harry H. Jacobson, 55 Grand street 

 — both in Brooklyn, New York. To manufacture tires. 



Union Rubber Co., July 7 (New Jersey), $35,000. Oswald 

 Nitschke, .*\shwood avenue, John Hiller, Jr., Twenty-rirst street; 

 Willima Pettit, Twenty-second street; Frederick Kautz, Twenty- 

 second street — all in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Principal office. 

 Michigan avenue and Boulevard, Kenilworth, New Jersey. To 

 manufacture rubber products. 



Michigan, uhich will iiialilc tlu- new president to keep in close 

 touch \\ itli tlic manufacturing end of this corporation. 



MUNGER WINS RIM DECISION. 



'T'HE suit of Louis de F. Munger against the Perlman Rim 

 ■^ Corporation for infringement of the Munger Rim Patent 

 No. 638,588 of December S, 1899, has been decided in favor of 

 the plaintiflf by Judge Manton, who directed the defendant to 

 account before a master that the plaintiff may recover a reason- 

 able royalty under the rule established in Dowagiac Manufac- 

 turing Co. V. LInion Plow Co. The vahdity of the Perlman 

 patent is not affected by the decision. The defendant will ap- 

 peal the suit. 



In the opinion of Judge Manton, the Munger patent and Perl- 

 man rim alike employ a wedge to secure a tire-carrying rim 

 under tension on a motor car wheel so that the rim shall hug 

 the wheel tightly and be held firmly in position while at the 

 same time it can be detached readily by freeing the wedge sur- 

 face. The Munger patent, however, antedates Perlman's claims. 

 It is understood that damages, estimated on a basis of reason- 

 able royalt\% as stated by Judge Manton, may be recoverable 

 against other rim manufacturers for a period of about 5H years 

 preceding the expiration of the Munger patent on December 5, 

 1916. Munger claims that nearly 20 companies have manufactured 

 about 5.000,000 rims infringing his patent, and will probably 

 insist on $1.50 a set, Perlman's own valuation placed on Stand- 

 well rims, as the proper figure. 



The Munger rim patent was issued in 1899 to the International 

 Wheel & Traction Co., to which he had assigned his rights. 

 The International lacked capital at the outset and the rims were 

 made for a while by the Munger Vehicle & Traction Co. at 

 New Brunswick, New Jersey. Litigation with the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. ensued, and the Munger rights next passed 

 to the National Wheel & Traction Co. This was succeeded in 

 1902 by the Munger Automobile Tire Co., of Trenton. In 1915 

 the patent was assigned back to Munger individually. 



Should the Munger decision be sustained by the United States 

 Circuit Court of Appeals, the Munger patent would then head 

 the list of wedged-on demountable rims. Meanwhile, however, 

 Erie K. Baker, of the Universal Rim Co.. is suing Perlman in 

 Chicago, claiming violation of numerous patents covering the 

 practice of mounting a rim upon a conical seat. Apparently the 

 courts must decide what constitutes a wedge before the pres- 

 ent complicated tangle of rim patents can be straightened out. 



PEELMAN RIM CORPORATION MOVES HEADQUARTERS. 



.Mfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of the L'nited Motors Corp., 

 has taken over the management of the Perlman Rim Corp. He 

 has selected Clarence M. Day as his representative in that com- 

 pany, and he has accordingly been elected as president. The 

 head offices of the Perlman Rim Corp., heretofore maintained 

 in New York City, have been removed to the plant at Jackson. 



FRANK E. TITUS. 



pR.-XNK E. TITUS, who has just been appointed assistant 

 manager of the foreign sales department of The B. F. 

 (joodrich Co., has shown a steady upward progress in responsi- 

 bility ever since he entered the 

 employ of that company in 

 1906. He is a young man, 

 acknowledging July 22, 1884, 

 as the date of his birth at 

 I ' "^ Painesville, Ohio. After a 



4 ^USSt j)fSS?jl " '• ;| grammar school education at 



Cleveland, Ohio, and a high 

 school graduation at Bellevue, 

 Ohio, he was employed by 

 the Nickel Plate Railroad for 

 three years and then for a 

 single year with the Ohio 

 Cultivator Co. 



In December, 1906, he be- 

 came clerk in the engineering 

 department of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. Four years 

 later, he went to the Buffalo 

 branch of that company as 

 assistant to W. O. Ruther- 

 ford, then the local Buffalo, 

 New York, manager, but now 

 general sales manager of the company. 



Mr. Titus later was the man in demand. He was appointed 

 manager at Denver, Colorado, onls" to return to Buffalo 

 as operating manager. Then he was made manager of the 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, branch in 1914, only to return to 

 the Buffalo store and assume full management last year. Now 

 that the foreign sales department of the company demands 

 a man who has made good, who has been tried and proven, 

 Mr. Titus is again promoted, and is made assistant manager 

 of that department. His past record is an assurance of his 

 success in his new position. 



Mr. Titus is a member of the Rotary Club and the Buffalo 

 Chamber of Commerce, in both of which he has always taken 

 an active interest. He is also a Knight Templar and a "Shriner." 



Frank E. Titus. 



THE GOODYEAR'S NEW CANADIAN FACTORT. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Canada. Limited, To- 

 ronto, Ontario, has practically completed its new $1,500,(XX) fac- 

 tory at New Toronto, a suburb of the city. This is a four-story 

 structure 560 by 100 feet, and has one of the most up-to-date 

 power plants in Canada. This power plant has sufficient ca- 

 pacity for three more similar buildings, and the company has 

 land sufficient for five more units, similar to the one now com- 

 pleted. This factory, which will soon he in operation, has a daily 

 capacity of 3.000 automobile tires. All kinds of pneumatic tires — 

 automobile, motor-cycle, bicycle and airplane — will be made. At 

 the Bowmanville, Ontario, factory will be manufactured me- 

 chanicals, molded goods and shoe supplies. 



PEARCE-ARROW'S NEW FACTORY. 



The Pearce-Arrow Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co., Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, is starting alterations in its newly ac- 

 quired plant at Twenty-first and Clearfield streets in that city, 

 and expects to begin manufacturing there some time before the 

 first of next year. This plant, consisting of five communicating 

 buildings of modern brick construction, will give the company 

 a capacity of l.CKX) tires a day. 



