THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1918. 



487,943. (September 15, 1917.) Method of making heels and soles for 

 shoes. Ch. Planchamp. 



C. Lynde 



WHAT TEAM WORK AND EMULATION ACCOM- 

 PLISH. 



83,024. 



107,893. 

 108,505. 



111,844. 

 112,103. 



23,677. 

 23,681. 



TRADE MARKS. 



THE UNITED STATES. 



,439. The word Motobe.stos above a conventional bowl-shaped 

 silhouette — brake linings and friction facings. The Asbestos 

 and Rubber Works of America, New York City. 



The word Stella beneath a circle within which is a star having 

 the characters P and &C on either side of the top point and 

 the letter M between the two bottom ones — rubber goods or 

 goods incorporating rubber, namely, aprons for paper mills 

 and sheets for mining concentrators. Pirelli & C, Milan, 

 Italy. 



Conventional silhouette bearing the nionoj>ram \V. T. Co.— hot- 

 water bottles and bags, douche bags, syringes, invalid 

 cushions, and ice bags. Whitall Tatum Co., New York City. 



The word Dibectorv— stylographic and fountain pens, etc. 

 Hinks, WVlls & Co., Birmingham, England. 



The word Liberty beside a 

 erty holding aloft a tire 

 her Co., Green liay, Wisconsin. 



Silhouette of Ajax rolling a tire — pneumatic 



plaster-patches, blowout patches, hook-on boots, reliners, llo-it- 

 ing flaps, rubber and fabric valve-bases, cementless tube- 

 patches, and oval inner-tube patches. Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., 

 Millbrook, New York. 



The word Apache — self-vulcanizing tires. M. J. Cagle, San Fran- 

 cisco, California. 



Silhouette of a star— billiard and pocket-billiard balls. The 

 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



The word Labruco — pure cut sheet india rubber, india rubber 

 bottle stoppers, sheets, and mats. The Leyland & Birming- 

 ham Rubber Co., Limited, Leyland, England. 



THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 



The word Wovelasti 

 Reid Brother: 

 fornia, U. S. A. 



The word Kochuk — general. Rubberset Co., Limited, Toronto, 

 Ontario. 



Representation of a shield bearing the word Efficiency and the 

 monogram R. B. — hot-water bottles, ice bags, inflatable invalid 

 cushions, rubber syringes, etc. Reid Brothers, Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, and San Francisco, California, U. S. A. 



The letters I. T. S. — rubber shoe heels and rubber goods of all 

 kinds. W. Jeffries. Beamsville, and H. C. Jeffries, Toronto— 

 both in Ontario. 



DESIGNS. 



THE UNITED STATES. 



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O. 52,430. Tire. Term 14 years. Patented September 17, 1918. 

 L. P. Destribats. Trenton, New Jersey, assignor to Ajax 

 Rubber Co., Inc., Milbrook, New York. 

 52,431. Tire. Term 14 years. Patented September 17, 1918. L. P. 

 Destribats, Trenton, New Jersey, assignor to Ajax Rubber 

 Co., Inc, Milbrook, Ne%v \ork 



-both of Cleveland, Ohio. 

 52,500. Golf ball. Term 14 years. Patented September 24, 1918. P. A. 

 Vaile, New York City, assignor to Revere Rubber Co., Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island 



ASBESTOS IN THE PHILIPPINES. 



A number of years ago reports were received in Manila to 

 the effect that there were deposits of asbestos in the province 

 of Ilocos Norte, and in 1906 Dr. W. D. Smith, geologist 

 of the Bureau of Science, made a technical reconnaissance and 

 reported that evidence was plentiful of the existence of con- 

 siderable quantities of asbestos at a place called Dungon-Dungon. 



A corporation, to be known as the Dungon-Dungon Co., is 

 now being formed, which will continue to give special attention 

 to opening up the asbestos deposits and making this material 

 available for market. Its property is located near Laoag, Ilocos 

 Norte, about two and one-half miles inland from the sea on a 

 stream thai is na'vigable for small craft. — ("Manila Merchants' 

 Atsociatior ^evie ».") 



L'AILV rROtJOCTlOK 

 Of 111.5 Victor/ 



WATCH TwE- Clock 



Production Clock. 



AT the Elmira, Ontario, plant of the Dominion Rubber Sys- 

 tem, the spirit of team work has been invoked to speed 

 up prddiK-tinii. As the success of such a campaign depends 

 upon definite individual knowl- 

 I _^^ ^, edge of the collective results, a 



great clock was erected show- 

 ing the daily production of this 

 factory in pairs of footwear. 

 Watching the advancing hand 

 has stimulated such enthusiasm 

 that in a little more than three 

 months production has been in- 

 creased beyond 2,000 pairs a day, 

 a very conunendable record. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Ak- 

 ron, Ohio, has found a very 

 comprehensive way to foster en- 

 thusiasm and speed up produc- 

 tion, with results that are most 

 satisfactory to all concerned. 



The plan is both individually 

 and collectively stimulative and 

 hinges upon emulation, which has been said to be the mainspring 

 of efficiency. A bonus for the best individual records and com- 

 petition between de- 

 partments have re- 

 sulted in remarkably 

 high quality and 

 huge quantity of 

 product. A series 

 of percentages has 

 been arranged and 

 the workmen are 

 penalized a certain 

 number of points 

 for tardiness, ab- 

 sence, blemished ar- 

 ticles and less than 

 the average stand- 

 ard of quantity. At 

 the end of each 

 month prizes are 

 awarded for the fol- 

 lowing records : 



per cent $10.00 



per cent 7.50 



per cent. . . . 5.00 



Team Work. 



In addition to these individual rewards, the total average de- 

 partment records are posted regularly each month on special bul-. 

 letin boards to stimulate departmental pride. These bulletins are 

 jealously watched and a keen, friendly rivalry exists. So pro- 

 ductive was this plan in the expenditure of more concentrated 

 energy that even the change of schedule from a nine to an eight- 

 hour day was made at piece-work rates with great increase of 

 earnings to the operatives and correspondingly augmented pro- 

 duction. Thus it is proved again that work that means certain, 

 direct, personal benefit is entered into with all the zest of a 



thrilling game. 



GOODYEAR INCREASES COTTON ACREAGE. 



Pleased with the results of its 1918 campaign, the largest 

 grower of Egyptian cotton in America, the Goodyear company, 

 is already buying more land to put into this high priced staple. 

 This concern has 12,000 acres of the silky cotton in the Salt 

 River Valley in .\rizona, and next year will plant 2,000 acres 

 additional. The crop this year is above normal, it is declared, 

 and a small army of Mexicans is at work picking it. 



