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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1919. 



which would greatly perplex an individual manufacturer if left to 

 himself. 



The Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' Association has started 

 its first year with a strong organization of officials and directors. 

 Each seems anxious to further the power and importance of the 

 Association and is willing to lend his time and ability to the cause. 

 Various features of advantage will be developed by the officials 

 in charge and the members will, without doubt, fully recognize 

 and appreciate what is being accomplished in their behalf when 

 they realize the results of the association's endeavors. 



The following are the officers and directors for the ensuing 

 year: John W. Maguire, president; John T. Christie, vice-presi- 

 dent; Preston E. Roberts, secretary; W. W. Todd, assistant 

 secretary ; A. V. Conradt, treasurer ; directors, John W. Maguire, 

 chairman, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. ; John T. Christie, 

 Hawkeye Tire & Rubber Co. ; Preston E. Roberts, Perfection Tire 

 & Rubber Co. ; A. V. Conradt, Kokomo Rubber Co. ; Marshall D. 

 Wilber, Palmer Tire & Rubber Co. ; C. Wright, Racine Auto Tire 

 Co., and B. B. Felix, Featheredge Rubber Co. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WASTE MATERIAL 



DEALERS, CLASSIFICATION FOR SCRAP RUBBER. 



CIRCULAR E. 



THIS ST.\ND.\RD OF p.«iCKiNG was adopted by the Scrap Rubber 

 Division and approved by the Executive Committee of the 

 Association on June 17, 1919, to be eflfective from July 1, 1919, to 

 July 1, 1920, at which date a new circular will be issued. 



All goods bought or sold under the following specifications are 

 understood to consist only of domestic or Canadian manufac- 

 ture, unless otherwise stipulated. All grades of scrap rubber 

 shall be bought and paid for net weight, mill weights to govern, 

 and no allowance for bagging or covering of any kind shall be 

 made, nor shall the ?ame be returned to the seller. 



DELIVERY. 



A.— Ail shipments of scrap rubber must be contained in bags, bales, 

 bundles or otlier suitable containers, and if shipped loose a charge of 'A 

 cent per pound shall be made for extra handling, except automobile tires and 

 railroad hose which may be shipped loose. 



B 1. A car load, unless otherwise specified, shall consist of fifteen tons. 



2. A ton when applied to domestic stock shall mean 2.0O0 pounds., A ton 

 when applied to foreign stock shall mean 2,240 pounds. 



C— Shipments direct to a mill shall consist of not less than 2,000 pounds. 

 Otherwise a charge of ^-cent per pound shall be made. 



D. — AU scrap rubber of foreign manufacture shall be bought C. I. F. port 

 ot entry as per weiRht determined by sworn weigher's certificate, seller to 

 bear expense of weighing, and shall be subject to same conditions as govern 

 purtha:.es of domestic manufacture. 



REJECTIONS. 



ithil 



E. — Upon his reqi 

 thirty days from thi 

 payment by him of yz-cent per pound to cover cost ot sorting and reDaling. 

 If shipping instructions are not furnished within the above mentioned thirty 

 days the purchaser shall be at liberty to make such disposition of the mate- 

 rial as he may see fit. The above does not apply if rejected material is pur- 

 chased by the buyer. 



F —When shipments are made direct to a mill each grade of scrap rubber 

 must be packed separately, and if not so packed a handling charge of J4- 

 cent per pound will be m.ade. 



G. — All scrap rubber must be dry and free from dirt. All scrap received 

 wet may be dried by the buyer, such shipments to be paid for on the dry 

 weight as ascertained. 



H. — A purchase contract shall not be considered filled until the full quan- 

 tity within 2yi per cent, more or less net weight shall have been received, 

 any rejections to be replaced within thiity days of the date of --*■— -' 



to the 



EMBARGO. 



specified 



I. — If through embargo a delivery cannot be made at 

 the contract shall remain valid and shall be completed immediately 

 lifting of the embargo, and terms of said contract shall not be changed. 

 Notice of embargo must be served by seller. 



Code words appear in italics. 



l._RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES (Acre). The deliveries of rubber 

 boots and shoes must consist of rubber boots and shoes of domestic or 

 Canadian manufacture. Red. white, tan, and fancy colored shoes arc not 

 a good delivery. They must be dry and free from dirt. All cloth top 

 shoes, trimmed or untrimmed. and soles or heels of rubber boots and 

 shoes from which the uppers have been removed shall not be accepted as 

 a good delivery. 



1. (a)— COLORED RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES. All rubber boots 



eked and sold scparatelv, the 

 be closely trimmed and free 



and shoes which are not black must be p 

 grading and packing to conform to Article 



2.— TRIMMED ARCTICS (Band). Mus 

 of leather. 



(a)— UNTRIMMED ARCTICS. Must be free from leather. 



3.— TRIMMED TENNIS SHOES (Clam). Must be black; closely 

 trimmed; free from molded soles and leather. 



(a) — UNTRIMMED TENNIS SHOES Must be free from leather and 



-STANDARD MIXL.- ... 



All jet black 

 beaded tires, non-pneuinatic or filled tires. Must 

 oxidized, burnt, single tube, motorcycle, stripped or 

 tires containing leather or metal. 



4.-(a)— JET BLACK AUTO TIRES. Must be free from all gray 

 tires, unguaranteed tires, heavy beaded tires, non-pneumatic or filled tires. 

 Must not contain any hard, oxidized, burnt, single tube, motorcycle, stripped 

 or badly worn tires nor tires containing leather or metal. 



5.— UNGUAR.VNTEED TIRES (Earl). Must be free from heavy 

 beaded tires, hard or oxidized, stripped, badly worn, and tires with leather 

 and metal. 



Must be free from hard or 

 s with leather and metal. 

 Must be free from hard or 



leather and iron. A rcason- 



ubber-lined 



6.— HEAVY BEADED TIRES (Farm) 

 oxidized tires, stripped, badly worn and tii 



/.—BADLY WORN TIRES (Game). 

 oxidized tires, heavy beaded and tires wi 

 able proportion of tiie tread must be on the tires. 



7.-(a)— STRIPPED TIRES. Must be free from hard or oxidized tires, 

 heavy beaded and tires with leather and iron. 



8.— No. 1 GRAY AUTO TIRE PEELINGS (Hawk). Must be free from 

 cloth, metal, leather and jet black peelings. 



8.-(a)— No. 1 JET BLACK PEELINGS. Must be free from gray 

 peelings, cloth, metal and leather. 



9.— No. 2 GRAY AUTO TIRE PEELINGS (Iced). Must consist of 

 peelings from auto tire treads only and must be free from leather, metal, 

 stripped auto tire fabric ^nd jet black peelings; alsoi free of headless auto 

 tire stock, from, which fabric has been pulled, known as Dykes or Dykes 

 peelings. 



9. -(a)— No. 2 JET BLACK PEELINGS. Must consist of peelings from 

 .lutu tire treads only .ind be free from leather, metal, stripped auto tire 

 fabric and gray peelings; also free of headless auto tire stock from 

 which fabric has been pulled, known as Dykes or Dykes Peelings. 



10.— BICYCLE TIRES (Jade). Must be free from hard or oxidized 

 tiies, wire and beaded tires. 



11. -SOLID WAGON AND CAB TIRES (Kite). Must be free from 

 metai, baby carriage and cushion tires. 



12.— SOLID MOTOR TRUCK TIRES (Lamp). Tires must be 2^ 

 inches or over in diameter. Must be free from metal and tires with hard 

 basco and fibei bases. 



13.— AIRBRAKE HOSE (Mask). Must be free from metal, hard or 

 oxidized hose and steam hose. 



14.— GARDEN HOSE' (Nail). Must be yi inch or over in diameter and 

 free from melal. rigs, rope and cotton-covered hose. 



15.— LARGE HOSE (Oven). Large hose must be one inch or over in 

 diameter. Must be tree from metal, rags, rope, hard or oxidized hose and 

 all cotton covered hose. 



16.— COTTON-COVERED FIRE HOSE (Park). Must 

 and free from hard or oxidized hose. 



17.— No. 1 AUTO INNER TUBES (Qui:). Must be sti 

 live floating tubes, free from crusty tubes, cloth metal, 



18.— No. 2 AUTO INNER TUBES (Rac, 

 Tubes.) Must be standard tubes; free from 

 and cloth patches. 



19.— No. 1 BICYCLE INNER TUBES (Salt). Must be strictly pure 

 gum, live fioaling tubes, free from (rusty tubes, cloth, metal, red and 

 cloth patches. 



:o.— No. 2 BICYCLE INNER TUBES (Train). (Known as com- 

 pounded Tubes.) Must be standard tubes, free from crusty tubes, cloth, 

 metal, red and cloth patches. 



21.— RED AUTO INNER TUBES (Utes). Must be standard tubes, free 

 from punchings, crusty tubes, cloth, metal and cloth patches. 



22.— No. 1 WHITE RUBBER (^ase). Must consist of strictly clean 

 white soft druggists' sundries and must be free from cloth and metal. 



23.— No. 2 WHITE RUBBER (Ward). Must consist of white horse-shoe 

 pads, white toys, white mechanical goods, and to be free from cloth, metal, 

 crusfy, hard or oxidized material, and white soles and heels. 



24.— No. 3 WHITE RUBBER (Ware). Must consist of painted white 

 rubber balls or toys from which the paint has been removed, and to be 

 free from cloth, painted w^ainscoting, metal and hard or oxidized rubber. 



No. 4 WHITE RUBBER. Must consist of white jar rings and be free 

 from cloth, metal and hard or oxidized rubber. 



25.— WHITE WRINGER RUBBER (Wren). Must be strictly white 

 soft rubber, tree from yellow wringer rubber, hard or oxidized wringer 

 rubber, cloth or metal. 



26.— YELLOW WRINCiER RUBBER (Xray). Must be free from cloth, 

 metal and hard rubber. 



27.— MIXED BLACK RUBBER (Yoke). Must be free from cloth, 

 metal, crusty, hard or oxidized material, packing, stripped matting, tiling, 

 baby cairiage tires, soles and heels. 



28.— MATTING AND PACKING (Zero). Must be free from Garlock. 

 Crandall, and piston packing, belting and similar material, metal and hard 

 or oxidized stock. 



29.— No. 1 RED RUBBER (Yeast). Must consist o 

 sundries, free from maroon, chocolate, and other dark si 

 cloth and metal. 



30.— No. 2 RED RUBBER (Yawl). Must consist 

 red toys, balls, mechanical red. Must be free from jar 

 or oxidized rubber, cloth, metal, soles and heels, and 

 Ibte-coloied materials. 



31.— RED PACKING (Yam). Must be free from hard or oxidized 

 rubber, cloth and metal and discolored rubber and free from 

 packing. 



red drv 



packinc, hard 

 on and choco- 



